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Mika ultima un nuevo disco en el que indaga en su adolescencia

 

El músico de origen libanés Mika continúa el repaso a su biografía en un nuevo álbum, que saldrá a la venta en otoño, y en el que le ha llegado el turno a la adolescencia; antes, el 25 de mayo, estará en las tiendas "Songs for Sorrow", un sencillo de cuatro canciones grabadas en acústico.

 

Mika, que acaba de pasar por Madrid para pinchar a unos pocos privilegiados algunos de los temas de este nuevo trabajo, no ha querido desvelar todavía algunos detalles, como el título, pero ha permitido comprobar cómo su música sigue en la misma línea que su álbum de debut, "Life in cartoon motion", volviendo a entremezclar baladas, rock, música disco o glam pop, esta vez desde la madurez.

 

La carrera musical de Mika Penniman ha transcurrido a la velocidad de la luz desde el arranque de la misma en 2007. Fue número uno de las listas británicas durante cinco semanas con "Grace Kelly", primer sencillo de "Life in cartoon motion", del que se vendieron más de cinco millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo

 

Cercano a cumplir 26 años, Mika consideraba llegado el momento "de hacer un disco que abarcara la etapa adolescente". "Si mi primer álbum se centraba en mi vida entre los 6 y los 12 años, éste lo hace de los 15 a los 18", ha confesado el cantante.

 

Por eso, si en canciones como "Golden" retrata los sueños adolescentes con una fuerte carga de rock, en "Rain" retrotrae a quien lo escucha a la década de los setenta y el enfervorizado éxito de la música disco.

 

Los celos infantiles, esos que, como ha explicado Mika, "saltan cuando tu amigo tiene una mochila más chula que la tuya" :roftl:, son los que protagonizan la balada "Touches you", que arranca con un humillante reconocimiento: "Eres mejor que yo".

 

Entre las ocho canciones dadas a conocer figuran "Good gone girl", tema con claras influencias del insigne grupo californiano The Beach Boys, y la deliciosa "Pick up of the Floor" :blink:, una original grabación en la que Mika emplea el estilo musical de películas clásicas de Disney.

 

Sin embargo, en el momento en que se sentó a componer los temas de ese nuevo trabajo, las musas abandonaron a Mika: "Me quedé bloqueado, era incapaz de enfrentarme a la idea de tener que hacer un disco completo". "La presión -ha explicado- por el éxito de 'Life in Cartoon Motion', era muy fuerte. Entonces decidí que era mejor ir paso a paso, y surgió la posibilidad de hacer un sencillo".

 

Así nació "Songs for Sorrow" ("Canciones para la Pena"), un trabajo acústico de cuatro canciones -"Blue eyes", "Toy Boy", "Lonely Alcoholic" y "Lady Jane"- en las que Mika juega con temas oscuros y sentimientos desgarrados.

 

El sencillo, del que tan sólo se lanzarán al mercado 10.000 unidades, viene acompañado de un libro en el que varios de los artistas favoritos de Mika, como Peter Blake, Paul Smith, Es Devlin o Jim Woodring, plasman su personal interpretación de las canciones del cantante afincado en Londres.

 

A la publicación de "Songs for Sorrow" le seguirá una pequeña gira de presentación, que no pasará por España, y para la que Mika ha escogido salas pequeñas e íntimas de ciudades como Amsterdam, Berlín, Londres o París.

 

http://www.adn.es/cultura/20090512/NWS-0401-Mika-adolescencia-ultima-indaga-nuevo.html

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Mika ultima un nuevo disco en el que indaga en su adolescencia

 

El músico de origen libanés Mika continúa el repaso a su biografía en un nuevo álbum, que saldrá a la venta en otoño, y en el que le ha llegado el turno a la adolescencia; antes, el 25 de mayo, estará en las tiendas "Songs for Sorrow", un sencillo de cuatro canciones grabadas en acústico.

 

Mika, que acaba de pasar por Madrid para pinchar a unos pocos privilegiados algunos de los temas de este nuevo trabajo, no ha querido desvelar todavía algunos detalles, como el título, pero ha permitido comprobar cómo su música sigue en la misma línea que su álbum de debut, "Life in cartoon motion", volviendo a entremezclar baladas, rock, música disco o glam pop, esta vez desde la madurez.

 

La carrera musical de Mika Penniman ha transcurrido a la velocidad de la luz desde el arranque de la misma en 2007. Fue número uno de las listas británicas durante cinco semanas con "Grace Kelly", primer sencillo de "Life in cartoon motion", del que se vendieron más de cinco millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo

 

Cercano a cumplir 26 años, Mika consideraba llegado el momento "de hacer un disco que abarcara la etapa adolescente". "Si mi primer álbum se centraba en mi vida entre los 6 y los 12 años, éste lo hace de los 15 a los 18", ha confesado el cantante.

