AKG - Quincy Jones line

Being a happy owner of an AKG Q460 headphone, I am pleased to write a short review about the AKG Quincy Jones series. When I first heard this product name, immediately felt that this must be something good.

Three different models make this product line:

• Q350 a canal type earphone
• Q460 - a light and foldable mini travel headphone
• Q701 - a large, professional headphone

All the three are available in three colours: black, white and cool lime. This lime colour appears on all  types, because the brand / type texts and the cable have it.

Unfortunately I haven't got the chance to try the first and last model, but as a user of Q460, I can share you only positive thoughts: it is a convenient just-the-perfect-size headphone with quite clean sound and incredible bass. The music you listen to is so living, energic, but still not disturbing. It manages well even the loud-noisy recordings as well. It comes with a cool case, in which you can keep it while it is folded.

Though I really like Quincy Jones' music, I have a doubt of the amount of quality increase by his name. I mean, I couldn't compare it with similar AKG headphones, I feel there wouldn't be so much difference. His name may be a marketing tool, but I would not like to state anything negative: because this is my favourite headphone. It is good-looking, good-sounding and also has the well-known special Q letter, referring to Quincy.

See the promotion video: 

http://eu.akg.com/quincy-jones-eu/brand_akg/akg-headphones/quincy-jones-signature-line.html

See Quincy Jones' new collaboration song, Strawberry letter 23:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxjopV3lfy4

And the original one, from the movie Jackie Brown: 

Brothers Johnson - Strawberry letter 23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydRDzKu-_OE

September

Though they sing about the twenty-first night of September, this song creates the atmosphere of summer, in a vivid, joyful world. Recently I saw the film Intouchables in which Earth, Wind & Fire's music is featured. It is an awesome film. I liked very much the free, glad behaviour of Driss (above) and this music was perfectly suitable to his personality. He tried to show Philippe the happy side of each thing and for this, one of his most important methods was music.

Ba de ya - say do you remember

Ba de ya - dancing in September

Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

Intouchables - IMDB

September

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfLEc09tTjI

Boogie Wonderland (also featured)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jLGa4X5H2c

Fool on the hill

A few days ago I watched one of the Steve Carrell's films, Dinner for Schmucks which is actually a remake of the 1998 french film Le diner de cons. It proved to be better than my expectations were. No doubt that I really like his acting, both in The office and in his films, but did not expect such a cool story and nice atmosphere. It is really a sweet film - and funny as well.

Its soundtrack, which we can hear in the perfect mice-dream-world intro and the closing title is Beatles' Fool on the hill. For a very long time I haven't heard such a clever and witty lyrics. This beautiful song was perfectly suitable for the film, and, if we are from the same kind, hearing these words can be a delight for our souls.

Day after day,

Alone on a hill,

The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still

But nobody wants to know him,

They can see that he's just a fool,

And he never gives an answer,

But the fool on the hill,

Sees the sun going down,

And the eyes in his head,

See the world spinning 'round.

Dinner for Schmucks - IMDB

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg1k_G6fRpQ

July flame

One of my friends showed me recently this awesome song of Laura Veirs, from the album July flame, and I had to realize, that I missed it. I knew that her new album is Tumble bee, with children songs, but somehow I thought that it is the next album after Saltbreakers.

I listened to the song in our weekend house for the first time and took a great effect on me. Maybe it was one of the thousand reasons for which I started my blog again, because I felt that "It would be cool to write a post about it".

To sum up, it is a very nice song of the well-known Laura Veirs style, nothing less, nothing more, which is an advantage. Since I stopped writing my blog, all of my favourite singer-songwriters have released at least one new album, and unfortunately I have to say that the average quality is less than their earlier records. Later I will share my opinion with you about each album, now let's focus on the titles:

• Ane Brun - It all starts with one
• Anna Ternheim - The night visitor
• Hanne Hukkelberg - Featherbrain
• Laura Veirs - July flame, Tumble bee

On the other hand, the video for this song is amazing. I like its simplicity and it is full with those  nice things we often dream about: constellations, campfire, nice animals.

Watch the music video here: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLilpPtY2JU

Or read the post about Laura's Saltbreakers and Carbon glacier:

Two albums of Laura Veirs'

An abandoned place...

... fills with life again. I haven't been here for a very long time. Actually, I have been here, but haven't written anything. Every now and then I read my blog, and there was not a second, when I wasn't aware of it, when I didn't know the future of it. I knew that at a certain point it would revive.

And that certain point is now.

Ladies and Gentlemen, music lovers, I will be fully available to show you one of the best things in the world: music.