Europe-Asia Archives - Beautiful Song Of The Week

March 10

Week 774: “Après la Pluie” by Jean-Louis Matinier and Kevin Seddiki

Looking at an accordion, it’s hard to imagine how anyone came up with the idea…

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January 20

Week 767: “Paradise” by Kupla

In 2017, Finland celebrated the 100th anniversary of its independence from the Russian Empire. In…

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January 13

Week 766: “Motion” by Peter Sandberg

Top five types of motion: 5: Perpetual. Great concept, but loses points for not being…

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December 9

Week 761: “Whispering House” by Hania Rani ft. Olafur Arnalds

Every house whispers. Mine gets most talkative in winter. There’s one spot near the bottom…

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October 21

Week 754: “Pointillism” by Laurent Dury

Hiroyuki Doi was a successful chef in Japan until his mid-thirties, when his younger brother…

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August 19

Week 745: “Instants” by Skúli Sverrisson

Here’s a weird story I heard recently. In 1977, Eric and Greg Hentzel of Palo…

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June 3

Week 734: “Ascension” by Martin Rott

Let’s take a trip this week. A forty-thousand-and-a-bit kilometre trip along the famous but invisible…

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March 18

Week 723: “A Mirror” by Yair Elazar Glotman

One of my kids’ favourite things to do is to watch videos of themselves as…

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March 4

Week 721: “Intermezzo” by Giacomo Puccini

No, it’s not a glitch with your device and you’re not having some kind of…

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February 26

Week 720: “Intermezzo Sinfonico” by Pietro Mascagni

Generally speaking, I’m not really into opera. The last time I featured anything from an…

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February 12

Week 718: “Chuva de Verão” by Pedro Mizutani (FloFilz remix)

Pedro Mizutani is a throwback whose brief whispered imagery will take you back to Ipanema.…

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January 1

Week 712: “Happy” by Christian Wannerwall

If your goals for 2024 feel too far off to be attainable, take some inspiration…

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December 18

Week 710: “Papillon” by Johannes Motschmann

If I had to pick a favourite species of butterfly (and I can’t imagine a…

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December 4

Week 708: “Spark” by Niklas Paschburg

The Baltic is a pretty interesting sea. It’s young (for a sea) having only formed…

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November 20

Week 706: “Polegnara e Todora” by The Bulgarian State Television Female Choir

First things first: “The Bulgarian State Television Female Choir” has to be the most bizarre…

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October 2

Week 699: “Nebula” by Fabeats & Very Noise Person

You’ve probably seen an image of a nebula, even if you weren’t aware that it…

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September 11

Week 696: “Loom” by Olafur Arnalds and Bonobo

After a few days travelling and camping in the highlands of Iceland, Bonobo and Ólafur…

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August 21

Week 693: “Doubletalk Gets Through to You” by Xploding Plastix

I am particularly susceptible to getting lost in albums that pile obscure samples on top…

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July 31

Week 690: “All Apologies” by Nirvana (Sinéad O’Connor cover)

There’s a series of photos of Kurt Cobain taken at the 1993 VMAs that are…

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July 24

Week 689: “Crawl Spaces” by Jesse Brown and Andy Salvanos

We had a crawl space in our basement. It was up behind the TV, hidden…

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