 

Por eso, si en canciones como "Golden" retrata los sueños adolescentes con una fuerte carga de rock, en "Rain" retrotrae a quien lo escucha a la década de los setenta y el enfervorizado éxito de la música disco.

 

Los celos infantiles, esos que, como ha explicado Mika, "saltan cuando tu amigo tiene una mochila más chula que la tuya" :roftl:, son los que protagonizan la balada "Touches you", que arranca con un humillante reconocimiento: "Eres mejor que yo".

 

Entre las ocho canciones dadas a conocer figuran "Good gone girl", tema con claras influencias del insigne grupo californiano The Beach Boys, y la deliciosa "Pick up of the Floor" :blink:, una original grabación en la que Mika emplea el estilo musical de películas clásicas de Disney.

 

Sin embargo, en el momento en que se sentó a componer los temas de ese nuevo trabajo, las musas abandonaron a Mika: "Me quedé bloqueado, era incapaz de enfrentarme a la idea de tener que hacer un disco completo". "La presión -ha explicado- por el éxito de 'Life in Cartoon Motion', era muy fuerte. Entonces decidí que era mejor ir paso a paso, y surgió la posibilidad de hacer un sencillo".

 

Así nació "Songs for Sorrow" ("Canciones para la Pena"), un trabajo acústico de cuatro canciones -"Blue eyes", "Toy Boy", "Lonely Alcoholic" y "Lady Jane"- en las que Mika juega con temas oscuros y sentimientos desgarrados.

 

El sencillo, del que tan sólo se lanzarán al mercado 10.000 unidades, viene acompañado de un libro en el que varios de los artistas favoritos de Mika, como Peter Blake, Paul Smith, Es Devlin o Jim Woodring, plasman su personal interpretación de las canciones del cantante afincado en Londres.

 

A la publicación de "Songs for Sorrow" le seguirá una pequeña gira de presentación, que no pasará por España, y para la que Mika ha escogido salas pequeñas e íntimas de ciudades como Amsterdam, Berlín, Londres o París.

 

http://www.adn.es/cultura/20090512/NWS-0401-Mika-adolescencia-ultima-indaga-nuevo.html

 

 

NEW SONG!

 

Leire, mujer, que lo traduces???:biggrin2:

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Mika ultima un nuevo disco en el que indaga en su adolescencia

 

El músico de origen libanés Mika continúa el repaso a su biografía en un nuevo álbum, que saldrá a la venta en otoño, y en el que le ha llegado el turno a la adolescencia; antes, el 25 de mayo, estará en las tiendas "Songs for Sorrow", un sencillo de cuatro canciones grabadas en acústico.

 

Mika, que acaba de pasar por Madrid para pinchar a unos pocos privilegiados algunos de los temas de este nuevo trabajo, no ha querido desvelar todavía algunos detalles, como el título, pero ha permitido comprobar cómo su música sigue en la misma línea que su álbum de debut, "Life in cartoon motion", volviendo a entremezclar baladas, rock, música disco o glam pop, esta vez desde la madurez.

 

La carrera musical de Mika Penniman ha transcurrido a la velocidad de la luz desde el arranque de la misma en 2007. Fue número uno de las listas británicas durante cinco semanas con "Grace Kelly", primer sencillo de "Life in cartoon motion", del que se vendieron más de cinco millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo

 

Cercano a cumplir 26 años, Mika consideraba llegado el momento "de hacer un disco que abarcara la etapa adolescente". "Si mi primer álbum se centraba en mi vida entre los 6 y los 12 años, éste lo hace de los 15 a los 18", ha confesado el cantante.

 

Por eso, si en canciones como "Golden" retrata los sueños adolescentes con una fuerte carga de rock, en "Rain" retrotrae a quien lo escucha a la década de los setenta y el enfervorizado éxito de la música disco.

 

Los celos infantiles, esos que, como ha explicado Mika, "saltan cuando tu amigo tiene una mochila más chula que la tuya" :roftl:, son los que protagonizan la balada "Touches you", que arranca con un humillante reconocimiento: "Eres mejor que yo".

 

Entre las ocho canciones dadas a conocer figuran "Good gone girl", tema con claras influencias del insigne grupo californiano The Beach Boys, y la deliciosa "Pick up of the Floor" :blink:, una original grabación en la que Mika emplea el estilo musical de películas clásicas de Disney.

