Friday Breakfast Blend presents:
Sunshine Stories — Friday Morning Breakfast Blend
No themes, geographic or otherwise. Lot’s of new releases from US, Nigeria, Serbia, Egypt, France. It’s gonna be good, I swear. -Princess Beet Farmer
Revebere
Laura Cahen
STREET LIGHT
At the foot of a street lamp
A sitting man
In the setting sun, dozing, sleeping
He had wiped the dust all day long
From this cursed street lamp, cursed
Here he falls asleep to the sound of claquettis
Rain on clear concrete slabs
Here he is, the man grows old
Against this lamppost
He gets bored
He gets bored
At the foot of its lights
A sitting man
In the rising sun, vanishes, finally flourishes
He had decided all night to shut up
To get rid of his insomnia
Here he is extinguished so far today
As slow as a candle that despairs
He is losing his way, the man seated
Large lighthouses illuminate it
He fled
In the air, often
So he hopes, and then-
He gets bored
In a glass, often
It is thus that it illuminates its nights
He fled …
Again this night in the mist
At a time when candles are burning
Thus, through the Avenue Blanche
The Lightstick Lighter
Towards the cemetery of the Innocents
This winter, it will be white …
He fled
In the air, often
So he hopes, and then-
He gets bored
In a glass, often
This is how he buries his life
He fled …
He fled …
J’me Tire
Maitre Gims
I’m out
Don’t ask me why I just left like that
Sometimes I feel my heart hardening
It’s sad to say but nothing makes me sad anymore
Let me go far away from here
To keep smiling, I tell myself it could be worse
But if it’s like this, well then fuck the artist’s life
I know it’s cliche to say they want me clapped in chrome
But I’ve gotta say it for the sake of this song
I’m leaving for a place they’ll never find me
Then I’ll change my name like Cassius Clay
To a place I’ll never need to take the mic
To a place where no one cares about my life
I’m out
Don’t ask me why I just left like that
Sometimes I feel my heart hardening
It’s sad to say but nothing makes me sad anymore
Let me go far away from here
To keep smiling, I tell myself it could be worse
But if it’s like this, well then fuck the artist’s life
I know it’s cliche to say they want me clapped in chrome
But I’ve gotta say it for the sake of this song
If I stay, one day they’ll avoid me like the plague
Your interviews have given me too many headaches
The truth is, I hate myself
I’ve got to preserve what’s left of me
And all these people who want my number
Tell them I’m not their role model
Thanks to those who said “Meugui, we love you
Even though you’re black”
I’m leaving for a place they’ll never find me
Then I’ll change my name like Cassius Clay
To a place I’ll never need to take the mic
To a place where no one cares about my life
I’m out
Don’t ask me why I just left like that
Sometimes I feel my heart hardening
It’s sad to say but nothing makes me sad anymore
Let me go far away from here
To keep smiling, I tell myself it could be worse
But if it’s like this, well then fuck the artist’s life
I know it’s cliche to say they want me clapped in chrome
But I’ve gotta say it for the sake of this song
I’ve left, without lying, didn’t ask myself
What will become of me?
Stop, don’t think more about it Meugui
Stop, don’t think, just go!
Left without lying, didn’t ask myself
What will become of me?
Stop, don’t think more about it Meugui
Stop, don’t think, just go!
I’m out
Don’t ask me why I just left like that
Sometimes I feel my heart hardening
It’s sad to say but nothing makes me sad anymore
Let me go far away from here
To keep smiling, I tell myself it could be worse
But if it’s like this, well then fuck the artist’s life
I know it’s cliche to say they want me clapped in chrome
But I’ve gotta say it for the sake of this song
Fil Sama
Zap Tharwat
In the Sky
Versions: #1#2
The party is crowded
Full of faces that I know
Uncles from my mother’s and father’s side of the family
And other names that are still too difficult for me to pronounce
Affection and love
are apparent between the people around me
They say that this is my birthday
This party is made for me
Between the many gifts
There was a letter sent to my name
Upon it was written
in the handwriting of my mother
“To my beloved son”-
“But why a letter
when you are by my side all the time?”
