Month of December 
very calm between ourselves, as you may have noticed. This is not for lack of inspiration, favorite songs or topics to cover, just a lack of time due to travel abroad and a busy agenda. All this however does not prevent me to listen to news, listen to some pearls and older to attend concerts memorable probably I'll discuss in the coming weeks. This blog will continue in 2008, after a year and a very pleasant unexpected success of esteem. It will for me a simple pleasure, born of a desire to write and share. The frequency of tickets does not accelerate, the goal is always to one per week. The idea is to allow me not to become a slave to my hobbies, attempting to write thoughtful notes, and avoid overdose regular readers (I personally almost never read any blogs regularly, their rate m exhausts).
very calm between ourselves, as you may have noticed. This is not for lack of inspiration, favorite songs or topics to cover, just a lack of time due to travel abroad and a busy agenda. All this however does not prevent me to listen to news, listen to some pearls and older to attend concerts memorable probably I'll discuss in the coming weeks. This blog will continue in 2008, after a year and a very pleasant unexpected success of esteem. It will for me a simple pleasure, born of a desire to write and share. The frequency of tickets does not accelerate, the goal is always to one per week. The idea is to allow me not to become a slave to my hobbies, attempting to write thoughtful notes, and avoid overdose regular readers (I personally almost never read any blogs regularly, their rate m exhausts). To close this year 2007, I can not help succumbing to the vice of all music nerds, the year-end lists. 2007 was a very good year in my case: several major discoveries, some very beautiful albums of artists confirmed and an unusual percentage of concerts that have made their entry in the hit parade of best live experiences of my life (a list that I've never actually tried to establish). I'm not a big fan of such lists. I'm actually completely unable to establish an official top10 of my favorite albums this year. My appreciation of music depends so much on my mood, place or period in my life when I listen. The album that totally blow me a few months ago may very well be running up the dust at this moment is not not because I do not love her but because I lack the desire to listen at that time. Any attempt at classification of year-end would inevitably be biased by the albums that fascinate me the hour or I compile the list. So here, in alphabetical order, the eleven albums that marked me most this year (eleven because I do not know where I could withdraw from the list to arrive at ten). Some of which I spoke, some of which I have not spoken, some of which I speak, perhaps.
- Elliott Smith - New Moon
- Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian
- Handsome Furs -
- Hearts of Black Science - The Ghost you Left Behind
- Marissa Nadler - Songs III : Bird on the Water
- Napoleon IIIrd - In Debt To
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- Ola Podrida - Ola Podrida
- Panda Bear -Person Pitch
- Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
- The National - Boxer
Les deux enregistrements I listened to most this year were not yet albums, but the EP.
- Adam Gnade & Youthmovies
- - Honey Slides
- This Town Needs Guns - Split (with Cats and Cats and Cats)
much for the recordings. Yet live I like most music. See the pieces that we know come to life, to be reworked, be supplied without intermediaries can be a source of satisfaction much higher than registration, as this may be a disappointment. The live experience is for me inseparable from the music in general. With the help of my seat and used my poor memory, I have total 75 concerts in 2007, the real number is probably a bit above because I probably forgot a few parts that have not first left traces. Unfortunately no summer festival this year, I hope to catch next year. Among these 75 concerts I feel much more capable of producing a ranked than albums. Some artists we love disappoints, other surprises. So here, in the order this time, who in 2007 left me on my behind.
- Akron / Family @ AB Club - 17.04.07 - Brussels
- Justice @ Ubel und Gefärlich - 12.07.07 - Hamburg
- Patrick Watson @ Botanique Rotonde - 10.05.07 - Brussels
- Scout Niblett @ The Chapel Boondael - 30.05.07 - Brussels
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- Emmy the Great @ King's College - 06/11/07 - London
- The Blood Brothers @ Trix - 29/01/2007 - Antwerpen
- Frog Eyes @ D-Cliq - 31.10.07 - Luxembourg
- Handsome Furs @ Cactus - 07/10/2007 - Brugge
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hope that the 2008 vintage is as good as the 2007 vintage, I wish you a happy new year.
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