 

Sin embargo, en el momento en que se sentó a componer los temas de ese nuevo trabajo, las musas abandonaron a Mika: "Me quedé bloqueado, era incapaz de enfrentarme a la idea de tener que hacer un disco completo". "La presión -ha explicado- por el éxito de 'Life in Cartoon Motion', era muy fuerte. Entonces decidí que era mejor ir paso a paso, y surgió la posibilidad de hacer un sencillo".

 

Así nació "Songs for Sorrow" ("Canciones para la Pena"), un trabajo acústico de cuatro canciones -"Blue eyes", "Toy Boy", "Lonely Alcoholic" y "Lady Jane"- en las que Mika juega con temas oscuros y sentimientos desgarrados.

 

El sencillo, del que tan sólo se lanzarán al mercado 10.000 unidades, viene acompañado de un libro en el que varios de los artistas favoritos de Mika, como Peter Blake, Paul Smith, Es Devlin o Jim Woodring, plasman su personal interpretación de las canciones del cantante afincado en Londres.

 

A la publicación de "Songs for Sorrow" le seguirá una pequeña gira de presentación, que no pasará por España, y para la que Mika ha escogido salas pequeñas e íntimas de ciudades como Amsterdam, Berlín, Londres o París.

 

http://www.adn.es/cultura/20090512/NWS-0401-Mika-adolescencia-ultima-indaga-nuevo.html

 

t4p:thumb_yello:

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Hmmm...so Mika is openly admitting to having writer's block here? And AGAIN he says that LICM reflected his childhood from ages 6 onwards and that this second record is his adolescence?

This is all starting to sound very strange. Not that I doubt all these journos, but I think that I will wait until I have actually heard him say the words directly.

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T4P LeiRe! :)

 

Hmmm...so Mika is openly admitting to having writer's block here? And AGAIN he says that LICM reflected his childhood from ages 6 onwards and that this second record is his adolescence?

This is all starting to sound very strange. Not that I doubt all these journos, but I think that I will wait until I have actually heard him say the words directly.

Guess writer's block happens to everyone sooner or later, doesn't it?

 

And for the rest I'm with you, would like to hear from his mouth

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Thx for posting Leire:wub2:

 

looking at ppl's posts

i assume it's only me who doesn't understand Spanish then:aah:

 

No you’re not!

A translation would be most welcome!:wink2:

 

Please:wub2:

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Hmmm...so Mika is openly admitting to having writer's block here? And AGAIN he says that LICM reflected his childhood from ages 6 onwards and that this second record is his adolescence?

This is all starting to sound very strange. Not that I doubt all these journos, but I think that I will wait until I have actually heard him say the words directly.

I suspect it might have been more to do with his confidence. If you think about it; he wrote an amazing album which sold millions of copies. If I'd been him I'd have been freaking out about the second album. Could I write another one as good? People's expectations of Mika now are so great. when he wrote his first album he had nothing to loose, but I have heard it said that musical careers can be made, or broken, by the success of the second album.

So I think he just needed to gain the confidence to know, in his heart, that he could produce something which, from what I've heard already, is even better than LICM, and he's got absolutely nothing to worry his curly head about.

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Mika is about to release a record regarding (?) his adolescence

 

The Lebanese musician Mika keeps on doing his biography on his new album, about to be released this fall, this time focusing on his teenage years; on May 25th, "Songs for Sorrow", an acoustic EP with 4 songs will be released...

 

Mika, who just left Madrid after showing some previledged ones a few songs of his new EP, didn't however want to reveal some details, as the title of the new album, which proves once again his new music follows the same line as his debut album "Life in cartoon motion", mixing ballads, rock, disco or glam pop...

 

The musical career of Mika Penniman elapsed speed light ever since it started in 2007. He was number one in British music charts for 5 weeks with GK, first single out of LICM, selling more than 5 million records worldwide.

 

About to accomplish 26 yo, Mika thought this would be the proper moment of making a record covering his teenage years.

 

"If my first album was centered in my life between 6 and 12, this one covers the ages 15 to 18", Mika trusted us.

 

 

I have to go and pick up my children at school...

 

If any of the spanish experts would be so kind to correct my translation from spanish and keep translation i'd be most pleased...*coughandrelievedcough* lol

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Mika is about to release a record regarding (?) his adolescence

 

The Lebanese musician Mika keeps on doing his biography on his new album, about to be released this fall, this time focusing on his teenage years; on May 25th, "Songs for Sorrow", an acoustic EP with 4 songs will be released...

 

Mika, who just left Madrid after showing some previledged ones a few songs of his new EP, didn't however want to reveal some details, as the the title of the new album, which has allowed to prove once again his new music follows the same line as his debut album "Life in cartoon motion", mixing ballads, rock, disco or glam pop, again...

