new music for your ears :-)

Aus Skandinavien kann nur Gutes kommen. 

So wie Jonas Alaska und seine Musik.

Ich möchte gar nicht viel darüber schreiben, denn ich befinde mich gerade im Prüfungsstress. Aber trotzdem möchte ich meine musikalische Entdeckung mit euch dort draußen teilen und hoffe, dass ihr genau so begeistert sein werdet wie ich es bin.

Viel Spaß mit den Videos :-)

Eure Kat x

There is only good things coming from Scandinavia.

Such as Jonas Alaska and his music.

I don't want to write much about it because I'm in the middle of my final exams. Nevertheless, I still wanted to share my musical discovery with you out there hoping that you'd be as enthusiastic as I am.

Enjoy the videos :-)

Yours Kat x

Thomas Brun - music made with blood, sweat and tears

In October 2011, I was lucky enough to go to a bar in Copenhagen called 'den glade gris' (the happy pig). As I entered the bar with my friend, I could hear someone playing the guitar. When we finally approached the small stage, my friend and I were really fascinated by this musician.

A good-looking man with curly, brown hair and black old Converse shoes on playing his guitar. Several loops arranged around him and a harmonica on a holder around his neck. It all might appear as if he is another one of these musician who roam the bars night after night playing shabby cover versions of famous songs.

Well, admittedly, he did play cover versions of other people's songs but his way of singing them was quite unique and still is today. It doesn't get boring and it is never bad.

The name of this man? Thomas Brun! I was even more lucky to get into a conversation with him and we sort of became friends. Everytime he came back to Copenhagen to play gigs at den glade gris, we met up and hung out at those weekends. That is why I can tell you that he is an musician to the core.

But he does not only cover songs, he also wrote his own songs, went to the US and recorded and produced an album there. 

You can read his story on his website. There you can also find current dates for his gigs in Paris.

And to give you a taste of what to expect when you go and see him live, there are some clips on youtube.

Hope you are enjoying his music. His album "all" can be bought on amazon and iTunes.

Yours, Kat :-)

Incredibly beautiful music made in Bavaria

This will just be a short post but a good one :-) with a cracking music tip!!

Until last Friday night, I did not know that this band existed but as I was zapping my way through the channels and got stuck on one programme showing musicians from Bavaria, I saw them. And I fell for them immediately!!!

 
The sensational, incredible, daredevil Moonband !!!


Living years abroad in Copenhagen, I have been out of touch with the local music scene at home in Bavaria and to be honest ... I simply did not know that there was such great music at home. But now I know better and I want to share it with you! Check them out on youtube and buy their albums. They are a must in your album collection! 

The Moonband - Boogeyman

The Moonband - Joänne

Enjoy!! :-)

Yours, Kat

Musiktipp <3 music tip

Ich bin verliebt! Und zwar gnadenlos in ein Album, das ich nur zufällig entdeckt habe. Letztes Wochenende habe ich mich von Webseite zu Webseite, von Links zu Links durchgeklickt, einfach aus Langeweile und bin dann irgendwann auf einen Musiktipp gestoßen. Nate Richert und sein Album 'Halogen Moon'! Da ich zurzeit immer die selben fünf Alben im Zug zur Arbeit höre (Feist, Travis, Kings of Leon, Florence and the Machine und Ghost of the Robot), dachte ich mir, dass ich mal kurz auf iTunes ein wenig in das Album reinhöre. Also habe ich ein Lied angeklickt und schon nach den ersten 10 Sekunden von dem Lied wusste ich, dass ich mir das Album unbedingt kaufen muss. Und es hat sich gelohnt! Seit einer Woche nun höre ich im Zug und zu Hause nichts mehr anderes. 

Die Stimme von Nate Richert ist wirklich toll und die Musik heitert mich auf, wenn ich aus dem Zugfenster schaue und nichts als Regen und einen grauen Himmel im Moment sehe.

Ich bin unheimlich froh, dass ich dieses Album und auch diesen Musikstil entdeckt habe und kann den Kauf der CD nur wärmstens empfehlen :-) Und wenn ihr das Album kauft, dann hoffe ich, dass es euch auch so ans Herz wächst wie mir.

Eure Kat

I'm in love! And that is merciless with an album that I only discovered by accident. Last weekend, I was clicking my way through the web, from website to website, from link to link, just because I was bored and after a while I came across a music tip. Nate Richert and his album 'halogen moon'! Since I have listened to the same five albums lately on the train to work (Feist, Travis, Kings of Leon, Florence and the Machine and Ghost of the Robot), I thought that I should listen quickly to the album on iTunes. So I clicked on one song and already after the first 10 seconds of the song I knew that I absolutely must buy this album. And it was totally worth it! For a week now, I have listened to nothing else but this on the train and at home.

Nate Richert's voice is really great and the music cheers me up when I look out of the train window and only see rain and a grey sky outside at the moment.

I am incredibly glad that I discovered this album and also this kind of music and I only can highly recommend buying this CD :-) And if you buy the album, I hope that it will also grow that much on you as it did on me.

Yours, Kat