My week of discoveries and listened to this week (one post)

When I tell people of how frantic life rhythms are nowadays, they mostly confirm that's the way it is.
They start to tell how it is normal that everybody works full time and makes a living and how more full of things to do our life is.
But I disagree with simply keeping things as they are, especially if we could change it, thanks to technology. And i see more and more people envisioning the same.A campaign by a Peruvian architect named Carlos Tovar  ( on twitter Carlintovar)  http://4hourworkdaycampaign.wordpress.com/ about the possibility of transferring all productivity into a 4hour shift, with a process of several months and gradual decreasing.
The point is that the technology of today could make machines do most of the work.
I was checking out the contests of the website wearelistening and found that the winner of the 2012 Songwriter competition is  an extremely talented man named Putnam Murdock, who won with the 
warm and country song "When I die" . Not all the songs I listen to, make me have some kind of visions of places and that song does: campfire,a ballad with a guitar near the prairie and big spaces on sunsets, fantastic landscape thank you Putnam for these moments!
One interesting blog i discovered is about Moon Phases, as I believe they influence us a lot( and it is scientifically proved), so this one, I am now checking regularly, it is boorkmarked! http://newmoonmanifesting.com/
I am quite excited and soon...off!!! for a few days of extreme North in Denmark and a few gigs at Songwriter events. Pictures published here in a week or so!

Listened to this week

Trueidentity music, alias electronic music from the Netherlands, how did i stumble on it? he went to perform at Zero20 Unplugged anniversary party later on in June.

The amazing classical-pop band from Greece Mikrokosmoi and the experimental and 70's inspired video of the NZ PURPLE PILGRIMS that i stumbled upon while looking at some live clubs in London.All rock and all from Milan: Hellekin Mascara, who look like sailors?

I also forgot to mention for a while all the amazing unsigned bands that we have been playing at radio Cicada on salto.fm every thursday night from 9 to 10pm.

Here they are: Juan Perro, Santiago Auserón’s post-Radio Futura artistic alter-ego

Thanos Kalliris  Greek singer  born in Athens and also involved in the Eurovision Song Contest. 

Tus Locas Razones really enchanted me with the Spanish "Tu controlas tu destino" that I stumbled upon in a period where I was realizing exactly the message they bring across. Link to their reverbnation

Just over 10days ago we played on airvPapel Mojado, a singer songwriter with beautiful  ballad rock in Un Segundo, una eternidad  and same day from Greece... i love their name, and the elegance of it, in both English and Greek language:

MIKROKOSMOI/ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΙ  this band ranks number 4 on reverbnation Corfu'!

The people in Portugal, have irony and have with with it, in fact a group of Portuguese musicians created a band called Homens da Luta that's literally "battle people" and they composed a song called "O Ronaldo Paga a Crise" : Ronaldo,(the footballer) pays the crisis!

Another band from Portugal: CINTURA, we played their songs: NO DA GRAVATA e Desculpem La’, the same day we did, back in beginning of July we also had some Croatian music with Luka Nižetićs. He is best known for his hits like "Ponekad poželim" (Sometimes I wish) and "Proljeće" (Springtime)! 

Do you know my favourite parfume is Myrrhae?Certainly not, now you do...but we played a few songs from the Greek talent:

Christos Dantis link to his page ,on air we had his "To Palio Mou Palto" and "Ena Tragoudi Akoma" he composed "My Number One" for Elena Paparizou, winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece.^[1] 

Experiments with healthy cakes 1 and is living like a KID a bad thing?

As a base I used the recipe on the British All recipes.co.uk ( should I be ashamed, as Italian to cook following a British website ???Kind of inverted Jamie Oliver) http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/8729/easy-banana-cake.aspx

with modifications as follows:

Serves: 10;serves 8

• 125g butter>170 g coconut butter
• 150g caster sugar>100gr cane sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract>20gr cinnamon,10gr chilli,5gr cloves
• 1 egg, beaten>same
• 2 very ripe bananas, mashed>4 very ripe bananas,mashed
• 190g self raising flour>same
• 60ml milk> no milk
  
  
  
  The result was a delicious ( i would call it) Banana Creme Brulee
  
  
  
  While I indulge in experiments with cooking I have been faced in the last weeks with an exchange in points of view in life of me and people, friends, family around me of more dramatic intensity than before in my life.
  We call it all with the same word, "life"but we do have extreme different ways of living it, both how we live experiences outside and how we process them as information and how therefore we see WHAT life IS, HOW life FEELS and THE POSSIBILITIES in this LIFE.
  Many see LOTS of rules in life, that LIMIT them, and I think for a period of  my life I was taken and drained out in this type of thinking.
  Living like a KID nowadays means, realizing that there may be no tomorrow ( adult thinking) and therefore live like it is a game, where you try and if you make a mistake you try again and in any case you advance and something happens. And along the way you meet friends and people you love and you share experiences, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, but never losing the taste of the adventure, because adventure is the dice to the game of life.
  Playing every turn like it was the last one, and loving every minute of it, because really from one moment to another,the game may cease. When I was a kid, and i remember it well, there was no limit of time when I started to play a game,I was intensely in "it"even if it would last only a short while because we were called by our parents to do the "homework".
  Nowadays we have to remind ourselves of our own "homework" or include it as an active part of the game.
  When I was a kid, there was no exclusivity and no jealousy, if a friend passed by and then life brought us apart,there were no hard feelings. The same way I think, we can realize that we continuously change and sometimes people grow away from each other and it is not a bad thing, but just the evolution of things.
  For the first time in my life, just like Jack in the TV serial "Lost"I am realizing that I cannot fix it all, amend it all, save them all but I'm accepting the law of allowing, and also allowing that others don't take actions and that certain things evolve in the way we had not expected or planned or wanted.

