Showing posts with label Cary Brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cary Brothers. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Driving is underrated...

Today I had the great pleasure of spending 3 hours in the car for work. Usually that'd be a real drag but for 3 uniquely brilliant things. First of all (and this is really something some of you particularly closer to the equator won't get) late autumn is amazing, I love the colours and there is something quite fascinating about piles of decaying leaves forming colourful patterns against usually mundane surfaces. Secondly, I realised how lucky I am to live in London. I drove past the Olympic site today and saw the rapid pace by which it's coming on and you know what, it made me proud to be British...even just for a moment. And to top it all off the sun was out and there was a lovely hazy foggy glow over the city which looked pretty cool.

So spending so much time in the car gave me a chance to have a really good musical session and to catch a second, third and maybe even fourth site of some music that I bought, played a bit then got distracted and moved on.

In fact I listened to 4 whole albums which I'd had for differing amounts of time. But for the purpose of tonight I'm going to focus on the artists that stunned me the most as was in fact first on...Cary Brothers.



I've had his EPs and his album "Who You Are" for a while and I really like his stuff but it never hit me how impressive it is. I fell in love with the album all over again. It's one of those albums that has an amazing array of sounds to it, there's some rich and complex ballads as well as a few upbeat rock tracks. There's a massive raft of musical sounds on show mixed in with at times some amazingly descriptive and painful (in the sense of hurting as opposed to bad) songwriting but what really hit me was the heavy piano ballads in particular The Glass Parade which almost knocked me off the road I was that engrossed in it. In fact it's one of those albums that has such a rich blend that I actually couldn't find one song I didn't like a lot and the overriding factor I was left with by the end of the album was "oh, is that it? i wanted more!".



Now I'll confess apart from having the music I didn't really know much about Cary until I did a bit of research for the blog and I discovered that he's actually quite well known and if you're of a certain age, you've almost probably heard of him as his songs have found their way into TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, ER, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Scrubs and a load of others...and that's why it probably took me so long to find his music...because I guess I just don't watch much TV let alone those shows.

Nonetheless, the album is awesome and if you don't know who he is, you need to go and find out more...right now!

Have a fun evening folks x

Sunday, 23 August 2009

Worshipping the Sun...

Well what do you know? Today has been the most beautiful day here in London. I actually can't put in to words just how amazing it's been. Not the hottest day of the year but honestly the most beautiful by some considerable distance. It's been really warm but with a nice breeze and not a cloud in the sky and there was a really great urban sunset too, you know sun disappearing behind buildings and that odd way that light bends itself round things and can make even the dullest objects just look totally amazing...just stunning, a day I will remember for a while.

So I was in the car driving home and wanted to put on musically something sun related, just cos I was in awe of what the big ole star can do for us. I had a quick scan through my iPod and had this idea that wouldn't it be cool if you could do a search based on lyrics in songs or song titles and build a playlist based on that??... someone somewhere will now steal my idea and become insanely rich, so it's my idea and you owe me big time!!! anyways I found more songs than I realised with the Sun in the title.

So here's a few Sun titled songs you may not have heard of which you can have a look at/listen to and well they're not necessarily happy songs, in fact they're probably all right downers but hey the sun is why we're all here scientifically speaking, it's a huge source of inspiration...so let's give those constant raging gases, heat and light a bit of worship for making life possible and well, delivering us sweet, sweet crazy summers days that just take that little bit of breathe away from us all...

Brendan James - The Sun Will Rise
Cary Brothers - Bottled The Sun
Kid Lightning (Dave Gibbs) - Sunshine and Cinammon
Gin Blossoms - California Sun
Hafdis Huld - Who Loves The Sun
Howie Day - Standing In The Sun
REM - Around The Sun
Tonic - Sunflower
Toploader - Following The Sun
Vertical Horizon - Sunshine

I wonder how many songs on iTunes have the word Sun in it...hmmm too many I reckon and something I shouldn't worry my mind with at the time...

Nite all xxx