What if I started blogging regularly again?
This thought has been on my mind quite a bit over the past few days. Firstly I am rather impressed by the blog at the new QUE Design Studio website. And secondly old-timer Antonio Olivari has (apparently) taken to blogging fairly regularly again.
What if the whole microblogging thing on Twitter, the photoblogging thing on Instagram, and the nonsense that is Facebook were all just fads?
What if blogging is really where it’s at?
Show notes for the 422nd Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast featuring music by performers from or in Malta:
Rikki Lee – Naughty Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kku_ZsGkyM
The Madhatters – Another Toy on the Shelf
Nadine Axisa – F’Ħajti Stennejt
From time to time Dominic Galea’s Heritage Records releases a new CD album inspired by Maltese literature. A relatively long string of such project have appeared over the past decade or so. The latest in this series is called Moħġaġa (which is the Maltese word for puzzle) and features contemporary poetry from the past five decades. This particular track is from a poem by Victor Fenech, whom I’ve always considered as on of three or four quasi-beat poets from Malta to emerge in the 1960s.
Federica – Human
Airport Impressions – Ballymena Sun
It always good to see Maltese bands giving their recordings the largest exposure possible. One tactic that several bands have developed in recent years is to release many tracks from the same album as singles. Sometimes, however, this can make old codgers like me lose track of what’s actually going on. Perhaps this is mostly because I crave new music from people I know can produce it relatively easily.
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Show notes for the 421st Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast featuring music by performers from or in Malta:
Mind’s Eye Dub – Say Something
What’s a summer without the sounds of Mind’s Eye Dub? David Magro never disappoints! This clearly a nod to the world’s most popular Jamaican singer-songwriter, but there’s more to it than that. Anyway, I’m sure you’ll like it, even if you’re not particularly keen on dub or reggae.
Lyndsay Pace – Sick Day
John Galea – I Am a Survivor
Danjeli – Qabbad Ħa Jfuħ
How could I not grab the opportunity to include something new by one of my favourite Maltese musicians of all time. I’ve still to hear a track by Danjeli I totally dislike, and this one is certainly rather special. If for no other reason for the use of the Maltese language accompanied by the sort of electronic soundscape that he has now mastered over the years.
Gresha – Dreamers
Shawn Grech is a singer who I feel like I’ve heard before and possibly included in this series of podcast. I’m not 100% sure. However, I’m pretty certain that this is the first time that I’ve ever included anything from him as Gresha. It’s the sort of song where I get the feeling that I’d like it just as much without the vocal track.
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Show notes for the 420th Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast featuring music by performers from or in Malta:
Muxu – Take You Home
Umannimali feat. L-Urugan – Arti Vokali
Three hip-hop tracks on this week’s podcast but I’d say there’s more than one good reason to listen if you’re not particularly a fan of this genre of music. Firstly, this track by Umannimali with Neil l-Urugan is rather good, even if somewhat pedestrian. Next track is indeed rather beautiful, even if somewhat more romantic than you’d expect from a rapper. And then there’s the video from Venemous2000 shot in Marsaskala. What else is there to say really?
Kapitlu Tlettax – Warda Fuq il-Qabar
Venemous2000 – The Music
Saħħar – Triegħdet l-Art
Marton Saliba is one of the more prolific black metal exponents from Malta. He has now released a new album called Kruha u Kefrija, and on first listen this is the one track from it I enjoyed the most. There’s a hint of Motorhead in it, but it’s still bang on black metal…and somewhat refreshing to here this genre performed in Maltese.
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