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Album Name: Two Hands
Artist: Gunnar Madsen
Year/Label: 2009 / Independent
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Review by Amy Lotsberg Producer of Collected Sounds
Having one of those days? You know the kind I mean. The cat barfed on the floor (and you stepped in it in bare feet). The outfit you wanted to wear is on the floor covered in dog hair. The pump at the gas station was broken and traffic was crazy. You get to work and there is no coffee. Yeah, those.
Well a good antidote for that is this album. It’s filled with light, pretty piano music.
Since I am not a pianist (though I do know Heart & Soul and used to be able to play Lionel Richie’s Endless Love once upon a time), I will not go into the intricacies of Gunnar Madsen’s style or skill. I will just say that I think it’s beautiful, soothing and a perfect mood calming album.
There are some livelier numbers such as Frank Grows Flowers, but even that is peaceful and lovely.
Track Listing
1. Break Into Blossom
2. In These Lonely Regions
3. Kerenyi
4. Half Empty
5. Nino And Me
6. Ordinary Day
7. The Blackbird Whistling
8. Frank Grows Flowers
9. Bandon
10. For Wendy
11. Imagine It Falling
12. Down Moon
13. Ockeghem’s Turn
14. Oak Sky
15. 3 South Trail
16. Red Bird
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People Eating People is actually a solo project of Nouela Johnson.
Piano based intelligent pop music with a great voice. Her mother, Hangyo Lee, is a Julliard pianist widely considered to be one of the best in the world so it’s no wonder where her talent comes from.
Really nice stuff. Have a listen:
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I Hate All My Friends
[All the Hospitals]
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1. Darling
2. All The Hospitals
3. I Hate All My Friends
4. For Now
5. Building Armor
6. Rain, Rain
7. Supernatural Help
8. Evil…
9. Straight Lines
10. On And On
11. Let’s Rage
People Eating People – Rain, Rain from The Control Group on Vimeo.
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Album Name: From Here to Here EP
Artist: Sofie Livebrant
Year/Label: 2010/Playground
Review by Amy Lotsberg Producer of Collected Sounds
Really like this. Seems like I’ve been getting a lot of male-dominated shouty rock material lately. So this is a welcome reprieve.
Sofie Livebrant is Swedish (no wonder I like her). Her website is in Swedish, but if you have Chrome it will translate it if you like. I should note, she sings in English.
Her voice is soft and sweet and it matches the piano-based lullaby-type music well. There are also some nice backing vocals that add to the sleepy effect. (From Here to Here and Helicopter most noticeably)
Mandy and Wanted both has a little twang to them and are a little more upbeat. But I still wouldn’t call it country. She has a nice lilt to her voice that shows on Mandy in particular. Some nice strings on Wanted as well (fiddle, I believe).
Really nice stuff by yet another good Scandinavian artist.
Track Listing
1. From Here to Here
2. Mandy
3. Helicopter
4. Wanted
5. Honey
6. No 976 Death is a Dialogue
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