Kyo

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Kyo is a pop rock band from France formed in 1994. Kyo consist of four members:(from the left)  brothers Fabien Dubos (drums) and Florian Dubos (backing vocals, guitar), Benoît Poher (vocals, guitar) and Nicolas Chassange (guitar). Their first major hit was Le chemin ("The road") featuring Dutch singer Sita. Their activity lamed before 2007 when they released their fourth and summing the Best of album. Poher has written songs for such artists as Emma Daumas, Thierry Amiel and Emmanuel Moire (more about him later).

And by the way the name Kyo comes from a King of Fighter video game character.

Though at some point Kyo feels like just another Westlife it's partly more rocking but still sweetlike boyish band. And in my opinion Benoît's and Florian's voices combine very beautifully.

Check also: Il est temps ("It's time"), Je n'veux pas oublier ("I don't wanna forget"), Comme le mond est grand ("As/For the world is grand"), Qui je suis ("Who I am"), L'enfer ("Hell"), Dernière danse ("The last danse"), Je saigne encore live, More about Kyo.


JE SAIGNE ENCORE

Il a le droit de poser ses mains sur ton corps
Il a le droit de respirer ton odeur
Il a même droit aux regards qui le rendent plus fort
Mets-moi la chaleur de ta voix dans le coeur

*Et ça fait mal, crois moi, une lame enfoncée loin dans mon âme
Regarde en toi, même pas l'ombre d'une larme
Et je saigne encore, je souris à la mort
Tout ce rouge sur mon corps
Je te blesse dans un dernier effort *

Il aime caresser ton visage quand tu t'endors
Et toi tu te permets de dire encore encore
Je sais que ce qui ne tue pas nous rend plus fort
Mais moi, mais moi je suis déjà mort

*Ca fait mal, crois moi... *

Mais je saigne encore, je souris à la mort
Mais je saigne encore,
Tout ce rouge sur mon corps (3x)

I STILL BLEED

He has the right to put his hands upon your body

He has the right to breathe your odour

He has even the right to those looks that make him stronger

Put the warmth of your voice into my heart

*And it hurts, believe me, a blade pushed far away from my soul

Look at you there is not even a shadow of a tear

And I still bleed, I smile to death

All that red on my body

With my last effort I hurt you *

He loves to caress your face when you're asleep

And you let you say once more - once more

I know that what doesn't kill makes us stronger

But I - but I am already dead

*It hurts, believe me... *

But I still bleed, I smile to death

But I still bleed

All that red on my body (3x)

Apulanta

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Apulanta a Finnish rock band is founded in 1991. The members are now Toni Wirtanen (composing, lyrics, vocals, guitar), Simo "Sipe" Santapukki (back vocals, drums) and from year 2005 Sami Lehtinen (back vocals, bass). Along with rock the genres are alternately changed from punk to alternative rock, nu metal, pop rock and hard rock. Anyway the music has changed to a bit heavier style.

The head singer of the band Toni Wirtanen makes also the deep lyrics. He takes his time to  write the songs and the topics are based on hard issues like mental health and life itself.

Apulanta has also done two publications in English though their main language is Finnish. Fans of Apulanta you can find mostly from Finland and Germany but also from other lands in Europe.

The latest album Kuutio ("Cube") was released in 2008 and in 2009 Apulanta won Emma-Award thanks for the album.

I think the absolutely best thing about Apulanta is the lyrics. Sometimes they are hard to understand for they have so deep meaning and toughtful words. And yes angst of North you can find from their music... :)

 

Check also: Pahempi toistaan ("Both worse than the other"), Viisaus ei asu meissä ("Wisdom doesn't live in us"), Hiekka ("Sand"), Jumala (with english translation) ("God"), Trauma ("The trauma"), Ravistettava ennen käyttöä ("Shake before opening"), Runalla ("On the edge"), Bring me down (English version of "Reunalla"),Vasten mun kasvojani ("Against my face"), Armo ("Mercy"), Turvallista matkaa helvettiin ("Safe journey to hell").

