Snowflake Challenge Day #5: Wishlist

[snowynight]

Challenge Day #5: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts.

My wish list:

1. Recs for music with female vocallist, or music by female composers. I like a variety of music: metal, rock, Celtic, pop, bardcore, country, etc. Music in non-English languages are welcomed! A sampling of my favourite singers/bands: Loreena Mckennit, Dar Williams, Vienna Teng, Within Temptation, XG, etc.

2. Recs for interesting blogs to follow. Books, nature, history, cute animals, trivia, tabletop RPG, world building, art and craft, or anything you find interesting

3. Stolen from kingstoken : Go to arab.org and "click to help", it's free. All raised money goes to UN agencies. 

Comments

[sixbeforelunch]

I recently got a bandcamp account and started buying music again. Two female-vocal albums that I recently purchased and love are: sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit by courtney barnett and Is It Now? by Automatic.

Also, this music video might be of interest to you.

[snowynight]

Thank you very much! They are lovely!

[elidelio]

I have music recs for you! I mostly just picked songs I really like in the order they came up in my playlist (and obviously I recommend the artists they come form):

- 嗵嗵 by DOUDOU
- A letter to my younger self by Ambar Lucid
- Not Kool by KNYA
- Acicálame by Tessa Ia
- You Say Goodbye Easily by Whyte
- Heaven.zip by LÜCY
- Man on the Moon by Zella Day
- Sleep Before Me by A People Person
- そのいのち (Sono Inochi) by Kaho Nakamura
- Flores by Silvana Estrada

Also I went and did the clicky thing ;)

[snowynight]

Thank you very much! They are very interesting!

[luthien]

Jenny Morris has been a favourite singer of mine for a long time. She's originally from New Zealand but has spent a lot of her working life in Australia, including as a backup singer for INXS back in the day.

Her album Salvation Jane is not one of her more high profile solo projects, but it's the one I keep coming back to.

Also, two tumblr blogs I enjoy: https://www.tumblr.com/the1920sinpictures (title self-explanatory) and https://www.tumblr.com/herpsandbirds - pictures of many beautiful reptiles and birds.

[snowynight]

Thank you very much! So pretty!

[tropicsbear]

In relation to #1, recommending "Take my Chance" by DOLL$BOXX!

[snowynight]

Thank you very much! It's good!

[muccamukk]

I'm currently really loving Noah Cyrus, who is much more folk/country than her sister, and sings a lot about family and personal growth, which is a nice mix up from love songs (which I also enjoy). The deluxe version I Want My Loved Ones To Go With Me was one of my albums of the summer last year.

[snowynight]

Thank you very much! They both sound great!

[sweetsorcery]

You might like these female vocalists:

Azam Ali - She's originally from Iran. I'm not familiar with much of her more recent work, but I love her earlier songs, especially when she was half of the group Vas. In the Garden of Souls, Sunyata, Offerings, Feast of Silence, and Portals of Grace are great albums.

Natacha Atlas - Egyptian/Belgian singer, and again, I'm much more familiar with her earlier songs. There's some wonderful stuff on her albums Gedida, Halim, Something Dangerous and Foretold in the Language of Dreams.


Clicked to donate at arab.org and have bookmarked to keep going back. :)

[snowynight]

Thanks! They are interesting!

[mekare]

Since you mention Celtic: check out the band Cara (if you don‘t know them already). Their band member Kim Edgar does lovely singer songwriter albums and has a very nice voice too.

[snowynight]

This is new to me! Thanks!

[tsuki_no_bara]

a music rec: taleen kali, who's kind of punk+shoegaze+synthpop and really enjoyable. her first band tülips is good too.

also where is my husband by raye, which my cousin introduced me to just last night, and which is jazzy and bouncy and super catchy. i just know the one song tho.

[snowynight]

Thanks! They are great!

[catness]

This is my favourite cover of Tom Waits' "I'll be gone", with vocals by Shannon McGill Vasile. Great voice and performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ninhGUKVo

[snowynight]

Thanks! It's very energetic!

[kingstoken]

Did my daily clicks!

Some recs for female vocalists
-Lily Fitts (fave song "Lose You Now"
-Amelie Farren (fave song "Unsweetened Lemonade")
-Mitski ("Because Dreaming Costs Money" will go my Holmes/Watson playlist someday)
-Elle Henderson (fave song "I Go Dancing" with Frank Walker)
-Amy Allen (fave song "Heaven")
-Rozes (fave song "Best they ever had")
-Lindsay Ell (fave song "make you")
-Meghan Patrick (fave song "Bad Guy" and "Walls Come Down")

[snowynight]

Thank you! They are great!

[queenslayerbee]

Here from the snowflake challenge page ^-^

Recommending Rosalía feels like low-hanging fruit, because usually if I see a Spanish celebrity anywhere on tumblr (let alone several times xD) that's confirmation that about the entire world must've heard about them. But I will drop the name just in case! She has very varied styles, and not all of them are to my taste, but I really loved her last album, LUX, and her early, more acousitc/flamenco style.

Lately I've been listening to some old favourites of mine: Dessa, Sade, FKA twigs, Aimee Man, Mirel Wagner, The Pretty Reckless, Lacuna Coil, Ani DiFranco, Anouk, Gata Cattana (she was a Spanish rapper)... I have a very eclectic music taste so I could probably recommend a little bit of everything lol.

[snowynight]

Thanks! I haven't heard about Rosalía before, but she's great! I also love Lacuna Coil.

[queenslayerbee]

She's incredibly talented. As I said, not all she does clicks for me, genre-wise, but even in those, I admire the artistry that clearly goes into everything she does.

Lacuna Coil is one of my childhood favourites. I got to see them live last year and it was amazing :D

[innitmarvellous]

I'm sorry, I just found your post through the Snowflake challenge and so I really don't know if that kind of music is your thing. But what came to my mind when I thought about music with female vocalists my first thought were either the Japanese groups Band-Maid and Babymetal - or K-pop groups like Dreamcatcher. Especially the latter one has some really great songs - I'm usually not a K-pop fan at all and don't follow groups etc, but I somehow really enjoy their songs. (Sorry if that's not your kind of music, just a thought!)

I also did the clicks thing!

[snowynight]

Thanks! I love k-pop and j-pop in general too! They are great!

[flo_nelja]

I love a lot a Russian band called Мельница, with a female singer, lots of their songs are about fairy tales or legends.
Here is some youtube compilation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_GKt_u7uE

[snowynight]

Thanks! It's fascinating!

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Are you familiar with BONES UK? They're a British female band that I adore.

[snowynight]

No. Thanks for introducing it to me!

[whimsicalmeerkat]

My sincere pleasure!

[rogueslayer452]

(Here via snowflake_challenge)

Ah, another XG fan! Yay! :D I love them so much! As well as Loreena McKennitt and Within Temptation.

And so, without further ado, here are some music recommendations:

BABYMETAL: "Headbanger!!" and "METALIZM"

Dreamcatcher: "Scream" and "No More"

Paris Paloma: "Labour" and "The Fruits"

Inkubus Sukkubus: "Wytches Chant" and "Vampyre Erotica"

Erutan: "The Willow Maid" and "Round and Round"

I love listening to a wide variety of music, all genres and languages and eras, so this is just a small sample of what I think you might be interested in based on your request.

[snowynight]

Thank you! They are very good!