Bands listened to this week

Stephen Michael is a songwriter with powerful songs charged with emotions,i'm glad he found me so i could listen to his music, then Irish music in original irish language....nice with Irish Root Cafe'.
I expected a different music when I saw the profile image and the name of Inner Planets, anyhow, very original and nice to listen to, from NY.
And on radio cicada last Thursday we played the Serbian singer Dzenan Longarevic, very pleasant! Nanah, also a Serbian artist with a mystical voice,really surprised me, her song "More sokol pie" deserves to be discovered by more people, really!
The spanish band Centura encharmed us with their cool tracks and then i stumbled on Alex Canasta, who are Danish from Copenhagen and are working with Massive Music and that's how i found them. Lovely sounds.

Bands listened to this week

I totally was in love with Calemoon voice, close your eyes and his country music and voice will make you think you are in front of a firecamp, in the mountains of the USA somewhere....such a nice feeling.
Alldaywitit or better said Joseph Pryor,will surprise you with bouncy rhymes and great rhythm,and the LA-based Crunch which used very originally sounds and i really enjoyed listening to them.

My week of discoveries

From this blog(sorry in Dutch) some advices to emerging bands
So this lady from this blog I stumbled upon, quotes that Einstein suggested the main issue of life( if this I understand) is to choose between believing the universe is friendly and believing the universe in unfriendly. That was April 25,2012 and while this lady was writing this blog post somewhere in the world, i was in Amsterdam wondering exactly the same thing...that's about different people with these two opposite outlooks in life, one friendly and one not friendly.


List of 10 strange-edible plants in the world, like this:(Kalir-Kanda growing in India and producing a substance that fulfills the sense of hunger but without actually having any nourishing property Weird!)

maybe something to add in my LIFE wish-list of things to do(scroll down when you get to the page, the article is half way, don't know why the made the template so weird and two articles in one page with one totally misleading title?)
Anyway interesting!!!!LINK
And i think this is the craziest idea of 2012 that I have heard of and it is all-made-in-Holland, the country where I am living these days.
So these guys are imagining a TV show about...living on Mars in 2023, therefore I feel compelled to link to my song "In 2046", maybe I should see if these guys need a soundtrack!
In 2046

Bands listened to this week

These last weeks my reverbnation account has exploded with fans and comments on my music, which was a pleasant surprise and i really hope reverbnation keeps his sincerity and does not become full of spam as myspace has become.
So my music playlists these weeks have been enriched with the music of the bands that connected with me and the new fans such as  Vipe-Stunt-men, for the first time in my life I hear  electronic music from
the land of....Thailand thanks to these guys who fan-ned me ( can you actually say fan- ned me?)
Theflygentlemen, some italian rock in English a bit as I like it, let's see if you enjoy them too,Showdown Boulevard and Frankie O'Rourke who wrote me a very appreciative message about my song "Uomo dello spazio".
I am ignorant in these things did Ization make titles inventing some words or it is somehow a slang?
then I appreciated the music from Pace Ride, the funny tunes of Jackslacks, Danielle Reich

Listened, then played in my radio show on radio cicada @salto.fm  the portorican Lunatic will remain in my memories,because of his gratitude and several messages of thanks for me. 
Many bands I contacted and played on my radio show, never bothered to reply and that's a pity I think.
I say it both as a musician, because we all have busy lives but a minimum of interaction seems the norm, if you put your profile OUT there on the internet, it is because you want to be seen,listened and you should want to reply back to someone giving you airplay! and both as a fan, who bothers to write to you out of all the other bands on the extreme overly populated internet!
Luckly in Portorico Lunatic was very thankful and that made my whole day, one day of gratitude. Labels
#Thingstobeproudof

Listened to the new fans on reverbnation : Cortez, KCO, Bobo Raposi,Adam-Son Indie,Reggae from Glasgow, Mirokolica a very exotic name( at least to my ears), Andrew M. Hall whose style i extremely enjoyed listening to...the description on his profile was simple and genuine:
Hello everyone,
I am here like the rest of you all because I love music!
I hope you have a great year.

Jwkeeley from Seattle who can make awesome lines of guitar,dreamy a bit evanescence-like arias of Dreamaria and Monica Dupont who was inducted into The National Blues Hall of Fame as"Great Blues Musician" and appointed Ambassador to San Francisco and electronic french music from Paris, very pleasant by David Dumas.
Listened to the pleasant melodies of soulnarrative, with whom i hope to start a collaboration soon.