EMILIANA TORRINI - 'SPEED OF DARK' (TOOKAH, 2013)

... Somebody tell me how we got that far
I don't even know right now who we are
If you know that you're not breathing, get out
We can always just leave here, drive off

Life is just a flicker in the universe
Ooh under the stars, we're indestructible
(it's just a flick in the universe.
under the stars, we're indestructible)

Oh somebody let me drive that car
Every ride and down the freeway to watch it all
We'll be making love
Together living in a free fall
Oh won't you come with me and go far...

ANNA PAVLOVA FOOTAGE - CLUSTER AND ENO 'HE RENOMO' TRACK

A distant light
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh
A kiss
A cry
Our rights
Our wrongs...

ALEC K REDFEARN AND THE EYESORES // AVANT PSIKO-CIGANE: FIZARMONIKE, KITARE, PIANO, UKULELE DHE HARMONIKE LUAJTUR CMENDURISHT NDRYSHE [SISTER DEATH, 2012]

Sic e shpjegon vete Alec K Redfearn: "Eyesores luajne muzike krijuese qe prej 15-vjetesh dhe perbejne nje ansambel te papenguar nga etiketat, mjaft te veshtire per tu kataloguar ne rryma".

Disku i tyre i shtate (Sister Death, 2012) nuk ka te krahasuar ne skenen muzikore te nendheshme (underground) duke u shtyre gjithnje e me shume ne kerkim te nje tingulli te ri, kesaj rradhe idealisht ne Evropen e Lindjes (bej me mendje nje linje nga Irlanda, duke kaluar ne Transilvani, e deri ne Ballkan), ku fizarmonika kryeson instrumentet e tjere te pazakonte (piano Wurlitzer, kitare havajane, ukulele, dy bas-e etj).

Mbulesa e ketij albumi psikedelik shfaqet me nje bukuroshe duarhapur, si per te parashikuar titullin. Alec shoqerohet, pervecse nga nje ushtri me muzikante te mirenjohur, edhe nga chanteuse Orion Rigel Dommisse (dhe ne fakt duetet dy-zerash jane mes te dyve!).

Une i falenderoj vecanerisht per cilesine e mire ne kete eksperimentim te habitshem dhe origjinal (folk, rock, dark, balada...), plot gjelberim te perjetshem, shfryerje te shfrenuar te shqisave, thesare te fshehura (te pallogaritur!) dhe zjarrit te rastesishem qe digjet ('Fire Shuffle').

REGINA SPEKTOR - 'HERO' [BEGIN TO HOPE, 2006] // I'M THE HERO OF THE STORY, DON'T NEED TO BE SAVED

...Power to the people, we don't want it, we want pleasure
And the TV's try to rape us and I guess that they're succeeding
And we're going to these meetings but we're not doing any meeting
And we're trying to be faithful but we're cheating, cheating, cheating...

 

 

 

THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS (ALAIN DE BOTTON, 2006)

“We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.”

“Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.”

“We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need: but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need: within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.”

“A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.”

“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.”