Inside Visions, Black & Gold

Inside Visions are a band created in 2010.

The band is composed by 5 Portuguese guys - Gui Rodriguez (vocals), Ricardo Arnaldo (guitars), Pedro Pires (bass), Jóni Oliveira (drums) and Nuno Moreira (synthesizer) - from Porto belong to a young band, having as influences great bands like Joy Division, The Strokes, Kings of Leon, Editors, Foals, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party or Arctic Monkeys.
Huge influences from great bands who contribute to their indie rock with bits of alternative on their music.

The band is beginning the recording to their debut EP to be released next Spring.

According to Inside Visions, Black & Gold is about a child's idol - in this case the ex-Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna. Determination, dedication, talent and courage were some of the feelings from Senna's life that influenced the band to talk in the song, focusing on this driver's early career on Lotus which colors were black and gold.

To know more about this band and discover more of their work go to their Facebook, Myspace and Youtube pages.

"Greater issues sparkling the demon's tar.

Rolling anger, one hundred bar.

It's not you, it's personal...let him be

Forever more we'll get caught in the fire!"

Nouvelle Vague - Love will tear us apart

Nouvelle Vague ("new wave" in French) is a French project led by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux.
Their songs are all covers of different genres of songs, including, rock, new wave, pop, etc.

Members and contributors include many well known French artists like for example Camille Dalmais, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain, Marina Céleste, Gerald Toto, etc.

In their first album, Nouvelle Vague released in 2004, the band covered classics from the New Wave music era and reinterpreted them in a bossa nova style.
This song was the first one I heard a few years ago and it is from their 1st album and it was originally released by the band Joy Division, in 1979, link here.

Interesting fact: the various female singers on this album only performed songs they've never heard before, to garanty that each cover would have an unique quality.

When the routine bites hard

And ambitions are lo

And the resentment rides high

But emotions won't grow

And we're changing our ways,

Taking different roads

Then love, love will tear us apart again

A.


P.S: Bossa Nova is a style of Brazilian Music. Bossa was used to refer any new "trend" or "fashionable wave" within the artistic beach-culture. This expression became known and widely used to refer a new music style, a fusion of Samba and Jazz.