KONEESEEN KADONNUT

music & lyrics Toni Wirtanen

Koneeseen kadonnutta
ei voi takaisin saada
Kulutettu, käytetty
ruokkimaan ympyrää

Luotettu ehkä liikaa
siihen että aika korjaa
se minkä vuoksi nähtiin
niin kovin paljon vaivaa

Että hajalle saatiin
Se mikä kauniiksi tarkoitettiin

*Kipu kuolee huutamalla
alastomana lattialla
Miten kauan sitä kestää
ei, sitä ei voi tietää
Kehen sattuu ja kuinka paljon
siitä kysymys enää tässä kai on
Kun on saavuttu siihen pisteeseen
ettei mikään ole varmaa*

Maailman pisimmät tunnit
niiden otteeseen jää kiinni
Niitä kantaa loppuun asti
vaikka itse ei aina huomaa

Millainen on se taivas
jota ei löydetty koskaan
Olen kuullut paljon siitä
osan jopa omasta suustani

Voi niin pitkälle jaksaa
kun itsellensä vakuuttaa

*Kipu kuolee huutamalla... *

Joku meistä on onneton
palanut mutta tunnoton
katuva mutta uskoton
enemmän kuin rauhaton

Periaate on ehdoton
perustelu on aukoton
yhtälö ehkä mahdoton
Miten niin muka armoton? (5x)

*Kipu kuolee huutamalla... *

GONE INTO THE MACHINE

Gone into machine

Can't get it back

It's consumed, it's used

To feed the circle

One has trusted maybe too much

In that time will heal

The one for what

One has worked so much

So that we broke

What was ment to be beautiful

*Pain dies by screaming

Naked on the floor

How much will it take?

No,no one cannot know it

To who does it hurt and how much?

That's the question - I guess

When we have passed the point of no certainity * 

The most longest hours of the world

They hold on you

And you will carry them to the end 

Though you don't notice it by yourself

What kind of heaven it is

The one we never found?

I have heard so much about it

Some things even from my own lips

So far you can carry on

When you convince yourself

*Pain dies by screaming... *

Someone of us is hopeless

Burned but numb

Remorseful but unfaithful

More than calmless

The principle is absolute

Explanation has no chinks

Equation maybe impossible

How could it be merciless? (5x)

*Pain dies by screaming... * 

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Lisa Ekdahl

Lisa Ekdahl a Swedish pop, jazz singer and musician is known around the Europe though she sings mostly in Swdish. She also has whole albums in English and her latest gigs were in Finland, in Turkey and in Switzerland...

She has released albums since 1994 and in 2009 was published her nineth album.

For some her voice is too odd to listen. I know people who hate her for she is so exceptionel.

Check also: Vem vet ("Who knows"), Hon förtjänar hela himmlen ("She deserves the whole heaven"), Jag tror han är en ängel ("I believe he is an angel"), Now or never, Du var inte där för mig ("You were'nt there for me"), Sakta,sakta ("Carefully"), Gå dit ifall du minns ("Go there if you remeber").


BORTOM DET BLÅ

¤¤¤ Jag såg en man vada ner i vattnet
Jag frågade vart han skulle gå
Han sa: "Jag går dit benen bär mig
Det ska inte va svårare än så"

Han talade om himmelen och havet
Han valde de slitnaste ord
Men orden fick liv då de kom ur hans mun
Ja, det var som om jag plötsligt förstod ¤¤¤

*Att vi är många som talar om havet
Men få har havet i sin blick
En gång mötte jag en man med såna ögon
Men ingen jag frågat vet vart han gick
Och vi är många som talar om himlen
Men få kan förstå en evighet
Jag såg en man han bar himmelen inom sig
Men var han finns nu finns det ingen som vet*

¤¤Jag såg en man... ¤¤

*Att vi är många som... *

Han såg solen i ögonen
Han var lätt som en vind
Han såg bortom det blå på himmelen
Då han gick föll en tår på min kind

*För vi är många som.. *

BEYOND THE BLUE

¤¤¤ I saw a man wading down in the water

I asked where he was going

He said" I go there where my legs carry me

It will not be  so hard"

He told about sky and sea

He chose the most used words

But the words came alive when they camo out his mouth

Yes, it was like I suddenly understod  ¤¤¤

* That we are many talking about the sea

But few has sea in the eyes

Once I met a man with eyes like that

But none of them I asked knew where he was going

And we are many talking about the sky

But few can understand the eternity

I saw a man carring the sky inside him

But where is he going there is no one who knows *

¤¤¤ I saw a man... ¤¤¤

*That we are many.. *

He saw the sun in the eyes 

He was light as the wind

He looked beyond the blue of the sky

When he went fell a tear to my cheek

*For we are many... *

Ohrbooten

Band called Ohrbooten comes  from Germany and combines different genres: hip hop, pop, rock, gypsy, reggae, jazz, dancehall, alternative, salsa, orientaö, ragga, rap and ska. Ohrbooten calls their musical style as Gyp-Hop, that's also the name of their third and for now latest album. Name comes from gypsy and hip hop.

