The Lake Malawi 10 years anniversary tour ended last night in Valašské Meziříčí

En français

I wanted to conclude my series of articles about the Lake Malawi tour.

The previous articles are in French and can be found on the efr12 radio website:

Lake Malawi a 10 ans !

Lake Malawi met le feu à Brno

Lake Malawi relève un nouveau défi à Olomouc

Let me know if you need them translated, though I'm pretty sure google translate would do a good enough job at it.
This time I have to post the last article on my blog. It's not as glamorous as having it on an Eurovision Radio but it has the advantage of being bilingual and of giving me a bit more freedom with basically everything, so consider yourself warned.

On Wednesday, Lake Malawi played in Prague in the very crowded Lucerna Music Bar. The support was Tamara Kramar, who sings Lake Malawi's latest Christmas Song: Another Christmas Song with Albert Černý. That's one of my favorite songs and I wish they had sung it that night too even though it's April. You should listen to it even now it's totally appropriate at any time and especially now because it's cold anyway so who care that Christmas is more than half a year away. I liked the I Think I Made You Up cover and Mother Nature by Tamara Kramar.

 

Last night, Lake Malawi was in Valašské Meziříčí, this time the support band was I Love You Honey Bunny, a rock band that was also created in 2013, whose songs have interesting and relatable lyrics. I like Living, because sometimes I can't stand living either and I think Style Over Substance is absolutely hysterical. Both are on their new album which came out last year, you should go check it out, it also has Waiting Game which is pretty cool. When they finished with Lose Control which include the line “Let's go and start the show”, absolute respect.

 

Then Lake Malawi came on stage and everything else disappeared. 

We had a new guitarist as David Kandler couldn't make it so the songs were a bit different. He managed the part of Africa in the tour version of Bottom of the Jungle really well. We also had Jan Uvira on the keyboard doing his usual crazy thing but this time I think he was a bit out-shined by Pavel Plasil at the drum who was totally into it.

A little bit of the action at the back… 🎹🥁 pic.twitter.com/F8VgVEcUjR

— 🇫🇷🇺🇦⭕️Linda Hamonou 🐃📚🐢 (@crazypuce) April 20, 2024

Then Albert Černý finished the concert with a solo at the piano. This time he played both Coco and Your House from his previous band Charlie Straight, and got everyone very emotional before leaving us to deal with the feels.  

 

And then Albert was back and… 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/JWkhFROUHN

— 🇫🇷🇺🇦⭕️Linda Hamonou 🐃📚🐢 (@crazypuce) April 20, 2024

Lake Malawi already announced more date for festivals this summer, you can find them on their website.

I had a great time going around Czechia in zigzag to follow the tour, so many big and small things happen, even little miracles. Thank you Lake Malawi, Domenika Hašková, Tomas Robin, QAI, Tamara Kramar and I Love You Honey Bunny and all the friends old and new I met on this trip for making this experience unforgettable. 

 

Now since I like you all very much, I made you a playlist of the 10 year tour concert songs, in order, and only missing the unreleased Lake Malawi song. Enjoy!

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Teaching myself piano: Day 14 (with video)

In today's video I play a bit more than usual because I know a lot of you are a bit stressed out because of the US presidential elections so I wanted to make something more relaxing for you.

I start with my practice of Hana's eyes and they I play Fur Elise and Brother fully. I hope you'll enjoy.

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Teaching myself piano: Day 13 (with video)

So here is a bit of today's piano practice. I decided to concentrate on Hana's eyes today so this video is a bit shorter than usual. I'll see if I'll get a longer one tomorrow.

I didn't go further in the piece, I mostly practiced what I already know. I can feel that I'm getting better so that's a lot of fun.

Check out the previous days of practice on my piano playlist.

Teaching myself piano: Day 12 (with video)

So I had to reorganise my schedule because with the writing the piano didn't fit in any more and I managed to practice today, yeah!!
I'm actually quite happy with the progress I'm making with Hana's eyes. I know that I'm playing like super slowly but it can only get better from there. I managed to get to the end of page two and a little bit of page 3 so hopefully tomorrow I can start page three full on and play a bit faster.
There are a lot of tricky parts especially with the faster notes and the two hand playing partially in parallel and then different for three notes and then parallel again but I'll definitely get used to it.
At the end of the practice I just lashed out on Fur Elise.

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Teaching myself piano: Day 11

So back at playing the piano after the kikipop festival and Halloween.
A lot of one hand practice today because I'm not yet confident enough to play Hana's eyes with both hands.
I'm still having fun though and repeating pieces until I feel the shift toward something that seems to work.
Also I played the rest but on this video there is only Fur Elise.

