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A Year

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).

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 - Plague Park
• Hearts of Black Science - The Ghost you Left Behind
• Marissa Nadler - Songs III : Bird on the Water
• Napoleon IIIrd - In Debt To
• Okkervil River - The Stage Names
• 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.

1. Akron / Family @ AB Club - 17.04.07 - Brussels
2. Justice @ Ubel und Gefärlich - 12.07.07 - Hamburg
3. Patrick Watson @ Botanique Rotonde - 10.05.07 - Brussels
4. Scout Niblett @ The Chapel Boondael - 30.05.07 - Brussels
5. Okkervil River @ Knust Club - 27/11/2007 - Hamburg
6. Emmy the Great @ King's College - 06/11/07 - London
7. The Blood Brothers @ Trix - 29/01/2007 - Antwerpen
8. Frog Eyes @ D-Cliq - 31.10.07 - Luxembourg
9. Handsome Furs @ Cactus - 07/10/2007 - Brugge
10. Beirut @ Postbahnhof - 05.07.2007 - Berlin

hope that the 2008 vintage is as good as the 2007 vintage, I wish you a happy new year.

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Jonquil

As winter is knocking at the door the desire to get warm by the fire wood we took a Jack Daniels in hand of course, and feet firmly engulfed in the fur of a polar bear, it goes without saying. At this small stage near the bucolic cliche winter yet lack an element, the soundtrack. These last few weeks, "Lions", Jonquil's second album has been an ideal companion for hibernation. The orchestrations and light parts will create an atmosphere totally mesmerizing, nonchalance sometimes evoking perfectly mastered the debut album of lo-fi Akron / Family ("Lily"), sometimes the softness to live in the western shades of Iron & Wine ('Magdalen Bridge'), or certain passages of nostalgic beauty of the "Tower of Love by Jim Black (" Sudden Sun "). This "Sudden Sun" is just an example of the broad palette of melodic and rhythmic group, able with a simple rhythm of a metronome and some harmonies to turn a walk in a little sensual anthem happy to return with friends. Mixing

unpretentious elements drawn from pop, folk, post rock and even gospel, Jonquil seduced without drowning the listener. They spare us even subtle transitions instrumental among the strongest moments on the disc. The delicacy and fluidity with which they lead the listener to one of the highlights of their album "Lions", is appalling. Some hints of xylophone turn into a rhythm of Parisian accordion, opening the way for a few brief moments chorus telling the story of a world where the lions have replaced men. Out of nowhere, this piece will immediately plunges, accompanied by sounds of thunder. We would like to follow him, see what happens to that spectrum, but the group quickly faded to other projects for us new horizons for us to discover.

But all is not successful. Titles like "Whistle Low" are not just falling into the grotesque where different singers take voice serious and we can not help feeling a slight sense of redundancy when the end of the album. A sense of unfinished business also some songs like "Sleepy Little Pudding" where good ideas and pretty strings are quickly discarded to make room for the vagaries of limited value. This is a biased group to which we must do to truly appreciate the album's finest moments are short-lived. "I guess I should" be afraid, Is That thing's a big decision "they said, summing up perfectly to their music, ambitious but reckless. A lot of ideas, and crafts that blends into the hands of another group could soon reach new heights of self-sufficiency but on the album fit together nicely Jonquil, complement, delight and disappear well before be seized.

Jonquil - Sudden Sun

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In writing this column I came across a "Take Away" in Blogothèque

with Jonquil. It would be a shame not to enjoy it.

# 72 - Jonquil - Part1

# 72 - Jonquil - Part2

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