 

The musical career of Mika Penniman elapsed speed light ever since it started in 2007. He was number one in British music charts for 5 weeks with GK, first single out of LICM, selling more than 5 million records worldwide.

 

About to accomplish 26 yo, Mika thought this would be the proper moment of making a record covering his teenage years.

 

"If my first album was centered in my life between 6 and 12, this one covers the ages 15 to 18", Mika trusted us.

 

 

I have to go and pick up my children at school...

 

If any of the spanish experts would be so kind to correct my translation from spanish and keep translation i'd be most pleased...*coughandrelievedcough* lol

 

Thank you for the translation:thumb_yello: but I couldn't see anything about the writer's block!:wink2:

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Now we know what Mika was doing last Friday. He had a meeting with a few journalists (20 people) to talk to them in a meeting about his EP, his tour & his album. Here you have an article in "El Mundo" newspaper. There a few more, but it´s the only i´ve translated at the moment (sorry for the mistakes. i did it in a hurry xD)

Enjoy! :thumb_yello:

 

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http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/05/10/cultura/1241942532.html

 

Mika faces his 2nd album

His optimism & pretending "naif" sound convinced 5 millions of people who bought his debut album in 2007. And many more who danced & shared drinks with him & Grace Kelly herself. Mika, british with lebanese origins, is confronting the challenge to face the public after his great success. Pressure? Of course.

 

Tall & very thin, with hat, garish colours & constant friendliness, Mika (Beirut, 1983), has showed in a record studio in Madrid, control remote in hand, some of his songs for his 2nd album, which will be released this autumn, recorded between London & Los Angeles. A crisis antidote that, miraclously & maybe for a few minutes, dye the darkest expectations in bubblegum pink shade.

 

"The idea was to reflect my teenage years, between 15 & 18, more or less", he explains sip after sip of his Mahou (Queenie´s Notewell done Mika. Great spanish beer xDD), with the charming naturalness among unknown people judging his songs. With the first album -"Life in Cartoon Motion"- he achieved a Brit & a Grammy nomination- was the soundtrack of his childhood.

 

In the seven songs that he shows, he talks about school desk love never confessed the other one, and the horrific jealousy that you can only feel when the hormones don´t agree among themselves. Happy sounds (so much that, one of the songs finds the inspiration directly from California by The Beach Boys) and a retro ballad too you can´t understand without his listless piano and a lot of rocks on your whisky.

 

Meanwhile, this former contratenor (his falseto comes from there), pampers his side project: a curious acoustic EP in limited edition with 4 songs ('Blue Eyes', 'Toy Boy', 'Lonely Alcoholic' y 'Lady Jane'), based "in ridicilous & dark fairytales" and called "Song for Sorrow", overcoming the inicial blocking to compose his official 2nd work.

 

The album will be accompanied with a luxurious hard cover book with illustrations, between childish & gore, where his favourite creators give their vision about the stories that Mika suggests: from the designer Paul Smith, in which stores the EP will be released & in this artist´s webpage, to the photographer David Mackie, the cartoonist Al Columbia or the pop painter Peter Blake, designer of the unforgettable "Sgt Pepper´s" (1967) cover for The Beatles.

 

 

The album-book will be purchased from May 25. The ones who don´t want to wait to the physical format, can download the four songs starting this Thursday on his website. In June, Mika will make an acoustic tour starting in Berlin on June 1, making stops in Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan, London, Bordeux (France) (Queenie´s Note: ???) & ending in Paris on June 12.

 

 

Another one!!

http://jenesaispop.com/2009/05/09/mika-presenta-su-disco-personalmente-a-la-prensa/

 

Mika launches his album in person to the press

 

Mika is making a small tour in 7 european cities where he plays himself his new record for the press. Madrid stop has been on May 8. 20 journalists were invited to a small studio where Mika, remote control in hand, showed 8 songs of his new record, releasing this Autumn. Before this, he will release "Songs For Sorrow", a limited edition EP with a luxury design with the collaborations of Owen Pallett, having a shared song in the album "Toy Boy"

 

Mika explained that if "Life In Cartoon Motion" was an album about his childhood, from 6 to 11 years, this is about "the turbelence age", from 15 to 18. Something that reflects in some of the lyrics, like "We Are Golden", a lively song that seems to talk about supporting someone, or "I See You", a song that he introduced as "the first time you like someone but you don´t tell, but at least, you look at...". "Touches You" talks about jealousy,for the first love or for a sweater, and "Blame It On The Girls", apparently, talks about "escurrir el bulto" (Queenie´s note: According to a translator, dodging the issue).

