Sonia Vivaz and Abjeez....

Was lucky to hear them last Friday while helping out on a local festival, so wanted to share the beautiful tunes with you. They are a Swedish band with lots of influences around the globe...

Sonia Vivaz - Un deseo

I was captivated by the passion....found out a bit more about the female vocal that had some roots in Iran and used to make (still is?) music with her sister and some others under the name of Abjeez. Here is their song Immigrant.

Boost the floor....

...just because the stars....

Moderratto- Zodiaco

.....I wish you all have a vibrant time....

Jennifer Lopez & Pitbull - On the floor

...with rhythms of Puerto Rico and Latin moves....

Daddy Yankee - El ritmo no perdona

....whatever you do, wherever you are, I wish you all a beautiful 'nite!

Musica de la selva...

...que yo escucha aqui esta diaz....
para mi hermanas y hermanos en la sierra y la selva en Peru.

(Music from the jungle, which are played frequently these days...

for my sisters and brothers in the mountains and jungle of Peru)

Chino y Nacho - Nina Bonita (group established in Venezuela)


Bacilos - Cara y Luna

La luz de tu corazon....

...by Jarabe de Palo. Love the intro and the lyrics...

Para mis hermanas peruanas...

Just because you are you....two songs I really enjoy that you have introduced me to. Mucias gracias!

Jarabe de Palo - Dipende



La Sarita - Carnaval

Inca, water, earth....

Music by Sol y Luna, Atahualpa.

Not far from Cusco is Moray. It’s a place where the Incas used to experiment with agriculture on different altitudes. It’s build like circles and is said to be a very energetic place (for those of us who believes in energy fields in nature).

So growing such as maize on 200 meters more on each terrace, it was possible to note that the corn on high altitude became sweet, but small. Therefore the ideal growth for maize would be somewhere in the middle of the laboratory terraces, that is why so much maize is grown in Urubamba where the altitude is ideal.

Although today, it’s very hard to make out the ideal place for crops since we have the issue of climate change. It makes it also difficult to decide what crops to grow regarding to the weather of the first twelve months the coming year. By observing the twelve first days of August, the Incas could foretell the coming years’ climate. For instance, if raining the first of August, it would be a damp January. If the sun was shining the forth of August, the coming year of April would be dry and warm. If it was a windy the 6th of August, the coming June would become windy, and so on…

My Spanish teacher tells me that “cusquenas” (people from Cusco) generally are both Catholics and pagan believers. Therefore their traditions are both bound to pachamama (mother earth) and Christ. For instance do all the mountains have a cross on top. Another one is that August used to be celebrated to honour mother earth and therefore citizen of today still decorate their houses with yellow flowers during this month. This is also seen on some altars during Sundays.

The Incas was very advanced in water technology. Their way of leading water down to town is still working. In each street there were a fresh-water channel running outside the houses. You could still see the channels, but the water is hard to keep clean today since there are much more waste in the world. But my Spanish teacher told me that in Cusco the municipality has began to work for improved water sewage.

"La historia de Juan"

I like the way that the Spanish school teaches in. Its very varied and fun. Yesterday we had to listen to Juanes “la storia de Juan” and then try to fill in gaps with verbs in different tenses. 

It made me think of the song that my dear friend J. was playing for me, also very beautiful.

Learning is now...

I have been listening to this song all morning. Nice lyrics...

Swedish singer Lisa Ekdahl - "When" from her album

"give me that slow knowing smile" (2009).

Some Swedish tunes....

As some of you already know, I lived in the UK's during 2008. I then began my first blogging to share stories and photos with dearest and nearest. During the summer that year, the movie Mamma Mia was released and showed on theatres. So ABBA music got a revival and I wanted to show my British friends that Swedish music is so much more than that. So there you go, in the end of this blog page you got a collection of Swedish tunes that I like and has been big since the end of the 1980's.

In this post I would like to present a few Swedish artists that I just start to familiarise myself with.

Yesterday I tuned in to a radio show on the Swedish channel P3, and just when it kicked of, there was this beautiful song performed by Firefox AK called Boom Boom Boom. It seems to be from a coming album called the same as the song. It will be released the 4th of February this year.

Then I picked out two songs by Hello Saferide for you. They are really nice and you can hear them out below.

And here's a song by Maia Hirasawa, another great Swedish singer.

Latest found tracks....

First one out is Lorene Scafaria and her song 28. Love her voice and music....



Second one is Labrinth with Let the sun shine. Cute guy and great club beats...

Happy 2011!!!

....may dreams be fulfilled, new friends met and joy as well as lessons be learn, always with a bright heart and loving smile.... auld lang syne....

Merry Winter Holidays!

Whatever faith or traditions that you carry with you, I would like to wish everyone a safe and sound winter holiday! Here is a song that for many western people are familiar during this time of year. The lyrics are originally written by an English poet in the end of 1800's. This version is instrumental.

"...a spoonful of sugar helps...."

Have been humming on this song all day long.... :)

Julstök

 

Today have been such a beautiful day. I have been on Yule fayres in town and then been home baking typical cookies and buns. Friends came and went to help do a little bit; both to make 'em and to eat 'em. Still it was lots left....

 ...and here is a Swedish winter song which I used to sing
or play on flute every yule time - it's so beautiful...

...and here is a favourite English carol,
something to practice (notes) on my harp. :)

A positive attitude, if I may...

I have kind of got these songs on my mind.... The three first of them are Swedish artists, first one out is Miskovsky and her song from the album Falling Water released in 2003.

The second one is Ternheims song from her album Separation  Road released in 2006.





















The last Swedish song is this one, from Lisa Ekdahls album
Give me that slow Knowing Smile released in 2009.


Lisa Ekdahl  - Session acoustique
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 ...and this just because....

My world...

Cool song....I like it.

Lets do some country...

music.... Is this not a lyric that lifts your spirit?!
The little girls reminds me so much of my sweet nieces...

The Afro-viking....

love the concept of this dude - go spread some love mister! :)

Shakira, so beautiful it is,

the new song....