Germans call the art of chilled spliffing “quarzen”(among a million other things). Hard to pronounce but the sound of it hits it dead on. Hipsters worldwide, assimilate this into your vocabularies, and check out this new tune by IAMNOBODI. It’ll have you slow head bopping like the late 90ies Madlib tunes did, with an overly smooth touch of retro-neo-soul. Groove digger this one is for you. Brought to you by none other than Jakarta records who seem to hold the crown in this game at the moment.
“Life is a dancer and you are the dance.”
– Taoist Proverb
It often feels as if life is a dance, that you dont know yet. Then you try to pick it up. To do this you think you have to learn the right steps and feel the rhythm. Sometimes its easy if someone is around to guide you. Someone who takes your hand and shows you the right steps. You can let yourself go and dont have to think about the moves but just follow the steps of the other one. Until he/she lets you go because you both believe that now you know the right steps. You are certain that now you have understood the steps and that you know the dance. And maybe you will go on dancing a bit longer, still the music in your head. But soon you will trip over your own feet, will make a step in the wrong direction. You will lose the rhythm and try to remember the sequences and the right steps. But you simply don’t remember anymore and can’t get it right. You have to stop since it wasn’t your dance – to begin with.
So you get back up, thinking you can learn the dance alone. You are certain that if you excercise long enough you will be able to understand the dance and that one day you will be able to dance it. Somewhen. But that is not going to happen. You will only have sore feet, will be so exhausted and out of breath that you have to stop. You will spin in circles that you will get you dizzy and you will have to sit down. And that’s where it all starts anew and you will ask yourself: “Why am i not able to learn that dance, since it is my life?”
And if you are still in that very moment, and dont move to any kind of choreography, but instead maybe just listen to the song playing in the background… maybe you will understand that there is no such thing as a dance that you can learn. Because you are the dance yourself – and your life is the dancer.
This Sweet Serenade came to life through one of these still moments. Since our dance only becomes complete with the music.
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Sweet Serenade Vol 6 Tracklist:
The Head & The Heart – Let’s Be Still
Ed Sheeran – I See Fire
Luke Sital-Singh – Nothing Stays The Same
Gabrielle Aplin – Home
Caroline Glaser – Money Tree
Edie Brickell – Go Where The Love Is
Junip – Line Of Fire
Release The Sunbird – Best Thing For Me
Iron And Wine – Low Light Buddy Of Mine
The Lumineers – This Must Be The Place (naive Melody)
First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining
Tom Misch & Carmody – The Last Song
The Lumineers – Stubborn Love
The Night IV – Thinking Bout You (Frank Ocean Cover)
The Tallest Man on Earth – A Lion’s Heart
Sarah Jaffe – Mannequin Woman
Lewis Watson – Into the Wild
Sandra McCracken – Go
The Beautiful Girls – Freedom pt 2, ft. Mason Jennings
“Keep your head above water
But don’t forget to breathe”– Alexi Murdoch
Breathing. I am pretty sure most of us never really think about this process. Of course not. It’s almost the only thing that works without thinking about it. Besides I often have the feeling there are too many things around me to think about or my mind just thinks by itself because its used to doing it all the time. So, dear mind, let us think about breathing. It’s the most essential thing we need to do to stay alive. And then we go on wasting our thoughts on all kinds of other things. Doesn’t sound logical at all, right?
Whenever you feel overwhelmed by your daily routines, your constant phone ringing, your browsers numerous open tabs and your uncontrollably spinning mind – just open this link below. Nothing more.
It’s genius – just breathe!
LINK: breathe in and out
“I don’t want to wait anymore I’m tired of looking for answers
Take me some place where there’s music and there’s laughter” – First Aid Kit
“It’s one life and it’s this life and it’s beautiful.” Pure and simple, just as these words are so is the new song “My Silver Lining” by First Aid Kit.
The song reminds me to walk around and notice the brightness of every single detail in this world. A new-born flower growing out of the grey asphalt in the middle of the street or the thousand different shapes of green when you look up to the crowns of the trees.
The new album “Stay Gold” is available June 10th. And hopefully this will make life even more beautiful.
“Depth over distance every time, my dear
And this tree of ours may grow tall in the woods
But it’s the roots that will bind us here
To the ground…”
Check out the rest of his hauntingly beautiful lyrics while you liten to this terrifc song. Originally recorded in 2012. We are big fans of Ben Howard here at CM so not much too say but… enjoy the song ;) Ps More Ben Howard on CM.
“Nur wer seinen eigenen Weg geht, kann von niemandem überholt werden.” – Marlon Brando
Ich erinner mich an eine laue Sommernacht in Berlin letztes Jahr. Zufällig mein Geburtstag. Gekühltes Bier, Gras unter den Füßen, die Freiheit der Großstadt hängt in der Luft. Menschen mit Herz um mich, Gedanken werden zu Worten, Gespräche übers Leben – wie und wo und warum überhaupt und für was – nehmen ihren Lauf.
Einer dieser Herzmenschen ist Taiga Trece. Offen und neugierig sitzen wir uns gegenüber, schimpfen gemeinsam über München, heben Berlin (wohl etwas zu viel) in den Himmel, um dann einstimmig fest zu stellen, dass Geld verdienen und gleichzeitig seine Träume zu leben wohl überall auf dieser Welt schwer ist…
Und dann erreicht mich die Nachricht, dass diese wunderschöne Frau ihre erste EP “7 auf ein’ Streich” fertig hat und am 31. März in München ihre Relaease Party durch die Decke gehen wird. Unterstützt von Antun Opic (ich feier jetzt schon), Beatstalker und Rapper Lux wird gerappt – auf Spanisch, Englisch, Deutsch und Portugiesisch.
Den Vortrag über Frauenpower im Showbusiness oder die tote Hip Hop Szene in München spar ich mir hier. Denn diese Lady hat genug zu sagen über ihre Heimat, ihre Wurzeln, das Vergangene und Kommende.
Ich freu mich natürlich in erster Linie als Freundin für und mit Taiga Trece. Gleichzeitig weiß ich, wie unglaublich schwer es gerade in München sein kann, eine Release Party, ein Konzert o.ä. ohne den großen Topf voll Gold auf die Beine zu stellen. Deswegen hier der Aufruf zum Support: Kommt am Montag ins Strom, feiert mit uns und lasst dieses München nicht einschlafen ;) Taiga Trece Release Party RSVP auf Facebook
Hört rein, mögt es und teilt es!
