How can you be homesick for a land you have only been to for one week?
Has anyone of you ever been to Ireland? The most beautiful and astonishing country I have ever been to. I am still at a loss for words to describe how amazing that one week has been. Let's just say that I am already calculating how fast I can go back

Does anybody want to give me some of their precious time? ^^
My first examination (Abitur...) is on ONE FREAKING WEEK!
And I havn't even started to prepare the presentation!
Where did all the time go?!
Why do they have to start the examinations for the Abitur right after the three weeks of "normal" exams?! Other schools will start them a month later - they even have two more weeks free to prepare (holidays..) -.-

So yesterday I saw Amanda Palmer live (amazing concert) and Zoe Keating played with her.
So here is another amazing piece of music I want to show you
If you ever have the chance to see her live - don't miss it.

"Zoë Keating is a Canadian-born cellist and composer based in San Francisco, California.

In her solo performances and recordings (particularly the ongoing project she calls "One Cello x 16"), she uses live electronic sampling and repetition in order to layer the sound of her cello, creating rhythmically dense musical structures." (wikipedia)


"It dawned on me recently that I might be trying to recreate that awesome feeling of being in an orchestra by actually 'being' the orchestra. The music is composed with an electronica sensibility, but there is nothing electronic about it, it's all unmanipulated cello. At first I started the conventional way, writing out parts for multiple cellos, thinking I'd find a group of cellists to play it. However, little black dots were too static, I had a hard time figuring out how to accurately write layers of scrapes and taps and harmonics, and it was too SLOW. I wanted to hear it NOW so I just got some microphones and recorded directly into my computer.

Eager to perform for the first time in my life, I tried foot pedals and looping machines in order play as many parts as possible. I'd come up with a rough musical idea, rehearse the technology and then flesh the whole thing out live in front of an audience in the warehouse. For nearly every performance I'd have some new piece of equipment, some new technique to try out, some new musicial idea. The music evolved from concert to concert and no two evenings are ever be the same. I called the project One Cello x 16 because that's actually how many tracks I had to work with. Now I should probably call it One Cello x 32." ([link])

So Lady Hanaka reminded me of an anime I watched and loved a while ago.
That also reminded me of the Soundtrack. I still use to listen to it a lot. So the music is mostly instrumental and "hip hop". Hip hop isn't esactly true But I don't know how to describe it.
Seriously, I HATE the mainstream hip hop. But that's mostly because of the lyrics.
The songs of Nujabes (who did most of the soundtrack of Samurai Champloo) are one of the most relaxing ones I ever heard. It's perfect background music while reading/writing/doing school work.
I still love to just sit in my room at night with a good tea, an open window and that beautiful piece of music.

Anyway - I would like to give you an impression of it
Please give it a chance and listen to more than the first ten seconds.

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