May 29, 2026

Month: March 2007

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Francoise Hardy – Catch a Falling Star

vusleeper March 15, 2007

Lisa sent me this Francoise Hardy mix cd a while back, which I was listening in my car for a while. Anyroad, I was driving with a passenger and she put on the Hardy CD and kind of listened and skip and skip (which is kind of understandable since the majority of Hardy's works are in French and neither of us understood it).

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Rhythms del Mundo project

vusleeper March 14, 2007

.The previous year I was writing music with a friend at his beachfront house in a little fishing village on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka. A few months later that little village and many of its' inhabitants were almost totally obliterated by the Tsunami. I was extremely moved and upset by the tragedy of so many lives being lost or altered forever. The village had to be completely rebuilt as well as the livelihood of countless fishermen and shopkeepers. This was the event that sparked off this project. I knew I had to do something for those villagers.  But what could I do?  As it turned out, this project began to take shape with the formation of a new organization, Artists' Project Earth (APE), which comes to the aid of natural disaster victims and raises awareness for climate change

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Dolores O'Riordan

Dolores O’Riordan – Ordinary Day

vusleeper March 14, 2007

Dolores O'Riordan (ex-frontswoman of the Cranberries) has a new album out in May '07, called Are You Listening?. Her record company, Santuary, decided to release her new single in North America only. And only on iTunes. I have a problem with this, I really don't like region-locking and I don't like iTunes' DRM. I will probably wait to get it on CD anyway.

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