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I love my 20 minute walk home in the Barcelona evening, it’s dark, there’s this soft warm breeze and it’s downhill which lets my steps join the beat of what my iPod plays for me. Sometimes the most random songs come on, today I got these two, perfectly diffuse for nightwalking.
Slagsmålsklubben – Brutal Weapons
Kitsuné Maison Compilation 8 (2009)
Caribou – Hannibal
Swim (2010)
Today we did a Drum and Bass remix of a Bibio song, it has been a good Sunday.
Bibio – Light Seep DNB RMX by Jo Bucho & Carolinka
Here’s the original:
Bibio – Light Seep
Mind Bokeh (2011)
Today made me feel as if I could move mountains. Singing, ice cream, live music and a walk in the sun with my lovely friend Den was the perfect ending to the amazing days we have spent together while she’s been visiting. Ending the day with a very inspirational lecture held by the incredibly charismatic Manuela Carmena Castrillo, former Chair of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention made me feel on top of my world, with hundreds of new ideas and thoughts to follow up on.
The walk back home, the warm breeze announcing spring, my iPod playing deeper waters and that feeling of being right where I’m supposed to be. I was smiling to myself, embracing the flow and dancing my way forward. Balance and freedom from all unnecessary worries, looking forward to the future – being a tope.
Recloose ft. Joe Dukie – Deeper Waters
Perfect Timing (2008)
Going to music festivals means you get to dance your head off in the sun (or the rain!) together with other music-loving people. The hype, the love and the shared happiness provides you with an euphoria seldom lived in other contexts. It’s what happens when the overwhelming passion for beats and tunes, instruments and voices clashes. All in one place – party, baby!
There are two big music festivals here in Barcelona this summer, Primavera Sound and Sonar.
The tickets are expensive so I might have to choose between two of my favourite music genres, or I’ll try to combine them by buying tickets for a little part of both. We’ll see..
Here’s a treat for each of them;
Primavera Sound, 25th to 29th of May:
Baths – Maximalist
Cerulean (2010)
Sonar, 16th to 18th of June:
Boys Noize – Jeffer
Power (2009)
So, who’s coming over to dance with me?
cure me!
Today I stayed in casa the whole day with my housemates. We cooked, hung out and watched the Argentinian movie “El secreto de sus ojos“. Very good one. I’m bad, my body finally protested against all the activities I’ve been exposing it to so I am recharging on honey and gripex, hoping to get cured soon – tomorrow reality begins again. Until then, here’s some new sounds from Toro y Moi, enjoy and sleep well.
Toro y Moi – Divina
Underneath the Pine (2011)
My 25th birthday easily qualified into the list of nice ones. The day was sunny, I was invited to wonderful dinner that had me food-coma paralysed for an hour and I spent time with people I like. In the evening I threw a party at my place and mixed 27 new Barcelona friends with very different backgrounds in my small livingroom – they proved to get along really well and everybody seemed to have a good time. We continued to a club, danced all night and shared food, talks and laughs at sunrise. I got to bed when the sun already had been up for a couple of hours so summing it up it was a good 25th, even if some friends from Sweden obviously were missed.
Thank you all my new friends!
Like many of my days, this one has its own theme song. It’s an The XX remix of a Florence and the Machine song called You’ve Got the Love and I have been playing it on repeat today. As always – I’m sharing my goodies. Enjoy!
Florence and The Machine – You’ve Got the Love (The XX Remix) (2009)
Today my throat is a mess, the temperature changes in my room are not doing me any good. The current sound of Barcelona is dominated by raindrops so I am adding my own sounds to this natural orchestra to create the perfect rainy mood. Let me introduce you to a legend with a peculiar posture, meet Bill Evans.
Bill Evans – My foolish heart
The Village Vanguard Sessions (1973)
Video recorded at the Vanguard Sessions in 1964
