Manha, Manha…
For those of you that grew up with Sesame Street, this may sound quite familiar. It brought back memories of happy times as a child and put a smile on my face. For those of you that haven´t seen this before, relax, enjoy and smile!
Archive for September, 2007
Reason 4!
I just put my hands on the latest version of this fantastic virtual studio, from the folks at Propellerheads. The first thing I´ve got to say is that the delivery was lightning fast: I ordered it last wednesday, just some hours after its official launch (12:00h) and on thursday at 17:00h the man from UPS was knocking on my door! I wish all the deliveries were as fast!
I haven´t had much time to tinker with it yet, but in as little as one hour I managed to record this small fragment:
The new Thor synth is really hot, as well as the new features in the sequencer. The only downside is that I´ll skip many sleep hours from this night on…
More comments and impressions soon!
Hey Eugene! The latest from Pink Martini
It´s been a long time since I had news from this Portland group, and I was nicely surprised when I knew that they had released a new record. This one, very similar to their previous work (Hang on Little Tomato and Sympathique), continues to have China Forbes, whose silky and melodious voice it´s a charm, as their main star. There are songs in various languages (japanese, spanish, english and even arabic), and, in general terms, the sound is very good and the songs are a nice treat to listen everywhere. Nevertheless, I think it´s time for them to start exploring some innovations in their music, to recover that fresh and clever music that I listened to when I found them, to avoid repeating themselves. My favorite picks? Mar Desconocido, Tea for Two, Taya Tan and Hey Eugene!, the one that the album is named after. As usual, please enjoy!
Some tools and resources to learn Japanese
As I have commented some days ago, I´ve restarted my japanese lessons. Our “sensei” gives us some homework to do, but I´ve found that it´s necessary to dedicate extra time to memorize the different alphabets (hiragana, katakana and kanji) and repeat endlessly to avoid forgetting them. To ease the learning process, I have researched some resources, both offline and online, to keep up with this interesting language.
My Little Airport
This weekend I discovered a Hong Kong duet that draw my attention. Pehaps it´s the simplicity of their music, or the delicate sound of their female, almost childish, voices or the somehow cheesy and vintage sounds that reminded me about the time when I started in this music world (a long ago). The album and song titles are kind of weird, because they´re quite long and describe some strange situations, like “The ok thing to do on sunday afternoon is to toddle in the zoo”. This is the name of the album I listened to. To start, you can listen to the song called “Victor, fly me to Stafford”, directly from their ultraminimalist web site. Please enjoy!