#jazz love songs

[jazzharmonyoasis]

Love Songs with Lyrics to fall in love!

[whalesharkstho]

my favorite activity is listening to fun music while drawing jazz doing a little dance. it’s healing really

[maeby-cursed]

HOW I SEE THE JJK MEN !

Kento Nanami is…

A slow dance on a quiet morning, hands touching hands to the melody of a jazz tune playing in another room.

He’s the warmth of freshly made patisseries and tuscan golds used as bookmarks. He’s soft stolen glances and confessions pressed to your temple. He’s coming home to a lit chimney and corduroy jackets. He’s freckled shoulders and the sigh after being enveloped into a hug. He’s falling asleep on the sofa and going on walks to the beach and kisses that taste of butter.

♫ bewitched by laufey

(here is satoru's version and here is suguru's version ♡)

[chaoticsoft]

Toni Morrison, 1974.

Photographer: Waring Abbott

[greekmythfamilytree]

The three for today! Eris was particularly fun to draw.

Geras: Child of Nyx, Daimon of Old Age

Eris: Child of Nyx, Daimon of Strife

Dolos: Child of Nyx, Daimon of Trickery

21/330

[scary-ivy]

TMBG's "cover" of 1999

[jazzfromthevoid]

I think the most powerful thing you can do as an artist/writer is to have a super serious character with a deep and heartbreaking story, but relating them to the silliest songs known to man

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Monkey Man and why I loved the heck out of it

At it's core, it's a Bollywood flick presented to the West with familiar nods to previous action films - I definitely picked up hints of Tony Jaa's influence on Asian action flicks throughout.

It's heavily focused on police corruption, something commented a lot about in India, and here, more importantly, Indian films. Just like America has its love affair with mobster flicks, Bollywood has a long history featuring films that showcase police corruption, sometimes tied into political extremism, fanatical or greedy religious leaders, and Monkey Man comments on all this as well and pays nods to that commonality. We've got televangelists and religious leaders in the states funnelling money, preaching prosperity gospel, and using it to influence politics and fund lavish lifestyles here.

Monkey Man shows this happening in India, and is filled with Indian culture and symbolism through out. The focus on Hanuman, the god and one worshiped by the strong, chaste, wrestlers, champions, and fighters. It's a common thing to have a household deity if you will. Some families might choose to focus worship on Ganesh, others Hanuman, some might do Mata Rani or Lakshmi. Here, it's the divine Vanara (monkey people race) - one of the Chiranjivi - immortals/forever-lived.

Hanuman. Themes of rebirth, common in South Asian history and mythology are present from Kid being a ringer, beat up fighter getting whooped for money to being reborn and facing his trauma through a ritual/meditate process that I don't want to get too much into to not spoil the movie. Post that, he begins his own self alchemy to really become the true Monkey Man. Nods to Ramayama, and an unapologetically Indian story featuring dialogues throughout in Hindi - don't worry, there are subtitles.

And of course a love for action flicks before it, all the way back to Bruce Lee. A beautiful use tbh of an autorickshaw (and you might know them as tuk-tuks in Thailand) which are popular in India with an added kick...I swear, that thing had to be modified with a hayabusa motor. Which is an actual thing people do - modding those dinky rickshaws with motorcycle engines, and considering they weigh nothing at all, they can REALLY FLY once you do that.

Monkey Man brings to the big screen other elements of India people might not know about, such as the gender non conforming and trans community that has a long history in India, presenting them as action stars as they go up against a system of corrupt elites oppressing part of the city, marginalized communities, and minority voices as depicted in the film. I'm not sure if people are going to get all of that without having the context, but I love that it does it without holding anyone's hands.

It's a fun action flick to see in the age of superhero films, and I say that as an obvious superhero/sff nerd. Also loved that Dev included a little bit about Hanuman's own story in the film, and the loss of his powers - almost mirrored by Kid's own loss of self/skills, strength until he confronts his trauma and is reborn, and in fact, remade (not necessarily the same). Also, the use of music was brilliant, including one scene with a tabla (the paired hand drums of south asia) - and Indian music is central to Indian stories.

This is a culture with evidence going back to the Paleolithic with cave murals showing art of Indian dance nearly 30,000 years ago. Yeah, that far back. As well as Mesolithic period art depicting musical instruments such as gongs, lyres, and more.

