Top 2013

This year I got encouraged to publish my list with the Top albums of the year.

I do not know if these have been the best, but certainly these are the 30 albums I enjoyed, learnt and recommended the most throughout 2013.

Needless to say that this is an open list. There are albums that age better than others. My tastes also change (even within the year). There is a lot of music that I didn’t get a chance to listen to. And then those albums I probably didn’t pay too much attention to because I was busy with other stuff. Maybe they were better than what I thought.

And of course, there are treasures waiting to be discovered…

 

Anyway, today (December 2013), here’s the list:

 

1. James Blake “Overgrown” (Spotify)

2. Daft Punk “Random Access Memories” (Spotify)

3. Speedy Ortiz “Major Arcana” (Spotify)

4. Kanye West “Yeezus” (Spotify)

5. CHVRCHES “The Bones Of What You Believe” (Spotify)

6. Vampire Weekend “Modern Vampires Of  The City” (Spotify)

7. Artic Monkeys “AM” (Spotify)

8. James Holden “The Inheritors” (Spotify)

9. Kurt Vile “Wakin On A Pretty Daze” (Spotify)

10. M.I.A “Matangi” (Spotify)

11. Joanna Gruesome “Weird Sister” (Spotify)

12. Mikal Cronin “MCII” (Spotify)

13. Jon Hopkins “Immunity” (Spotify)

14. Janelle Monáe “The Electric Lady” (Spotify)

15. Cass McCombs “Big Wheel And Others” (Spotify)

16. Oneohtrix Point Never “R Plus Seven” (Spotify)

17. Yuck “Glow & Behold” (Spotify)

18. A$AP Rocky “Long Live A$AP” (Spotify)

19. Triángulo de Amor Bizarro “Victoria Mística” (Spotify)

20. Disclosure “Settle” (Spotify)

21. Grouper “The Man Who Died In His Boat” (Spotify)

22. Sigur Ros “Kveikur” (Spotify)

23. Arcade Fire “Reflektor” (Spotify)

24. Phosphorescent “Muchacho” (Spotify)

25. Deerhunter “Monomania” (Spotify)

26. Bill Callahan “Dream River”

27. David Bowie ” The Next Day” (Spotify)

28. Darkside “Psychic” (Spotify)

29. Tim Hecker “Virgins” (Spotify)

30. Julia Holter “Loud City Song” (Spotify)

 

December 8, 1980

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JOHN LENNON was shot to death by a fan who had idolised him for years. When the 25-year-old killer, Mark David Chapman, gunned down Lennon he was carrying 14 Beatle tape recordings in a satchel. Chapman, a dishevelled out-of-work security guard, told friends that he intended to meet Lennon.”

” A stunned generation of Beatles fans was in mourning for their murdered idol John Lennon last night.”

John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him. Yoko Ono

 

 

 

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“A shoked Paul McCartney said last night: John was a great man. His death is a bittel, cruel blow – I really loved the guy. He was one of the best.

He added: He will be sadly missed by the whole world. John will be remembered for this contribution to art, music and world peace. I can’t tell you howmuch it hurts to lose him.

 

 

20131208_195101I owe everything to John. He commited himself 100 per cent to the music business.

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was shattered.

He was given the news in Paris, where he is recording a new album, and said: I knew and liked John Lennon for 18 years. But I don’t want to make a casual remark now at such a awfulmoment for his family, millions of fans and friends. 

 

 

 

 

Text and photos from THE SUN, December 10, 1980

Meet Point: Stomako

I return to the kitchen to present Stomako, a weblog that I did not mention in the post about cooking blogs because I wanted to highlight it and give him his own space, his own presentation.

Reasons? Well, They were a few of the “pioneers” using betterwithmusic’s library as background music in projects about food & recipes. In addition, they put the music in the foreground. “Hands, music and the best ingredients,” as Ruben Leon and Guiye Comín, minds and hands behind the project, said. Something that I and the other artists and bands involved in their videos must be thankful for.

And finally, and overall, I love this website: a place full of wonderful recipes, great quality videos… “Where there is space for everything from creating more sophisticated, to the more mundane snack”. Isn’t only about the use of my music. I’m really a big fan. I want to cook and eat it all!

Are you hungry?


47 PAD THAI DE POLLO from Stomako on Vimeo.