We.......

The blog has been on tour the last week and witnessed a lot... We traveled with planes, trains, buses, cars. We had a near death experience. We saw old flames. We were reminded who we once were... We got sick. We pursued something. We fell on our face. We learned about "sweetpotatoes". We spent all our money. Partially on our transportations, partially on alcohol and partially on the “übergeile” concerts we watched...
We were fortunate enough to watch Faith No More and the sick Mike Patton and Pearl Jam and the GREAT Eddie Vedder...

And we present here the whole concert of Faith No More in Athens. Thanks to Youtube and the subscriber 22RAT. Pearl Jam videos and review will follow. I will leave that to the expert...



We are going to close SUMMER 2009 with one or two Radio Shows... Come back next week.

Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words

Radiohead hit again this week. Fortunately, because SUMMER 2009 couldn't pass without some new Radiohead. "Harry Patch" was a nice song, still a B-side though. This time Radiohead offered us a proper song. With a wicked guitar and a haunted voice. To be honest, I didn't expect a track like that any more... "These Are My Twisted Words". Radiohead will always be sad. And so are we.

Download for free HERE.

Radiohead - Harry Patch (In Memory Of)

Radiohead. New song. Sad and beautiful.

Thom's original post:

Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
"i am the only one that got through
the others died where ever they fell
it was an ambush
they came up from all sides
give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
i've seen devils coming up from the ground
i've seen hell upon this earth
the next will be chemical but they will never learn"

Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111.
I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years ago on the Today program on Radio4.
The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me.
It became the inspiration for a song that we happened to record a few weeks before his death.
It was done live in an abbey. The strings were arranged by Jonny.
I very much hope the song does justice to his memory as the last survivor.

It would be very easy for our generation to forget the true horror of war, without the likes of Harry to remind us.
I hope we do not forget.

As Harry himself said
"Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims".

This morning the Today program played the song for the first time and now it is available to download from our website.

Please click here to download.

The proceeds of this song will go to the British Legion.

To peace and understanding.
Thom

Here is a YouTube of the song. Followed by "I Want None Of This", a similar release by Radiohead for the War Child charity album "Help: A Day in the Life"
We will not offer the song for download. You can buy it HERE
And you should. (WE KNOW you put 0.00 £ on the InRainbows-website!)

Animated Music Videos Tribute

Two arts combined. Two arts we love. Music and animation. After the soundtracks radio show, it was time we posted a mix of music and moving pictures. Some of the best music videos have used the power of animation and a wide selection is presented in this post. Below you will find two playlists. (Sorry about the multiple windows, but dailymotion is your friend when it comes to copyrighted material...)
The majority of the videos feature favorite songs. And some are included mainly because of their nice artistic ideas... As always, some obsessions are there in more than one video. (Radiohead, Bjork, Tool..)
Here are the links of the playlists in the original hosting sites for better quality. (But don't browse away......)
Playlist 1 (YouTube)
Playlist 2 (Dailymotion)

I must admit we are on fire lately. 5 posts in one week... Summer wounds... Suppressed energy...

Γ. Αγγελάκας & οι Επισκέπτες - 14.07.09, Μύλος, Θεσσαλονίκη / G. Aggelakas & oi Episkeptes - 14.07.2009, Mylos, Thessaloniki

Our days in the sunny side of the world were not that many, but thankfully we got to see one of our favorite greek artists live on stage. Summer breeze, some alcohol, good friends and great songs were the elements that added one more highlight in that great summer we had... We will probably come back with a detailed tribute to the artist himself, his current projects, as well as the legendary band "Trypes". Until then, YouTube is your friend. Below you will find a playlist with our videos from the concert. Only the first song is taken from another live-set, but the awesomeness of the song made it necessary to put on screen the whole 2009 live version... Visit our YouTube channel for better quality and for the High Definition Videos!

Special thanks goes to Marina and her incredible new HD Camera! (We must get ourselves one of those...)

"Βάλε φωτιά σε ό,τι σε καίει, σε ό,τι σου τρώει την ψυχή
Έξω οι δρόμοι αναπνέουν διψασμένοι, ανοιχτοί
Είναι η αγάπη ένα ταξίδι από γιορτή σε γιορτή
Ζήσε μαζί μου στον αέρα, στη φωτιά στη βροχή
Μας περιμένουν άδειες μέρες ραγισμένοι ουρανοί
Είναι η αγάπη ένα ταξίδι από πληγή σε πληγή..."

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned

Thought I'd get you back a bit as an audience after losing you for so long. The fact that the city is burning (or feels like it) made me realize that people need more fuzz. Minds are often boggled when the heat is up...

San Francisco’s Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound is a soundtrack for strange days and futures bright and bleak. But there is also a crooked thread that runs backward through every Assemble Head record—the celestial trajectories of The Notorious Byrd Brothers and circa ‘70 Floyd; the dusty canyon stomps of Crazy Horse, slashing action pop of the savage young Who, Italian bastardizations of Lalo Schifrin cop movie scores, and the scuzz-bomb shrapnel of latter-day garage mongers like Mudhoney and Monoshock.

The band’s third LP, When Sweet Sleep Returned, is propelled to some extent by that same glorious distillate. But it also finds the group speaking their own twisted tongue more assuredly than ever — marrying hazy Saturday moods,Cuervo shots, interstellar sonics and wrecking-ball swing to song and harmony in poems for California, lovers, ghosts, the stars, ourselves and a world gone stark raving mad.

Think of it as the opposition to my last offering to you. Yin and Yang.

hint: Track 2(Two Birds) - heavenly sonic delusion on strings

Ossein - Sativa

This is more of a dark, evil, psychotic (yet melodic in its own right) soundscape than an album. I know, I know..you have been treated to a summer mood for quite some time now. And you thought it would go on forever now, did you? Oh, well... fools.
I guess words about the music are not exactly capable of capturing what's going on here, so I will quote a legend to give you an idea.

"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture."
-John Cage