Ein AusLANDER

This is a slight break from my usual routine. If I even have a usual routine. I want to talk a little bit about music and what I like about it. I like music that has energy and/or passion, emotion and feeling. I believe that this can occur in any genre. Personally, I like to play mostly the guitar and the ukulele.

Bon Iver and Mumford and Sons are great examples (and really there are hundreds more). So it was with interest that I saw by accident the band Honig in Germany, as sonically they are somewhere between the two. As a native English speaker I would never have guessed that they were German from their singing.

Their song “song for Julie”

please fast forward to 1:04. I also really appreciate lyrics like this, and the general low fi approach and mood.

Their song “for those lost at sea” I also like

Now for another example of someone really feeling their song. I have a lot of respect when a musician is absolutely killing himself by ripping his heart out on stage for everyone to see and holding nothing back. It’s what I like about music. This is Glen Hansard’s “Say it to me now”

I can really enjoy a womans voice. However, I must admit that I tend to prefer male voices. I think at least within indie and rock music that the tones and keys that suit male voices and the fact that they can sing with a bit more grit in their throat makes it better. I can hear pain, suffering and emotion more from male voices.