CHOSEN BY ALEXANDRA "This airy music will transport you directly to your happy place, leaving no room for a frown.
The general feeling of easiness and well-being that Weezer shares helps us escape all gloomy and unhappy thoughts.
The energy transmitted through the simple chords and lyrics is better than any hot cup of coffee on a slow morning or a rainy day. Our mood evolves as the song takes place, and the harmony that settles inside our minds when the first theme reappears in the end makes it the perfect song for any moment of the day. Weezer celebrates the simple things in life and encourages us to do the same. From the title until the last note, fading slowly away, we never leave this constant state of enjoyment and playfulness, as simple and cheerful as a road trip with friends."

CHOSEN BY MARIE "There are songs drawning you to emotion subtly but surely. You preserve them like treasures.
I liked the venezuelian song "Caramba mi amor" straight away. I first heard it at the very end of a bright concert somewhere in the Alps, sung by deep and sensitive male voices that happily belonged to the virtuose musicians who make up the ensemble Recoveco. Their polyphonic arrangement is supported by light guitars and nourrished by a heartbreaking counterpoint at the violin.
The poem written by Otilio Galindez is full of soft nostalgia and overwhelming tenderness :
"Caramba mi amor, Caramba, lo bueno que hubiera sido, si tanto como te quise, asi me hubieras querido".
The song deals with the theme of frustrated love without any anger or tone of reproach. "Caramba mi amor" is a bambuco, a delicate dance. But it sounds like a ballad or a lullaby. It strongly tastes after Venezuela. Sweet and sour, it dives you into waterfalls and rocky landscapes. Sing it with a smooth and incarnated voice. Here comes Soledad Bravo's beautiful performance."

CHOSEN BY MARGOT "This song begins with a few chords which introduce the entire piece. The rhythm accompagnied by the sound of the guitar lets us dive in a sort of lullaby atmosphere.
Then the singer's voice proposes us two differents paths. The rhythm and the softness can make us want to dance or just rest. For example, the trumpet solo shines among the other instruments, but stays airy and fleeting.
The lyrics and the music form a big poetic loop, in which everybody can recognize themselves, giving it a intemporal nature."

CHOSEN BY BERENGERE "Let Hiatus Kaiyote ans Nai Palm's inspiring voice take you on a running journey. Listening to Lace Skull is like beginning to read a story you are not aware you'd already known. The guitare will lead you through a dream about a quest founded on research and achievement. Just close your eyes for a second and you'll feel an ambiance full of new soul spiced with rock accents surrounding you. Then you can turn this song into a powerful tool able to help you to reach your goal."

CHOSEN BY CLEMENCE "Telling a revolution part of French history, the song « Arthur Plantagenest »by Tri Yann plunge you into a folk world with celtic music. Thanks to it we are Learning history of France and United Kingdom with the legend of King Arthur. We are gradually in a medieval song. However, the modern instruments like electric guitar or drum kit give rhythm to the music and we assist at a learned mixture of traditional and modern music. Singers use to old French language for to lean the medieval atmosphere. The percussions are very present to giving rhythm to the music at begining to end, so we are training in this legendary world."

CHOSEN BY MAXIME "Foxygen is a Psychedelic Pop Band from america. Appeared in the late 60's, the psychedelic movement is deeply inspired by spiritualism and drug use. In music, it reflects a sound that drive you out of the reality.
If the popular genre is psychedelic rock, we also talk about psychedelic pop, when this dreamy and weird atmosphere is surrounded by the sweetness of pop.
What i really like in this song, called Shuggie, is that you got this psychedelic sound and a huge groove at the same time. And what to say about Sam France's voice, which is pure, sweet and free. Just think of two wild guys walking on a strange hill at night : you get the picture !"

CHOSEN BY PIERRE " American Veronique Sanson ! After some months passed with Stephen Still in California and felt the mood of the studios, Veronique comes back to France with a new french pop music style.
She called the LP « Hollywood ». And that’s it !
Strings arriving on airy melody, powerful brass, and a punchy beat.
Then confidential and close as well, her voice, smooth and deep with perfect french words interlaced to this new style never heard on this side of Atlantic. The echo of Hollywood through the genius of this girl ! Great Veronique !"

CHOSEN BY GABRIELLE "A guitar, a woman’s voice and powerful lyrics. Greatest songs can also be the simplest ones. Oh ! My mama is a song about mother/daughters relationships. Alela Diane’s relation to her mother and, at some point, her relation with the daughter she’ll have one day (The album was realised in 2009. Five year later she gave birth to her daughter Vera). This song has the power to bring anyone back to his younger days when everything could be solved only by a mum’s cuddle. Who doesn’t need that nowadays ?"

