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kim yuna/ without happy love (live)
kim yunas new live album is full of that raw emotional quality, featuring stinging testemonies of the artist. i'd weep if i could and i couldn't yet listen to all of it in one go, because it had such an strong effect on me.
jan and naomi/ leeloo and alexandra
2016 ep from japans indie duo jan and naomi must be one of their best releases so far in my opinion. naomis voice is melancholic, and it's so dreamy , that it's almost draining. the mood gotta be right for this one, but if it is, it is.
kate bush/ aerial
i don't know what it is, but i feel this album very personal, it might even be too intimate for the internet, as far as the track bertie goes. also it's like i knew mrs. bartolozzi from the fourth song of the album, which proves that kate bush's pictures are powerful and god, so is her voice. who is scared of listening to a two cd album should be warned: it's best served warm and in one go. (but who can't do that should split it ofc between "a coral room" and "prelude". but i feel like one should really take their time for this one, if it feels right.) the second part of the album is a change of worlds. it's almost like following in a little girls footsteps into a mellow world, only to wind up finding kate bush's powerful laughter in a wide meadow. kate bush's love transcended the borders of her medium and got straight to my heart, yes, i almost, if not even felt like reliving childhood.
now i know this album might be from 2005 already, but i felt with the recent rediscovering of her work anyways, this would be also deserving of more attention. it's truly like i feel about vashti bunyan- when great artists become mothers, sometimes very special and warm songs happen.
lastly updated: 03/05/23
No Party For Cao Dong/ The Clod
May?
Xiu Xiu at silent green, 25.5.23 :)
Gia Margaret/ Romantic Piano
The Japanese House/ In the End It Always Does
30.6.23
Two singles from korean artist cacophony. Is there more to come?
anticipated :)
2020
THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE PAST FEW YEARS
releases
CHUDAHYE CHAGIS/ Underneath the Dangsan Tree Tonight
Who hasn't heard this powerful korean experimental album with folk influences, has missed out. The band itself states, that one should take some time aside to listen in peace, possibly on a device with good audio quality, when it's the first time.
It's almost overwhelming and feels like witchcraft.
Omnipotent Youth Society/ Inside The Cable Temple
When I first heard this album, I just stood there. I wanted to do something else, but I couldn't. I kid you not- I couldn't shut my mouth for the half of it and it was one of the best things, that happened to me in 2022. I first discovered OYS in 2021, only listening to their self titled album from 2010. When a band like this, even when faced with great reaction from the Chinese youth takes another ten years to produce their second album, you know it might be passion.
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an unrelated license free picture of a japanese house
With her latest release of her single "Sad to Breathe" and "Boyhood", The Japanese House announced the second album of the project, titled "In The End It Always Does", which will we released at the end of June.
link to the website (presave):https://thejapanesehouse.co.uk/#_=_
NOTE:
Subjective opinion. One's gender/sexuality are deeply personal topics, which aren't for strangers to judge or debate. I tried to respect that as well as I could. These are my (mainly) interpretations/associations of her work and public statements.
05/05/23
thoughts of a trans guy listening to "boyhood" by the japanese house
With her new single 'Boyhood', Amber Bain stays on brand: a swift melody (this time with a horse girl vibe!) paired with a certain pop song sadness and a deeeep buried longing, that almost hurts me as a person, who can relate past struggles to the music. Because these features are what initially drew me to her music, and still catches me if *I look back on what I did and reminisce* (living in the past is a 4-6/10 coping skill). I listened to "Something Has To Change", "Maybe You're The Reason" and "Follow My Girl" while I was still in denial and the closet. I found my state, an inner numbness to my pain in the simplistic pop melodies, her lyrics about dependence of lovers and all in all the notion that whatever one does *something just doesn't sit right* well represented. Bain's text's have always said "gender" to me. But I was suprised with how 'explicit' the theme was called with this single. Now okay, maybe, I should not have been. For what it's worth, her whole band name is a reference to the time she went into the role of a boy for a week, somewhere around a Japanese House. Big nostaligia on boyhood, and now it's mentioned twice.
But now, with my interpretation, "Boyhood", takes this narrative into adulthood. What, if I want to change? Will my love allow it? What are the consequences of my desires? A jingle-like sound, almost like that of a random horse show, maybe draws back at something "childlike", like a "playful desire", that roots deep to childhood.
The manifestations somehow never went away. I feel like there is this parallesis between "Something Has To Change" (song 2020, for which Bain posed half naked leaning on a couch, trying to find a new way to come to peace with herself, which is something that I find quite cool) and the lyrics of Boyhood:
"I wanna change, but it's nothing new (...) will you hold me like you always do?"
What a sum-up. Bain herself said, that maybe she would describe herself as non-binary now and I hope, that she finds enough space to explore herself in desires she's feeling. She's sung about it some years now.
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18 years old, music and art has kept me going by a lot.
i think i mostly want my texts and music speak for me, given it's something so personal.
in the search for finding some peace, being open had always helped me, hence, i just go more by "vibe" than genre. i have no classifications regarding music and will probably keep it there.
i found it hard to share my love for my music interests with people in real life to an amount i feel i deserves, so this is a current experiment of mine to see, if i can outsource it on a blog.
this website is handmade with canva.
have fun scrolling.
-Y (he/him)
witness of good music
18 years old, music and art has kept me going by a lot.
i think i mostly want my texts and music speak for me, given it's something so personal.
in the search for finding some peace, being open had always helped me, hence, i just go more by "vibe" than genre. i have no classifications regarding music and will probably keep it there.
i found it hard to share my love for my music interests with people in real life to an amount i feel i deserves, so this is a current experiment of mine to see, if i can outsource it on a blog.
this website is handmade with canva.
have fun scrolling.
-Y (he/him)
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