Dosage of mental clarity with a surf session

If you surf, you know how much surf can transform your mood, but having the perfect combination of before, after and during the surf session you can like any other activity get more and more appreciation, I made a simple list of 5 songs that I used to listen in the entire “script” of surfing. Since I get my board and get straight to the ocean with nothing but my shorts and board until I sit and watch the waves moving.

 

Of course I had to put Jack Johnson, he’s the myth of this music style, I can’t remember surfing without imagining the rhythm of any of his songs, check it out, consider it a bonus:

 

Back with the last 2 songs, yes, surf could be well enjoyed with a lil’ bit of indie.

 

And enjoy it..

 

The legend of the modern surf music style – Jack Johnson.

I’ve been talking about surf music the whole day, the whole week and mounth, so I had an idea, the best singer of the new surf music style deserve a special post here, on my tumblr and also on my wordpress. I am talking about Jack Johnson.

The first song that I heard by Jack Johnson was “Times Like These” – And I really think that’s the best example of this new style, it’s soft, acoustic guitar and there’s a lot of feeling on the lyrics, basically isn’t just a simple harmony between the chords and lyrics, there’s a real mean in the whole context. The first album of Jack has some epic songs, like “Flake”, “Bubble Toes”. But in the album On and On, Jack made a huge step in his career, with songs like “Taylor”, “Times Like These”, “The Horizon Has Been Defeated”, “Gone”, “Wasting Time”, “Dreams Be Dreams” and “Rodeo Clowns”.

I already said that, a lot of times Jack Johnson is my favorite singer, with no doubt but there’s more about him that I really appreciate, he’s also a surferanother awesome is he was born in Hawaii and still living there, ok, we’re talking about the paradise but with sucess a lot people forget about the essence of life, wich means love, love and love. In 2002 Jack created his own record business, the Brushfire Records, with a special function, represent some surf music singers and also support some surf movies, helping with the soundtrack and directing some of them. In the Brushfire we have artists like Zach Gill, a friend of Jack Johnson from a long time, Mason Jennings, G. Love.

Jack is starting a new tour, he’s going to perform in Byron Bay here in Australia, unfortunatelly I’m not living in Byron so I’ll lost two concerts in my old home. If you want more informations, take a look in Jack Johnson (Official Website).

Our music seasons

Like me a lot of people can’t live without music and I’ve been thinking, I always had some eternal songs on my playlist but I didn’t realized that just looking the dates basicly listened all of them. It’s normal, sometimes a music can pop in your head but in two weeks – probably, you will forget or just get bored.

Some Jack Johnson‘s songs are in my playlist since I started in this internet world, classics, John Mayer too but I already said something album the “new” John Mayer style, I listened their songs again and I was kind of wrong, “Half of my heart”, “Heartbreak Warfare” are great songs. I was watching MTV and I’ve noticed something really weird about my music taste. I have some seasons haha, sometimes I’m enjoying a pure surf music and in the other I’m losing the control enjoying some beat, like Ke$ha – by the way, what a hot girl, damn. That’s why music is so amazing, mahalo and don’t forget… the party don’t stop lol.

The power of surf music

I’m a real surf lover and also a surf music fan. I can’t say a lot of things about the style, it’s a simple style without beats, special voices, second voices, is just a guitar and nice lyrics. We have some differents surf music styles, the rock and the acoustic one. I’m a acoustic fan but doesn’t mean that I don’t like the rock style. people make confusion with the acoustic style, we have the “urban style” and the surf style, I’m a fan of both of them. The urban style has a leader called John Mayer, he’s the best with a acoustic guitar playing with guitar and some beats – that’s the big difference between the urban and the surf, the beats, new arrangements with the beats.

The list of awesome surf musicians: Jack Johnson, Tristan Prettyman, Jason Mraz, The Beautiful Girls, Donavon Frankenreiter, Zach Gill, A.L.O, Mat McHugh (The Beautiful Girls singer).

Youtube Singers (5)

Checking some covers of Jack Johnson, John Butler Trio and Tristan Prettyman I saw this dude playing: “Beautiful” (a girl singing too), alright, the video is pretty awesome but I’m talking about him ‘cuz he has surf in hobby and music style. His name: Mike Salisbury, in his youtube channel you can watch him playing songs by; Jimi Hendrix, G Love and another important fact, he’s a songwriter. It’s a great recomendation if you’re a surf lover and a surf music fan – you can download his cd on his website, enjoy it, mahalo.

Mike’s Youtube Channel - Mike’s Official Website.

Jack Johnson

Take a look in the new Jack Johnson’s album, called: “En Concert” – he made a lot of arrangements between classic songs and “new” songs, a little example: “Belle/Banana Pancakes” - he’s a phenomenal singer also a great person. He also played classic like, “Good people”, “Better Together”, “Do you remember”. It’s been over a year since the Sleep Through the Static tour finished up so there was a little bit of rust, a few “once in a lifetime” versions, some requested rarities from the audience and even an attempt to play a new song for the first time.  Looks like we’ll have to wait until the next tour to hear that one.  All in all Jack, Emmett and the whole Santa Barbara hometown crowd had a great night.  And perhaps, most importantly to some, Jack was sporting a new look, more informations:

official website.

Tamarama

Tamarama isn’t just a beach, is a band, two guys playing guitar and singing, cool songs like; “everything to me”, “sunsets”, it’s jack johnson style with more rythym, so… enjoy it.