Berlin-based Highest Sea are Leila Zanzibar (vocals/guitar), Andreas Miranda (bass), Cristobal Jimenez van Cauwelaert (lead guitar) and Theo Taylor / Martin Perret (drums). Haven (Duchess Box Records) is a beautiful piece of work. The band’s evolution to a 4 piece has given new depth to the sound, adding a lush sweep to the melancholy, evoking…
Category: tunes
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: Someone, somewhere in the summertime.
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day 14.08.2019: “Pinku” by Someone Who Isn’t Me. How did I miss this earlier in the summer? Delighted to have belatedly discovered this video from one of my very favourite bands! “Pinku” (from 2019 LP “Dance With You”/Amour Records) is another brilliant song by Someone Who Isn’t Me. Playful,…
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: Rosa Ama could calm an angry llama.
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day 13.08.2019: “Oku” by Rosa Ama. Good friend of SWIT David Harks was in touch recently about Rosa Ama, his new collaboration with Belgian DJ/Producer/Composer Vicente Milioto da Palma (aka Vhyce). As we’ve come to expect from David, “Oku” (Kitsuné Musique) is bliss personified. It’s music that wraps itself…
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: Tenant From Zero lodges long in the memory
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day 10.08.2019: “The Things You Never Said” by Tenant From Zero. I stumbled across his video for “The Things You Never Said” by SWIT fave Tenant From Zero recently. I need no more excuse to post something from the excellent 2017 EP “The Nape Of Your Neck”. As I…
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: Loane is a keeper.
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day 09.08.2019: “Etat Limite” by Loane. This is a stunning song, Sophisticated and suffused with sensual longing, it’s genius is like an unexpected slap across the face. A wonderful Dagobert Pop Session performance too by French singer/songwriter/producer Loane. The tune is from the 2019 LP “Alone” (Huit Heures Cinq)….
Super World Indie Tune of the Day: This fisherman caught a soul.
Super World Indie Tune Of the Day 06.08.2019: “Let Everything You Do Be Done In Love (Song for Johan)” by The Fisherman and His Soul. I’ve noticed a resurgence in whistling of late, and there’s a lovely whistled outro on “Let Everything You Do Be Done In Love (Song for Johan)” the recent single from…
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day – This song should draw blanket coverage
Super World Indie Tune Of the Day 18.07.2019: “Uncomfy” by I Drew Blank. I Drew Blank produce lovely lo-fi melodic indie-pop tunes. “Uncomfy” is a case in point, albeit it left me in a kind of hazy shade of bliss. It does remind me a little of those early eighties new wave bands and the…
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: Red Sleeping Beauty – goofy, groovy, loopy and hooky
Super World Indie Tune Of the Day 17.07.2019: “Tonight” by Red Sleeping Beauty. While we were on a break Stuffing our face with cheesecake We missed a whole LP by Red Sleeping Beauty So imagine our delight When Matinee put it right And released Tonight It’s an electro-pop wonder some of it sounds like thunder…
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day – I’d rather listen to Prins Obi than got lost in the Gobi.
Super World Indie Tune Of the Day 16.07.2019: “Seasonal Beasts” by Prins Obi. It’s hard to pick a standout tune from Prins Obi’s new EP “Love Tunes for Instant Success” (Inner Ear) as every one is a multicoloured gem. Nostalgic, melancholic and funny, it really is a stunning piece of work. For today let’s go…
Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: Just Friends And Lovers are more tuneful than plovers
Super World Indie Tune Of the Day 12.07.2019: “Mole Rodel” by Just Friends And Lovers. Good afternoon, speaking of role models, which we will be, Gerry is away in the arse end of Cork and has left me the keys to the drinks cabinet. As I sip here sitting a delicious glass of Grüner Veltliner…
First Look: Swan/Koistinen film by Tekla Vály
We are privileged indeed to be given the first look at the new movie by Tekla Vály, based on the recent EP by Astrid Swan and Stina Koistinen, simply titled “Swan/Koistinen”. The music brings together two artists we have featured a number of times here on SWIT. The compositions cover the gamut of emotions associated…
Super World Indie EP Of The Week: Stars On Fire are on fire
Super World Indie EP Of The Week – 4/7/2019: “blue skies above” by Stars On Fire. I grew up musically during the late seventies/early eighties and was a huge fan of a plethora of punk and new wave bands. There was nothing I liked better then than short, lo-fi, messy tunes. Songs that said ‘allo,…
