Saturday, April 18, 2009

Favorite Musical Artist of the Week

It has been tough to decide this week. I just got an itunes gift certificate from my dear friend (I used the word 'dear' for you. You know who you are:) so now I won't feel guilty to buy U2's new cd, but I'm still not ready to feature them. I went to a concert this week with other friends who are also dear but now that is sounding cheesy. Anyway, we went to a Scottish band named Travis, who I loved. I've been listening to them all week. However, I felt they might be a little too obscure and hard for you to find and listen to, so I wondered if I should post about them. If you do want to check them out on itunes, let me know, and I'll give you a few songs to check out.

Then this morning, I realized who it was. I have to post about him. I love him. I want to marry him. jk Brett, jk!

SONDRE LERCHE

He is Norwegian. He has such a unique sound. He's a bit hard to explain. He's young and is maybe classified as folk/pop/jazz. (That's not broad or anything Erin). He's just great to listen to. He wrote every song to the "Dan in Real Life" movie. If you loved that movie as I did, part of why is probably the feel Sondre gave the film by his quirky songs weaving throughout. If you happen to own the movie, you can click on the extra about Sondre and his writing process during filming. I was introduced to him by my "daughter" who has been a part of my family through living across the street for the last 10 years or so. I love her. She has introduced me to a bunch of artists, but this was a big one. I also have a friend who's family loves Sondre. He was in San Francisco once with a free night, nothing to do. The next day he realized that Sondre was performing RIGHT UNDER HIS NOSE at a record store. He had missed it. He could have easily gone. That would haunt me for a while. I would LOVE to hear him live.
Sondre....come to Utah....Please....We love you here...


4 comments:

Kelly said...

I love Sondre too. I've got several songs of his on my playlist.

Misty said...

I love his music! Listening to an entire c.d. can be a bit much for me but a few choice songs are awesome.

Unknown said...

So I almost skipped over this post bc I thought, there goes Erin, rambling on about another artist. blah blah. THen I saw the DIRL reference. l LOVED all of the music from that show. I love that show. Ok, now I'll have to get some of his music from Itunes. love ya.

Erin Blake said...

Si, you skip any artist posts, and I will skip the lasagne blah blah blah salad blah blah....