Mentatul

Month: October 2019

  • Ambeon – Lost Message

    Ambeon – Lost Message

    Light chords and a dreamy voice guide this innocent story to life. It’s a gentle song combining traditional instruments with atmosphere-building synthesizers.

    “All day long I sit by the riverside
    Watching the sunrise and the colors it brings
    Here I can sing, ‘cos there’s no one around
    Some birds fly above me, flying so free
    Remember an angel as she sat beside me
    Here by the riverside
    I looked into her big blue eyes and loved her like rain
    Then she flew away like the bird she was before
    I saw her flying into the sunset
    As the sky turned to black and she faded from view
    Next morning by sunrise I watched and waited
    Waited for the bird that was my angel within”

    YouTube (decent quality):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmQLzb63LI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmQLzb63LI^

    For Spotify users (high quality):

    https://open.spotify.com/track/2hHnEdnb0CtQVDQDiIM4Ie^

    For Deezer users (high quality):

    https://www.deezer.com/track/431428132^

    And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

    https://www.discogs.com/Ambeon-Fate-Of-A-Dreamer/master/76843^

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  • Troubles with Antibiotics

    Troubles with Antibiotics

    The antibiotics industry is going through rough times. Big Pharma is heavily polluting Asia, where India and China are the main producers of the world’s most commonly used drugs:

    https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-01-24/big-pharma-fails-to-disclose-waste-leaked-from-factories^

    But it’s even worse when companies give up researching new antibiotics because these sort of medicine doesn’t give enough profit:

    https://cen.acs.org/business/finance/Antibiotic-developer-Achaogen-files-bankruptcy/97/i16^

    This is understandable given the way our economy works^. The sad effect is that it just doesn’t pay off to tackle new species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (after the same antibiotic industry caused their emergence, in the never-ending battle with evolution – a battle that cannot be won at our current technological level):

    https://www.dw.com/en/big-pharma-nixes-new-drugs-despite-impending-antibiotic-apocalypse/a-50432213^

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  • Omnia – Auguries Of Innocence

    Omnia – Auguries Of Innocence

    Voices twine and shine on this completely acoustic melody whose lyrics offer ageless wisdom. Harps, flutes and choirs are the sweet companions of this song’s deep message. It’s a delicate musical poem praising the beauty of life.

    “Every night & every morn
    Some to misery are born
    Every born and every night
    Some are born to sweet delight
    Some are born to sweet delight
    Some are born to endless night
    Sweet delight
    Endless night
    Sweet delight
    God appears and god is light
    To those poor souls who dwell in night
    But does a human form display
    To those who dwell in realms of day
    What appears as God at night
    Is but a man within the light”

    YouTube (decent quality):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR9U2pFZNuI^

    For Spotify users (high quality):

    https://open.spotify.com/track/67WyV4jODXUTAxbHqlgmiz^

    For Deezer users (high quality):

    https://www.deezer.com/track/128569251^

    The album can be purchased directly from the artist’s website:

    https://www.worldofomnia.com/webshop/cd-reflexions-2018^

    And here’s the Discogs entry:

    https://www.discogs.com/Omnia-Reflexions/release/11934025^

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  • Orkidea – Neo Romance (feat. Ben Lord)

    Orkidea – Neo Romance (feat. Ben Lord)

    This song kicks off by dropping on us some amazing reverberating bass. The masterful use of reverb permeates throughout the melody. Evocative lyrics seem to prepare us for a ride of passion. And indeed, the drum machine powers on soon after. Dance your eardrums!

    “It’s all I want is that first kiss
    And all the kisses gonna start a fire
    And I know you rightfully
    Just try be bold
    Come on and we’ll start it up
    Nothing to the wise guy
    No one is gonna to take us higher
    My sunflower
    My sunflower
    Breathlessly endlessly raving and falling
    I’m worried and cold, maybe take me, I’m holding [?]
    I’m trying to find out
    But the words won’t come out
    Baby what’s your name
    What’s your name
    What’s your name
    What’s your name
    Oh we could find love, here and now”

    YouTube (decent quality):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_DDH7dMfnc^

    For Spotify users (high quality):

    https://open.spotify.com/track/08elyPQ09ky78yhY9H2Ep2^

    For Deezer users (high quality):

    https://www.deezer.com/track/101027250^

    And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

    https://www.discogs.com/composition/df3570f2-5ece-43b0-9539-e1d78171cfe4-Neo-Romance^

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  • Apollo 440 – The Machine In The Ghost

    Apollo 440 – The Machine In The Ghost

    A piano, a trumpet, a guitar and a synthesizer walk into a bar. And then everything begins to swirl…

    We have this concept of the “ghost in the machine”. But what if at the heart of the ghost there is a machine? With its mysterious textures, this song explores the concept, making use of samples and playing with unexpected sounds. Beware this one. It may throw your mind off balance without a moment’s notice.

    YouTube (decent quality):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuP8Mvpn3_A^

    For Spotify users (high quality):

    http://open.spotify.com/track/5IowhXnpsOYkWUvyrjKThb^

    For Deezer users (high quality):

    http://www.deezer.com/track/13161951^

    And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

    https://www.discogs.com/Apollo-Four-Forty-Gettin-High-On-Your-Own-Supply/release/35462^

    This Weekly Song entry has been brought from the FaceBook archive of Weekly Song^. This exploration was originally started through a FaceBook page, about 13 months prior to launching Mentatul. Slowly but surely, the entire FaceBook archive will be brought here.

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  • Apotheist – Salvation

    Apotheist – Salvation

    Some songs just want to rip subwoofers apart. They want to shake walls, drive neighbors nuts and rearrange the listener’s innards. This tight-rhythmed bass-feast works in headphones too, but one day make sure you let it tear through some thousand watts equipment!

    It may be tempting to say it’s repetitive, but there’s some clever construction here. The main theme only serves to emphasize changes of tone and breaks in the rhythm. Listen carefully and, for heaven’s sake, move your body! Dubstep at its best!

    Oh, and in case you wonder, the sample “look for your own salvation” is from the video game Half Life 2 :D.

    YouTube (decent quality):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0btO7d17CY^

    And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

    https://www.discogs.com/Apotheist-El-Haijn-Salvation-In-Control/release/1769934^

    For BeatPort users (high quality):

    https://www.beatport.com/track/salvation-original-mix/770885^

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  • Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy

    Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy

    This is the sound of history. The sound of wisdom touching society and transforming swathes of it. It’s a song that touched billions of souls and will continue to echo throughout history as one of the pearls of the 21st century or even the 2nd millennium. Yes, it’s that large. And what’s even more mind-blowing is that Bobby hasn’t used a single instrument other than his body to produce this masterpiece. Now go and listen to it a hundred times and continue to be amazed at finding something new every time and let this wisdom permeate every atom of your body.

    “Here’s a little song I wrote
    You might want to sing it note for note
    Don’t worry, be happy
    In every life we have some trouble
    But when you worry you make it double”

    YouTube (decent quality):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU^

    For Spotify users (high quality):

    https://open.spotify.com/track/5YbgcwHjQhdT1BYQ4rxWlD^

    For Deezer users (high quality):

    https://www.deezer.com/track/3127387^

    And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

    https://www.discogs.com/Bobby-McFerrin-Simple-Pleasures/master/68380^

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