Get Well Soon, Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon is a project led by the German singer & songwriter Konstantin Gropper. They produced their first album Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon last year.

I really like the music added to his specific voice. This creates a romantic rock music. Guitars, drums, violins, trumpet, piano are mixed there. The video for the single Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon is a good example of the feeling this music reveals. If you already appreciate The Divine Comedy, Radiohead or Arcade Fire you'll love it.

Get Well Soon on Web

Get Well Soon on wiki

Get Well Soon on MySpace

Acoustic version of If This Hat is missing I Have Gone Hunting

Tuesday Artist Review : Toots & The Maytals

This is the second rendez-vous of Tuesday Artist Review ! (see first one)

I recently watched the english movie This Is England. I liked this as the story is well writen and shot. It explains the evolution of a tribe of skinheads during the beginning of the 80's while leaving in England was not that fun (Thatcher, Farklands war...). The movie is cool, the soundtrack is great and full of Toots & the Maytals.

So this week artist review is about : Toots & the Maytals

The Maytals are made of Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, Nathaniel "Jerry" Matthias and Raleigh Gordon. The band has been created in the early 60s and is strongly influenced by ska and soul. They are all coming from Kingston and they claim they were the first to use the term Reggae in the song Do the Reggay.

They are considered as the most famous reggae band. Even more since they leader Hibbert was emprisonned in 66 for smoking ganja. Their music became more reggae (more aggressive than ska) when he was released from prison 18 months later. They release then an album including the track 54-46 That's My Number which was a big hit and a reference to hibbert prison number and Pressure Drop. The band broke up in 1981, Hibbert recreated the band with new Maytals in the 90s. Read more here.

My playlists :

Découvrez la playlist PlaylistToots avec Toots and The Maytals

Sliimy, Trust Me

Ok i'm late. Sliimy is a phenomenon for weeks. But till today I did not listen intentionally to the music of this young man. So I removed my a priori on this fluo-color-dressed guy and listened to his first album Paint Your Face. And it's a good surprise for me. The music is well produced to fit with his specific voice. And I really like the video for Trust Me. Always good to be surprised !

Trust Me

Womanizer (cover from Britney)

Grizzly Bears, Two Weeks

Grizzly Bears is a rock band coming from Boston. Their music is a mix of folk and atmospheric rock. They use traditional and electronics instruments. They produced 3 albums, Veckatimest was release in may this year. Two weeks is the single from this new album.

I didnt know the band before I discover this artistic video from here.

Grizzly Bears on wiki

Grizzly Bears on MySpace

Them Crooked Vultures, Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I

Them Crooked Vultures is a new band composed of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Josh Homme (Queen of the Stone Age), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin). They did their first live session on 10th of August in Chicago and are preparing the release of their first album.

See the teasing :

Extract from live session

Pony Pony Run Run, Hey You

Pony Pony Run Run is a new emerging rock band. And they are coming from Angers, city where I used to live. They have been helped while they were used for a french TV program called Le Grand Journal. Here is their new single Hey You.

PPRR on MySpace

Razorlight, Wire to wire

Razorlight is a band very known in France since their single America. This is a band I want to talk about for weeks... I listen to razorlight since their previous album called Up All Night. I really appreciate their light pop-rock music as the music is really well composed and performed. Their singer is a real rock star !

They published recently their 3rd album Slipway Fires from which Wire To Wire is the first single.

I also like them as they realize good live performance. I had the chance to see them at La fête de la Musique 06 in Paris and last year in a festival in Paris.

Tuesday Artist Review : Seu Jorge

Every tuesday i'll share with you an artist i like. This could be a newly discovered artist or oldies bands. The aim is to share with you some basic info about the artist biography and to list some tracks to have it discovered when you don't know them yet.

As this is summer time in Paris I begin with Seu Jorge.

Seu Jorge is a brazilian musician & songwriter. He already released 4 albums : Samba Esporte Fino (2001), Cru (2004), The Life Aquatic (2005) & America Brasil (2007). He received critical and popular acclaim with Cru. He also did play in movies among City of God, The Life Aquatic... For Life Aquatic (from Wes Anderson) he did the soundtracks as well based on portuguese covers of David Bowie songs.

Follow Seu Jorge news here


Bestof Seu Jorge

Découvrez la playlist ThePlaylistSeuJorge avec Seu Jorge

Air, Do The Joy

Before the new album comes (planned for mid october) Air released a new single. This can be previewed there

Just Jack, Doctor Doctor

I discovered Just Jack with his previous album which I already presented there. Old Night Cinema is his new album and Doctor Doctor one of the singles. Enjoy !

Emilie Simon, Dreamland

Emilie presented few days ago a new single Dreamland, before the release of new her album The Big Machine planned for the 21st of september. I really apppreciate the music she does especially the soundtrack for La marche de l'Empereur (Farce of the Penguins) which is amazing. The Big Machine will be her 3rd album.

The single can be listened to here.

Yuksek, Extraball

I already said some few words about Yuksek and I confirm he is the new phenomena of the french touch music. I'm currently listening to his album Away From The Sea in loop. And I can only warmly recommend you to acquire it ! New example of this quality : Extraball.

Caspian, Moksha

Caspian is an american band of instrumental rock. I discovered them via this very cool teaser "Let's Get Mystical!" a documentary about BMX riders in which Moshka sounds very good.

Caspian on wiki

Caspian on MySpace

Regina Spektor, Laughing With

You may already heard about Regina Spektor. She released a new album Far (see website) from which Laughing With is a single.

Wu-Tang Clan meets Mike Brant

I already told you that one of my hobby is to know who sampled who. And the internet is an endless source fir that. New exemple : i'm listening for weeks to this amazing album from Wu Tang Clan named Wu-Tang meets the Indie Culture, one of my favorite track is Preservation.

You know what? This track is a sample coming from Mike Brant himself ! Awesome.

The track from Wu-Tang Clan can be previewed here.

The original from Mike!

The track is also sampled for a track by Eminem, Dr Dre & 50 Cent