only music saves: May 2013

May 26, 2013

Album of the day: Waterfall by Ocean

Today I would like to present and to recommend you album Waterfall by great Polish band Ocean, and to be honest, I really hope you'll like it. Ladies and Gents, make some noise for Ocean and their first English-language album!

OCN (formerly known as Ocean) is a rock band formed in 2001 in Wroclaw, Poland, and they recorded 5 highly acclaimed albums and played hundreds of concerts. Almost all their singles were nicely accepted both by fans and by 'normal listeners'.
OCN is: Maciej Wasio [vocal / guitar], Piotr 'Quentin' Wojtanowski [bass guitar], Bolek Wilczek [drums].

More about the band you can read on their official page: https://ww w.facebook.com/oceanpl .

↑ cover of Waterfall

On the album we can find ten great songs. A few of them are easy and nice, rest of them are 'heavy' but all of them are good rock sound. It's really great that guys from OCN recorded the English-language album because many people from outside the country can get to know their great music.

As for my this album is just so good, not only because of music which is really cool, or lyrics, but because of an awesom evocals by Maciej Wasio. Trust me - it's really worthwhile to listen to, even only once, this album.

↑ inside of the album

The first single from the album is Waterfall and the second is The First Cut.

As I wrote earlier, on the album we can find ten songs, which are really great and I think that every fan of good rock music will like Waterfall.

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Waterfall

The First Cut

You can find listen to and buy Waterfall on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/pl/album/waterfall/id623475852

Also you can listen to whole album and other songs by OCN here : www.lastfm.pl/music/Ocean/+charts

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more info:

http://www.ocnband.com
http://www.myspace.com/oceanpoland
http://www.youtube.com/oceantivi
http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Ocean
http://www.twitter.com/OceanPoland

music is my passion & inspiration
only music saves

May 21, 2013

news from The Shiver!

Ladies and Gents,
And I've some great news from The Shiver for you today....

↑ Pic made by - Andrea Serrau Photography

Today we celebrate out 8th B-DAY. We started this project 8 years ago. Many things happened, many changed, a lot of satisfaction around Europe.
We wanna thank all of you that followed, supported and believe in our music!!
Our upcoming album will be released next fall and for this special eve we want to announce the official tracks’ titles that will be included in “The Darkest Hour”:

The Key
Little Lonely Boy
The Secret
Forgotten Soul
Ocean
Bury Me
Into the Darkest Hour
Anything
It’s Over
Runaway

THANK U VERY VERY MUCH!!
News are coming soon ….

Pic made by - Andrea Serrau Photography

Isn't it a great news? May 21 2005... - 8 years togerther... woow! That's just incredible and so amazing!

I want to wish them - Federica, Francesco, Vincenzo and Michele - all the best : many excellent songs, next cool albums, awesome concerts, great moments and many many years as the band (next 8,10 or even 50 years togerther). And thank you very much for your great music...

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, The Shiver - one of the best rock bands in the world!

more info:

http://www.theshiver.net

http://www.youtube.com/theshiverband

http://twitter.com/TheShiverBand

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shiver
http://www.myspace.com/theshiverband
http://www.facebook.com/theshiverband

P.S.

I just can't wait for their new album because I think it will be the same great or even better then their last album A New Horizon.

Album of the day : The Shrugs - Crossroads EP

Today I've something new and cool. I would like to present and to recommend you album Crossroads EP by great, but unfortunately not too famous yet, band The Shrugs from Dundee, Scotland.
Ladies and Gents, make some noise for The Shrugs!

↑ cover of Crossroads EP

Why Crossroads EP? Because their music is a great mix of acoustic, folk, pop rock and... rap, what's really cool. Songs made by The Shrugs are unique and so good - excellent music + brilliant lyrics. Yes, this album is full of perfect sounds and also shows us their huge talent. That's the reason why I chose it as an album of the day.

Crossroads EP is a compilation of six songs created by Ollie Wale [lead vocals] and Jamie Harris [guitar / keys, backing vocals] - The Shrugs. These two guys are writing own songs, proving that you don't need many people or other 'important' things to create great music.

