Ok, so I've been featuring soul-kind-of music mostly. But I like a bit of guitars too every once in a while.
Linkin park does a good job on that for me. And I get some beats and a bit of a hip-hop flow as a bonus. I watched their live show via the livestream of Itunes-festival, last year. That convinced me to put this band on my try-to-catch-live-list.
Very happy to share with you a full-concertvideo of this world-famous (because that's a fact) band from a live concert, from the LP-blog on their website :
I wrote about being thankful for finding new, inspirational music last thursday. And I promised to share it with you today! I present to you Lianne La Havas!
I found this British singer via de the Dutch Glamour Magazine (I posted about that in my latest Scrapbook Saturday post). Love her voice and honest lyrics. Best of all: her debut album Is Your Love Big Enough will be released 8th of July! And it's definately on my list...
I share with you this beautiful song: No Room For Doubt which features Willy Mason as well (great!). It's a bit of a bluesy song, so make sure you check her other songs too (like Is Your Love Big Enough, I think her latest single). They've got some more swing ;).
It's us as human being who put music into boxes, into genres. And it's people who take them out of these boxes too. Or at least that's what comes to mind when I listen to one of Kyteman's projects.
First there were the Hermit sessions from Kyteman's Hip-hop orchestra, then Kytecrash with Eric Vloeimans and now there's The Kyteman Orchestra. It's an orchestra, a bunch of rappers and choir. That takes some organizing skills. The linking pin is Colin Benders (alias: Kyteman) from Utrecht (and my favorite city in The Netherlands, I admit).
To be honest with you, I can't chose which project I like most. I let you make your own choice by giving you a listen to some music from all three projects:
The most famous one (in The Netherlands, at least) by Kyteman's Hip-hop Orchestra from The Hermit Sessions: Sorry
From the collaboration Kytecrash with Eric Vloeimans: Tribute to the mighty 6
And the latest project: The Kyteman Orchestra this is their first single off their latest album. Listen to other songs off this album via their website.
I like going to concerts, buy cds (prefer disks over downloads) and
look for new tunes and artists on the internet. Every once in a while you need some beats to keep you going. So, I would like to share with you the music of Dutch artist Pete Philly.
What I love about this artist is that he seems to have a vision on all things he creates. Best shown in his latest video for his single One (see below).
Also, his lyrics are strong (even used in my very first Wisdom on Wednesday post) and it's not straight out hip-hop (that is as far as I know hip-hop and I admit, that is limited).
I found Pete Philly though his Open Loops Project: an outlet for his musical inspiration using social media and the latest design, to produce an digital mixtape. He started that after the collaboration with Perquisite stopped at the peak of their succes as Pete Philly & Perquisite.
Now, about two years later, he has a debut album as a solo-artist: One. And it's high my list of cds to buy, because great artists deserve some support.