There are four members (from left): Christopher Noodt (keyboard, bass, back vocals), Ben Pavlidis (leading vocals, guitar, lyrics), Markus "Onkel" (means "Uncle") Lingner (percussion, drums, cajon,  back vocals) and Matze Jechlitschka (guitar, back vocals).

Band Ohrbooten sings in German because they want to be undesrtod in Germany because the lyrics are essential. They don't sing just in German but in slang od Berlin. Though they have performed on the stage they keep coming back to the streets where their group was formed and started for to be near their audience and people.

Ohrbooten has collaborated with such Central European bands as Estonian group Vanilla Ninja and German group Culcha Candela (maybe more about them later) and from 2008  Ohrbooten has been working for German project "School without rasism - School with courage".

This song is about the sad weather when we want to go elsewhere "where the weather is better". I heard this song first time when it was raining cats and dogs and tarantellas and this was like a ray of sun in the middle of grey. I apologize for this lyrics translation may contain errors for I have translated it from slang of Berlin which I do not speak.

Check also: An alle Ladies ("For all ladies"), Keine Panik ("No panic"), Man lebt nur einmal ("We live only once"), Autobahn ("Highway"), Bewegung ("Motion"), Stadtkind ("City kid"), Babylon bei Boot ("Babylon by boat"), Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand ("With the head through the wall"), Alle gegen alle ("All against all"), 100 mal am Tag ("100 times in a day").

UND TSCHÜSS!!!!

ik loof da so die Straße lang
kalter Regen is of menen Wegen
und es fängt auch noch zu hageln an
ey wat is 'n dit für 'n Leben?
wat mach ich bloß in dieser Stadt,
die mehr Winter als nen Sommer hat?

*und tschüss!...
wann ik wiederkomm is ungewiss
sicher is, dass ik mir verpiss
dahin wo det Wetter besser is
Sonnenschein ohne Kompromiss*

mene Füße in die Socken
mit zusammn in mene Botten
und dann volle pulle joggen
zu Robben und Wientjes

Lasterverleih!!!

allet wat ik hab, 
ab of 'n Truck jepackt
durch die Innenstadt
Stop vor 'nem Trödelshop-Spot
und verklopp den Schrott
dit war doch allet nur 'n Anker
und ohne soviel Zeug läuft et doch sowieso entspannter
schicket one-way-ticket
der Style is mein Mantra

*und tschüss!... * (2x)

mein Konto lös ich auf
Wohnungskündigung is raus
mein Auto is verkauft
meinen Kumpels sag ich ciao

*und tschüss!... *

UND TSCHÜSS!!!!



 AND BYE!!!!

I run down the street...

The cold rain is on my way

It starts to hail...

Ey what is this?

What am I really doing in this city

Which has more winter than summer?

*And bye!...

When do I come back

It's uncertain

Certain is that I'll go

There where the weather is better

Sunshine without compromise *

My feet are in my socks

With my boots

And then full speed ahead

To the "Robben und Wintjes" ( a rent a car& transport company)

!!!Rastafari!!!

All what I got

Is packed in a trunk

Through the city

STOP in front of a junk shop

I leave all my stuff

All that was just an anchor

With less stuff it's more relaxing

Send a one-way-ticket...

That is my mantra

*And bye...* (2x)

I erase my account, my house dismissal is on,

My car is sold, to my friends I say ciao!

*And bye...* (3x)

AND BYE!!!

Johnossi

Johnossi a duo from Sweden. Those two members are (from left) Oskar "Ossi" Bonde (drums, percussions, vocals) and John Engelbert (vocals, guitar, lyricist). So simply together they are Johnossi. Believe it or not it took quite some time before I got it, sad to admit.

Johnossi plays also tambourine, guiro, chims etc. Their lyrics are a bit angsty and the following song is one of the cheerest ones.

