Tag: 2015

Review: betterwithmusic 2015

LIBRARY

ONUS

OnusOnus is melodic lines of strings and winds supported in electronic beds. With synths in the background and saturated drum machines. Guitars that appear suddenly, distant. There are broken rhythms and kicks that hit you. The result of mixing dark electronica with dramatic orchestral arrangements.

Influences… Actress, snowy beaches, silence, Arca, Haxam Cloak, Andy Stott, Ben Frost, Björk, Clark, wrong expectations, homesickness, cold snap, Theo Parrish, Herbert, violins and cellos, broken instruments, Hans Zimmer, Debussy, Britten, Shostakovich, Brian Eno, Johann Johannsson, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, hugs…

 

MESSAGE

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12 songs, 27 minutes. Rock, garage, punk (for reference). 12 fresh and direct songs, without additives. With prominence of dirty guitar riffs and frenetic rhythms. Casual sounds and imperfect tricks. As if it was a first concert in a small club. Or we listened to a rookie rock group in one of his first reunions in a garage. When, musically, the intensity is above everything else.

Influences… Black Lips, The Clash, beer & public gardens, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, longboards, Eddy Current, Harmony Korine & Larry Clark, Black Flag, 4-string guitars and 2-string basses, The Cramps, Titus Andronicus, BMX, Ex Hex, Broncho, bad kids, caps and backpacks, Parquet Courts, hangovers, Sonics, Gonzo, OFF…

 

DJ

DJIt is certainly a necessary pause just before publishing “Onus”. Faced with the melancholy sounds of the strings, saturated drum machines and the gray atmosphere that characterizes “Onus”, this song makes a brake, relaxed and fresh. Escape of “Onus” made me most easily find the sound I was looking for for this “DJ” and close the song successfully. I needed to party.

 

 

ON DEMAND

SUBVERSES OST

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“In the near future, 2037, a few mega-corporations rule the world. There is a deadly Red-Flu epidemic and only one of these corporations can manufacture the drug to cure it — Omnisource.

A rival corporation, Dynacorp, contracted, you, a corporate spy to infiltrate and steal their trade secret.  — This is your story.”

 

 

GAMECRIMES THEME

 

 

And to close 2015, a foretaste… “Natural Therapy”, coming soon…

Happy New Year!!

2015 Fav Songs

Again, I’m working on the list of my favorite albums of the year. As usual, I will publish it during the month of December, for your consideration if you’re interested.

This year also, in anticipation, I want to mention some of the songs that left a mark in me, which I enjoyed and learned most from. Those that I cannot get out of my head when I sit down to compose.

Inspired by…

 

Kendrick Lamar “Alright”

Inside one of those albums full of great moments. Compact and seamless. Like a book, like a painting: Everything has its place and its reason. Of those who became a benchmark, marking styles and creating new paths. I sure will continue listening to and talking about it for a long time.

I could pick several songs that I love, but I’ll take this one. Why? Well, basically because this is, in my opinion, the best video of the year (plus).
 

 
 

D’Angelo “Really Love”

My “hidden” album. Despite all the good reviews and popular reaction, I didn’t get into “Black Messiah” until recently. I do not know the reason why, yet. A great artist (dude, he’s D’angelo, remember Voodoo!!) playing with soul and funk, which happen to be roughly my favorite genres. At the end I got into it, and quite deep, of course.

This song was the key…
 

 
 

Sufjan Stevens “Should Have Known Better”

Definitely my “album of the year”. It’s, next to Bon Iver or James Blake albums, one of this (recent) recordings with which I connect right away and I never get tired of. Easy to see if you take a look to my music. A key reference for my music from now on. Just one song…
 

 
 

Tame Impala “Let It Happen”

It is true that the first time I listened to it, the last work of Tame Impala did not say too much to me; something that even I was disappointed with at first, because their previous works were great, I believe.

Yes, I take back what I thought and said (on Twitter). I just needed to open my ears and pay attention to fall down.

This song made it possible. I liked it since the beginning, and made me “keep the faith” and go back to listen it again an again. Until I got hooked.
 

 
 

Jamie xx “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)”

With “In Colour”, referring D’angelo or Tame Impala,  I went across a similar path… but in opposite direction.  At first I loved it, but time and a lot of listening to it unhooking me. I burned it too fast, maybe. However, it remains one of my 2015 favs. Another referent. And this is, surely, the most played song in my phone. It’s my summer song… it might be my song of the year.