Yovav (Jay) Meydad's Personal Blog » Indie http://www.meydad.com Thoughts on social applications, usability, search, mobile, music and sports Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Emanuel and The Fear Rock Orchestra http://www.meydad.com/2010/02/18/the-emanuel-and-the-fear-rock-orchestra/ http://www.meydad.com/2010/02/18/the-emanuel-and-the-fear-rock-orchestra/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:30:58 +0000 JayMeydad http://www.meydad.com/2010/02/18/the-emanuel-and-the-fear-rock-orchestra/ I came across Emanuel and The Fear today on the HypeMachine and was blown away.

They are an11-piece orchestra-rock band from Brooklyn that uses a wide variety of instruments, like electronica, percussion, orchestra instruments (flute, violins and cellos, trumpets) and hard hitting guitars, to create mind blowing Orchestral pop/rock/ songs.

One of the highlights in IMHO is “Jimme’s Song”. It is available in two versions that sound great, but still I like the Demo version (vid below) more than the the Full band version

]]> http://www.meydad.com/2010/02/18/the-emanuel-and-the-fear-rock-orchestra/feed/ 0 10 Years of memories you can not hug http://www.meydad.com/2010/01/22/10-years-of-memories-you-can-not-hug/ http://www.meydad.com/2010/01/22/10-years-of-memories-you-can-not-hug/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:35:35 +0000 JayMeydad http://www.meydad.com/2010/01/22/10-years-of-memories-you-can-not-hug/ Today we are marking 10 years since Michal Niv died. She was a legendary Israeli disc jocky who introduced me (and many of my generation) to indie rock & punk in the 80′s and had a tremendous influence on my musical taste.Here are two songs you could often hear on her weekly show, “HAFSAKAT ESER”.

The first, Bring of the Dancing Horses by Echo and the Bunnymen, was also the opening tune of her show.

and Just Like Honey by The Jesus and the Mary Chain.

Further reading (in Hebrew) and many songs representing her musical taste by David Perez & Sharon Moldavi

and a playlist on YouTube

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]]> http://www.meydad.com/2010/01/22/10-years-of-memories-you-can-not-hug/feed/ 0 MadBliss is starting their international breakthrough http://www.meydad.com/2008/02/08/madbliss-is-starting-their-international-breakthrough/ http://www.meydad.com/2008/02/08/madbliss-is-starting-their-international-breakthrough/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:44:17 +0000 JayMeydad http://www.meydad.com/2008/02/08/madbliss-is-starting-their-international-breakthrough/ MadBliss live on a Tel Aviv roof topMy friend, Issac Barel from MadBliss was in LA couple of days ago. He came to visit and it was a nice opportunity to catch up and hear about their recent success in Poland.

A U.S. tour is also something they are working on and hopefully I will get to see them during 2008 live in LA.

Here’s a great track which appears in “Heaven through old eyes”. Ladies and Gentlemen,  Vast Plains by Mad Bliss. Enjoy.

 

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