Funny. It all started with a movie - no, not Inception. I watched the italian comedy "Mine Vaganti" ("Loose Cannons" in english/ embarrassingly "Männer al Dente" in German). First of all, the movie is really good - funny and tragic and the Soundtrack is SO italian! Not "Eros-Ramazotti-vacation-in-Rimini-Italian...more like i-drink-wine-like-water-in-tuscany italian. Hope you know what I mean.
Anyway, I was looking for similar songs, since I will go to Tuscany in a few weeks and I thought that a mix-tape would be a good thing to have. So, obviously I checked my music library first and I found the "Everything is illuminated" soundtrack. If you don't know this movie - watch it, it's brilliant (so is the book, by the way). And the soundtrack consists of Leningrad, Gogol Bordello, Csokolom...not italian at all, but a very nice kind of music, perfect for traveling. I remember listening to it when I flew to Ireland - it added a very nice and somehow surreal feeling to the whole trip.
However, thanks to last.fm I found out that this kind of music is often tagged as "gypsy", same goes for some of the songs on the Mine Vaganti Soundtrack. Clicking on the Gypsy-Tag lead me to more artists - and one name caught my eye - BEIRUT. I've heard of them before, I even have some of their songs in my library, but somehow I never really cared much about them. I'm sure most of you know that - either you're not really interested, or you don't have the time, or you just forget about it.... In the back of my head I knew that Owen Pallett, one of my favourite musicians, had some kind of connection to BEIRUT and covered one of their song.
So, I checked the band out - and I loved it! I loved it so much, that I went to the record store to buy their debut album.
Check out ELEPHANT GUN
btw - bought this book today:
http://www.amazon.de/Wreck-This-Journal-Keri-Smith/dp/039953346X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1281291626&sr=8-1
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