IBIZA . Beach House (2009)

Summer is coming again (fortunately) so here is an Easy Listening post. This is good for a sunny weekend on the seaside or just for  dreaming a white beach with a wonderful sunset on the blue water....... Do you think it is too sweet?   Don't worry it was  only a moment and is gone!!!

ENJOY : http://www.mediafire.com/?z7cg2nkwqz7wxzj

WIRE - 154

This is really a milestone in the new wave music history. It is considered a connection between the punk-post punk and the '80 new wave period. What I think is that this album has no time. You can listen to this 30 years after and it seems still new.
I have a vynil copy of this album and is one of my favourite and I consider a precious piece of my collection.
I had the opportunity to see WIRE on stage only one year ago (see post dated  February 2011 on this blog) and despite they are not so young it was an exciting experience.

154 = http://www.mediafire.com/?d8j6q7pkc7jm6a3

THIEVERY CORPORATION

Honestly speaking until this week I never  heard about Thievery Corporation. It was moving around various blogs that I  listen to this band. Immediately I realized I like this sound and so I went deep and deep (listening) in this new experience.
It is really a mix of different styles, dub, chill, hi pop, acid jazz. Just like to shake Massive Attack with Soul II Soul, Jamaican, Brazilian, Indian, African ......really  multi-ethnic influences with an interesting result.

Here is a collection of six tracks from different works: enjoy
http://www.mediafire.com/?6xnu4d1tshc281z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04bg9IC9N6w

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Crocodiles

Echo & The Bunnymen  first LP "crocodiles" was on the scenes in 1980. Ian McCulloch group had never had the big success but their work were always of good quality with an original  dark and oniric  sound.
With changes in the components and with some experience as solists, Echo & The Bunnymen are still alive and the sound also with "recent" productions  (like "Siberia" 2006) have still the original charge.


http://www.mediafire.com/?17i6wj138a87mux

LE ORME - Collage

We are back in the '70 with this LP. Le Orme, and particularly this work, is considered the starting point of the "Italian Progressive Rock". The absorption of the UK and London dream was clear in groups like Le Orme, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso.

I was a child and this are memories of music from the radio or from older friends and parents. I remenber very well the titletrack of this work and probably was my first "love" for music.

http://www.mediafire.com/?lmn9hxluploq3gd

SIMPLE MINDS - 5x5 tour Milan (Alcatraz) 02/28/12

It was difficult to believe but at the end it was  true........ 2 and a half hours of concert with only a 15 min break.
This was the SIMPLE MINDS performance in Milan of the 5x5 tour (5 songs for any of the first 5 LP).  Very good show  this is my  comment. Jim Kerr, despite of the age,  on the scene is  not so different from the first time I saw him (it was 1983). Burchill is still there working on the guitars, the keyboards section is really the weakest point compared to the past ( MacNeil  was another thing), but what is really impressive is the presence of the drum section. Mel Gaynor is simply perfect and this  was the good  surprise of this night.

The public (really not so young) seems to appreciate the performance and after two days,  without the exitement of the moment I can say that it was A GREAT EVENT!! (welcome back SIMPLE MINDS).


Promise you a miracle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJPCV5vxkdw






Il gran finale.....New gold dream!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W447kPwaR6g


some quality photos at this link:
http://www.onstageweb.com/onstage/foto-concerto-simple-minds-live-alcatraz-milano-28-febbraio-2012/










  Jim Kerr interviewed by Red Ronnie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-0Xo5fk5k

PUBLIC ENEMY - It takes a nation of millions to hold us back

Just one of this night I put on the plate an old vinil L.P. . It was 1988 and it was the moment of groups like Run DMC, Stetsasonic, Derek B. Public Enemy was the Extreme band of the moment (in my opinion). Their military look and power of the rythm was an important part of live show. I had the opportunity to see the band live in Milan together with Run DMC. Not so often but sometime I listen to their music again.

 

link here : http://www.mediafire.com/?jrr0l2k8nffkali

STATE OF ART - Interview

A new interview (it is in Italian ) from STATE OF ART (see post dated  Oct. 29th 2011)

GARBO - A Berlino ....va bene

It was 1981 and also in Italy some "new" sound come. We can consider this as a melodic new wave music. An Italian version of what in the meantime happened in UK.
I listen again to this with pleasure.

http://www.mediafire.com/?s1iln7tt7slkrx3

SWAMP CHILDREN - So Hot !

Swamp Children  "So Hot " is the title of this "cool" work. Original LP was released in 1982 and the CD (with bonus tracks) is from 2004. Part of the A Certain Ratio area, this group (and later Kalima) gave an elegant jazz  contribution  to the new wave music of the period


 http://www.mediafire.com/?pda1qfc8g2yij49