Playlist May 27 2016
Elizabeth Geyer
Waterfalls and rainbows
Elizabeth Geyer is from Australia and has released 4 albums ("The Dream", "Elizabeth Geyer", "On Patrol With The Jazz Police" and "The Bridge"). She is not only a singer and composer of jazz music, she also plays the piano, trumpet and flugelhorn.
Martin van de Vrugt
No summer
Martin van de Vrugt is from Deventer, the Netherlands. He is a composer, a singer, plays guitar and harmonica and has been writing songs since 1980. He records in his home studio, not only his own music, but other independent musicians too.
Clem Anderson
Mr Sleeper
Clem Anderson is a singer-songwriter from London. He feels most comfortable recording in his bedroom and prefers it to the pressure of the studio where time is money. Clem writes: So all my songs are demos and not masters.
Benny Mayhem
Song for absent friends
Benny Mayhem is from Australia. Until 2 years ago he played in a punk band. After the band broke up, instead of starting a new band, he decided to travel and tour as a folk-punk troubadour. At the moment Benny has his own 5-piece folk-punk rock band.
Kane & Sun
Walk like that
Kane & Sun is a duo from New Zealand. In 2010 they released their album "Three Little Words". In 2012 Kane Sole moved to Melbourne. Since then they have not played as a duo any more. Kane has formed a 4-piece indie folk rock band Sons of May.
Writersday
Cry baby cry
Writersday is the solo project of singer-songwriter Sjoerd Hoogma from Amsterdam. His poetic and direct lyrics take the listener into the small and large issues of life. He records in his own analogue studio and tours frequently in the Netherlands.
VanderLinde
Miss Molly
VanderLinde (from Groningen, the Netherlands) is the project of Arjan Vanderlinde who surrounds himself with different musicians, on stage and in the studio. The genre is a mix of pop, country and Americana. So far he has released 5 albums.
Gisel de Marco
I found you
Gisel de Marco is originally from Argentina, nowadays she lives in Switzerland. At the age of 7 she got a toy piano and at the age of 10 she had made her first home-recorded album "Blue Bay". In 2010 she released a studio album "All The Way".
Sunwill
Star fall
Sunwill is a pop-rock band from Tomsk in the Russian Federadion, formed in 2012. They describe their genre as a mix of electronic pop music and rock, with both modern and traditional influences.
Song of the Week
Metibla
Pain
Metibla, a short for Merry Time Black, was started as one-man project in 2003. Now this is the band of underground video maker Riccardo Ponis, Paolo Alvano and Valerio Fisik. They released 3 albums: "Paraphernalia", "Hell Holes", "Crimson Within"
TuneConcept
Space man
TuneConcept is the solo-project of Johan Rajala (also known as J. Fish) from Göteborg, Västra Götaland in Sweden. He records, produces and mixes his music in his home studio. Genres: ambient, alternative, electronica, pop, rock
Instead of Ink
Is calling for you
Instead of Ink is the project of Cedric and Keven from Quebec in Canada, started in 2004. So far they have released 3 albums, "Far From Close" in 2010, "Open Air Museum" in 2012 and "The Eclipse Season" in 2015. Genres: indie rock, electronica
Stone JuJu
The bottle's empty
Stone JuJu is a 4-piece metal/hard rock band from LA. The band was formed in 1987 already. In 1989 the band took a long break. In 1999 they released an album, titled "Absorb the Shock, Feel the Religion", but Stone JuJu never played live again.
KONTRUST
The butterfly defect
KONTRUST is a 6-piece rock band from Austria, formed in 2001. They have released 4 albums so far, "Welcome Home", "Time To Tango", "Second Hand Wonderland" and "Explositive". In 2016 they will release their fifth album.
Samuli.T.Mäkelä
Dreams (part. 9)
Samuli.T.Mäkelä is from Finland. He is a versatile musician who does not want limits in his music. His first instrument was the guitar, which has an important place in his compositions. Later he went on to master a few more instruments.
Podcast
Song of the Week
Metibla started in 2003 as a music project of Riccardo Ponis, an underground film maker from Italy, who has recorded his songs in collaboration with Valerio Fisik (Inferno, Physique du Role) and Paolo Alvano of Kardia - the co-author of some of Metibla songs.
Metibla is a short for "Merry Time Black", which can be seen as the motto of the project. On Metibla's website, we can read about the philosophy behind it: life is not beautiful, but through music, he can "unleash a merry black time to transform it into a cauldron that contains all the bitter aftertaste of life." Music expresses love and is an emotional experience.
Metibla has released three albums so far, Paraphernalia, Hell Holes and Crimson Within. You can buy them on iTunes.
Metibla is a short for "Merry Time Black", which can be seen as the motto of the project. On Metibla's website, we can read about the philosophy behind it: life is not beautiful, but through music, he can "unleash a merry black time to transform it into a cauldron that contains all the bitter aftertaste of life." Music expresses love and is an emotional experience.
Metibla has released three albums so far, Paraphernalia, Hell Holes and Crimson Within. You can buy them on iTunes.
Charts May 27 2016
1
Metibla
Pain
2
El Cuento de la Chica y la Tequila
Old black lady
3
The Imaginary Suitcase
Aangespoeld
4
JoosTVD
Dancing Dutchman
4
Tiffany Gow
Save me
5
Cozmicsoulfire
Reptile
5
Mary Confurius
Cocktale
5
The Symptoms
Carlbeck
We start the programme with a song from an album which has been released this spring. This is the 4th album of an artist from Australia.