I really need to get my laptop out of the bedroom. I keep telling myself I need to get to bed earlier but I find myself stumbling, it’s just so addictive. I was checking out a picture Susana posted of her and I on her myspace page. As I was getting ready to click on the picture she had this song streaming on her page. I must have listened to over and over again. I keep telling her to post something on here, she has amazing taste in music. The song was “Day’s I had with You” by Kings of Convenience. I had never heard of them before, so here I am hours later just in awe of this guy. Erlend Oye, is a very busy musician who plays in multiple bands one which is Kings of Convenience.
From what I’ve been able to find on some great blogs about him, he’s not only sung as the duo Kings of Convenience (with Eirik Glambek Boe), The Whitest Boy Alive, and as guest vocalist on James Figurine’s song “All the Way to China.” He’s made so many guest vocal appearances it was difficult to keep track of them.
Which brings me to this song I found earlier today, not the one on Susana’s page, but this song called “Know How.” It features Feist she joins him halfway through the song. I think by far my favorite song of all the one’s I’ve listened to today is “Homesick”, I say today because I’m sure that’ll change the more I listen to these guys.
I also posted other songs I found from various bloggers “Failure,” a song off their 2001 release Quiet Is the New Loud, a live version of “Until You Understand”, “I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From” and “Homesick” as well as a youtube video of “Misread”. So if these isn’t enough information to get you hooked on this guy than I don’t know what is.
Now if we could only get Susana to start posting some of her wonderful finds.
You can also listen to more songs on The Whitest Boy Alive Myspace, Misread on Songza and lastly his own site Erlend Oye. There is so much on this guy it’s unbelievable I totally missed out on him.
haha..i went on your myspace and saw that you posted one of the kings songs to your music player and i had a feeling you’d written a blog so i ventured over.
promise to blog soon. At the moment i’m on a mission. Need to find some not so brooding singer/songwriter music to the collection. you know how i get.
cool blog trin.
Susana
hey Trini, if you ever have a chance to go see them live, go go go! Caught them maybe 1.5-2 years ago and it was just a fantastic show…really funny onstage banter (at one point Erland came on stage wearing a superhero cape) and Erland also DJed after the show. I really enjoyed every minute of it. I was reluctant to go at first as I was just exhausted that day but Im so glad my friend dragged me.