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Heimweh
The brand new Swiss Miss CD 'heimweh' featuring NUBYA, MIA AEGERTER, GIGI MOTO, CORIN CURSCHELLAS, ANDRA BORLO, HIRSUTE, JAMIE WONG LI, IRINA SIMONETA, CHRISTIN MAHO, YOLANDA SCHALLBETTER, CONNNIE STADLER, ELIANE, alphorn player ELIANA BURKI, human beatbox master NINO G. and many more. What are heidi's granddaughters up to? 12 renowned female swiss singers representing different generations, music styles and ethnic backgrounds spice up traditional folkmusic from all over Switzerland with it's four official languages and countless dialects. Arranged and produced by the New York based swiss singer and guitarist ELIANE, Swiss Miss is a whole new swiss experience celebrating both - tradition and innovation. Alphorn loops duelling with human beat box grooves, swiss hackbrett meets hot NYC rhythm section, a grumpy farmer family works their field to reggae sounds and did you know that the swiss had the blues as early as in the 18th century? what started out with some big ideas scribbled on a napkin in a new yorker bar, had soon developed into a major project. Eversince ANDRA BORLO and ELIANE have organized several tours in the us, Argentina and Switzerland, concerts in Canada etc. After all these adventures Swiss Miss now presents the CD!- Shop: odax
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This Quiet Mile
This Quiet Mile is was recorded in Yoakum's new hometown of Chicago with engineer and producer Christopher Greene at Truself Music. Contemplative and lyric-driven, the album is a reflection on life, love, and growing through where we are to arrive where we're meant to be. The songs were placed approximately in the order that they were written to follow the story line of a life through anger, depression, and resentment into acceptance, forgiveness, and gratitude. Jess Yoakum commissioned the album art by long time friend, Heather Ortiz, to visually reflect this journey. Triangles 4:14 Triangles is about the beginning of the journey: getting in touch with anger. The step that motivates many of us to make a change! I wrote this one a long while ago, and wasn't going to include it on this album... but, people really enjoy this one live and request it. So, I couldn't put out another album without it! Texas 4:16 Texas is about being on the road for work when all you want to do is go home. Lonely hotel rooms, turning the wrong way down halls because they all look so similar! I recently watched Up In the Air and was kind of appalled that some people actually enjoy traveling for work. Incredible movie, though. Hiding Out 4:23 Hiding Out was inspired by a friend who actually said the first line of the song to me. "I don't want to be frustrated because I love her..." And, my first thought really was "it never occurred to me the two states were different." And so Hiding Out was born... The piano riff came to me after obsessively listening to Sia. ? This song talks about the destructive way emotions can take you over and you begin to hide behind them... how anger turns into fear and folds back in on itself until you are consumed. Hold Me In 3:13 I wrote Hold Me In on a train ride home from New York to Boston. I scribbled down some random thoughts about life and love after a conversation I had with a friend who was going through a life-altering break up. I couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked in the midst of it, though and how much potential her life was opening to. I came across the journal entry months later, and did not remember writing the words... but, decided to set it to music anyway! I emailed several poet and songwriter friends to make sure I wasn't stealing it from anyone! It wasn't until I got to the bridge that I remembered what it was about. ? Breathe Child 3:33 Breathe Child was given to me by the universe as a lullaby for hard nights. I finished it sitting by the shore of a reservoir outside of Boston on a beautiful day. I looked for that reservoir several times again, and could never figure out where I had driven that day. The whole experience of receiving this song was mystical. This Quiet Mile 4:35 Co-written by friend and songstress, Chet Easton. This Quiet Mile follows a long term relationship through the seasons... and arrives at a quiet conclusion. We never know where we're headed, and it's never where we thought we would. But, if we keep our eyes open and one foot in front of the other - we all eventually find our way home. Find Our Way 3:22 Find Our Way is about making peace with an imperfect relationship and the constant, relentless seeking for completion and resolution. This is the beginning of acceptance of another for who they are. Smiling when they criticize. Knowing that we are all doing the best we can. Chicago Song 3:39 Named as an homage to my new city, this song is about my decision to move to Chicago. The hope, anticipation and excited I felt standing on the edge of my new city. All the planning, hesitation and dreaming that led up to the move. Dedicated to the courage in each of us to lay down what's not working and begin again. The Morning 4:17 You wake up and reality sets in... this is not easy. Going alone. Giving up what I know. What have I done? How is it you can know you've made the right decision and it is still so hard to breathe? Unrequited 2:53 Unrequited is about the enticing sexiness of being loved more than you love back. And the weight and responsibility of that realization. Towards the Sun 3:15 Ok, enough already with the angst... let me move onto my new life and look back in gratitude for all that's been and where we've arrived. Head towards the sun - where all is illuminated.- Shop: odax
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Jerusalem
