Posts Tagged ‘Emiliana Torrini’

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Emiliana Torrini – "Unemployed in Summertime" (1999)

2010/02/25

It was a year ago today I decided to post a song a day. I started on facebook, and then decided to move to a blog to share with the world. After over 450 posts and songs it is still fun! I hope the second year is just as much!

So why Emiliana Torrini for today's song? Well a year ago Emiliana Torrini's song "Birds" was playing in my car CD player and I realized I didn't know anyone else who liked Emiliana Torrini enough to listen to her albums. Thus no one had probably ever heard her song "Birds", a truly awesome song but not the kind of song that would ever get much attention or radio time. I wanted to share it, so I did on facebook. One thing led to another and TSotD.com is the plant grown from that seed. It seems only appropriate to have another Emiliana Torrini song for the 1 year anniversary.

I have selected "Unemployed in Summertime" no only because I am done with winter and ready for Spring and Summer to come but also it was the first song I ever heard by Emiliana. It is off her 4th album, "Love in the Time of Science", the first one promoted outside of Iceland, her home country. With out Emiliana TSotD may have never existed. Thank you Emiliana! And Happy 1 Year To Me!

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Click here for more info on Emilíana Torrini – Love in the Time of Science – "Unemployed in Summertime".

The CD may be purchased here…

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Emiliana Torrini – "Birds" (2008)

2009/04/26

I started this blog about a month ago. I had been posting my "song of the day" on facebook before then, and it all started with this song on 2/25. It was on that day I was driving to work and thinking this song is so good. Her voice is so beautiful, and with just the guitar for the first section it is so beautiful a sound.

And then the lyrics themselves…

Let's stay awake and listen to the dark.
Before the birds, before they all wake up.
It's the ending of a play and soon begins another.
Hear the leaves applaud the wind.

(…more lyrics are here.)

And then how clever how the band comes in half way through, changing the mood of the song a bit, like the rising sun changes the morning. Also using the guitars to make bird like sounds. So clever!

This song impressed me so much and yet most people will never know. Most people probably only know her at all from "Gollum's Song" (the closing credits of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"). Perhaps you've heard this song on Grey's Anatomy too? I had to tell someone. So I posted it on facebook, and I am posting it here now. This was my first documented "song of the day" and inevitably the reason I have this blog. Songs like this need to be heard and I'm trying to pick them out of the sea of music an playing them one by one.

Thank you Emiliana!

PS: Now that I have posted all my "song of the day" songs to date, the "bonus song of the day" category will not be a daily thing, but truly a bonus.

Click here for more info on Emiliana Torrini – Me and Armini – "Birds".

The MP3 may be purchased here…

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