Thursday in the Hood with BK.
K-town, in the vein of Jersey Shore.
I can waste hours listening to new music (and lots of rediscovering old favorites). One of my joys is listening to opera arias that I used to accompany back in the day. I remember with fondness the extremely short-lived Penn Opera Society… I looked up some of the old members on Facebook and it looks as if a lot of them are still in the opera game. Good for them. I’m not out of the game either; I’m working with many talented soloists on an opera right now called The Crowded House, along with the composer himself, Michael Dutka. The show will be opening in the Philly Fringe Festival in September in the Lantern Theatre. It’ll be great. I hope.
Never actually accompanied this one, but I find the Stabat Mater to be beautiful.
This Steppenwolf song has always been a keeper, and this updated live cover (since it’s been jazzed up a little bit) by the old man himself is pretty darn tootin.
I listen, off and on, to a lot of French music. Particularly that with a Afro or Cuban or Afro-Cuban feel. Since there are so many African and Arabic “influences” in France, there’s always bound to be great music. Thus, one more. I love her sound, as I imagine myself in a Havana cafe in the 1920s with elegant Creole women holding long cigarettes in holders and wafting exotic perfumes… I also, randomly, think of Marion Cotillard.
One of my favorite bands, Stars. They have this cinematic melancholy sound, and they’re from Toronto. What’s not to like? This is Wasted Daylight, off their newest album. Their other single from that album, Dead Hearts, is also super-awesome – and you can get it free on Amazon. Grab.
Tags: Born To Be Wild, Dolorosa, Marion Cotillard, Michael Dutka, Soha, Stabat Mater, Stars, Steppenwolf, The Crowded House