High Fidelity

"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives."

Miss Tapes #76

.Elvis Presley - Crying in the chapel (extractos)
.Barry Adamson - Suck on the honey of love
.Nurse With Wound - Groove grease (hot catz)
.Barry Adamson - Something wicked this way comes
.The Last Shadow Puppets - Meeting place
.The Flaming Lips - The observer
.Godsy - Wounding tricks
.Barry Adamson - The violation of expectation
.Arthur Lyman - Quiet village
.Elvis Presley & The Wailers - Crying in the chapel (mash-up)
.Richard Hawley - Lonely night
.Bob Lind - Cool summer

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Miss Tapes #75

.Junior Boys - When no one cares (extracto)
.Bitcrush - Of days
.Tim Hecker - 7000 miles (extracto)
.July Skies - Branch line summers fade
.The Wedding Present - Caroline no
.Beach House - Some things last a long time
.The Smiths - I won’t share you
.Richard X feat. Jarvis Cocker - Into you
.Jay Jay Johanson - I fantasize of you
.Gonzales - Overnight
.Boy is Fiction - Stack is bad
.Air - Talisman
.Junior Boys - When no one cares
.Burial - Shell of light

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Breve história do tempo

"Time is the stuff of music: music manipulates our experience of time; it plays with the rhythm of experience; it stretches and complicates our relationship to the passing of time. If the world of physics is a space-time continuum, music is a pitch-time continuum. We use spatial metaphors to express our experience of frequency - notes are higher and lower, something expressed formally in staff notation, and deeply inscribed in our experience of music as performers and listeners. A large interval between two notes is a gulf to be stretched over. The quintessential musical form, melody, as it moves up and down in pitch space, over time, is a sort of quasi-miraculous bridging of the gap between the abandoned past, the ungraspable present and the as-yet-to-be-achieved, utterly unreal future. We grasp it and, as we do so, time is attended to and made palpable and affective."

O resto aqui.

In a quiet village

After midnight.

Samba e amor

A Bossa Nova nasceu há 50 anos. Aqui, celebra-se.

Miss Tapes #74

.Hecq - Dis (extracto)
.Flying Lotus - Auntie’s lock / Infinitum
.Hecq - Dis (extracto)
.Flying Lotus - Infinitum (Exile Remix)
.John Maus - Do your best
.Nick Drake - Come into my garden
.Trentemoller - Miss you (Lulu Rouge feat. Asger Baden Remix)
.Sauveur Mallia - Computer for love
.Dennis Wilson - You and I
.Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Feel AM
.Alessandro Alessandroni - Aspetti Musicali
.Forss - Lost through inversion
.A Reminiscent Drive - Soulmates (extracto)
.Global Communication - 4.14
.Jose Padilla - I like clowns
.Fennesz - A year in a minute

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Antes de começar a dar-vos música e publicar a primeira Miss Tape de 2009, gostava de agradecer a todos os que por aqui passam e a todos os que têm a paciência de descarregar os ficheiros que crio com músicas dos outros. Agradecer ainda a todos quantos dão a conhecer este blogue a outras pessoas, alargando a audiência sem a qual nada disto faria sentido. O meu sincero obrigado.

Villanelle for our time

From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.

F. R. Scott

The last good day of the year

Que este acabe e um melhor comece.

God only knows

Why music?

"If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it." And if not? Well, what exactly is it for?

Miss Tapes #73

.Ryoji Ikeda – Holy Wood
.The Beach Boys – Wouldn’t it be nice (a capella)
.Del Shannon – Silently
.Richard X feat. Deborah Evans – Walk on by
.Ennio Morricone – Poesia di una donna
.Ennio Morricone – La bambola
.Julee Cruise – I remember
.Skeeter Davis – The end of the world
.The Idle Race – Please no more sad songs
.Nino Tempo & April Stevens – You’ll be needing me baby
.Django Reinhardt – Stormy weather
.Federal Duck – Peace in my mind
.The Beach Boys – ‘Til I die (Alternative Mix)

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Dance away

2008

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Quiet Village - Silent Movie
Raz Ohara and The Odd Orchestra - Raz Ohara and The Odd Orchestra
July Skies - The Weather Clock
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Lambchop - Ohio
Portishead - Third
Jacaszek - Treny
Morgan Geist - Double Nightime
Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative
Anders Ilar - Sworn
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive
Lindstrom - Wherever You Go To I Go Too

Feliz Natal.

"Let's Change the World With Music"

Aqui fico a saber que os Prefab Sprout vão lançar um novo disco de originais. "Let's Change the World With Music" é o auspicioso título, mas será preciso esperar pelo próximo mês de Fevereiro. In the meantime... Aqui fica um pedaço do álbum que entreteve os últimos românticos enquanto Paddy McAloon deixou crescer a sua "long and silver beard".

Destroyer - The Music Lovers
(stream)

Miss Tapes #72

.Vangelis – Rêve
.Claro Intelecto – Your trophy
.Trans Am – Illegalize it
.Bochum Welt – La nuit (slumber Mix)
.120 Days – Sleepless nights
.Harmonia 76 – Almost
.Eddie Harris – Space comercial (extracto)
.Tim Hardin – Speak like a child
.Red House Painters – All mixed up
.Marsen Jules – A sheltered life
.Jazzanova feat. Clara Hill – That night (live at the SK office)
.M83 – You, appearing

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Há muito tempo que este projecto andava na minha cabeça, mas só agora ganhou forma. Deep Mode reúne "mixes" de música que vibra com palavras como "viagem", "sonho", "hipnose", "ritmo", "balanço", "espaço" e "movimento".
Deep Mode será uma espécie de "lado b" virtual das Miss Tapes. Ou uma sombra (coberta por reflexos de bola de espelhos).
Músicas alinhadas seguindo uma narrativa e um instinto para ouvir com um só pensamento: "Groove is in the heart".

Ao alto, a foto que será a imagem Deep Mode. Foi tirada há um ano, em Hanói.

Miss Tapes #71

.Tim Hecker – Songs of the highwire shrimpe (extracto)
.A Reminiscent Drive – Equal rights (extracto)
.Pipilotti Rist – I’m a victim of this song (Wicked game)
.Nightmares on Wax – Hey ego!
.Ryoji Ikeda – Radiorange (extracto)
.Neil Young – Heart of gold
.Global Communication – 0:54
.Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gome – Black hole sun (Dirty Reissue)
.Sebastien Tellier – Roche
.Tangerine Dream – Love on a real train
.Absolute Body Control – Eyes
.Laurel Near – In heaven (The lady in the radiator song) + Tim Hecker – 7000 miles
.Kid 606 – If my heart ever ran away it would be looking for the day when right beside you it could forever stay

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