Singer/songwriter Ellen Soukup's latest CD called "Jerusalem," which came out in November of 2009, is her first album since "The Truth is There" was released in 2003. "I would have done this probably sooner, but my husband and I decided to use the money to redo our kitchen," she laughed. There were advantages to the delay. Ellen said she wrote most of the songs between 2003 and 2005. So, by the time she sat down in the studio to record them, everything came easily. "During the hour-long drive to the recording studio, I prayed the rosary, and when I got there, I could just sing like crazy," she recalled. "I was able to record piano and vocals for eight songs in one day." Her producer, J. Scott Gaeta, was astounded. Typically, a singer might only be able to record one or two songs in a day. Ellen is eager to give the credit to the Holy Spirit, and not only for her successful recording session. As she analyzed her songwriting process, she admitted to relying heavily on the Holy Spirit as she develops a song. "Sometimes I come up with words first, or a statement...other times I start with the melody," she said. "I totally let the Holy Spirit take over...I don't feel I'm equipped and good enough at doing it on my own." For example, one of the songs on her new album, "Fortune," began with a statement Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, made during conference she had attended as the music leader. "He said, 'Someone died and left you a fortune. We have been redeemed by our Lord Jesus Christ,'" Ellen remembered. She immediately dug a scrap of paper out of her purse and jotted it down. The words stayed in her mind - and her purse - for weeks. A couple months later, she asked the bishop's permission to turn it into a song, and he agreed. More statements were scribbled onto the paper, which graduated to a position on Ellen's piano. Musical notations were penciled in above lyrics. As the months went by, the song took shape and made it onto the album. Ellen said that this new album is, "the most true to myself and my faith than my other recordings." She explained that while she was working on her previous albums, she wanted to be appealing to a wider Christian audience. "I used to worry, 'Maybe people of other religions wouldn't like that song...' But a lot of people of different faiths said their favorites on my other CDs were what I considered my most Catholic songs, so I decided to do what feels best." Consisting mostly of original compositions with a couple of new arrangements of traditional spiritual songs, the album is titled "Jerusalem," after Ellen's favorite of the 11 selections. "'Jerusalem' is about looking all around at the beautiful things God has made and realizing that heaven is so, so, so much better," Ellen smiled. Other songs address different kinds of issues. "Someday" is an impassioned plea to a family member who had left the Church. "Settling Down" is about making a Holy Hour. Ellen's song "Peace" uses the words of the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. Knowing there are several different versions of that prayer, she researched carefully for the most authentic version. The only extra work she did on the lyrics was some minor changes to make the words fit the melody. Other songs include her arrangements of "His Eye is On the Sparrow," which Ellen sang when she was a college student and member of the Scarlet and Cream Singers (a show choir at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln), and "Give Me Jesus." Students at St. John the Apostle elementary school in Lincoln, where she teaches music two days a week, were excited about one song in particular, because they are Ellen's back-up singers. "It's based on Archbishop [Fulton] Sheen's Prayer for Life," she explained. "I wrote that one for the kids at St. John's to sing on First Fridays, so I recorded it with the kids singing with me." Ellen's teenaged daughter, Carolyn, and her husband, John, also sang back-up for a number of the songs. Full instrumentation was provided by her producer, and several other people contributed to the project. "Jerusalem" is a dynamic collection of songs that range from prayerful reflection to gospel-inspired melodies. Listeners will experience the heart and soul of this evolving singer/songwriter. "I just hope that when people hear the album, they'll feel uplifted and prayerful," said Ellen. "I want them to hear and feel the Holy Spirit through these songs, because He's worked through me."- Shop: odax
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Another City Another Plan
Remember pop music when it was still magic? A mysterious, distant memory of a place you've never been too. This is Another City Another Plan, the sparkling debut from sultry Euro popsters Riviera F. From the Pulp-esqe kitchen sink nightmare Hell On The Way, to the Abba meets Roxy Music (complete with sax solo) triumphant nostalgia of Dance Alone, going all Hey-Jude-Winner-Takes-It-All at the end, this album sees Riviera F bringing together their DIY bedroom punk spirit and mixing it all up with some carefully laid 90s beats and perfect pop sensibilities. The more minimalist tracks such as Girls and Money and Posing For The Cameras are dangerously haunting, and almost military-sounding with their structured hooks taking you on strange, edgy journeys of crunchy synths and cheap romance. It's not all dark and moody. Dance to The Beat has it's Divine and Bobby O influences scribbled in red lipstick all over it's 5' heels and PVC leopardskin catsuit. And hey, even West End girls can sometimes be riot grrrls! Check out Kairo's dirrrty guitar on Pick Up Star, all angular 70s new-wave bursting through the drum machine. More evidence of the dark pop influence of the late 70s and early 80s can be found when they re-visit Martha and the Muffins' new-wave classic Echo Beach. The result is much more fierce than the original and surprisingly ravey. Stylishly effortless Take You Down and the gloriously cinematic The Last Time tell more tales of falling in love and inevitably falling apart. Lya Taboo (named after a character in the Bowie-starring film Just A Gigolo) is all dancy and instantly catchy with harsh, spoken vocals and wonky analogue synths. From faux Eastern European fantasies to low rent East London grimness, this is a beautiful, soulful and modern album that gets it spot on and makes you want to press REPEAT. Pop goes the world.- Shop: odax
- Price: 19.23 EUR excl. shipping
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Proper Scribbled In Chalk CD Volk Karine Polwart
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