![]() It was a collection that Pitchfork finally wrote about.Īfter all this time, ironically enough, I haven't settled on my favorite big ones! I ended up remixing in 55 variations on Warmer Bandcamp our very own Madonna from Romania, Loredana Groza, in 2010, with her single "Rain Rain", helped by Henning Fürst from The Tough Alliance, Nicolas Makelberge, Elite Gymnastics, Coma Cinema or Young Galaxy. In 13 years I've reached almost all of them!Īmong many others, Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish, Jarvis Cocker from Pulp, Peter Hayes from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Alanis Morissette’s, Björk’s and Madonna’s producer - Guy Sigsworth, Third Eye Blind, Xiu Xiu or Disclosure – all of them took their time to write for my dream, this blog, this very organic invitation to come together.Īdded to these are the hundreds of emerging experimental artists who have found a window of exposure in my castle of wild crossovers. I stopped in 2005 at Shout Out Louds (from whose debut album I stole the seagull logo) and Boat Club (from whose single EP I chose the name of the project – Warmer Climes).įor me, Warmer Climes is precisely the escape from/for atypical aspirations, from/for the unknown, from/for connections that don't disappear, from/for coming together in spirit. Maybe it's an illusion, a trick, but this communication kept me alive.īeyond my grand triad of Alanis, Ashcroft and Björk, I've developed a hell of a passion for Scandinavian music of all kinds. A land of freedom, tolerance, openness, understanding, empathy. My way of reaching and existing in a world I can't otherwise reach. I felt it all the time, even in my family, and this blog idea was my revolution. The world will hate you, stigmatize you, marginalize you. ![]() It was also illegal in Romania to have same-sex relations until 2001. Probably still better than Uganda or Iran or Malaysia or the rest of the dozens of countries where it's still illegal to be anything other than straight. A kind of DNA spiral of tastes where we all intersect and enjoy being and feeling together, giving life to a new organism.īeing gay in a provincial town 40 minutes by train from Romania's capital Bucharest in Eastern Europe (near Ukraine) is not the sexiest or easiest thing to live in the world. It was all along my way of expressing that I love them while they talk about other creators they're attached to. ![]() Yes, imaginary mixtapes! My blog has for the past 13 years (and continues today) asked thousands of music creators around the planet to write in English about their ten favorite songs and their personal feelings that connect them perfectly to those songs, relating it all to their personal life experiences on the music of those favorite artists. I built the whole idea of the blog on the dream of meeting at least one of them in the pages of this series of imaginary mixtapes. I've always been obsessed with Alanis Morissette, Björk and Richard Ashcroft from The Verve. ![]() It was my way to somehow mark the connection I felt with their souls and the creativity of their minds from the first moment I listened to their songs.Īfter two years working as a program maker for Radio France Internationale and Total Radio I felt the need to have a different connection with humanity. It was the summer with a lot of light on my forehead in my room from a very bright sun in which I was sinking into Washed Out's debut - "Feel It All Around" on repeat. “I started Warmer Climes in August 2009 out of a deep desire to spiritually unite with my favorite musicians from around the world.
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