On the love for Driving

You already know how much I love to drive. I’ve been nagging about about how my father used to race with cars and how I was taught how to drive long before getting my license. What I haven’t told you, however, is why I find it so great.

The freedom of being able to move quickly and independently from one place to another is, of course, the most basal benefit of having access to a car. The feeling of complete independence and freedom, and then, of course, there’s the music. In a car, the music embraces you in a way it can never really do in a room, the feeling of a vacuum, the sound bouncing off the walls in a very limited space that you become a part of. The sound bouncing off of you. You singing along. Sounding pretty bad but feeling pretty awesome. Happiness.

I recently shot some videos, one of them is from Maputo and the other one from when I was in Malmö, cruising with Angie Stone. I sometimes film random little bits and pieces of my daily life to try to capture some essential feelings and the surroundings I today take for granted but tomorrow might be wondering about. Here you have two of those – they are about the unconditional love I feel for driving. And about random music.

And to all my dear nerd followers, I know I haven’t been entertaining you for a while, but I can tell you that Avast recently updated their Android mobile security app to awesomeness beyond that of prey, check it out here.

Invitation to dance


Monotone ft. Ruby Gold – Invitation to dance

Monotone played at the Azgo festival street party yesterday. So did Napalma. It was great. And as promised, we danced até amanhecer.

After an intense Friday at work, 1,5 hours of yoga and great amounts of dancing, singing and hopping around – my whole body is aching today in a way that I actually don’t mind at all. On the contrary, it reminds me of that beautiful euphoria that dancing gives me. It lasts for days and I can’t get enough.

Psychedelic R&B & a little bit of porn

There is a person in my life who sometimes fills our shared dropbox folder with new music I didn’t yet know that I absolutely adore. Love!


Poliça – Amongster
Give you the Ghost (2012)

Try getting your hands on this album – It’s magical. I’m enchanted by this woman’s mesmerizing voice and the way it merges perfectly with the shifting beats. Is this electronica combined with post-rock, left-field R&B or psychedelic pop? Who cares – here’s another one. Less porn, more drums. I love it.


Poliça – Lay your cards out
Give you the Ghost (2012)

I’m not sure if I’ve ever explained this, but I sometimes use my blog to listen to music. I choose the music category, and get reminded by the little diamonds I have found throughout the years and chosen save here.

Yoga, then music festival – a great weekend has started!

Bushfire festival 2012

I would like you to join me for a music festival in Swaziland the last weekend of May, here are a couple of good reasons:


Bushfire 2011


Ayo – Down on my knees


Jeremy Loops – Mission to the Sun


Nancy G & The Human Family – When I woke up this morning


Sakaki Mango & Limba Train Sound System – A fly on Russia


Lira – Wa Mpaleha


Napalma – Bigger Party


Ras Haitrm – Inity

The tickets for the three days of art, music and dancing are just 400 rand – we have ours already. Convinced to join? Get your tickets here. Woop!

Laka Koffa

Every morning, I wake up to this tune. It’s sunrise, melancholy, dreams, memories and happiness in a song and it makes me think of little sparkles and colourful drops of magic. Doesn’t get much more cheesy than this, but there isn’t a better time for being cheesy than in the morning. I’m generally not very good at the whole waking up thing. This way it kind of works. (And I have another, less pleasant, alarm just in case.. haha)

Detektivbyrån – Laka Koffa
E18 (2008)

Play, dance & some crazy stuff.

After the elections in Inhambane, I stayed among the palm trees and chose to make my way to the amazing beaches in Tofo. As most other travellers, I stayed at Fatimas nest which is situated beautifully right on the beach. The first day I met some people in the hostel bar but was completely exhausted after the elections and decided to just spend the evening at the beach, watch the sunset, and crash early.

After a long sleep, I woke up to the sound of the sea and decided to take a morning walk on the beach. As I was walking towards Tofinho beach, picking up pretty shells, I met the two young brothers Fernando and Nelson. They started following me, searching for seashells as well and giving me the nice one’s they were finding. We started playing, kicking sand, jumping around, running, throwing rocks into the water, eating cashew nuts.. At one point, I sat down to get my back away from the sun for a while. The brothers joined me and sat around playing with the seashells we had picked together. They were singing a little song in their local language and I was smiling inside. Their Portuguese wasn’t very good, they told me their ages and names and that they were currently on holidays from school. We didn’t need to talk much anyway, we were just playing and it was great. That’s what I love about kids, hanging out with them is often much more fruitful than interacting with adults. There are no weird social rules or limitations to keep in mind – one can just play, sing and jump as one pleases – or just hang out. I spent four hours with Fernando and Nelson and they followed me back to my hostel before running back to their home, shouting “see you tomorrow, Carolina!”.

My time in Tofo consisted of the hours I spent at the beach, plus the time I spent dancing, because during the rest of my time in paradise – I danced. First, I went with new friends to their home where we did a barbecue. Afterwards, we went to a club and started dancing.. and did so without stopping until the sun got up. Or maybe even longer. It was raw, real and fun. I get so happy when I get to dance that I never want to stop. Tofo gave me that and it came with amazing beaches and a very friendly people. So once again, I have found a place that I would like to return to some day. But as the cheesy Tofo-truck said – “Time will tell.”

Oh and as there are no photos from the different clubs we went to, I have some “crazy stuff” from Angola for you instead. And the Mozambican pride Lizha James of course. I really enjoy the music around here, it’s so much fun to dance to.


Adi Cudz feat. Yola Araujo – Coisa Doida (Crazy stuff)


Lizha James – Tote (Remix)

Haha, this was an all-in-one post. But hey, it’s friday!

A Smoothie Robot For My Moon Mansion

The moon was full over Maputo a couple of days ago. I was watching it from a couch on a balcony on the 16th floor. Head back, facing the sky.

I’ve told you many great things about SoundCloud, but the best thing about it is when you find a tune like this and the artist is sharing it for free download. I instantly grabbed it and unconditionally love it. See for yourself. Here’s Ricky Eat Acid doing A Smoothie Robot for My Moon Mansion and you can download it by clicking that little arrow to the right of the player. But have a listen first and do let me know what you think about it. Now, enjoy.

Ricky Eat Acid – A Smoothie Robot for my Moon Mansion
(2012)

Good night.

Tequila Sunrise & Freedom

I want to share a sound with you.

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It’s the sound of watching the sun go down after spending a long day at the beach. Accompanied by a glass of cold white wine and the feeling of being perfectly in balance. Tired and happy. Sunglasses still on, watching the sea calm down while your toes press against fine sand. This is the moment when the last rays of sun kiss your warm skin good bye, followed by a soothing evening breeze that invites your mind and body to sway.

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My very good and talented friend has just shared this inspiring 2 track EP with me. It will be released on the 1st of April but you can listen to it below.

Trying to describe what I was hearing made me think of yesterday’s beautiful trip to a beach outside Maputo. I was also reminded of many of the previous moments I’ve spent on a beach, staring into a sunset. Some of them in the company of this artist.
I didn’t have any soundtrack for these moments until now, but this is obviously it – and it goes straight into my iPod.
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