Magical

As I always say, I love the La Blogotheque Take Away Show series on Youtube. I don’t always keep up with all of the latest releases, since checking out great new music takes up so much time already. UK indie art rock band Wild Beasts recorded their song Reach A Bit Further on the streets of Paris during the Pitchfork Music Festival and the video was released on Youtube a couple of months ago. Better late than never, because this is riveting. This is pure music magic. Love it.

Magical

As I always say, I love the La Blogotheque Take Away Show series on Youtube. I don’t always keep up with all of the latest releases, since checking out great new music takes up so much time already. UK indie art rock band Wild Beasts recorded their song Reach A Bit Further on the streets of Paris during the Pitchfork Music Festival and the video was released on Youtube a couple of months ago. Better late than never, because this is riveting. This is pure music magic. Love it.

OFFICIAL VID: Alex Winston – Choice Notes

Here’s another indie pop video and song. This one’s a little more quirky and unique than the Class Actress track I just shared. Alex Winston is a singer songwriter from Detroit, now transplanted to NYC where she worked on some material with The Knocks. This is her song Choice Notes off her EP Sister Wife from 2011. Ms. Winston is classically trained in opera and seems to be very talented. No LP out yet, but I’d bet on an impressive debut album.

Need more proof and argument as to why I feel that way? Check out this La Blogotheque Take Away Show from April 2011. Skip to 2:15 to get to the actual performance of her song Locomotive.

I love Take Away Shows

La Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows are always soooooo raw and beautiful and great. Check out EMA’s performances of Marked (favorite out of the three), A Butterly Knife and Anteroom in three different French locales on this episode.

EMA | Marked | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

EMA | Butterfly Knife | A take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

EMA | Anteroom | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Most recent uploaded A Take Away Show…

From La Blogotheque and astounding as always, the latest shared clip features My Brightest Diamond.

And wow. Shara Worden. Wow. This is… Wow.

Magical. 

From the description:

Filmed in Berlin, at the MichelBerger Mystery Music Festival, August 2011.

“After the concert I finally dared to ask her what I wanted to ask her that morning, to sing us this lullaby that struck me down. It’s Sunday morning, a morning of hangovers. The whole hotel seems suspended in the air. We ask her to get to the bar, to make it sing for her, to sing for her son (for whom she had written this song). We erase ourselves. She, she doesn’t. After we’re done filming, I cry. She cries too.”

I’ll see you tonight, Mr. Vernon and friends

Been informed that even the songs off For Emma, Forever Ago won’t have the quietness and loneliness as recorded on the album due to the lush 9 piece band, but I figure it’ll be just as amazing, but in a different way (more a Bon Iver, Bon Iver sophomore album way). I can only dream to someday see Vernon perform solo in a very, very intimate setting… as he intended that first album to feel during his months of solitude in a cabin, soul searching and writing. Bon Iver, here we come…

O boy, o boy…

Can’t wait to hear some of this LIVE tomorrow at the Greek Theatre in the beautiful SF Bay Area Indian summer weather (should be 60’s at night still). Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. Almost want to climb to the top of the lawn area during Holocene to take in the view of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco in the distance. It would be perfect if it were sunset at the moment, but most likely it will be dark by then. Nothing new here, but let me indulge… out of the several shows I’m hitting up these next coming days, Bon Iver is the one I’ve truly been waiting for awhile (ever since For Emma, Forever Ago) and most excited about. The newer album’s lushness will be amazing live, but the simplicity and heart wrenching folk tunes from For Emma, Forever Ago should be just as endearing and crowd hushingly good. The older album still holds a special place in my heart that the new one, though astounding, cannot dislodge. Berkeley, please try not to bring too many young, talkative, frat kids to the show… if they talk and get drunk and chatter over Bon Iver, I’m gonna be pissed. This is gonna be a heckuva spiritual, soul searching show. Justin Vernon, take us away…

And I’ll end this beautiful revisit with Vernon’s breathtaking cover of I Can’t Make You Love Me: