My debut EP

(I've Got) A Long Way to Go EP

Check it out here: Bandcamp Page

It features four songs: Everything She Knew, I'll Be, Happy (a brand new one), and Chained to the Ground (an alternate version of the instrumental I wrote in memory of Elliott Smith).

And also, cover art by Zina Nedelcheva:

And Everything She Knew artwork by my friend Hanna Fazekas

Ilko Birov - Everything She Knew

This is the version without the soaring backing vocals (I jest). A demo of sorts.

Click here, for this is the link to the song on my Soundcloud

I'm leaving home now
Don't know when I'll try to get back
I'm gonna roam now
Might find myself in a year or two

I gotta tell you, that I'm awfully fond of the way
You treat me night and day
I want to show you, that I'm better off on my own
Truly better off on my own

I met some friends here
Really hope they don't pull one on me
'Talk a lot about nature
And how most people should try and be free

I feel like crying, but I'm awfully fond of the way
That you treat me night and day
Just wanted to show you, that I'm better off on my own
Truly better off on my own

na-na naa

I got into some trouble, with the law
I wrote to you, but you still didn't call
So later, when they say I'm ready
I won't feel so adventurous at all

I promise, I promise, I promise

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(I like the "na-na naa" part best)

Enjoy!

Cat Power - Lived In Bars (Awesome Live)

My left speaker has been broken for a while now, so I took out the big old headphones yesterday, and listening to this feels great.
The studio version has a really neat guitar lead panned to the left in the second half of the song.

On a less-important note, today was probably the hottest day of summer so far.

Ilko Birov - Our Game (Very rough demo)

Soundcloud Link

Hanna and The Tallest Man on Earth

A tribute to Elliott Smith

Here it is: Chained to the Ground

I've often felt very inspired by his music and ambiance
and evermore so after listening to this: fantastic Elliott Smith rarities collection

Ilko Birov - Ice Cream

Check out my new ditty here: Ice Cream

My Cover of The Passenger

Molly Millions in the bus today

28.04.2012

And the slightly edited face

Outlook

Ilko Birov - All of Yesterday's Worries (on Tomorrow's Table)

To the song

Enjoy.

(photo of this beautiful Vancouver skyline taken by my friend Niki Shirazian) 

My "Intro 5"

The Thing

Yes, there are four more.
Enjoy

Why

Why

Why can't you try to be happy?
Why must you always be sad?
Why spend your only life waiting
to have what you know you can have?
Why spend your only life hoping?
What a torture to be always blue, darling


Why spend your only life waiting
to do what you know you can do?


What's the worst thing that could possibly happen
to you?


Mmm


Why spend your only life hopin',
What a torture to be always blue, darlin'


Why spend your only life waiting
To do what you know you can do?
Why spend your only life waiting
To do what you know you can do?


Ooh

- Josh Ritter


From the forthcoming EP "Bringing In The Darlings", available on February 21.

Ilko Birov - I Want You

the I Want You song

I want you
baby, I want you for good
I may not know what that entails
But I'll figure it out, and if that's all I ever do
I'll do it

I want you
darling, I want you and it hurts
If I don't live for the moment, why am I really here?
Anyway..
You know? Just to try and find the words
To say

 I've been alone, got pushed around, have no intention
 of letting your  heart down, like the droplets of water
 on your windshield

 Went to the bridge, that lion's gate. Saw everything
 flash behind these eyes , was so surprised.
 Then I realized

I need you
dearest friend, I need you and I can't let go
It's every time I turn, every crowded space
Just your face I see
My heart belongs to something
that isn't there
'Cause my heart belongs to something that just
isn't there.

Sunshine in a Card

Hanna's Blog

You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (2)

I never thought I would share a Miley Cyrus performance or song on my blog, but then again, who could have known she would sing this Dylan classic so well?

Check out this fantastic collection of Bob Dylan songs for Amnesty International: Amnesty USA


For a more laid-back, jazzy version of this song, check out Madeleine Peyroux's version.

Ilko Birov - Simply More (Tremolo)

Sigh, see you tonight
Sigh

Ah, look through my window
Sunny snowflakes wait

You will come around and knock me off the ground
Sigh
I am feeling lost, never to be found
Sigh

The Song

Ilko Birov - Hot Winter Day Rag

Today I came up with a nice ditty on the ukulele that would be my tribute to all the beautiful music I've listened to by the legendary Jelly Roll Morton.
My song also reminded me of video game music, which I am also very fond of.
I imagined a Donkey Kong sort of thing, or a One Piece game.
It's heavily snowing today, hard to get from one place to another, but I'm definitely somewhere else.
And I hope you enjoy my song, even though the recording sounds very bad.

So without further ado, here is my Hot Winter Day Rag

Click here, please.

Allez-hop!

I (heart) Ukulele

And I've uploaded the first improvisation on my new tenor model here.
Must work on my technique, but I hope you enjoy this.

Apples and Oranges

The Day Wikipedia Started working again

Thursday, January 19, 2012
After the 24-hour blackout because of something that reminds me of
a "hello" greeting in Maa (the word is "supa"), one of my favourite places on
the Internet is up and running again. 

I can now indulge in my thirst for trivia again

Trivia(l) 1

Trivia(l) 2

Trivia(l) 3