Nuno Lupi - "Ballerina"

Another musician Last.fm lists as similar to music2work2 is Nuno Lupi. His music is piano driven and is quite lovely.

My favorite piece of his is “Ballerina.” The tempo is fast and the melody is rhythmic and beautiful.

I suppose because of my love and appreciation of nature, when I listen to music, the images that are evoked for me are often nature-related. Listening to “Ballerina” the image that comes to mind is of the ocean. I can visualize the constant movement of the waves breaking on the shore, and the water more slowly and silently returning back to the sea. This image is evoked from the periods of hesitancy in the music followed by the piano runs.

I find this an uplifting piece of music; there is a sense of hopefulness about it. Due to it’s title, I doubt that Nuno Lupi had this same sort of image in mind while composing this piece. But, that is the wonderful thing about music. It can be heard differently at different times and by different people.

This piece reminds me of music2work2's session 1218. There are similarities between the music of Nuno Lupi and music2work2; Last.fm was right. You might want to check them out and see if you think so.

iTunes Radio

 - is brilliant.  My old computer crashed over the weekend and my entire iTunes library is currently unavailable.  While I'm busy working out how to get everything off my iPod into the new iTunes (thanks Neil and Michele) I'm listening to some great "music2work2" - namely Beach House Radio - perfect for what I'm doing.  I love how necessity breeds serendipity.  I'm also trying out a new blog interface - Scribefire - digging it so far.

Let the Right One in

Taking a little side step from Music to comment on a recent movie that I had the pleasure of watching courtesy of Jason Calacanis and the team at Mahalo - a kick ass human powered search engine - algorithms don't have feet! "Let the Right One in" is a Swedish horror movie, it has a vampire in it - which helps - but it's more about themes like: isolation, youth, men with beards and being very fucking cold - you can almost feel the chill coming through the screen.   There is one brief reference to Brezhnev which helps date the movie - but I'm guessing it was the General Secretary's pre-Abba days - bleak would be a fair description of the world portrayed in the movie.

Check out the trailer below:

I dug it - but you really don't want to be watching this movie in a hurry - it is paced as slow as a slow thing - the clip above probably contains 80% of the entire action in the movie - and the movie's 2 hours long. If you dig the whole Bergman thing and enjoy intelligent movie making - then check it out - if you're looking for mindless escapism then this is probably not for you.