We wanna start february listening to Efterklang, a band from Copenhagen, Denmark.
The band consists of the 3 childhood friends Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen & Rasmus Stolberg. Performing live Efterklang is joined by sweet and talented people like Peter Broderick (piano, guitar, violin etc),Tatu Rönkkö (drums), Katinka Fogh Vindelev (piano, vocal) and often also full symphonic orchestras.
Kavinsky ‘Protovision’
Here our last Music For Breakfast of 2012! This time totally dedicated to one of our discoveries of the year: Nils Frahm (born 1982) a German musician and composer based in Berlin. He has released solo material under his own name and also with several notable performers such as Anne Müller, Ólafur Arnalds and F.S. Blumm.
Back in September he released “Screws”. This free release is the result of an unfortunate accident which left the musician with a broken thumb. Understandably, breaking any finger is really bad news for a pianist but Nils managed to see this experience in the most positive light he could and so he began to play his piano again with only nine fingers.
By the time he had to have his cast removed he had recorded nine tracks, which kicking off our playlist, and then close with a selection by Nils himself with the title: “Music For The End Of The World!”, including marelene dietrich, nina simone, enrico caruso, julianna barwick and many, many more!
Enjoy!
Finally we got our first weekly playlist; from now on you’ll get a bunch of new music all together and ready to go every single week. We’ll work on capturing our old data in this new format during the next weeks, just search for “music”.
Enjoy!
Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul
Back in 1968 The Beatles recorded a little song called Happiness Is A Warm Gun. It was three different songs combined together as one by John Lennon, becoming a classic for a it’s disjointed and fragmented feeling. Cut to 1997 where Radiohead records a litte song called Paranoid Android. The song is clearly influenced by Happiness is a Warm Gun, though it has four parts total with three different moods. Yet the disjointed yet abridged feeling ofParanoid Android also makes it a hit. So what if someone were to create a track with let’s say, eight different parts?
That’s exactly what he did with Impossible Soul, the final track on his stunning album, The Age of Adz. Coming in at 25 and a half minutes the song covers more styles and personalities than you can imagine. When I first listened to the song I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. How was he able to make something so disparate still sound so cohesive? It’s a feat that still blows my mind, so I hope you enjoy it just as much as I do. This honestly may be the finest thing he’s ever recorded.
Of Montreal - Coquet Coquette
