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Bjork is one of those artists that is hard to pin down to a specific style other than her own. She has incredible albums as well as tunes, but she also has incredibly weird songs to the point of being unbearable. One thing that I had always liked was her voice. I always thought it was quite unique. Melancholic, powerful and very alive, and very unlike other angry women singers like Alanis, Tory Amos and Fiona Apple. That is until I listened CocoRosie’s Beaultiful Boyz song, contained in the Noah\’s Ark album.

My first impression was damn! this is Bjork, but soon enough the voice changes and then you feel like you are listening to a very old jazz singer like Ella Fitzgerald or the french diva Edith Piaf, which I admit I am not a big fan myself, but nevertheless that is what this woman voice sounded like. Then deep into the chorus you can tell that there are two voices and the contrast is superb, I guarantee like nothing you’ve heard before. You can learn some about them here.

Also you got to love the cover for the album…

Taking advantage of the NEW feature of the blog you can listen to the song below.

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Este CD llegó a mis manos de manera fortuita, gracias a las trampillas de la internet, porque quería yo bajarme el más reciente CD de Evanescence y terminé con este de Ueickap. Lo cierto es que al escucharlo quedé gratamente sorprendida y me pareció buena idea compartirlo por aquí, pues quizá sea un grupo archi-reconocido y yo esté pecando de ignorante.

Stereotype es del tipo metal-gótico y algunas canciones son medio melancólicas. Por su parte, Ueickap, es un grupo formado por músicos sicilianos y para los que estamos acostumbrados a escuchar cosas de Italia como Laura Pausini o Eros Ramazzotti, este grupo representa un gran y agradable cambio.

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This CD came to me in a fortuitous way because I wanted to download Evanescence’s latest album and I ended up with this one from Ueickap. The truth is that I was very pleased when I listened it and I though it will be a good idea to share it here. Maybe they are an archi-know band and I am simply being ignorant in this matter.

Stereotype is a kind of metal-goth music but with some sad tone songs. On the other hand, Ueickap is a band formed by sicilian musicians, and for those who are used to listen things from Italy like Laura Pausini or Eros Ramazzotti, this band is a big and pleasant change.

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En la misma onda que Plastilina Mosh pero un poco mas Amigos Invisibles, Kinky saco su tercer disco: Reina. Un poco mas interesante que su primer disco (Kinky), pero igual de bueno, definitivamente bastante mejor que Atlas.

Muchas de las canciones son en ingles, y se nota que todavia no es su fuerte, sobre todo porque las letras son menos interesantes. Sin embargo la musica sigue siendo chevere. Mis canciones favoritas son “Sister Twisted”, la cancion inicial del album, “Again and so on”, que si no fuera por los instrumentos que usan pareciera mas una cancion de B52, y “Adonde van los muertos” que parece mas bien de los 70s, que de esta epoca.

El video de Sister Twisted esta bastante bueno… watch out Michael!
Definitivamente una banda para una buena rumba…

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Beck’s new album promises again greatness. After the very successful guero combo of releases (Guero, Guerolito and Guero DVD), his new album The Information is being released on October 3rd. A lot is being said about this album, he’s promised to deliver a full set of (home made) videos where even his family is all over the place. In fact some early access was available at youtube.com, but it seems that they were taken out. One of his new songs: Nausea has been in the wild for a while, both Pitchfork and youtube have it available. A live version of the song is available at Beck’s website, which if you haven’t seen it, you should, it is one of the best websites I’ve seen in a long long time.
If the album follows the tone of Nausea then we’ll have yet again a complete different album than Guero and Sea Change. Which is highly unusual from most famous musicians. KUDOS to Beck for that.

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Based on the Se7en movie, Zenescope is releasing a series of 7 issues that tells the stories about the characters in the seven movie. The first issue was released in September, and I picked up a copy today in my monthly run to the comic store to get 100 Bullets.

I didn’t know about it until I got to the comic store. I picked up the Gluttony issue because the art looked great, and indeed it is. I Found out later that there is an “R” rated cover. Which I am not sure I understand the meaning of it, I mean if you flip the pages in the book you already understand this is not a book for kids, so not sure the cover makes that much difference. Except of course to the issue collectors.

The killer script is awesome, not so much the victim’s though, in fact the victim’s story is kinda lame. The art throughout is really good, it has many details and the coloring follows the same patterns and palete used in the movie. The whole issue does an amazing job at keeping the same movie atmosphere. All in all is defenitely worth it for those Seven fans like myself. Especially for those of us that wanted always to know more details about the story.

You can find an interview to Tommy Castillo, interior artist, here.

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Only our favorite parodier Weird Al Yankovic (who seems to have outlasted all those 80s icons he parodied, by the way) is back with a song called “White and Nerdy” from his upcoming album. Is this the first instance of Javascript being mentioned in a music video?

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Rock is especially known for many so-called supergroups consisting of musicians who have already achieved fame. Some of these start out as side projects among musician friends and some go on to greatness in their own right. Traveling Wilburys, The Yardbirds, Whitesnake, Highwaymen, The Firm, Velvet Revolver, and now Audioslave and The Raconteurs are a few examples of such groups. Now imagine if you will, a supergroup comprising of John Lennon on vocals and rhythm guitar, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Keith Richards on bass, and Mitch Mitchell (from the Jimi Hendrix Experience) on drums. Youtube is our friend and I dug up this gem among its vast collection of live rock videos. Mick Jagger and Lennon do a small skit before the music takes off.

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For some reason I was looking forward to watch this movie. I’ve heard good things about it, but couldn’t remember exactly what. As I was getting comfortable in the couch I saw the credits go by: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskin, Script by Luc Besson, and music by Massive Attack. As the movie progressed and watch Mr Li kicking every possible ass in the movie (as an aside note don’t you wonder why in all the action movies appearing some chinesse lead character, all the thugs and bad guys, no matter their ethnicity know martial arts - just wondering), I was paying attention to the soundtrack and realized that it was the reason why I’ve heard about this movie, not as Unleashed, but as Danny the Dog. It seems that the Americans dediced to release it as Unleashed, hollywood marketing me guesses.

The movie does have its moments. Bob Hoskin delivers a great performance. Morgan Freeman doesn’t get much to act on, so he is very flat. Of course action sequences are great. In general very unimpressed with Luc Besson’s script, seems his movies keep going south, some of the characters aren’t quite believable and the rythm of the movie is spotty at best. Mr Li more and more find his spot in the list of remarkable actors like Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, the Gobernator, and my two favorites: Jean Claude Van Damme, and Steven Seagal, that can’t act no matter what.

Special note to Massive Attack’s impressive soundtrack. Much as Peter Gabriel’s Bird soundtrack debut, this one sets the tone of almost every sequnce. It really works well with the movie. Talking about the soundtrack, there is one song while the end credits are appearing that is performed by “Thea”, which you can find in the american release of the soundtrack but not in the Massive Attack’s “Danny The Dog” album. The song is called “Baby Boy” and it is pretty good. Similarly there is one song at the very end that is uncredited, thanks to the Internet I found it, it is called “Aftersun”, and it is also written by Massive Attack and performed by Dot Allison you can find it here.

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