Music – Page 26

June 12, 2016

80 million will support the German football team

Germany has a song for the UEFA European Football championship 2016 “Europameisterschaft”:
It is the “EM Version” of Max Giesinger’s song “80 Millionen”.

This is the original version of “80 Millionen”. Max Giesinger selected Stefanie Giesinger as main actress. She is one of the winners of Germany’s next Top Model.

This is a funny making of “80 Millionen”.

May 13, 2016

Fading between music styles

Alan Walker is just 18 years old but he has produced an impressive song “Faded” with an impressive success. The song inspires many other artists as well.

Alan Walker (image sourced by last.fm)

The 25 year old Norwegian singer Iselin Solheim is the original voice of “Faded”.

An introduction to the EDM version.

The original EDM version.

This is the version of the twins Marco and Alessio Bianchi from Italy, who call themselves Ciuffi Rossi (red bush of hair).

Now fading to the classical version by Brooklyn Duo.

And finally fading to the rock version by Stansbury.

“Faded” was performed as well by Zara Larsson during the German 2016 ECHO awards in Berlin.

Zara Larsson currently has her own hit “Lush life”.

March 20, 2016

The power of simplicity

Radio stations are currently playing the Seeb remix of Mike Posner “I took a pill in Ibiza”. This is the non-remixed original video from 2016.

In 2005, the German band “Wir sind Helden” released a song “Nur ein Wort” which had the same simple video concept.

January 11, 2016

Never really cared about the music of David Bowie until they played some of his songs after he died. One of these songs was “Heros”, which was recorded in legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin. The song was written together with Brian Eno, who also produced songs for U2. Hansa Studios were obviously an inspiring place, also for the band U2, who produced their album “Achtung Baby” here.

This is the original song “Heros” performed by David Bowie when it was released 1977.

And this is the modern version from Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor from the elephant medley of the movie “Moulin Rouge”. “Heros” will start at 2:22 min.

Update January 13, 2016: “Heros” was also recorded in other languages, this is the German version (German starts @ 2:15 min).

November 8, 2015

“Hello” from Adele and Greg Kurstin

An amazing song written and produced by Adele and Greg Kurstin: “Hello”

Greg Kurstin has produced many other famous songs as well: http://gregkurstin.com

This song inspires not only us but also many other musicians like Eli Zamora, Taps Mugadza and Leroy Sanchez.

It also inspires people to parody:

Adele doing Carpool Karaoke:

Greg Kurstin also has his own band with Irana George, “The bird an the bee”, this is the song “My love” with a very melodic refrain:

Interesting interview with Greg Kurstin (start at 14:00):

September 27, 2015

Running under water

An amazing song with an amazing under water video: Naughty Boy – Runnin‘ (Lose It All) ft. Beyoncé & Arrow Benjamin.

The video is starring Alice Modolo and Guillaume Néry and was shot in French Polynesia:

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/music/q-and-a/a46561/lose-it-all-video-diver-interview-alice-modolo/

Another great version of this song by Jack Hawitt:

June 15, 2015

Years & Years and Greg Kurstin

Attention, it’s getting bright! “Shine” is a song performed by Years & Years, Greg Kurstin is one of the composers.

February 2, 2015

Sia and Greg Kurstin

Hold on to your chandelier! A very strong and high voice is coming!
Greg Kurstin is one of the producers of “Chandelier” by Sia.

A sensational version of this song was recorded by Chloe Temtchine. Close your eyes and listen to this with good headphones and you don’t want to listen to the original again.