CHOSEN BY PAUL "What makes us says that a piece “belongs” to a genre? Does it depend on the listener, who can feel like the piece follows an “orthodox” path that defines a genre? Or does it boil down to the will of the composer? After all he should be the one who knows best.
Sketches of Spain highlights this question: not only does it come from distinguished jazz artists – Miles Davis and Gil Evans come to mind - but there is “jazzy” written all over it, from the velvety sound of the trumpet to the vivid and warm colours of the album cover.
And yet, some say that Sketches of Spain has nothing to do with “true” jazz. Whether it be the lack of improvisational parts, the stretched music with little to no harmony, the overall still setting, the arguments are both numerous and compelling. However, Sketches of Spain is full of redeeming qualities: its contemplative stillness will soothe your mind while its lavish musical texture will delight your ears. So, granted, it might not be true jazz at its core, but is it what really matters? As Davis himself said, “it’s music, and I like it”."

CHOSEN BY JULIANNA "In wondering the poems, Balázs Szabó is a person who brought new musical settings to Hungarion pop music. In this song, he presents one of the fameous work of poem Miklós Radnóti /he had been processed the work of János Pilinszky, Sándor Weöres too/ and it has accompained his career. With the help of media, he had gained popularity in thousands of young people. This poem help me to understand the true love as usual, to travel within and after him, and have others travel with the music, treading in the footsteps of a poet and a period, with deep respect and in tribute to his memory."

CHOSEN BY MARTIN "A lonely man only sustained by his own guitare, how could it be more stripped down? That simplicity is all that Ben Harper needs to truely express the soul of his music : the deep and sad roots of blues embedded in a voice that floats through the ongoing sound of the strings. There is no hope in that song, but still the music leads us straight ahead like those things we do without even thinking, just because it have to be done. Just because you have to move on… until the next song."

CHOSEN BY JULIETTE "Part of the album “Berlin Calling”, soundtrack of an eponymous movie about Berlin’s night life and Paul Kalkbrenner’s addiction to drugs, “Mango” is yet characterised by its calm and tranquillity.
The track sounds like a dark and foggy night slowly penetrated by the rising sun. The electronic melody, going crescendo, promises a bright day coming after a gloomy night. At first, a white and feeble ray of sun just starts to shine through an after-storm sky. But the wild pulse in the background of the track evokes the fast move of the clouds, suggesting that after rain comes fair weather.
“Mango” starts in the dark but finishes lightening, reminding of a great night of party ended by the rise of a hopeful new day."

CHOSEN BY ANNE "In an intimist and stripped down version, Imany revisits one of the French artist Pauline Croze’s cult songs : T’es beau.
In this song sent to a disappeared friend, it is about separation and nostalgia.
Imany’s deep and low voice joins the plaintive sound of a cello and testifies with modesty of this absence.
The ostinato of the cello perpetually punctuates the melody in order to exorcise the pain.
This personal interpretation where the cello substitutes itself for the guitar, where the slowness prevails, is marked with grace."

CHOSEN BY AMANDINE "The Scientist is a song from the British rock band Coldplay. This is the second single of its second studio’s album A rush of Blood to the Head released in 2002. Whatever if you love the band or not you will surely fall in love with this song. Not only because of the slow-burn piano ballad but also because of the universal theme the song deals with. The lyrics refer to a deep nostalgia and especially with the plaintive chorus talking about regrets and thinking about the past and a lover we may have lost. The slow but steady musical accompaniment keeps the listener's attention. A lovely simple melody with an earnest message which profoundly touch. At last but not least, Chris Martin’s voice has never been so seductive. This is completely the high point of the album so let yourself go with this wonderful composition and performance."

CHOSEN BY SIMON "Written and performed by the 19 years old swedish rapper Yung Lean, "Yoshi City" takes us on a trip between isolation and elevation among Stockholm's skyscrapers. Produced by Yung Gud, from their crew SAD Boys, the song builds up a cloudy atmosphere with its aerial trap beats and its synth like a drop of soap. Yung Lean's dreamy vocoded voice plunges us in a light but blurred climate, along with his lyrics about loneliness and urban spleen in imaginary Yoshi City. Their internet and pop culture references combined with 80's new wave and dream pop influences definitely makes this song part of a form of "post rap" 'avant-garde' ; mixing the various musical and cultural genres that seem to appearing above the horizons of their buildings and computer screens."