Recent blog posts about The Society Islands from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/artist/societyislands/ 2013-06-18T03:47:26+01:00 text/html 2011-09-29T08:23:22+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3755128/the-society-islands-erst-eins-dann-zwei-und-so/
Eigentlich hatte ich mir vorgenommen, vor meiner französischen Auszeit interessante Neuigkeiten über Boris Rogowski und sein Projekt The Society Islands mit Euch zu teilen. Wäre vom Ablauf schön gewesen, hat aber leider nicht geklappt, ich musste Vokabeln büffeln. Das letzte Album Last Hero Of The Western World hatte ich ja vor einiger Zeit hier vorgestellt, Read the Rest...]]> text/html 2011-09-07T11:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3703348/gatecrasher/
There would be no Quick Before It Melts without The Society Islands . That, my friends, is an indisputable fact. I may never know what possessed this good-humoured German musician to reach out to an upstart Canadian blogger, but I'm forever grateful he did. Back in 2006, one month and one day into my music blogging adventures, I first posted about Boris Rogowski and his one-man band. I was so tickled pink by his Kiss & Tell LP I was almost fuchsia. It was a well-crafted, whip-smart pop album that I [...]]]> text/html 2011-01-22T21:24:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3136745/my-i-hesitate-to-pick-a-favorite-2010-top-ten-list/
Better late than never, right? 2010 was a good yet weird year for music. I loved a lot of stuff but there wasn't any one album that stood head and shoulders above the rest. There are a number that vie for most-listened-to-in-their-enti rety, however, and those are the ones that made this list. One thing they all have in common is that there aren't any (well, not many) over-the-top woe-is-me type songs. There are sad ones, of course, a certain amount of melancholy is practically a requirement [...]]]> text/html 2010-07-01T00:49:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2656218/ill-tell-you-what-im-in-the-mood-for-a-mix/
I recently asked , What are you in the mood for? Well, I've answered my own question by deciding I'm in the mood to make a mix tape. A mix of the best-of-2010-so-far. I hope you enjoy it. I've posted several of these songs before, but I ask you, what good is a mix if you can't get all the songs at the same time? Wintersleep -- "New Inheritors" mp3 off New Inheritors ( buy [...]]]> text/html 2010-05-10T05:51:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2536642/the-review-the-society-islands-last-hero-of-the/
The Society Islands ist das musikalische Projekt des Kölner Sänger und ich-mache-fast-alles-selbst Musiker Boris Rogowski. 2006 gegründet, liegt dem vergesslichen Rezensenten bereits seit Wochen das zweite Album "Last Hero Of The Western World" vor. Die Musik von The Society Islands oszilliert nach eigenen Angaben zwischen Neo-Folk, Kammermusik-und Indie-Rock und wird durch plötzliche stilistische Verschiebungen und bedrohliche Untertöne gekennzeichnet. Erzählt werden die kleinen Geschichten, die das Leben schreibt. Familienangelegenheiten, apokalyptische Begebenheiten,Ennui und Träumen. Aber auch verquere Anachronismen wie der Epiphänomenalismus, der die den gesunden Menschenverstand verinnerlichte Gesetzmässigkeit von Ursache-Wirkungs-negiert, werden verarbeitet. So, so. Plötzlich stilistischen Verschiebungen [...]]]> text/html 2010-02-13T16:51:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2334848/my-god-its-full-of-stars-music/
As previously mentioned, the backlog of music has mutated into a folder of galactic proportions. All recently new music by some very talented (and patient) people. Not the worst way to spend 7+ hours! NEAR SIDE Fess Up Face Down Blaine Fonda , from [...]]]> text/html 2010-01-28T18:57:14+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2293973/twofer-thursday-love-life-ukulele-by-sophie-madeleine-and-last/
Photography by Christine Day Lorico Man, did you hear about that iPad thing? What a hot mess. No multitasking? No flash? No USB? Etc, etc, etc? Ugh. All that hoopla for a big ass iTouch. Though, I found it very amusing that iTampon was trending higher than iPad or Apple Tablet or Steve Jobs yesterday. lol. Movin' on... I'll tell you, I hope you like our new home because I'm quickly learning to love it! Yeah, wordpress is a strange beast [...]]]> text/html 2010-01-17T13:26:48+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2265084/falling-in-love-with-the-society-islands/
Wow, where to start. I wish I were the kind of blogger who could break new bands and declare them "the next big thing." If I were, I'd be all about The Society Islands . So let's just pretend I have such influence and now the whole world knows about this band and this wonderful record. Technically, it's not a band but one extremely talented young man from Cologne, Germany. According to his website , Boris Rogowski recorded Last Hero of [...]]]> text/html 2010-01-08T16:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2243935/the-return-of-the-society-islands/
(photo: facebook.com) I don't know how many of my regular readers have been around from the start, but if you have been, or if you've ever gone back to explore the archives, you'd know that one of the first artists I ever championed on QBiM was The Society Islands , a one-man band based out of Cologne, Germany, whose debut album, Kiss & Tell was high on my list of favourite albums of 2006. Since then, Society Islands main-man Boris Rogowski has been working with another band, Stationary [...]]]> text/html 2010-01-06T17:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2238473/tagesbericht-nr-52/