John and Ossi met when they were under 16 years old and duo was formed in 2004. They relesed their first album only after five moths of performing and financed the album with the income of their gigs. And now one of their albums has been released in Japan where thay also performed  first time in 2009.

This song is very creepy but oh so true. The music video is brilliant - it has that something. You can watch it when you click the title of the song.

Check also: Summerbreeze, Glory days, Bobby, What's the point, MySpace,

MAN MUST DANCE

We're the people, the lucky
With the fragile bones
The ones who sit and worry
About getting to old
We're the people, the happy
With the broken hearts
The ones who draw a picture
And proclaim that it´s art

But you, and you, and you and you
You're just an animal developed into
You and you and you and you
A monkey needs to dance so do you

We're the people, the lucky
With the fragile bones
The ones who sit and worry
About catching a cold
We're the people, the happy
With the broken hearts
The ones who draw a picture
And proclaim that it´s art

But you, and you, and you and you
You're just an animal developed into
You and you and you and you
A monkey needs to dance so do you

*You like to do it as a child on your own
You're in the jungle and the monkeys
Take your mind from your home

How many time do they have to tell you
That it's perfectly fine for you to dance around
Naked when you're all by yourself*

Cause' you, and you, and you and you
You're just an animal developed into
You and you and you and you
A monkey needs to dance so do you

We're the people, the lucky
With the fragile bones
The ones who sit and worry
About getting to old
You're the monkey in the jungle
Trying to find your place
The one who let the sunset
Bring a silly kind of smile on your face

But you, and you, and you and you
You're just an animal developed into
You and you and you and you
A monkey needs to dance so do you

*You like to do it as a child...*

Cause you, and you, and you and you
You're just an animal developed into
You and you and you and you
A monkey needs to dance so do you

Paprika Korps

Paprika Korps a Polish band is not a traditional reggae band because they combine sounds of heavy dub and punk in their reggae music. They are very popular in Europe and due to their wide tour (25 countries!) they've got a nickname "The Heavy Reggae Travellers".

In 1996 formed Paprika Korps has six members: Marcin Matlak (vocals, guitar), Piotr Maślanka(keyboard, melodica, vocals), Tomasz Krawczyk (bass),Łukasz Rusinek (guitar), Aleksander Żeliźniak (drums) and Jakub Łukaszewsk (mix).

To Paprika Korps their music is a way to rebell and protest. They sing both in Polish and in English. The style of repeating one sentence in the middle of the track could be dull - but what comes with Paprika Korps - it's not. On the stage they are impressive playing among the invasive fog under the flash of the blue and red lights.

Paprika Korps new album Metalchem is released couple of weeks ago.

One specially good song is Camp Babylon.

Check also: The facts of life, Rewolucija ("Revolution"), Hi-Fi, Don't trust, From soul to soul, Promises, Przede wszystkim muzyki, Poprzez babilonu mur, Czarno Biały, Paprika Korps in Myspace, Zdecydujcie się,

MIND EXPLORER

*Explore the mind and reach salvation
Solve the puzzle of creation*

Past events, past lifes happened to you
More than just a feeling of a deja-vu
I feel like a onlooker into my past life
Cutting into previous times my mind the knife

When hallucinating seem things in dreams
Could I see into the future? It isn't what it seems
I say it's confusion the way that I feel
Chemical inside me makes it so surreal

*Explore the mind and reach salvation
Solve the puzzle of creation*

They hold the strings, salvation is far
You'd like to see things the way that they are
They don't want you discovering your mind
They stay in power, while you stay blind

Wisedom, knowledge you must devour
Threaten convention, those in power
As will the opressors in authority
Who'd hate to see our land totally free

*Explore the mind and reach salvation
Solve the puzzle of creation*

Ragga technician is on the mission
Against those who stay in power while you stay in vision
Watch out a feel a reggae wide attack
Bad days now are gone, the rotten system gone out

So people people move your dancing bodies
Destroy the old statement make everything clear
Our mind shall burn, with or without cannabis
The time is incoming, and the prophecy is near

Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (21.11.1965) is a singer from Iceland. She is mostly known for her solo career but she has been part of many bands during her teenage life and in 2000 she played the role of Selma in the movie "Dancer in the Dark" where she also sang and danced for it was a musical drama film. In the film was also Cahterine Deneuve (Les parapluies of Cherbourg, 8 Femmes). Björks best known album is Debut (1993), the first of her solo albums.