What you can find on Crossroads EP? I should say 'only the best music' and it would be a pure truth. In my opinion this album is really, really good and I just love it! Also can't wait for more new songs created by talented Ollie and Jamie from The Shrugs. Trust me - you must listen to these songs from Crossroads EP because this is really good music, and you won't regret, big promise. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for them and their future.

Ladies and Gents - enjoy a real and good music :)

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Too Long

Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind

Black Alley Princess

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Vacant Stare

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Invisible Man

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Your Own Story

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You can download this album, Crossroads EP, from here: http://theshrugsdundee.bandcamp.com .

more info:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shrugs/146195062106275

http://www.youtube.com/user/theshrugsofficial

https://twitter.com/the_shrugs

http://theshrugsdundee.bandcamp.com

music is my passion & inspiration
only music saves

May 20, 2013

My life : Opole, May 16-18 2013

As you know, or not, I was in Opole [Poland] from May 16 to May 18 and I spent there so good time. Concert, my sister's birthday, cool place and wild time... Yes, it was something really great.

Distance between cities, Gdańsk and Opole isn't so bad - only 487 kilometres, what gives about 6-7 hours of a drive in a car, damn.

What's the best in such situations? Great music, coffee and nice weather. This time we had everything - coffee from time to time (4 huge cups of strong black coffee + box with 3x Monster Energy and 3x Red Bull / per person), great weather was not only during our travel to Opole but also when we were there, and then when we came back. And music... Our playlist was really diversified: from old songs to newest, from rock to pop, from reggae to hip-hop. And everything what was on the radio.

↑ 7AM - after the first coffee... what to choose now ?

May 17 - such a great day. My sister was a birthday and I would like to thank you all who sent such a nice words/wishes for her - it was really nice. To these people who didn't do it - shame on you (!), hope you'll do it next year.

Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River (Odra) and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County.

↑ Opole - city of music

At first we went to the small but amazing cake shop / ice-cream shop JKM Górka on Krakowska Street 32 in Opole.

Trust me, their birthday cakes are just amazing and coffee...oh yeah, really good :)

↑ my sister's birthday cake - it was really delicious

After a short break in the cake shop, we decided to tour the city. Of course it wasn't so easy to do because we had only a few hours before the show and that's why I was a bid sad but I'm sure I'll come back there soon for a little longer :)

And guess, what surprise I could to do for my sister? I could only buy tickets for the concert of her favourite artist - Andrzej Piaseczny. Yes, I did it.
The show was at the Opole Millennium Amphitheatre. This place is one of known symbols of the city and is hosting the yearly National Festival of Polish Song.

Ok, returning to the conversation about the concert...

In my opinion it was one of the best their (as the band not only vocalist) show this year! Two hours with music and good vibrations : main performance + two encores - interesting, am I right? :) Anyway, there were new songs and the ones old, also a few surprises f.e. cover of Michael Jackson's Rock with you.

Yes, not only my sister had a good time during the show... I should be honest and said that the show was really really good and I spent so good time there.

I was so surpirsed that Opole is such a quiet city, even that I've about 50 metres to the main railway station from my hotel, I didn't hear any sounds... And at night - nothing, really. Streets were desolate, even at 1AM haha ;)

↑ traditional hunt of the concert poster ;)

And - as we all well know, everything what good must end - we woke up at 4AM, after 2.5 hours of sleep, and we came back home. Yes, this travel was crazy and just awesome :)

BACKSTAGE

↑ small town Krzywe Kolano / Crooked Knee - isn't it crazy and funny? ;D

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and a few vids from the show (forgive me, I had to...).

May 12, 2013

the 80's! [part 2]

And I'm back with the second part of wild songs of the 80's. Today's playlist will be full of only the best sounds (in my opinion, of course) and there'll be something known well and also something not well-known. I hope you'll have the same great time listening to them as I... :)

Have a great time and let's start the party!

Kajagoogoo : Too Shy