Laconic Hegemony, vol 6 is available for download from Soundcloud or for listening to live here using the embed below. Vol.6 is a collection of my favourite songs from 2011, (The critera, to remind you, is any music I have heard for the first time in 2011. So the album may not have been released [...]
Laconic Hegemony, vol 6 is available for download from Soundcloud or for listening to live here using the embed below. Vol.6 is a collection of my favourite songs from 2011, (The critera, to remind you, is any music I have heard for the first time in 2011. So the album may not have been released [...]
so the top 3 albums i heard this year were 3 life Fantastic – Man Man – http://manmanbandband.com/ ‘Catchy songs with an off kilter edge musically’ 2 Ask Me This – Alcoholic Faith Mission – http://alcoholicfaithmission.com/ ‘gorgous music, with a fragility and power to it’ 1 Circuital – My Morning Jacket [...]
So here I am once more. In the space of trying to gain some perspective on 2011, The happenings, the non happenings The gains, the losses The good things, the bad stuff The love I have shown, the species where love was absent. And as I go through this space of reflection I listen to [...]
Laconic Hegemony vol. 4 is available for you to download. Laconic Hegemony is a mixtape which i irregularly make up and give away to my friends. Volume 4 is a selection of songs which i think will be prefect for those summer drives, all mixed up in a neat selection. It lasts for about an [...]
Laconic Hegemony vol. 3 is available for you to download. Laconic Hegemony is a mixtape which i irregularly make up and give away to my friends. Volume 3 is record of 16 songs which i think remind me of of 2010. I doubt it will win the 16 best songs of 2010, but 16 good [...]
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advent 16 – Paulo Nutini Pencil full of Lead lyrics.
Filed in advent 2010, music, thinkingListening to Paulo Nutini’s album, Sunny Side Up, For the first time I heard the lyrics to the song, pencil full of lead. Have a read. 1, 2, 3, 4 I got a sheet for my bed, And a pillow for my head I got a pencil full of lead, And some water for my [...]
Anaïs Mitchell ‘Hadestown’ is definately in my top ten albums of 2010. I have just seen on the Celtic Conections website that they are putting on the album during the festival. with Anaïs Mitchell herself, Ani DiFranco and my friend Iain Morrison. now that should be a concert worth seeing. well done celtic connections. tickets [...]
Christmas doesn’t start until I have listened to ‘The Darkest Night of the Year’ twice. It is an album of quality songs and a complete Christmas feeling without needing to be tinsel and sleigh bells. gorgeous album for a dark night. Over the Rhine-The Darkest Night of the Year-08-Mary’s Waltz
interesting wee article in the financial times about the Pop Music by Peter Aspden. (inspired by the video above.) watch the video and have a read of the article. I think it asks some interesting questions.
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