"Ich war mir nicht im Klaren darüber, dass es coole deutschsprachige Musikblogs gibt, und daher natürlich umso erfreuter, hier bei euch eins zu finden." Das schrieb mir Boris Rogowski. Verdammte Bauchpinselei. Denkt der Mann wirklich, er kann mir mit abgedroschenen Phrasen und billiger Lobhudelei imponieren und somit Aufmerksamkeit erregen? Jawohl, er kann. Zwar hat er die Sache sehr unelegant (...bin eher durch Zufall über Schallgrenzen gestolpert) relativiert, aber Schwamm drüber. Der Mann nennt sein musikalisches Projekt The Society Islands . Nächsten Monat soll das zweite Album "Last Hero of the Western World" erscheinen. Da er [...]]]> text/html 2008-07-21T14:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1162890/if-i-were-king-of-the-blogosphere/
This weekend, my friend Daryl--with tongue placed firmly in cheek--crowned me "King of the Blogosphere" which made me chuckle and blush a bit with pride. This week, QBiM will celebrate it's second anniversary, and no one is more surprised than me that it's still a going concern (at least in my life). So much so, that this week, QBiM has the distinction of being Blog of the Week (or maybe I'm Blogger of the Week) over at internet radio station, BreakThru Radio . That means my posts this week appear here and on the BreakThru Radio [...]]]> text/html 2008-05-03T13:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1045306/500/
It's been almost two years since I started writing this blog, and until just the other day, I hadn't noticed that I was getting pretty close to a milestone of sorts in QBiM's history: the 500 th post. That may not seem like a lot, but it works out to be an average of about 1.2 posts per day spilling out of my head since I started. Not bad, I think. So how to celebrate this event? First, I get my good friend Tara to work together a kick-ass graphic [...]]]> text/html 2007-07-25T13:34:48+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/616975/music-blog-award-winners/
It seems a little late into 2007 to be discussing music from 2006, but props goes out to our man Jason for spearheading and organizing the first ever Music Blog Awards . Jason got a whole bunch of us bloggers together (figuratively) to pick our brains about the albums, songs and artists we felt captured the spirit of '06. He even lined up eMusic as one a sponsor, and then turned the controls over to the voting public. The results are in! You can see how they shake [...]]]> text/html 2007-04-22T13:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/497651/4-for-my-b-earthday-and-the-weekend-vol5-too/
Happy Earth Day to you, and Happy Birthday to me (I like to call it my B-Earth Day). In honour of this special day, I've decided to offer up four special tracks, all with a similar theme; I hope you like. I got an early Birthday gift this week when Release The Stars , Rufus Wainwright 's new album magically landed on my doorstep. It's fantastic. I can't wait until you all get to hear it. It's a cohesive album that you can [...]]]> text/html 2006-10-18T02:39:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/270747/society-islands-cd-giveaway/
Have I mentioned how much I love the Society Islands yet? For you uninitiated, the Society Islands is Boris Rogowski, who has recently released his album Kiss & Tell to audiences across Europe. He's also launched the official Society Islands web site , where you can watch/hear Boris perform each of the tracks from Kiss & Tell . In other Society Islands related news, this week I'm part of the Contrast Podcast , whose theme is "2006 So Far" with my pick: [MP3] [...]]]> text/html 2006-10-11T14:45:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/266093/small-bubbles-and-society-islands/
Return to basic list. I am trying to do series of smaller, more functional playlist, to change mood and to go around increasingly belligerent ezarchive. (gah!) First list, just to cheers Moka shiny new MdM section ( Electric Bungaloo ) is a hip-hop-electronica-near folks mix. Yes that is possible. Actually anything is possible while doing it half asleep. "Waxploitation var. 1011-2006/MdM" 01. Solex - Beautiful Stranger (web) 02. [...]]]> text/html 2006-10-11T14:04:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/266164/dyslecix-hearts/
The Society Islands - Kiss & Tell cd The Society Islands 20 oktobar 2006 The Society Islands - Disjoint Allocation (mp3)]]> text/html 2006-10-05T04:41:01+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/261665/acoustic-wednesday/
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast, the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, ... - Matthew Arnold , Dover Beach "Acoustic Wednesday No.34. Late Night Early October" 01. Martha Wainwright [...]]]> text/html 2006-09-17T21:59:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/239510/the-quick-list-and-a-whole-lot-of-otherwheres/
Now I don't know how long you've been a reader, but remember a while back when I posted a very short list of mp3s and entitled it The Quick List? Well its back, but now it's improved. Just like before, The Quick List is a great way for me to cover a handful of bands in just a single post and a great way for you to get your hands on a variety of artists in just one reading. It's almost like a mix, but instead of writing about the theme or what's posted as a whole, [...]]]> text/html 2006-09-10T15:25:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/233971/qbim-interviews-the-society-islands/
The Society Islands' Boris Rogowski likes his milk on the rocks. The Society Islands: No Stranger to Friction ... Boris Rogowski would sound too singer/songwriter-ish, says Boris Rogowski himself, when asked about the decision to release his new album, Kiss & Tell under the pseudonym The Society Islands. Im not sure I understand what he means at first, but he goes on to explain: [...]]]>