30 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Musica
Maria Voskania released her album “Magie” on September 1st, 2017 .
Tracklist:
1.Ich seh nur dich
2.Magie
3.Unendlich frei
4.Küss mich
5.4 Flügel 2 Herzen
6.Es lebe das Leben
7.Freier Fall
8.Einmal zu oft
9.Sternenklar
10.Hiergefühl
11.Wahre Liebe
12.Halbes Herz
13.Frei wie du
14.Tag für Tag
OVERALL RATING
4 stars
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Musica
Up and coming Nashville artist Elliot Root is release of their highly anticipated debut full-length record, Conjure, out August 25 via E.R. Recordings/Thirty Tigers. The first track released off the upcoming album, “10,000,” was featured on Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist where it quickly received over 300,000 listens.
Co-produced by the band’s own Melissa Mattey and Scott Krueger alongside Tony High at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios and Width Music, Conjure follows the group’s Thoughts From Yesterday and II EPs. Elliot Root features Krueger (vocals, guitars), Mattey (keyboards, drum programming), Sean Truskowski (drums) and Todd Bond (guitars).
Writing and recording the album over the course of a year, the band worked out their material at Mattey and High’s own Width Music Studio before moving to Blackbird Studios to lay down the tracks. “We would usually start the days off with an idea or two and spend the rest of the day experimenting and letting each idea unfold,” explains frontman Krueger. “I don’t think we had any sort of preconceived notion as to what we wanted things to sound like, our main goal was to really just get out of our own way and do whatever felt natural at the moment. Eventually we could see a common thread start to run through everything we were writing.”
Krueger goes on to note, “Our writers, producers, engineers and mixing engineer are members of the band or live sound team, so the collaboration on the record was really closely knit with almost no outside influence. With the exception of mastering the entire record was created internally.”
Releasing their first two EPs in 2015, Elliot Root has quickly gained attention in their hometown of Nashville with the track “Punks and Poets” topping Spotify’s “Sounds of Nashville” Top 100 chart and reaching Spotify’s U.S. Viral 50 Chart. No Country For New Nashville called the band “loud [and] full of energy…wonderfully electrifying.” The band has performed alongside X Ambassadors, Lord Huron, the Zac Brown Band, Michael Franti & Spearhead and more.
Tracklist:
1. Suddenly Everything
2. Conjure
3. Take Your Money
4. Lost Man Running
5. Wicked Lies
6. 10,000
7. End Of Our Faults
8. Barcode
9. Hold On
10. Like The Sun
11. Stay
12. Dissipate
OVERALL RATING
4 stars
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Musica
Scandinavian Pain is the debut album by Ji Nilsson, released on August 25th.
Tracklist:
01 Easy
02 Sapphire Amour
03 Goodnight Sweetheart
04 Horoscope
05 Worth It
06 Save Me for Later
07 Breathe
08 Proud
09 Raspberry
10 Ivan, Pt. 1 & 2
11 Sofi
12 Sleeping Pills
13 In My Blood
OVERALL RATING
3½ stars
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
“Following” is the 6th mini album recorded by South Korean singer HyunA (현아). It was released on August 29, 2017 by Cube Entertainment.
Tracklist:
1.Party (Follow Me) (Feat. Wooseok of Pentagon)
2.Babe (베베)
3.Purple (보라색) (with E’Dawn of Pentagon)
4.Dart
5.Self-Portrait (자화상)
OVERALL RATING
4 stars
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Musica
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Loreen’s 2017 has been somewhat turbulent so far. Five years after her Eurovision victory with ‘Euphoria’, she returned to Melodifestivalen, the Swedish preselection for the European contest, with the powerful track ‘Statements’, but never made it to the final. This caused some speculation about the future of her career, but if anything, it made her release new material sooner! Loreen left her label Warner and signed with BMG. “I really connected with BMG’s mission to support independent artists in a transparent way, but also keeping their creative interests close”, she stated. Last month she dropped her single ‘Body’, the first taken from a three track EP Nude, which is out now!
About first track ‘Body’, I wrote upon release: “The track is based on a thick beat which might not be radiofriendly per se, but the dreamy vocal melody lines and the catchy synths in the chorus do make you want to press the repeat button over and over again.” She followed this up with ‘Jungle’, a collaboration with Swedish recording artist Elliphant. This track marks a new path for Loreen, who subtly flirts with some dancehall and reggae influences. The ‘lose it like they do it in the jungle’ part is not one of the stronger hooks, nor the best lyrics she has ever written, but her voice does suit the change of pace and style.
Third and last track ‘Ocean Away’ could be described as more typical Loreen with dreamy, soaring vocals that only she can deliver in a so seemingly effortless way. The melodies are on point and then some for this one with a double hook in the chorus. Production wise she picked up some Drake-isms, without copying his style too much, which makes ‘Ocean Away’ sound relevant and contemporary. The Nude EP is a nice little snack for her fans to enjoy while they wait for her sophomore album, which is now scheduled for November.