After all Björk is a singer who has her very own style to dress, to make music videos and to sing. Her musical style is something between electronic, classic, jazz, ambient, alternative, folk, IDM and trip hop and the scale of her sopranolike voice is vide. Her crazy and wild costumes are her brand but on the other side she is a rough and plain northern girl (like in the picture on the top). She has got 13 Grammy - awards and named for "the best actress in 2000" in Cannes.

Her latest album "Volta" was published in 2007.


Check also: Who it is, Joga, Army of me.

HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready, be ready to get confused
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so, yet so irresistible
And there's no map and a compass wouldn't help at all
They're terribly moody
And human behaviour
Then all of a sudden turn happy
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange of human emotions
Is ever so, ever so satisfying
Oh oh, and there's no map
Human behaviour, human
 
Human, human behaviour, human
Human, human behaviour, human
Human behaviour, human
 
And there's no map
And a compass
Wouldn't help at all
 
Human behaviour, human, human
Human behaviour, human,
Human behaviour, human,
Human behaviour
 
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
Human, human  
Human behaviour
Human
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
Human, human, human, human.

Heather Nova

Borned in Bermuda 1967 and now she is an alternative-rock singer. She has played guitar and violin as a child and her first song she wrote when she was 12. In 1993 her first album "Glow Stars" was released and she moved to London. Her hits are "London Rain", "Walk this world" and "Welcome". Now she lives in Bermuda with her husbend and their six years old son.

Chek also: "Virus of the mind", "I'm no angel", "A way to live", "Like lovers do", Homepage, MySpace.

BELIEVE IN ANGELS

Where the silence falls
There the river runs deep
Where the shadow ends
So begins the dream
Where the hunger leads me
It’s hard to believe
I’ll be lost to you

It’s the blood that ties
It’s the hurt that heals
It’s the face you hide*
Hides the pain you feel
So hold me up now
Yeah, I’m afraid to breathe
An’ I’m lost to you
Yeah, I’m lost to you

I believe in a heaven
I believe in the night
I believe there’s a path to follow
I believe in the light
Part of you is the devil
Part of you is the light
I’m gonna fly
Through the city of angels

Hold me under
Let the river wash away my sins
Let me drown and you
Let the water and the love rush you
You can hear me whisper
When you’re listenin’
And I’m lost to you
Yeah, lost to you

*I believe ...*

It’s the blood that ties
It’s the hurt that heals
It’s the face you hide
Hides the pain you feel
So hold me up now
I long to believe
And I’m lost to you
Yeah, lost to you

*I believe …* (2x)

Oh - through the city of angels....

Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies is an alternative-country band from Canada. The groupmembers are Michael Timmins (guitar, songwriting), Margo Timmins (vocals), Alan Anton (bass) and Peter Timmins (drums). The band was formed in Toronto and the first gig was there in a club. The debut album "Whites Off Earth Now!" was released in 1986. In 1990 and 1991 Cowboy Junkies was nominated for Group of the Year. Band performs in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. Their latest CD/DVD was released in 2008 under the name "Trinity Revisted". One of their most popular songs is "Sweet Jane".

Check also: "A common disaster", "Angel mine".

MY LITTLE BASQUIAT

My little boy on the kitchen floor
(my little basquiat)
Stick men fighting stick dinosaurs
(my little basquiat)
Colours leaping all over the mat
(my little basquiat)
The kitchen floor is where it's at
For my little basquiat

One day
He'll be golden
Maybe chosen
Perhaps to lead
One day
He'll be shaken
Maybe taken
Perhaps to bleed

My big girl swinging from the bars
(my little comaniche)
Fist of stone flying above the yard.
(my little comaniche)
Halfway up is halfway down
(my little comaniche)
Or maybe it's the other way around
For my little comaniche

One day
She'll be moonlight
Maybe too bright
Perhaps, to shine
One day
She'll be found out
Maybe ground down
Perhaps she'll cry

My little girl on her mothers lap
(my little panchen lama)
Sucking on her fingers, surveying the roadmap
(my little panchen lama)
Seems to be the only one around
(my little panchen lama)
That sees the red lights at the end of town
(my little panchen lama)

One day
They'll be older
Maybe bolder
Perhaps, than me
One day
They'll be rising
Maybe living
Perhaps, in peace