Before I began doing my best of myspace, I discovered Erland who is the son of a Swedish composer that began learning about music and how to play instruments at an early age. He’s now living in New York and his songs vary between emotionally effective instrumentals even to cover songs. I bought his album, [...]
After seeing them play Wicker Park Street Festival, I quickly realized the potential of this band, whose album Broom is not only filled with songs you can sing along to but with songs who have lyrics worth paying attention to. There’s an underlying melancholy to some of them as well, a bit like in the [...]
Chicago’s very own 1900s have a perfect sound reminiscent of everything from The Beach Boys to Fleetwood Mac. It’s both alluring and very catchy. Their eight members always make for a full and engaging melody. Their stage presence is one that is often accompanied by dance movements to mesh well with the vocal harmonizing. Both [...]
Dream Brother, by David Browne, is the story of musicians Jeff Buckley and his father, Tim Buckley. Browne does a thorough job of exloring the curious circumstances behind their deaths as well as their music, relations with the music industry, and their personal lives. Browne also provides a comprehensive index in order to help the [...]
This is the final installment of the interview. In this last part, Orouni again discusses great music but also talks about the creation of his songs as well as literature he enjoys reading. Kirstiecat: Are there some current bands and musicians right now that you’ve recently gotten into? Orouni: Yes! Most of all, I want [...]
The following is the second part of a three part interview submitted to French musician Orouni by email. Click this link to be taken to the first part of this interview. In this part of the interview, Orouni talks more about current favorite musicians and bands as well as the music scenes in Denmark and [...]
The following is the first of a three part interview with French musician Orouni who was able to answer these questions by email. Orouni’s music is both warm and inspiring and after listening to several songs of his, I quickly started listening to them on repeat rather often. Links at the bottom are provided in [...]