I swear I could have chosen any song from the album I wanted to feature today, Copeland’s 2005 album “In Motion”. It just so happens to be that on this particular day, I chose this one, for no reasons like the words it might include. I’m several hours late, but with good excuse - having had my tooth taken out today, I’m in quite a lot of missing-tooth-related pain (that’s both physically and mentally!). Send me pity, I’ll send you love! Fortunately enough, the good rocking tunes of Copeland are getting me over my problems! Enjoy today’s suspiciously picked “Choose the One Who Loves You More”:
It’s almost spring time, and its time to get this show back on the road with some quintessentially awesome songs that you will hopefully appreciate, enjoy and maybe even grow to love! Statements of my death have been grossly exaggerated, but I will apologise profusely for my lack of new content. I hope I can make it up to you by bringing you back to some great new music. This time, we’re going to gently ease you into some into some smooth and gentle music courtesy of Martin Tillman. Famous as a cellist on many American film soundtracks (including credits on Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman Begins and even Team America), Tillman has also produced and created his own albums. 2000’s “Eastern Twin” featured this lovely track as the ninth and final piece, so please do enjoy “Rue Sibelius”:
Sorry for the long lack of updates, and I can’t promise anymore in the near future, but I thought I’d get in at least one before tomorrow! John Barrowman, known famously for the charming and debonair Captain Jack from Doctor Who and Torchwood is also a very representable musical performer, having appeared in many stage productions. Now he’s released his first pop album, “Another Side”, featuring a selection of cover tracks that mean a lot to him personally. The whole album is full of nice surprises, but my favourite by far, is his cover of “Feelin’ Good”:
UK born and bred, Rhyn are a four piece band from Buckinghamshire who specialise in rock of all kinds. After they started performing together in 2003, they started to self-produce and develop their own album: the aptly titled “Home Recording Made Easy”. Even though you can tell the production values are low, it actually adds to the feel - and you can see they have real devotion to trying to get their music out and in the open. The album was released in December of 2005 and featured some of their biggest tracks they’ve performed. As they say, they sometimes also experiment with using piano and slower songs, and this is one - my personal favourite of the album which is gentle and relaxing. The entire album was licensed under a Creative Commons license and can be downloaded for free from Jamendo, but you might also consider donating if you enjoy it! Here is Rhyn’s “Wishing the World Away”:
Last Exile is an anime series from 2003 that was set in a steampunk, Victorian-inspired universe, where pilots fly through the air in “vanships” and two countries are engaged in a long war, who fight in the clouds. Today’s track sets the mood for the two main characters - a pilot and a navigator and their small airship in a morning in their gentle home town of Norkia. Dolce Triade, the composer for the series soundtrack brings a folk-y, gentle and relaxing piece with a variety of instruments - flutes, chimes, lots of percussion and good composing to beat. Enjoy today’s “A Morning in Norkia”: (don’t misread as Nokia as I always do!)
I’m keen to re-present Beulah because today’s track is just good enough to get you in the mood for… anything! You already know the story of the band’s beginning but let’s just have more time to enjoy the music! Today’s track is again taken from 2001’s "The Coast is Never Clear" and is called "Gravity’s Bringing Us Down" but don’t let it! Enjoy!
My apologies for the lateness and shortness of today’s post - the sites been inaccessible for me for some time, and now I have to get an early night. I’m moving into my new accommodation this week, and although I try to keep on posting, if I miss a day, I’m very sorry!
As an “indie rock” band, Copeland you might expect Copeland to have a hard time fighting for notoriety in the music scene, yet worry not for it - the band, formed in 2000 by Aaron Marsh, Bryan Laurenson and Jonathan Bucklew, have a fairly unique style that keeps them nice in the middle of catchy tunes and interesting features. Today’s song comes from their latest album, released October 31st last year, entitled “Eat, Sleep, Repeat”. If you think life is monotonous, at least the title is going for you! The track, “Careful Now”, is both a mellow and powerful track, and a nice combination at that:
Whilst we’re out on our "let’s do something different curve", here’s Conjure One, an electronic music project from Canada. A solo project by Rhys Fulber, previously of "electro-industrial" band Front Line Assembly, Conjure One has had two albums - proving his first wasn’t a one-off solo project. His second, "Extraordinary Ways" featured many guest vocalists, one of which was Poe. And the track, the imaginatively titled "Extraordinary Way". If you’re not much a fan of electronica, I’ll go on record saying its a pretty accessible track (and most of the album too) so here’s hoping you’ll enjoy it:
Aqualung, A.K.A. Matt Hales from merry ol’ England came to the public eye when his top track, “Strange and Beautiful” was used on an advert for the VW Beetle in 2002, and in the US for the song “Brighter than Sunshine” which was used in the film A Lot Like Love. But of course, you’ve probably heard them before - so let’s play a lesser-known but just-as-awesome track from his eponymous debut album, entitled “Good Times Gonna Come”:
Apart from keeping most of his personal life a secret, Hyde is in the public eye in Japan a whole lot of the time - part of the successful J-Rock band, L’Arc~en~Ciel (who will no doubt get a feature here some day) and a successful solo artist, marrying a model, starring in a couple of films and many albums - yet no one knows his actual name, or his birthday or any of the bitty details! Still, the music’s good and that’s all that counts - it’s quite a gentle piece: acoustic and mellow and using the softer sides of his voice. From his first solo album, “Roentgen”, here is “Shallow Sleep”: