Burning Ears
It’s about time I put fingers to keyboard and shared some musical love on the Bill Shakes Blog and the “Burning Ears” posts will feature whatever is firing my lobes up. No rules, no pigeon holing, just a taste of what I’m listening week to week and some blurb.
In the interests of not wanting to rattle the cages of artists or labels and to avoid copyright infringement I have purposely added artist website links should you wish to purchase any of these tracks.
If need be I will of course cease and desist but prefer to view these posts as a promotional tool. Anyway it appears actual ownership of music seems to be gradually disappearing with the advent of LastFM, Spotify et al. A brave new world with perhaps more artist power awaits..
The Dodos – Red and Purple
From the brilliant album Visiter this track is percussively quirky and therefore not to everyones liking but I’m often found jigging about in my flat singing “I am yours and you will be mine”.
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Here’s another from the same album called “Winter”
Todd Terje – New Morning (reworked)
I have collected around 40 of his reworks/mixes now and they are almost all worth your time. He is so respectful to the original tracks but manages to lift them into a more sequenced modern sounding special vibe.
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Love The Chris Rea “Josephine” remix too..
Divine Comedy – Lucy
My lovely soon to be wed sister is called Lucy and this song automatically links me to her and The Divine Comedy and their Canterbury Tales esque sound are bloody fabulous, nuff said.
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Live version at Plymouth below
Cinematic Orchestra – To Build a Home
This track gets to the very core of me and draws a tear more often than not, so simple, so beautiful, so emotive. Just listen to it.
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Orchestral live video below
Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
Spawned from the spouses and cohorts of Talking Heads the Tom Tom Club’s fusion of 80′s styles does it every time for moi.
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“Genius of Love” video below, another belter!
I know that musical taste varies radically and is very subjective but I do hope you’ve found something you like.
More from Burning Ears next week.x
