en: MikaSounds...

The brand new website of MIKA which is still like a .. blog, but it seems to be changing soon to a proper web-page... Whatever that means.. You can visit  http://www.mikasounds.com  to get a taste.

For those of you who are into music production or would like to get a short taste of how we nerdy musicians work in the studio, MIKA's video is interesting in terms of providing us with the ability to hear some pre-release sounds of his new album and the way that these different elements -the gospel coir, the pizz.violin, the clapping and tapping- fit in a final POP mix . The part where he plays the solo "pizzicato" violin and then plays it again with the track is a great idea to include fans in what's actually going on... 

"You can't really listen to it, but u sorta feel it..." :-)

 

I just love the fact that he decided to give this on air... the studio samples, the small taste of music, the way we built music up together as if it's legos... :-)

One of my favorite songs on the album (there are SOOOO many!) is "iN ANy oTheR WoRld" 

Enjoy:

And the ending of the album, equally amazing... The Happy Ending!

Official video can be found here, but embed object is disabled for some reason... Agrrrr...

Anyway, this is the that you left me, am not pretending... No hope, No love, No glory, No happy ending... This is the way that we love, Like it's forever... Then live the rest of our life, but not together...

kappa MYSTA

gr: 'δε προλάβαμε τις 14...'

Θυμάσαι που επέστρεφες το βράδυ και έβρισκες τη πόρτα ανοιχή?

τα κεριά στην αυλή που έφτιαχναν σκιές, τον ιδρώτα του πυρετού, τη μυρωδιά του vicks...

τα λουλούδια που πέταξα στην σκουπιδιάρα...

το τριαντάφυλλο που μου 'δωσες στη Σταδίου...

το πέταξα κι αυτό τώρα που μετακόμισα...

τα Χριστούγεννα στα φώτα των ανούσιων cλuμπs και τις βόλτες στη πλάκα...

το μηχανάκι και την αφή στα φανάρια

Θυμάσαι εκείνη την αγκαλιά που μου 'δωσες να κρατάω και τα βλέμματα που σου έκρυψα στη τσέπη...;

τις ώρες που η Αθήνα ήταν η πιο όμοφη παρηγοριά και στο βάθος κάπου να παίζει το 'goodbye my lover'...

Θυμάσαι άραγε τις ώρες που περνάγαμε μες τα μήλα, τα καλώδια, τα φώτα, τις σκιές, τους καπνούς της ζεστής σάουνας, τα χρώματα, το γυμναστήριο μεσάνυχτα, τη σιωπή...

το επόμενο πρωί.

το φλέρτ στην αρχή, τον πόνο στο τέλος... 

... . .... . ... 

Θυμάσαι την μυρωδιά μου καθόλου;

kappa MYSTA, 

Λονδίνο, 14 Φεβ. '09

en: Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah by K.D. Lang

How can you not love this version? Another great artistic soul...

__________________________

Lyrics:

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah... Hallelujah...

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah...

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah...

Maybe there's a God above

and all I ever learned from Love

is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

And its not a cry you can hear at night

It's not somebody who's seen the light

It's a cold and its a broken Hallelujah...

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah...

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

__________________________

and Leonard Cohen's versions...

kappa MYSTA