Dreaming of Heaven?...feeling like you're in Hell?...

Then turn the music on!...This blog is about the effect music have in our lives...Life in general isn't a bed of roses, the shores, the mistakes and responsibilities of someone who constantly lives in the clouds, makes life rather impossible at times, specially when we don't really want to come down to earth as often as we should.

But here's what is keeping me sane, and a link between the clouds and earth: Music. Not any music mind you, music is not an easy thing to digest. Certain people take music as a form of pure entertainment, i.e dance music, clubbing, R&B in the later meaning of the initials, etc..
How I see, or I should say hear music, is rather different, and I know there's many people who listen to music the way I do.
Loneliness is a key part of my life, sometimes circumstances in life, sometimes self inflicted. In general, I'm not surrounded by people, and sometimes I choose the lonely path.
In those moments is when music comes in, and fill what is missing.

During this blog, I will share my views about certain artists and genres, in a regular basis. Certain artists had been key in certain moments and events in my life.
I'm 34 in October, and music has been in my life since the womb, when my mum and dad used to play rock music in the early 70's...I vividly remember my dad playing The Dark Side of the moon as a toddler, or my mother playing the French singer Joe Dasin (whom I love till this day)
I fell in love with music, before I fell in love with a boy for the first time, so yes, music was my first love...and still is.

I guess the way to start this blog is with my first musical love:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

I was 14, and I was at school. I wasn't rich, and to get your hands in music meant to save pocket money, and buy pirate cassettes from the older boys who made copies from their original records in the local market. I remember seeing Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, where features a performance by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, plus another great love Crime and the City Solution. I guess my first love was Wim Wenders fault...That film changed everything for me. Since then,  music begin to take the front row in my life.
THANK YOU MR WENDERS!

I remember  been almost short of air, when I saw this film and this performance. Primarily because Nick Cave was part of the plot in the film. Nick Cave, for a 14 years old girl like me, was simply electrifying, attractive, beautiful...The baritone voice became my favorite feature in a singer. I cried, Simon Bonney of Crime and the city solution, also created a huge impact on me...I was obsessed with this two Down Under bands...For me, then, Australia was the centre of the world in musical terms, and London following closer, as this bands started with gigs in small venues in London...
As a teenager I wanted so bad to be part of their world...I was a lonely full of angst girl, and their music fitted my personality perfectly...English isn't my first language, and it took great deal to learn and understand English, because I wanted to understand that energy and feelings, those music waves which I absorbed and I knew they were so important...It was the music first, the emotions they provoked on me, afterwords, I found that the lyrics truly matched those feelings, and I knew then, that music was to be forever part of my daily life.

Take a look at this performances and you will see what I mean...you will see why I fell in love.



Nick Cave and Blixa Bargeld performing.



Nick and the Angel Cassiel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1uVDZ9Gpcg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrMRks07XyY