(same band without Teresa singing, but the pics are nice to look at with this music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rzoGIuwgHk&feature=related)
CentaursFeast- 08-28-2008
Re: Hope Sandoval Just discovered this woman, though she's been around for a while - originally with Mazzy Star. Sublime, dreamy stuff.
Jesse Sykes is another one. I'm really into these women at the moment.
I've already been through most of Cat Power and Neko Case.
Any more recommendations along these lines?just listened to 'wild roses' poon Napster, very dreamy.
I'm not up on these breathy female vocalists, but Fiona Apple is like this, although her voice is richer. Tidal is the album you can drift off to sleep to.
Oh, and Stina Nordenstam ('little star' http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sQIowXjGGMI
etc), who's so ethereal she divides people. You probably know about her, too.
Rosabel- 08-28-2008
Re: Hope Sandoval Oh, and Stina Nordenstam ('little star' http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sQIowXjGGMI
etc), who's so ethereal she divides people.
She decidedly divides me ... ugh, trying to sound like Björk does at times, but with no real music, only this nerve-grinding guitar? :shock:
CentaursFeast- 08-28-2008
Re: Hope Sandoval
She decidedly divides me ... ugh, trying to sound like Björk does at times, but with no real music, only this nerve-grinding guitar? :shock:I could listen to it twenty times in a row. Oh well...
fed- 08-29-2008
Didn't know any of these singers and had to look them up ... now what do you think of this female voice? :
Mmm yes, very nice. Better than some other latin voices I've heard recently like Maria Rita, Sara Tavares and Bebel Gilberto. Hope she does some more edgy stuff though - after a while this becomes a too-mellow Mediterranean cafe sound. In the first one, her voice sounds like Kate Bush - she's a real innovator.
fed- 08-29-2008
Re: Hope Sandoval
She decidedly divides me ... ugh, trying to sound like Björk does at times, but with no real music, only this nerve-grinding guitar? :shock:I could listen to it twenty times in a row. Oh well...
I liked it. Didn't get Bjork at all, but she reminded me of Bic Runga - or rather, as it seems Nordenstam's been around 17 years, Bic must be following in her trail. It's so difficult to find real originality in any of these women...
Rosabel- 08-30-2008
Mmm yes, very nice. Better than some other latin voices I've heard recently like Maria Rita, Sara Tavares and Bebel Gilberto. Hope she does some more edgy stuff though - after a while this becomes a too-mellow Mediterranean cafe sound. In the first one, her voice sounds like Kate Bush - she's a real innovator.
No, she doesn't do edgy stuff, Teresa Salgueiro. And I wouldn't call this Mediterranean cafe sound at all - what's that supposed to be anyway? To me the term "Mediterranean" exists only in geography, but not in culture, it's all far too diverse in the different countries (except that they all have a lot of wonderful fish recipes :wink: ).
Madredeus and Teresa Salgueiro are Portuguese first of all, and they are real innovators, they created this whole new sound, leaving the traditional Fado behind very soon, but still being faithful to their roots in a way.
The third one of my Madredeus clips was a scene from Wim Wenders' great little film "Lisbon Story" (1994), btw. I'm not surprised that for Wenders "Madredeus" were the epitome of Lisbon, they are for me, too.
fed- 09-06-2008
I wouldn't call this Mediterranean cafe sound at all - what's that supposed to be anyway?
The loungy, romantic stuff they play in cafes by the Mediterranean - or cafes that fantasise that they are by the Mediterranean. Cultural fusion, I suppose, like their food.
I like the Portuguese language - it's got a tropical feel (which Spanish hasn't) probably because of Brazil.
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