 

Teaching myself piano: Day 9 (with video)

Today I started on Mio Nemico which is the first song at the beginning of the video. It's from the Fantagiaro TV series. It's a really beautiful song by Amedeo Mingi. Maybe I'll sing it some day.

I also looked at Hana's Eyes from Tonci Huljic which is not as difficult as I thought it would be but I'm still probably way over my head trying that. Still I would love to be able to play it nicely.

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Teaching myself Piano: Day 8

I wanted to play Fur Elise in full for you today but of course my camera's time of shooting is 5 minutes 34 so it stopped before I could finish.
I'll have to find a different way to record things fully.
I played Brother and Comptine d'un autre été too.

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Teaching myself Piano: Day 7 (with video)

Today's practice was great.
One of my viewer told me to use a cushion because my arms weren't in the right position compared to the keyboard. I did and as a result I didn't get a painful wrist at the end of the practice.

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Teaching myself piano: Day 5

Today, I worked on the difficult passages playing them several times in a row to get used to them. I'm not sure how beneficial that was. I guess we'll see when I play the full song with focus entirely once again.

I focused more on Fur Elise and Brother so I didn't play Comptine d'un autre été. My wrist is still sore. I don't really know what I'm doing wrong or if it's piano related or not.

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Teaching myself piano: Day 4 (with video)

It's day four of me teaching myself the piano and today I started "Fur Elise" on top of "Brother" and "Comptine d'un autre été". It worked a lot better that expected seeing that I haven't played it for years.

I really enjoyed playing today. I think I'm gaining a bit of confidence.

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Teaching myself piano: Day 3 (with video)

This is day three. Today I managed to play all of brother from beginning to end. Of course I'm still making mistake and hesitate at some parts but that's still better than yesterday.

I'm also up to speed on Comptine d'un autre été, hopefully my wrist is going to get used to it soon so far I can't play more than half of it before it starts being painful and then the rest is only bit practice. I put the hardest part in today's video.

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Teaching myself piano: Day 2 (with video)

Welcome to a new day of music practice.

Today I'm practicing Brother and Comptine d'un autre été. I checked online and adjusted the left hand for brother accordingly, it sounds a lot better now. It's way easier to play when what I have in my head and what is written on the scores actually match.

For Comptine d'un autre été I need some more practice to be able to reach the same speed with both hands and that should do the trick.

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Teaching myself the piano: Day 1 (with video)

Finally, this is my first practice for this daily log. I worked on Brother which is from an episode of "Criminal Minds" untitled "Coda" and Comptine d'un autre été from the movie "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" which is called "Amelie" in English I think.

I could play "Comptine d'un autre été" before but I forgot. It will probably come back quickly as it always does. It just required a bit of practice and it's a bit painful on my left hand so that might take a few days.

I'm not really yet comfortable playing "Brother" for some reason I think some of the notes sound weird. I wonder if the score I have are the same than the one from the video I watched on youtube. I'll have to see if I can check that out and fix what I need to have it play the same way in my memory and on the piano. 

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Teaching myself Piano (Give it 100): day 0 Introduction (33 days laps video)

I decided to start learning piano again and to add day log to this channel while doing so. I used to be on a website called "Give it 100" where I put videos on a daily basis to show my progress but that website closed and I haven't been practising regularly since.

I played the piano as a child but stopped when I was 10 and have always wanted to go back to it and be better.

In this video, I show you a 33 day laps of my piano playing from the Give it 100 website. You can see my progress slowly.

My skills sort of deteriorated since so I will start again with an easier song. the song you see me practice at the end is way above my skill level.

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Vampire Friday : Vampire Heart 5

Hello everyone, have you been bitten yet? 

So what have I been up to on a vampire level, almost nothing, except for a few debates in Facebook vampire groups here and there and a lot of nice pictures in some other groups, including one that totally killed me with the same concept I wanted on this cover but a way better visual design, bite me. So nothing much but I have some new development for the rest of the draft involving kidnapping. Sounds good?

If you have a blog and want to participate in the Vampire Friday blog hop, don't forget to join up in our facebook group, it's pretty dead so far and not undead enough if you know what I mean so I really need you. You can also participate without a blog like some other members, but your post will only be visible to the group member.

Let's get back to Viorel, it seems that things want to get better, at least the others are gone.

 

And I saw it, bright and orange and red rising slowly through the trees of the forest around the castle. It was so beautiful, and I was scared of it as much as they were. They ran inside the castle and I saw them, at the window of the east tower, looking at me from the shadow. 

