Sick Sad Music

 
“Tears in Heaven” is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother’s friend, on March 20, 1991.

 
“These wounds won’t seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There’s just too much that time cannot erase”

 
“Kiss and Say Goodbye” is a song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Manhattans. The song was written by Manhattans member Winfred “Blue” Lovett.

 
The original demo of the song was recorded with The Manhattans backing band, “Little Harlem.” After hearing a tape of the recording, producer/arranger Bobby Martin decided to re-record the song with MFSB at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia.

M83 is a group of electronic music formed in 2001 by Anthony Gonzalez in Antibes. He is quickly joined by Nicolas Fromageau, guitarist and drummer from his first rock band.

Morphine is an alternative rock band formed in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, by the bassist-singer Mark Sandman (who previously played in the group Treat Her Right) and Dana Colley (member of the group Three Colors Boston) on saxophone.

Joseph and Olia Ginsburg left Russia in 1919 to live in Paris, in order to escape Bolshevism. Joseph is a cabaret pianist and Olia is a singer.

Leonard Norman Cohen, born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Quebec, is a songwriter, singer, poet and writer. He published his first book of poetry at the age of 22.

The trip-hop band Archive is formed by Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths in 1994. In 1990 they already produce together several singles on their own label: Swam. They also participate in the project Genaside II.

In the early 60, Vashti Bunyan, born in London, study painting. Her roommate makes her discovered the guitar and teach her the basics. She discovered a passion and is expelled of her school for never going to classes.

Kieran Hebden, from the post-rock band Fridge, begins in 1998 his solo project of electronic music under the name Four Tet.

On March 27, 1966 in Paris, Arthur H was born. His real name is Arthur Higelin, he is none other than the son of Jacques Higelin. He was a very lonely teenager and was hardly passionate for education.

Frédéric Chopin played rarely. […] Franz Liszt, on the other hand, was always playing, well or not. On a May Evening, between eleven and midnight, the society was held in the grand salon.

In 1994, under the leadership of James Lavelle, label Mo’Wax’s boss, and Tim Goldsworthy, accompanied by Kudo, from the Japanese collective Major Force, U.N.K.L.E. was born.