james blake /// live in concert (npr music series)

Sit back and take in the live 90-minute James Blake‘s  May 12 show at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club. For a limited time courtesy of NPR Music you can witness the majesty of what makes Mr. Blake one of the hottest artist working today. The set is littered with 16 songs drawn from his recently released Overgrown and previous EPs. Fan favorite Never Learnt to Share is riveting and I treat for any space  you happen to occupy at the moment.

 

with a light heart // lost at sea ep (our sunday best)

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. -Miles Davis

The Lost At Sea EP by the Swedish band With A Light Heart is a basket full of songs perfect for a walk along coastal environs or a languid drive without any specific destination in mind. Also, this release of four simple, yet beautiful songs feels bigger than the some of its parts. The songs have a sweeping and epic character which rolls like a cleansing and rising tide in the bowl of your eardrums. Here, in the endless diameter of sound is human intimacy radiating gloriously. Each song is imbued with the spectacular essence of the warming sunrise, and by the albums end the moon too is full to bursting with solemn thanks of gratitude. Word is the band recorded it’s new EP in a loft and in a church in Bua, a small quaint village on the west coast of Sweden. How fitting then or telling because these songs have the inner-workings of hymnals and a spirituality which touches your soul like the soothing hand of grace. You can get you own copy via the With a Light Heart’s bandcamp. Peace. Continue reading “with a light heart // lost at sea ep (our sunday best)”

james blake + brian eno // digital lion

It isn’t such a long walk to romantic perfection after all…

Mr. James Blake is something of an anomaly in the world of music in that he approaches music with a masculine delicacy unlike any other. Yes, there are all sorts of seducers out here, but Mr. Blake delivers his brand of love potion number 9 without pretension and raises the bar with an authentic genuineness that is both subtle and positively endearing. His most recent offering song “Digital Lion,” doesn’t “try” to be anything other than what it is… abundantly beautiful. On the track “Digital Lion,” James Blake teams up with the iconic Brian Eno and the results are in a word, beyond effective. This song and 11-others comprise the forthcoming album ‘Overgrown‘which drops digitally April 9th, 2013. Peace. Continue reading “james blake + brian eno // digital lion”