STÄSJ: "Do You" live video

Watch Dutch singer STÄSJ perform Do You, the opening track from her Soft Forces album: ""With electronics and classically trained vocals at the foundations for her music she goes for abstract, surrealistic lyrics, populating her world with kids, commuters and an aloof feline. It is not a pop record as such, neither is it a (modern) classical one. If anything it is a collection of highly personal stories and fairy tales, meandering travelogues and observations." For this performance she was joined by Ruud Roelofsen on keyboards & electronics and Maarten Zaagman on percussion & electronics. The clip was shot @ Werkwarenhuis in Den Bosch and made by Studio BRAK.

Words about music (734): Elvis Costello

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Elvis Costello

Petridisch featuring Leah Callahan: Je suis venue te dire que je m'en vais

Boston based musicians Petridisch (stage name of Thor Maillet) and Leah Callahan have teamed up again for a cover of one of their favourite artists. They took on Serge Gainsbourg's Je suis venue te dire que je m'en vais, following in the footsteps of Jo Lemaire + Flouze's synth version. They slowed it down a bit and by recording the vocals with iPhone Voice memo (plus a bit of echo) the track's mood is almost as sad as the original.

Well Tempered Madness: Well Tempered Madness

Walk into a bar in Las Vegas that advertises live music and chances are that the entertainment consists of a couple of musicians going through the emotions playing standards on auto-pilot. Dig a little deeper and you might run into to a band like Well Tempered Madness, a sextet led by guitarist and composer Stephen Fansler playing originals.

Their self-titled debut is a full-course meal of jazz, fusion and blues, played with gusto. All band members can hand over a lengthy resume, having chalked up decades worth of expertise. It must have been liberating to play something fresh and new. The material is pretty slick, but there is ample room for all involved to deviate a bit to make their mark. This is music that people will actually listen to, instead of drowning their grief, lamenting their losses at the slot machines and craps tables in Sin City.

Brian Wilson in conservatorship

Brian Wilson can no longer take care of himself. Not a surprise, but it is sad news nevertheless. From The Guardian:

A judge found Thursday that Beach Boys founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to manage his personal and medical decisions because of what his doctor calls a “major neurocognitive disorder”.

At a hearing, Los Angeles superior court judge Gus T May approved the petition filed by the 81-year-old Wilson’s family and inner circle after the death of his wife in January, Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, who handled most of his tasks and affairs.