Tracklist:
1.Body
2.Jungle
3.Ocean Away
OVERALL RATING
4 stars
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
“If you wanna” is the 29th single (24th major label single) released by Perfume. It was released in two versions: a complete limited CD+DVD edition and a limited CD+DVD edition. The title track was used as the CM song for “ORA2 Campagn, and the B-Side song “Everyday” was used for the Panasonic Panasonic Foam Cleaning Washing Machine Campaign.”
Released Date: 2017.08.30
Tracklist:
1.If you wanna
2.Everyday
3.If you wanna -Original Instrumental-
4.Everyday -Original Instrumental-
OVERALL RATING
3½ stars
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Filmes
Ano de 2013. Portugal debate-se com uma crise económica. Daniel é um dos milhares de portugueses à deriva. Tem 38 anos, dois filhos e uma mulher que teve de se mudar para o interior. Ele, depois de perder o trabalho, sobrevive com o subsídio de desemprego e com o pouco dinheiro ganho a vender aspiradores de porta em porta. Os seus dois melhores amigos também se debatem com os seus próprios problemas: Almodôvar está preso por assalto resultante do desespero das dívidas; Xavier vive fechado em casa há 12 anos, deprimido. Mesmo assim, quando lhe é perguntado o seu grau de satisfação com a vida, Daniel responde que, de zero a dez, é de 8,0 – um número muito superior ao índice médio de felicidade do país, de apenas 5,7. Mesmo a viver uma sucessão de acontecimentos que o poderiam levar ao desespero sem melhorias no horizonte, nada o impede de acreditar no futuro. Ou não fosse ele um optimista nato.
Adaptação ao grande ecrã do livro homónimo de David Machado (vencedor, com esta obra, do prémio da União Europeia para a Literatura em 2015), uma história de esperança realizada por Joaquim Leitão (“Adão e Eva”, “Tentação”, “Até Amanhã, Camaradas”, “Sei Lá”), segundo um argumento do próprio escritor em parceria com Tiago Santos. Marco D’Almeida, Dinarte de Freitas, Ana Marta Contente, Tomás Andrade, João Sá Nogueira e Lia Gama dão vida aos personagens.
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
BLACKPINK is the debut Japanese mini-album by BLΛƆKPIИK. It was released in four versions: a CD+DVD edition, a CD edition, a PLAYBUTTON edition, and a limited CD edition sold on the BLINK JAPAN and YGEX SHOPs.
Released Date: 2017.08.30
Tracklist:
CD
BOOMBAYAH
WHISTLE
PLAYING WITH FIRE
STAY
AS IF IT’S YOUR LAST
WHISTLE (Acoustic Ver.)
CD+DVD
BOOMBAYAH -KR Ver.-
WHISTLE -KR Ver.-
PLAYING WITH FIRE -KR Ver.-
STAY -KR Ver.-
AS IF IT’S YOUR LAST -KR Ver.-
WHISTLE (Acoustic Ver.) -KR Ver.-
OVERALL RATING
4 stars
30 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Livros
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Sobre a Obra:
Borboletas Nocturnas conta-nos as histórias paralelas de um pai e de um filho, separados ao longo dos difíceis anos do Pós Segunda Guerra Mundial. O pai, Cornelius, um comerciante holandês, foi libertado de Auschwitz, preso pelo exército russo sob a acusação de espionagem, deportado para Minsk e Moscovo para tocar numa banda de jazz, para depois ser enviado para um Gulag onde encontra o filho que praticamente desconhece. O filho, Dolboy, foi criado por uma tia numa quinta na Holanda, onde passava os dias a correr pelos campos. Um dia a sua corrida levou-o a um castelo habitado por borboletas nocturnas e por uma estranha rapariga que faz a criação destes animais. Original e absorvente, Borboletas Nocturnas é um romance sobre pessoas que são constantemente obrigadas a improvisar na vida, sobre regeneração e coragem para agarrar oportunidades.
Sobre o Autor:
Karl Manders viu a sua infância acabar abruptamente quando os pais foram apanhados pelos horrores da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele foi arrastado pela corrente mas sobreviveu e foi criado por uma tia. Com doze anos era um experiente entomologista e um corredor dotado – um talento que desenvolveu numa tradicional e centenária escola para rapazes. Ainda na juventude, experimentou o trabalho árduo numa unidade fabril primitiva, fabricando tinta a partir de pigmentos venenosos até todo o seu corpo brilhar no escuro. Depois disso, trabalhou como jornalista durante 40 anos na Inglaterra, na Europa e na América, onde editou livros de fotografia artística. Actualmente, vive em Suffolk com a família.
“Borboletas Nocturnas revela humanidade tanto na sua beleza palpitante como no seu fundo perverso” – Independent on Sunday
“Borboletas Nocturnas é a magistral e ambiciosa história de um pai e de um filho separados pela guerra. Imaginativo e extremamente comovente.” – The Times
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