I may still be stuck at home in Covid isolation, but at least it's a great way to catch up on music releases!
Just a personal selection...
Released today, like Tamino's:
Arcade Fire - 'Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)'
Official Audio
From this year, catching up with her new album:
Mitski – 'Working for the Knife' (Official Video)
His music was one of the great sonic highlights of the pre-pandemic months for me, while I was starting teaching music journalism, even though the students remained quite unappreciative, sadly...
Nevertheless, the fans, fellow musicians and music writers were all praise and wonder about his first album.
The Guardian compared him to Jeff Buckley; and Colin Greenwood as well as the Syrian Orchestra accompanied him on his first album and some tour dates from 2017.
Here is his new songs, more about him soon:
Tamino - 'The First Disciple'
Tamino wrote on his social media channel: "It’s been a while, feeling proud and excited to finally share this with all of you. ‘The First Disciple’ out now".
He posted this photo of him, taken by his mother, a few years ago:
He had announced a month ago that new music was ready.
Born in Belgium in an Egyptian family of musicians, Tamino is the proud son of the encounter of Eastern and the Western godly music.
Hello people.
Back from Paris and Marseille, I'm now in isolation in our house, you'll imagine why...
The sad thing about being sick is that we cannot sing anymore. I've lost my voice and have to rest.
But I'm still listening to music...
On the one hand, I wrote that piece about Fairouz for TMR.
If you want to read it, here is the link:
Fairouz is the Voice of Lebanon, Symbol of Hope in a Weary Land
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Artist Yazan Halwani painted a Fairouz fresco in Gemmayzeh, Beirut — he says Fairouz is the only national solidarity symbol on which a majority of Lebanese agree |
On the other, one of my best friends invited me to a great gig in Paris 10 days ago, and the music is still with me.
Since Elon has bought 100% of Twitter overnight, and I cannot stand any of the values he represents, I'm going to post here instead...
LA CHICA feat. HAUSMANE (FORM) - 'THE SEA' (Acoustic)
La Chica is French and Venezuelan; Hausmane French and Lebanese.
Don't they sound wonderful?
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Stay well...
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Horace Andy has a new album out, and he included a personal cover of MassiveAttack's iconic song 'Safe from Harm'!!!
Here it is:
'Midnight Rocker' now on Red Vinyl, Black Vinyl, and CD → https://on-u-sound.ffm.to/midnightroc...
'Safe From Harm'
Originally performed by Massive Attack
Written by Billy Cobham, Shara Nelson, Robert Del Naja, Andrew Vowles, Grant Marshall
Produced by Adrian Sherwood
