Saturday, April 11, 2009

Ane Brun, Bek-Jean Stewart, and Sarah Bettens

Ane Brun:
I found her several years ago at WMSE. On first listen of her CD A Temporary Dive, there was only three songs I could really get into, the rest didn't appeal to me. Those three songs are "Let Myself Go", "Rubber and Soul" with Teitur, and "This Voice". Lately I have been seriously craving those three songs so much, that I thought I would give the rest another listen. I totally LOVE her now and definitely want more of her music. This is my favorite video, so incredibly beautiful:



There are a ton of YouTube videos. Here is a link to the search for them:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ane+brun&aq=f

There is also a series of videos called "Behind Closed Doors" which have musicians playing on an elevator. Ane has a few (one is in my April 10th post):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6CAjBCPgE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8SsB4dNF_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReY-v9L-PRY

She is from Norway, here are some other links for Ane Brun:
http://www.anebrun.com/
http://www.myspace.com/anebrun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ane_Brun
http://www.alwaysontherun.net/anebrun.htm



Bek-Jean Stewart:
Whereas I have been really getting into Ane Brun for the past few days, I have been getting into Bek-Jean Stewart for the past few months. She used to be the lead singer for Australian Band Eva Trout. There aren't a whole lot of videos to choose from here, but this is the song/video that made me first fall in love with Eva Trout(love love love this song) which eventually led to falling in love with Bek-Jean Stewart who eventually had a solo album.



She has blonde hair now and doesn't really look anything now that she does in that video. How I wish there were Bek-Jean Stewart videos, but there are none except for Eva Trout videos. Here is the link to the Eva Trout to search on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=eva+trout&aq=f

Bek-Jean Stewart in general is rock/country. Everyone knows how much I love country music, which is not at all. Truthfully I can listen to some old country and alt country music. I would say Bek-Jean Stewart is more alt country where is country. She has a really fantastic voice, a lot of emotion, and I just really feel her music. A couple of my favorite songs are "Lover Come Over" and "Bleed Like a Woman". You can get her album Juntior Years on Amazon.com or iTunes. Somewhere, I think MySpace, it was mentioned that she is supposed to have a new album out early this year, but I have not been able to find any information on it. That makes me sad, I really really want some new music from her. Bek-Jean Stewart is just phenomonal (and for the family friendly, a tiny amount of Eva Trout and Bek-Jean Stewart songs have swears). Here are the links to her web site and her MySpace:
http://www.bekjeanstewart.com/
http://www.myspace.com/bekjeanstewart

Sarah Bettens:
I was recently reminiscent of some K's Choice that I really enjoyed and learned that the lead singers name is Sarah Bettens (she and her brother Gert started K's Choice, they are from Belgium) (another dark hair girl that went blonde). She has since released a couple of solo CDs and that her Gert have been working on some new K's Choice music. I actually enjoy seeing all the videos of her on YouTube more than listening to the studio album. This video is just the best though. It is her and her brother Gert performing the song "Next Year" which is a cover of a Foo Fighters (I don't listen to the Foo Fighters, so I have no idea what the orginal is like):



My fave K's Choice song is "Not An Addict":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cklb7L0OA1c

A search of K's Choice videos on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=k%27s+choice&aq=f

A search for Sarah Bettens videos on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Sarah+bettens&aq=f
I love the song "Come Over Here":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XajbG_sgkjI

Sarah Bettens web site and MySpace:
http://www.sarahbettens.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sarahbettens

I really hope all of you check all of this out. It was fun to put together.

3 comments:

  1. Sorry, I forgot to make the links clickable. Oops. You can copy and paste them.

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  2. I'm going to check these out later because I need some new music but I want to see some crocheting on here ASAP!

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  3. Um...Good luck on seeing the crocheting on here ASAP (I mean really, it should be an internet rule to have animated emoticons everywhere so I can give you rolly eyes ::) ;-))

    So um, is the pink hair a wig or is it "real"?

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