Jane Eyre - The Movie Soundtrack That Could Have Been...

We loved the new Jane Eyre film.

A beautiful novel made into an out of control good film...

Best line: Mr Rochester - You transfix me quite...

Gold!

Here's a tune from the soundtrack to Jane Eyre they couldn't afford...From the 2007 album Tokon & the Colours

6. The ballad of Mr Rochester - urbantramper by urbantramper

St Rupertsberg EP release show...

To whom it may concern,

We're playing our first New Zealand show for while at San Francisco Bathhouse on Saturday September the 3rd...

We're supporting St Rupertsberg and Mount Pleasant. It's a whole new line-up for Urbantramper and our recent experiments with Utopian Music will be on display.

Facebook Event

PS: Our new Single "Kate Bush Saved My Life" will be available for free download from this site next Monday at 11.05am. It'll be free for one week.

And for your listening pleasure: L'été Indien en Anglais...

Everywhere's far away from somewhere...

Two Kate clips in preparation for our new single that will be released later this month...





I'm huge fan of lyrics that address people by their first names...

Two reasons why I wish I had more hair left...

Joe Dassin is my hero. Who designs his sets? Who styles his hair? Great chorus.



I saw these guys by the misty sea of Bretagne yesterday. Great tunes. Impeccable style.

In times of crisis and suffering...

What a bitter comfort it is to know that your loved ones are safe from harm...

Love to you and yours...

Definitivement!

This kept me awake all night. Love the move at 1.23. Merci Erwann.

"You've got to have some sort of a gimmick to make yourself more known...Ya know?"

What can we learn from Killer Ray?

"How to be a foreign artist in France during the 2010 winter - III" - The online chat edition...

Thomas: Hey. I've been asked to write a letter for amplifier
Lake: don't they sell our stuff?
Tj: It's there but no one buys it.
L: Should I give up?
Tj: Maybe. Remember what Syd said: “you shouldn't try and be what you can't be”
Or what about trying to sound more like those electronic tunes I see on music blogs.
L: Yeah I love that shit
Tj: are you taking the piss
?
L: No. It seriously makes me feel closer to the future I believed in when I was kid.
I still have a hope for that future.
Tj: You still writing folk/pop tunes?
L: Ostensibly... I just wait for gold to arrive
when it does i'm overwhelmed by the beauty of creation.
You still on that crusade against overwrought prose and banal minimalism?
Tj: Clearly
L: As much as I'm all about electronic 'tricks' and fancy production, I still believe in the power of 'the song' and it's manifestation in 'the sing-along'. We're always going to need songs that sing our stories to a strumable rhythm and a humable tune...
Tj: ok ...
L: As technology begins to permeate every facet of our lives, the way we interact changes. Our personal relationships start and are maintained with digital tools. Interactions with our communities and the world at large are increasingly reliant on new forms of communication. Our lives are spent earning a living, loving each other, and hanging out, in ways that would not have been possible 50 years ago. Thus, as has always been the case, we need songs that draw upon our contemporary lexicon. Songs that soothe pains we have felt. Songs that talk of times we recognise. Songs that sing -not of a future that never came to pass- but of a future we are part of creating.

Here's the letter I wrote.

Urbantramper's song of the day...

What a smile, what a setting...



"What about if you sing it by a pool and happen upon a woman sunning herself...?"

"Have you ever noticed water? I mean - as if you had never seen it before?"

Hello...
Here's a couple of random clips we've been liking recently. I'm sure you can guess the theme. One is from Kate Bush who recently saved my life on a train from Heidelberg to Munich: "Take my shoes off, and throw them in a lake!" (unrelated lyric and anecdote).

The other is a song about the Olympics. You might remember that we have one of those as well...(Download/listen here: Olympic Theme 2012)





Be of good comfort...

Ps: header quote from The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Bonne Année

Happy new year tous le monde!

The sun came out today.
We shed our melancholy and basked in its warmth.
We thought, 'this year we will face the same problems as last year and the year before...'
But we felt a little more prepared.
We walked with sure steps.
Dodged puddles.

All the best for 2011.
Urbantramper.

Hula Hope...

Stories by Hula Hope (AKA Eli)

Hula Hope

"Almost told my boss to get f*&%ed" - And other great lyrics...

Our admin team just put up the lyrics and chords for "The Workers' Album"

Check them out here:

The Workers' Album

Some photos from Belgium...

Some photos from our show at Bar du Matin in Brussels (September 2010)...

Check them out here