I turned to look at it, the sun, I remembered hearing a lot of tales about it, I remembered hearing how dangerous it was for our kind. The most frightening thing possible, the thing we should avoid at all cost, the reason why I was only going out at night and had to come back a few hours before dawn. I tried to remember more, I wanted to know where the feeling was coming from, but I couldn’t. In the intense mix of fear and frustration for being tied up, I stroke the cord against the tree’s trunk as fast as I could, staring at the sun that was coming to get me, looking at the shadow of the forest that wouldn’t be able to protect me much longer.

And it arrived. I glanced at them one last time as the sun reached me, caressing and warming up my skin. It was warm and peaceful. I wondered if that was the sensation you get before dying, that peace. 

What I saw on their faces was a lot different than what I had expected. I suddenly realized why, I was alive, I took a deep painful breath, that was the first time I was actually breathing consciously and that didn’t feel that great, but I thought, maybe breathing was what had kept me alive during this first meeting with the sun.

“I love the sun, I love the sun,” I yelled at them as they started to argue with each other.

I was alive and that felt good, even in the position and state I was in. I stroke the cord against the tree with renewed energy. I was alive, but if I intended to keep it that way I needed to go away from here as fast as I possible. They couldn’t come close to me now and that was my chance. I didn’t know why. There was something in me that was refusing to let me access my memory. The more I tried the more it seemed to evade me. My thoughts felt like the rope I was working on, so thin and so thick at the same time, the closer I thought I was getting from breaking it, the more I hurt myself on the trunk. And finally it broke. I didn’t know how long it took but it broke, I stood unable to move looking around.

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Japan : Japanese traditional music

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In Mai, I had the chance to be invited to a concert of traditional Japanese music where my friend was playing shakuhachi. The shakuhachi is a Japanese traditional wood flute. My friend was playing only at the end of the concert so I had time to first enjoy other instruments, such as koto, an very complicated string instrument.
Here is a part of the concert.
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Francophonies concert

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On the 20th of March, I went to the francophonies concert with some friends. We could see dances from Senegal and a concert from the Senegal international Super stars Daara J family.
Enjoy the show. 

Comptine d'un autre été

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Back in Mai I had a challenge with my friends and a part of it was for me to learn to play "Comptine d'un autre été" from Yann Tiersen. I learned it then forget it a bit then recently learned it again. After several attempt at recording myself, like everyday for more than a week I finally came up with a version that I find acceptable even though it might need to be played a little faster. Anyway here is the video I promised to my friends.

花より男子 : Flavor of life

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I'm addicted to the Japanese drama "花より男子" at the moment. So here is the song from 宇多田 ヒカル that I'm listening over and over again with the lyrics. The lyrics come from here (I'm not feeling confident enough yet to write the lyrics in Japanese)



あり がとう、と君に言われると
なんだかせつない
さようならの後も解け ぬ魔法 
淡くほろ苦い 
The flavor of life… The flavor of life…

友達でも恋人でもない中間地点で
収穫の日を夢見てる　青いフルーツ
あと一歩が踏み出せな いせいで
じれったいのなんのってBaby

ありがとう、と君に言われると
なんだかせつない
さようならの後も解け ぬ魔法
淡くほろ苦い 
The flavor of life… The flavor of life…

甘いだけの誘い文句
味っけの無いトーク
そんなものには興味を そそられない

思い通りにいかない時だって
人生捨てたもんじゃないって

どうしたの？と急に聞 かれると
ううん、何でもない 
さようならの後に消える笑顔
私らしくない

信じたいと願えば願う ほど
なんだかせつない
｢愛してるよ｣よりも｢大好き｣の方が 
君らしいんじゃない? 
The flavor of life

忘れかけていた人の香 りを 突然思い出す頃 
降りつもる雪の白さをもっと　素直に喜びたいよ

ダイヤモンドよりもやわ らかくて
あたたかな未来　手にしたいよ
限りある時間を　君と過ごしたい

ありがとう、と君に言われると
なんだかせつない 
さようならの後も解け ぬ魔法 
淡くほろ苦い 
The flavor of life… The flavor of life…

Full House 곰 세 마리

Today something just for fun, let's have a good laugh :D



곰세마리가 한집에있어
아빠곰 엄마곰 애기곰
아빠곰은 뚱뚱해
엄마곰은 날씬해
애기곰은 너무귀여워
히쭉히쭉 잘한다
곰세마리가 한집에있어
아빠곰 엄마곰 애기곰
아빠곰은 뚱뚱해
엄마곰은 날씬해
애기곰은 너무귀여워
히쭉히쭉 잘한다