Sad news...

I've just heard the news that one of our dearest Unilang members, Simon, decided to take his own life a few days ago. These are devastating news for all of us, and all my love goes out to his family and close friends in these hard times.

I'll always remember Simon as a lovely friend, and I enjoyed our chats immensly, though I never got the chance to meet him in person. I will always hold my deepest admiration to him and his skills to learn languages. He will always be my role model as to how to pursue my own language studies.

I underestand that not all of us are as strong to cope with rough times, and I trully hope that Simon finds the peace he was looking for wherever he is.

All my love to you Simon,

Pat.

More info on Duran Duran at the Personal Fest

So we're getting a clearer picture of it at last. Duran Duran's still playing, but only on Dec 3. We're getting Simple Minds as closing act on Dec 2. Not bad, but we're probably going on Dec 3 alone. Too bad Chick Corea hasn't confirmed. I was hoping to be able to see that as well. No tickets available for sale yet, but expectations are growing high! The updated list of bands is here.

A-Ha - Analogue.... I've got it at last!!!!!

Yessss, kiddies! Going on with this extremelly exceptional music season for me, I just got A-Ha's Analogue at last! I won't state my sources, of course. Let's just hope it'll be available at the stores soon.

The album's quite "strange" for an A-Ha album, they seem to be changing the style, though the usual touch is still there. Some lovely ballads co-existing with crazy guitars and up-tempos... I haven't listened to the album much yet, though I'd heard poor-quality versions of most of the songs in it already. I give an extra point for the vocals in this record. The arrangements are beautiful, and more complex than in previous albums. The lower points are: a) the drumming, totally lame and grooveless. Not the stuff I like, definitely. b) some of the mixes are just so noisy you can't hear the voices and it's just a whole mess of noise.

I'll give some more detailed impressions after I've heard it a couple of dozen times. :-P