Showing posts with label downtempo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label downtempo. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

11: Hot Casandra - Hold Me Tight (2011)

  Before reaching our eagerly awaited Top 10, which will be surely a storm of electronic sounds, let's travel to Romania to enjoy a relaxing song. Included in an EP entitled "Early Nightmares", Hold Me Tight is a psychedelic piece of music performed by Paul Ballo (a.k.a. Hot Casandra) and his mother, soprano Bianca Ionescu from the Bucharest National Opera, who impregnates the song with the necessary touch of glamour.


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Sunday, 18 November 2012

25: Miss Melody - Huan (2010)

We haven't yet travelled to China, a huge country with few -or very hidden- electronic bands. Huan was written by Miss Melody, 27-year old singer born in Mongolia but who soon managed to obtain Chinese nationality, and UK producer Mobidextrous, after they met in a bar in Beijing and started a collaboration. It is difficult to classify their music, with a style close to downtempo, post-dubstep and trip hop, and sung in the exotic Mandarin Chinese language. Huan is like a haunting poem, a melancholic and ethereal song talking about the difficulties of living in big cities, such as Beijing.


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Tuesday, 4 September 2012

41: Anggun ‎- Snow On The Sahara (1997)

We keep on exploring different countries from different continents. Indonesia, this time. Born in the capital, Jakarta, and now living in France (she even represented France in the latest Eurovision Contest), singer Anggun Cipta Sasmi started her career with the tender Snow On The Sahara in 1997, hitting the charts. Since then she has released numerous albums and singles, but it's yet difficult to reach the same quality since this delicate song has all the magical ingredients: exotic Asian sounds, easy-listening tune, romantic lyrics and warm female voice. So warm!
 

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