 

The record´s song is clearly pop & continuist from the 1st album. "I see you" is a big ballad & "Touches You" has a darkest shade. The first single could be "Blame It On The Girls", because it´s full of claps & sticky rhythms, or "We Are Golden", having teenage chords clearly identical by "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" by Belinda Carlisle.

 

The song that probably will make in "2009 best songs" list will be the song that Mika thinks for the 2nd single, "Rain", the electro song á la "Relax·, with a powerful bridge that repeats "I hate days like these" & the chorus in falsetto. It ends with real rain sound.

 

The album ends with a soundtrack style, musical style song, included as well in the EP, "Toy Boy", having a Disney movie sound, very different from the whole pop album & very interesting. There´s no doubt his clear influence with Kurt Well that he proclaims, & with Final Fantasy. The new EP book in limited edition will be released on May 25 and on his website on May 14.

 

After playing his tunes to the journalists, Mika shared drinks & canapés with the press, like he was one of us. He cares to talk with people, 3 or 4 people groups, sharing impressions about the album & anecdotes for a couple of hours. He talks about his several visits to Madrid, how much he loves Barcelona, even filled with tourists, and how hard it was to find a party area in Valencia. He also talks about his fanatism for Rufus Wainwright & his fear of knowing him, in case he disappoints him. Charming & smiling, Mika convinces everyone that the world with him is much much better. Doom, da da-di da-di doom. Da da da-di da-di.

 

 

Queenie, will you marry me :serenade::flowers2: ?

 

Cheers,

 

Id3

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Part II

 

So, while "Golden" portrays a solid rock batch of teenage dreams, "Rain" carries the listener to the 70's and the beating sucess of discosound.

 

Children's jealousy, which, as explained by Mika, "come out when your friend has a cooler (???) backpack than yours," is the protagonist of the ballad "Touches you", which kicks off with a humiliating acknowledgment: "You're better than me" .

 

The eight known songs include "Good girl gone", a song with clear influences from the great Californian group The Beach Boys, and the delicious "Pick up of (f???) the Floor," an original recording in which Mika endorses the musical style of Disney classics.

 

However, by the time he sat down to compose the themes of this new work, the Muses abandoned him: "I was blocked, totally unable to deal with the idea of having to make a full album. "There was this wholesome pressure - he explained - caused by the success of 'Life in Cartoon Motion'. So I decided it would be better to go step by step, and the possibility of doing an EP emerged".

 

Therefore, "Songs for Sorrow" was born, four acoustic songs - "Blue Eyes," "Toy Boy", "Lonely Alcoholic" and "Lady Jane" - in which Mika plays with dark themes and torn (?) feelings.

 

The single, a 10,000 units only release, comes with a book in which several Mika's favorite artists such as Peter Blake, Paul Smith, Es Devlin and Jim Woodring, reflected their personal interpretations of the songs.

 

The release of "Songs for Sorrow" will be followed by a short presentation tour and won't reach Spain, and for that Mika has chosen small and intimate venues in cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, London or Paris.

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Part II

 

So, while "Golden" portrays a solid rock batch of teenage dreams, "Rain" carries the listener to the 70's and the beating sucess of discosound.

 

Children's jealousy, which, as explained by Mika, "come out when your friend has a cooler (???) backpack than yours," is the protagonist of the ballad "Touches you", which kicks off with a humiliating acknowledgment: "You're better than me" .

 

The eight known songs include "Good girl gone", a topic with clear influences from the great Californian group The Beach Boys, and the delicious "Pick up of (f???) the Floor," an original recording in which Mika endorses the musical style of Disney classics.

 

However, by the time he sat down to compose the themes of this new work, the Muses abandoned him: "I was blocked, totally unable to deal with the idea of having to make a full album. "There was this wholesome pressure - he explained - caused by the success of 'Life in Cartoon Motion'. So I decided it would be better to go step by step, and the possibility of doing an EP emerged".

 

Therefore, "Songs for Sorrow" was born, four acoustic songs - "Blue Eyes," "Toy Boy", "Lonely Alcoholic" and "Lady Jane" - in which Mika plays with dark themes and torn (?) feelings.

 

The single, a 10,000 units only release, comes with a book in which several Mika's favorite artists such as Peter Blake, Paul Smith, Es Devlin and Jim Woodring, reflected their personal interpretations of the songs.

 

The release of "Songs for Sorrow" will be followed by a short presentation tour and won't reach Spain, and for that Mika has chosen small and intimate venues in cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, London or Paris.

Thank you very much Carla! :flowers2:

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