fireflies lighting up my days
Yes, I agree. I am lowsy at writing here. And when I write I can not say that the writing is all that great either. But that is how it has come to be, but hopefully it will change! This post is, what I hope, a way in the right direction. So now I will make up for lost time and for laziness and it will be made by this post containing many of the things that I have been wanting to write (about). First of all I have to say that it was one thing in particular that gave the energy to get my act together. But I will get back to that later on. So here a some things that I have been wanting to write about, in no particular order: Sarah Rogers is a 14-year old girl from the states who got a acoustic guitarr for her 12th birthday, but it was first later on when she got to play an electric one that she really fell for it. Since that she has been writing/making music and as she writes on her myspace-page, music is a huge part of her life. That I like, since a huge part of my life is music and I always have an upmost respect for those who share this love.
The songs that I have heard, the do not take my breath away. I feel that I have to be honest, but, and it is a big but! The thing is that she is only 14-years old and I hear a lot of potential in her. And she does seem to be surounded by wonderful people, among whom some also make wonderful music (Maths and Physics Club). So my prediction is that I will be mailing her some day, instead of being the other way. Remember the name Sarah Rogers. To listen to her songs, pay a visit to her myspace-page by clicking here
The Capstan Shafts
I received a mail from Dean Wells with a few lines and a link to this EP called Halaluah Moancoaxers!. I was glad that he decided to send that mail to me, because I could hear a lot of bells ringing in my head when I read the name (The Capstan Shafts). Why they rang, I do not know. I must have read about it and then totally forgot it. Which seems to happen all too often! So I downloaded the EP with quite a bit of anticepation. I did not know what to expect of it, which is good. So I put the songs on and thought that I would write a few words about it, but it was not that simple. I felt that I needed time with the songs, if I have had enough time with them, well not really. But I must say that I was suprised, though the sound quality is (at times) not that high, the quality of the songs are. The longest song is 01.38. Just love it! Very punk, though the songs are more to the rocky sound, but with a touch of punk, twisted up to a knot by pop. Does that make any sense? I do not know hehe. Does it have to make sense? Whichever the case is, I am still playing the songs and liking them and in the end, that is what matters. So do yourself a favour and download the songs, because in the end, I do not think that my word weighs all that much in peoples minds (at least it should not), though (hehe=) among the favourites for me are #2, #3, when I think about it the songs are very equally good. So to refrase myself, do yourseld a lo-fi favour and download the songs!:
01 Love Pundits Bright Future
02 Lessthreatening Day
03 Petals On An Austin Rose
04 Personals Surfer
05 Sarasota Vs. The Concrete Poets
06TheStrategyOfDaylight.mp3
07 The Giddy Tramps Marching Orders
08 Your Hipper Default Settings
Another one that mailed me was Nat from Monkey Swallows the Universe
This time it is as written in the mail, indiepop from Sheffield. Which I think is great! The music from the UK does not impress me all that much nowadays, but it might be the fact that I am not that familiar with the new bands from there. Or it could be the fact that I am so ruthlessly spoiled with good bands living in Sweden. What that has to do with them, well nothing. However, these guys really made my day (literally), I came home from school, threw my bag on the floor, kicked my shoes off and sat down with a sigh on the sofa. I picked up the laptop and but it in my lap and as usual checked my e-mails. And there it was, just waiting to make my day. I quickly downloaded the songs and put them on (which usually takes a bit of time, well at least the putting on part). The thing that made me put them on at once was the release was made by Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation, I receive their newsletter and have also received a small fanzine-like catalouge (if I recall it correctly). I really like their logo and the way they go about things. So that was basically the reason. The release is a virtual 7” and the songs are from their album. An album I feel I have to get (if a manage to save up the money). As I am a sucker for sweet (with emphasis on sweet) female-vocals, the first lines sung just made my heart melt and I was sold. I wanted to dive head-first into these songs. I played them on repeat all day and now as I put them on to listen to them as I write, they just keep on going on repeat. The first one (the a-side) is a lovely tune that makes me think dreamy pictures and has a soothing effect on me. In my opinion it has a hint of shoegaze over it (though with acoustic guitars instead of electric). What can I say, terrific song! At the end you will hear something that will make you think of a song and if you do not remember, the answer is Paul Simon. The b-side, starts with just guitar picking and that lovely voice, then the other instruments start to fill in, the song builds up and it then fires up to an inferno with handclaps and all. Handclaps, check. Trumpet, check. Lovely voice, check, lovely backing vocals, check. Hit, check. Yes indeed, I am loving them! So why do you not do as I did, kill your boring and dull day with Monkey Swallows the Universe.
Sheffield Shanty
Jimmy Down The Well
I do not feel like writing all that much more at the moment, so I will round it up for the day with something that made me have an epiphany (the first time I heard that word was on the second album by JJ72, what happend with them?). It was Lisle who makes music as fireflies, I almost fall in to tears here right now listening to it. It is just so good that in lack of other ways to react to the fuzzing feeling inside me I shead a tear of pure joy. And this was exactly what I felt when I heard the first seconds of the first song that I heard. The song was Flowers and it is 01.54 of…. as then I can not really find words to describe it. This is what he has wrote on his myspace page; i grew up in the tundras of new england playing classical piano and one day i moved to california to go to school and decided to start writing songs. i bought a portastudio and started recording, combining my love for lo-fi indie recordings of the 1980s and 90s with my unrefined knowledge of classical arrangement. i try to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while.”. Those were the words that I was seeking. That was the feeling. I do not think that I need to say more. I might just add that among all the new (with new meaning music from 2000+) music that I have come in contact with in various ways, this is the best! Simply the best. That is what I feel right now. This is what I want music to do with me. Wrapping me up, taking my breath, leaving me speechless and stopping the blood in my vains so that my heart can skip a beat or two. The heart does not know whether to beat or to stay still as the body, mind and soul feels an energy not known to mankind.
To listen to four of his songs simply just click here fireflies@myspace
That was it for today, no pictures. But who cares. I made a post, a proper such (if you just compere it with what I have written, there are a lot of more qualified people doing this, but I do not care, I have a love and that love fill my days with meaning). There is a lot of great music out there, and that I am very, very, happy for. And it is music like fireflies that makes my love the best in the world.