Indian music is some of the earliest we can find that has high developed beat and rhythm structures such as 5, 7, 9 and now the extremely common and known 4/4 and 3/4 - which so much of Western music is built upon. The foundations and experimentation of/in Jazz. John Coltrane and John Cage were heavily inspired by Indian music and incorporated a lot from it into their works. And Monkey Man blends Eastern and Western music through the narrative as comfortably as it does an Indian story in a very familiar Western accessible structure.

Dev did a wonderful job. And thanks to Jordan Peele for bringing it to screens.

[packet-of-staples]

"Too Sweet is the Harvey Stardew song." WRONG Harvey by her's.

[fairyofshampgyu]

no one gets fairy of shampoo the way I do ⋆⭒˚⋆<3

[anonymocha]

7-hour-long Kaalaa Baunaa playlist for people normal about her (like me). This is my longest r99 playlist and for a reason ❤️💥

It will likely get longer once I get around to adding more songs to it.

[sinnamonbun-in-purgatory]

I love Laffitte so god damn much I made a playlist on spotify

[unadulteratedcoffeetimemachine]

'Cause this world wasn't made for dreaming, this world wasn't made for you. This world made for believing in all the things you're gonna do Morning Sun - Melody Gardot

[milolunde]

I need to draw it or I’ll die but also I have fifteen million things going on

Timmy plays guitar and bass when he grows up, plays in a garage band with some high school friends, it’s featured on one (1) singular (only 1) track and nowhere else, but that one (count em 1) track was a hit in Dimmsdale

[aeolianblues]

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

Valentine's Day edition! ❣💕

Conveniently, this Friday is Valentine's Day, and so I'm spicing up your playlists with some Valentine's themed Songs-to-go!

If this is the first time you've heard of it, hello and welcome! Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll released every Friday where I present you with new, lesser-known songs to listen to while you scroll. (I haven't always been great at the 'weekly' part ik)

Choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (and I try to make sure there’s always something you won’t know). If you like what you hear, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours to carry along on your scroll!

[latest poll, and playlist of everything so far (in order) and other/future picks]

Whether you're madly in love, heartbroken, needed more time, think your girlfriend's got the face of an angel; voice of a god, stole your girlfriend's shit ex's ride because he was cheating, are writhing in love, learning to let them go, or maybe even shaking ass at a nightclub/sexing to a mean song this Valentine's Day. I got you covered.

I feel putting Fontaines on here is almost unfair, at least in my personal circles. Also, I've gone with Grian's exaggerated portrait of sick and all-consuming love, rather than the seemingly obvious choice, I Love You. But I guess, if you choose to spend Valentine's Day with the proud and glorious nation of Ireland, then go right ahead and use that song. Also the new album is literally called Romance. But I'd urge you to definitely listen to all the rest of the artists on this list too, because Valentine's Day can't be complete with just one song, surely!?

This week, I've got you soulful neo-jazz from Montreal, London indie pop, one of the most devastating new Canadian softer indie (think Boygenius) bands I've heard, new Brazilian riot grrl (though iirc Karen's now moved to the UK so lucky UK folks, you can catch her live), the most poetic and devastating Irish post punk band, beautiful-voiced chill Irish indie rock (though check out her harp work on Emptiness Follows, holy fuck), and London's newest face of indie sleaze 2.0.

As always, tell me what you like, way you’d want to see more of, etc. Happy Valentine's day, I'm putting lyrics under the cut for you, hope you love the tunes! See yous next week. Happy listening!

A handful of handy lyrics for you:

Busty:

Rachel:

(have cried to this one, won't even lie. The pain in her voice when she sings this literally gets me every. single. time. Can't take this song anywhere smh.)

Tiny Horse:

Face of an angel, voice of a god You can have my money and my credit cards

Something about the way that I'm living feels like I'm doing it wrong Baby, you're my new religion and I'm giving it all

This obsession numbs my pain, Getting high off your face

If you want me, I'm yours, You can ride me like a bicycle

Karen:

Fontaines:

Aoifa:

Peace:

[louisbxne]

LAUFEY

FROM THE START (2023) Dir. Jason Lester