Happy Monday my lovely music lovers. My favorite time of year is upon us - SUMMER. I'm feeling carefree, sexy, and hopeful, and I always say "as emotion is music has inspired."
This week's music pick inspires all these feelings, and more. Sweden based electro pop duo, Niki and The Dove formed in 2010. This powerful duo is made up of Malin Dahlstrom (vocals) and Gustaf Karlof (keyboards.) Words cannot truly explain the energy, epicness, and spectacular dazzle of this band.
All I can say to you my eager reader is to play all the below videos, clear a spot on the floor in your living room, and get ready. This is a short one, I know, but some music cannot be explained in words, only in moves.
I know you will enjoy my favorite tracks by this band, "The Drummer" and "DJ Ease My Mind". Enjoy your Monday, and I will see you next week with my new music obsession.
xoxoxoxo
Najamoniq
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
~William P. Merrill
Yesterday, Susan got to help a woman donate her beautiful locks to Locks of Love. Our Daymakers have done much cutting to help people donate their hair to this wonderful organization. The locks are turned into wigs for children who are battling long term medical problems.
The woman on the right in the photo donated her locks to this wonderful group. She came in with a friend, had her day made, and made the day of someone else.
We love when we can share in these adventures for you.
Are you finding that there are issues with your hair that just don't seem to resolve themselves no matter what you do? I know it's frustrating for me when I'm using the right shampoo, conditioner, and product but still find that my hair is uncontrollable. One of the things I've added to my hair care is a scalp treatment.
There are five different scalp treatments to choose from that have very their own specific value.
Purifying- To alleviate flaky dry scalp due to dandruff
Energizing- Aids healthy hair growth by encouraging blood flow to the scalp
Awakening- An aromatherapy treatment designed to Awaken you and your scalp with an aromatic oil blend
Relaxing- An aromatherapy treatment designed to Relax you and your scalp with an aromatic oil blend
Royal Jelly- A nourishing treatment designed to revitalize the hair with a perfect balance of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and biotin.
My favorite is the Relaxing. Those weeks when everything is just pressing in and I want to scream, going in and treating my soul and hair to this just makes it all more manageable.
When was the last time you invested in yourself in this way? Isn't it time to do so?
Good Monday music lovers! This week I thought I would take a different approach with New Music Mondays. I decided to write about a artist that changed my view of music forever.
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. After a decade as a guitarist-for-hire in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace.
Over the following two years the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record a second album in New York with Tom Verlaine as producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue.
One sad evening while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed, in the Wolf River, where he was caught in the wake of a passing boat. His body was found on June 4, 1997. Thursday June 14, 2012, I will be in Seattle at the Crocodile Lounge watching one of many events celebrating the music and passion of Jeff's music at "Eternal Fair and The Crocodile Present A SEATTLE TRIBUTE TO JEFF BUCKLEY."
I think at one point in everyone's formative years you come across an artist that opens the world for you, someone that lets you see deep into yourself and your dreams and, as the notes fade beautifully in your ears, they leave you changed as a person.
So I leave you this week with two of my favorite songs from this amazing artist: "Forget Her" and "Lover You Shouldve Come Over".
I will see everyone next week for another New Music Monday.
xoxoxoxoxo
Najamoniq
"I try to make my music joyful—it makes me joyful—to feel the music soar through the body. It changes your posture, you raise your chin, throw your shoulders back, walk with a swagger. When I sing, my face changes shape. If feels like my skull changes shape—the bones bend. "Grace" and "Eternal Life" are about the joy that music gives—the, probably illusory, feeling of being able to do anything. Sex is like that. You become utterly consumed by the moment." -Jeff Buckley
Happy Monday Music Lovers. I dig music, and I especially dig good electro dance music. Today my obsession with music brings
you CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy.
Originating from São Paulo, Brazil members include Lovefoxxx, Luiza Sá, Ana Rezende, and Carolina Parra. Past members include Maria Helena, Zerba Iracema Trevisan, Clara Ribeiro, and Adriano Cintra. J.R. Kurtz has been the band's touring drummer since 2010 with the addition of Nate Perry as touring bassist beginning in late 2011. Bassist Inge Johansson has also toured with the band. Think Carnivale and club had a baby and you will get CSS.
I've loved them for years, but I'm especially enjoying their newest album, La Liberacion. CSS recorded tracks for their third studio album, La Liberación, while touring. They reportedly recorded a song in Spanish titled "¡Ay, Qué Horror!"
According to lead singer Lovefoxxx in an interview with MTV Brazil, the first single of the new album will be released in May. The album, also according to her, will hit store shelves August 2012, with 11 tracks. The title will also be in Spanish.
In a recent interview with Folha de S. Paulo, Adriano Cintra said that the band's third album "is not a themed album. It has influences from clubs, reggae and punk." Ana Rezende, however, said that "we sometimes do a reggae that nobody thinks it's actually reggae. But in our head is very reggae."
On November 11th 2011, Adriano Cintra announced that he left CSS and declared that he did not authorize any of the band members to use his songs in any of their forthcoming concerts. He also stated that the reason behind his departure was due to attitude problems from other band members, claiming that they let fame go to their heads.
Basically this band makes you wanna put on your baddest outfit and go raise sexy chaos with your best friend. Their name was taken from a reported quote by Beyoncé, who allegedly declared that she was "tired of being sexy." I know you will enjoy three of my favorites by this band: "Music is my hot hot sex," "Move," and "City Grrrl."
See you next Monday with a new music obsession!
xoxoxoxo
Najamoniq
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
Billy Joel
Happy Monday my lovely music lovers. My favorite time of year is upon us - SUMMER. I'm feeling carefree, sexy, and hopeful, and I always say "as emotion is music has inspired."
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