“Quit being a blabbermouth
Please open your letter”
She said in the letter
“May you be like me every year,
You are in my heart
No one comes close to how much you mean to me
May you grow and may I see you
become that which you want to be, no matter
what you want to be, you will be my darling
the one that follows my letter with his feelings
And I grew more
And I couldn’t count the years of my life on 10 fingers anymore
[I became] an angry person with a loud voice
My mother feared that this would become my attitude
She told me: oh, son
Always be careful with what you say
Your word is a sword
It either drags you down
Or elevates your image among people
And one day I came home from school
bedraggled and covered in dirt
And I asked: How can treachery
come from friends?
And I told her about the fight
And she heard me with complete patience
And she told me: When you calm down
then read from the first line
She had written me a letter
about friends and chivalry
And she told me to choose
the one that says “we” instead of “I”
And to know that friends
Are not about numbers or how many they are
In times of hardship
There will be only two or three that you can rely upon
In the sky I see you
When the world becomes harsh in my eyes
And in the night I tell you
of every old and recent news
In your absence you are always by my side
Your words are etched in my heart
Your letter is not only words
Your letter is a human for me to be
And I grew more
And the world grew bigger for me
And I began to feel inside of me
A feeling that is new to me
So I told her about the most beautiful girl
in the entire university
I described her to my mother
I said: “I’ve never seen anything like her,
I don’t know what to tell you,
but it looks like I love her”
She said: “Tell me more about her,
tell me her name.”
“I don’t know,
And don’t you laugh at me too”
I’m always impulsive
I’ve been light-hearted1 ever since I was a child
So she told me: “The most important thing,
is that when you love, you must hold dear
the value of your lover,
And you must never shatter her dreams,
And don’t rush it,
say the word when you feel it2
And don’t you ever hide anything from her,
always tell her.”
Many years passed
And you saw the children of your children
And despite the separation between us
You have never missed my birthday
You come to me in every happy moment
And also when life feels too tough
I can’t believe
That I’ve never seen you with my eyes..
God has chosen for you to be with him3
When I was just a baby wrapped in a cloth
I am sure you are in a better place
And I am happy for you, you know it
So you wrote to me alone
About a thousand letter and story
You’re trying to make up to me
What I’ve missed and what I’m yet to miss
But I keep missing you..
And wishing you would be near me..
All my life I’ve sensed you
So I wanted for you to sense my love
Surely you can hear me, oh mother
And surely you can see me
Even if I cannot see you with my eyes
Your heart sees me where I am
In the sky I see you
When the world becomes harsh in my eyes
And in the night I tell you
of every old and recent news
In your absence you are always by my side
Your words are etched in my heart
Your letter is not only words
Your letter is a human for me to be
Playlist:
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Grini & Jamila, “La Gozadera (feat. Marc Anthony & Gente De Zona) [Arabic Version]”
from La Gozadera (feat. Marc Anthony & Gente De Zona) [Arabic Version] - Single
Platinum - 2017
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Evan O'Donnell, “Lalu Lintas”
from Kijang Trans Am
Explorasi - 2017
U.S. Instrumentation from Indonesia
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Vicente Garcia, “Espuma y Arrecife (feat. Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto)”
from A la Mar
2016
Dominican Republic
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Chicago Afrobeat Project feat Tony Allen, “Cut the Infection (ft Tony Allen)”
from What Goes Up
self-released - 2017
US, Nigeria
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Om Alec Khaoli, “Say You Love Me”
from Say You Love Me - EP
Awesome Tapes From Africa - 2017
South Africa
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Harrysong, “Samankwe (feat. Timaya)”
from Samankwe (feat. Timaya) - Single
Alter Plate Entertainment
Nigeria
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Makis Darrieos, “Allaxane Ta Pragmata (ft Andreas Kikas)”
from Allaxane Ta Pragmata (ft Andreas Kikas)
Serbia
beets Friday Breakfast Blend August 4th, 2017
Posted In: Music, Music Shows