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One of the last evenings I could not fall asleep and instead of turning around from side to side for a few hours, I grabbed the laptop and looked around a bit on lyricwiki. Specifically I was looking for lyrics of Vökuró (a track from the 2004 album Medúlla of Björk). Found it, they have a decent selection there actually. But what caught my eye was an earlier album then the Debut from 1993, namely Gling-Gló. I must admit that I am not such a huge aficionado that I would have her bio-/discography memorised. So I read up at Wikipedia and the description sounded very interesting: Jazz. Björk? Alright. Need that. Now.

So, I have just been watching the new Harry Potter movie. We went to the cinema at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the one with the original versions and the annoying ice-cream intermission. But since we had to be at the cinema half an hour before the moviecommercials started to pick up the reserved tickets (necessary, the cinema was full) and no intention to already go in that early, we sat down at the Australian bar in the Sony Center for a beer. As they are everything but fast in serving there, we ended up having to rush a bit to not be too late for the moviecommercials, especially as we wanted to pick up some stuff from the bar.

Tristania is one of those bands I only stumbled upon by accident. I read a remark in a recension at Amazon that mentioned Tristinia as being something better than what the guy was writing about (forgot which album he was actually discussing). So I had a look, saw the cover of the World of Glass and just ordered it. I was hooked by the sound immediately and also got my hands on the older albums Widow's Weed and Beyond the Veil. That was somewhen in 2002. At that point Morten Veland, who – next to Einar Moen – was writting the songs, had already left Tristania and started to form his own band, Sirenia.

Eher zufällig bin ich auf Talis gestoßen, aus irgendwelchen Gründen habe ich bei den Babyblauen Seiten eine Rezension gelesen und mir dann auch direkt mal die Samples runtergeladen. Nach ein wenig Einwirkungszeit (und hauptsächlich wegen 'A gentle place') habe ich dann am 23.03., wie auf der Bestellseite beschrieben, Gnuarghl (sehr schönes Pseudonym!) eine Mail geschrieben, daß ich die CD doch gerne hätte. Kurz drauf kam dann schon die Antwort mit der Kontoverbindung, wohin man die 15€ (fairer Preis) doch überweise solle. Also flugs überwiesen und am 27.03. lag die CD auch schon im Briefkasten, prima!