Song of the Day - Makeba - Jain

I heard this song by French singer Jain at a party a few weeks ago.  Though the singer was born in France, she grew up in several places, including Congo-Brazzaville, a time that surely influenced her music as evidenced in this hypnotic track.  Check out Makeba...

Song of the Day - Ci Sei Tu - Nek

Italian!  Once upon a time, I bought this bootleg CD of Italian songs in Little Italy in Manhattan and fell in love with several of the tunes from it.  One song in particular, La Vita E, Or Life Is, by Nek became one of my favorites and I liked it so much I purchased his entire album of the same name, making Nek one of a couple of Italian artists I fellow semi-regularly.  This song, When You're Here, is the acoustic opener to the album and one of my favorites.  Check out Ci Sei Tu...

Song of the Day - Jubel - Klingande

My friend Sonny always makes me mixtapes.  Out-of-the-mainstream music is a common interest we both share and he always finds me these musical gems I never would have discovered without him. Well, yesterday he and I were supposed to meet, and in anticipation of our visit I was going to make him a mixtape of stuff that I love, yet he may not know.  I have no idea if he will read this, because it might spoil some and we never were able to get together yesterday, but here's one tune I put on his mixtape.  It's by French producer Klingande and I just picture myself by a beach whenever I take a listen.  It's chill, but it is fresh and oh so summer...sexy saxaphones!  Check out Jubel, jubilance....

  

Song of the Day - Non So Perché - Milky

Yesterday I posted a song sung in French to represent one of the countries I'll be visiting this week and today we have one in Italian, another destination on this trip.  You may recognize this tune, as its English version, Be My World, charted here in the U.S. way back in 2002.  The same group, an Italian-based production unit called Milky, had another hit here from the same album that you also may know called Just the Way You Are.  Anyway, I LOVE the Italian version of this one, well, because I love the sound of the Italian language...so beautiful!  Take a listen...

Song of the Day - Papaotai - Stromae

In anticipation of my upcoming trip to Europe, I wanted to spend my last couple Song of the Day posts featuring at least some European music.  Here's a tune by Belgian deejay/producer Stromae last May.  The song, whose title means, "dad, where are you?," is sung in French and was an international dance smash just last year.