sábado, 19 de diciembre de 2009
PERLAS ENCONTRADAS: INCUBUS - SUMMER ROMANCE (ANTI-GRAVITY LOVE SONG)
sábado, 21 de noviembre de 2009
AN EVENING WITH GOV'T MULE - MADRID, NOVIEMBRE 2009
El repertorio de esta banda es impresionante, además en sus actuaciones siempre hacen algunas versiones de clásicos de otros artistas (en el concierto de Madrid sin ir más lejos nos deleitaron con una versión del Red House de Jimi Hendrix). Para los que no esteis muy familiarizados con ellos y seáis aficionados al buen rock, os propongo como primera toma de contacto su monumental The Deep End Vols. 1 y 2, trabajo en el que estaban inmersos cuando el bajista Allen Woody fue encontrado muerto en su domicilio. El grupo se restableció del golpe y no contaron con un nuevo bajista para el repertorio del álbum, sino con uno diferente para cada tema. El resultado es asombroso, y en él se dan cita desde Flea a Bootsy Collins.
Otra de las razones por las que merece la pena escuchar a este grupo es el baterista Matt Abts, si no habéis visto a este tío en acción no sabéis lo que es bueno (con permiso de Danny Carey de Tool). En la nueva formación estrenan nuevo bajista (esta vez no por fallecimiento del anterior), pero la esencia de su música permanece, como permanecerán canciones cuyo solo fin es hacerte sentir bien:
Espero que esta aproximación a uno de mis grupos favoritos os haya resultado interesante y que os acabe gustando tanto como a mí. Y desde esta entrada quiero agradecer a MASTEATRO que se haya acordado de mí en su blog "Lo mío es puro teatro", yo también admiro muchísimo a Pasión Vega y estoy deseando poder escuchar ese concierto en Buenos Aires. Desde el inicio de mis comentarios tan sólo pretendía plasmar un poquito de mi amor por la música y los libros y acercar a los demás algunos artistas que creo que se lo merecen. Muchas gracias a todos por colaborar en ello.
miércoles, 4 de noviembre de 2009
JORGE DREXLER: CADA UNO DA LO QUE RECIBE
Todos recordamos el momento de aquella ceremonia de entrega de los Oscar donde su canción Al otro lado del río, que aparecía en la banda sonora de la película de Gael García Bernal Diarios de motocicleta, resultó premiada con el galardón a la mejor canción:
Bien, después de este momento entre irónico, indignante y no sé qué más calificativos aportar...os dejo otras dos maravillosas canciones de este artista:
Espero que os guste...
viernes, 23 de octubre de 2009
LOREENA MCKENNITT: NIGHTS FROM THE ALHAMBRA
miércoles, 14 de octubre de 2009
martes, 13 de octubre de 2009
MICHAEL BUBLÉ: IT'S A NEW LIFE FOR ME...AND I'M FEELING GOOD
Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Fish in the sea
You know how I feel
River running free
You know how I feel
Blossom on a tree
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
That's what I mean
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
Stars when you shine
You know how I feel
Scent of the pine
You know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Letra optimista donde las haya...
domingo, 27 de septiembre de 2009
PERLAS ENCONTRADAS: LAURYN HILL - WORLD IS A HUSTLE
Of the world
Spun by evil men with lies
Only programmed to agree
With what we see before our eyes
Running after status quo
On a television show
Just a picture perfect life
It’s the only life we know
And this uncomfortable reality
Got me chasing, chasing fallacy
And the pace the pace is killing me
But I so willingly practiced it
Just like it’s my friend
When the whole world is a hustle
Exactly where did we arrive
In this manufactured life
to Sell my soul just to survive (yes)
In the game of numbers
I must thank the Gods of Industry
oh for the opportunity
or I display such loyalty
oh for the way that they exploit me (yes)
Oh to consider life outside of this
Just like a splinter in
My mind persists
But the ministry of fear exists
Only to keep me from knowing the truth
Stealing my youth (oooh)
When the whole world is a hustle
Escape familiarity
Means that I must face the fear in me
And do something with this greed in me
In order to address this need in me
Oh but I must confess
The pride I keep
Protecting as if it’s my friend
Oh, when will it end?
When the whole world is a hustle
To consider life
Outside of this
Just like a splinter in
My mind persists.
But the ministry of fear exists
Only to keep me from knowing the truth.
And it’s my excuse
When the whole world is a hustle
When it is, when it is.
(Instrumental)
Oh to escape this mere analogy
Means I must face the fear in me
And do something with this greed in me
In order to address this need in me
Oh but I must confess
The pride I keep
Protecting as if it’s my friend
Until the bitter end
When the whole of the world is a hustle
Everybodys got it going on (yeah right, yeah right)
Everybodys so damn strong (yeah right, yeah right)
When the whole of the world is a hustle
A hustle (x5)
I must exercise my faith
When the whole world is a hustle
martes, 22 de septiembre de 2009
JEFF BUCKLEY: OUR LAST GOODBYE
La voz de Jeff se la llevó el río Mississippi cuando preparaba el repertorio del que sería su segundo disco, que se publicó póstumamente en 1998, Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk, y realmente hay algunas canciones en las que parece que nos esté cantando desde otro lugar menos terrenal...
There's no easy answer, none to blame or forgive.
Two cripples dancing to the end we live.
I'm not with you, not of you.
Not with you, not of you.
You are soft and young to me
I am the ghost who comes and goes
And I hope I'll catch you in the throws
Of one last look at the wonder,
One last look at the wonder.
Oh, God, I love you
And all the past we once knew
Some other love becomes you
Whatever else we come to
I know we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be
You are soft and young to me
I am the ghost who comes and goes
I'm hoping that I'll catch you in the throws
Of one last look at the joy that we've become.
But there's no easy answer, none to blame or forgive.
We were two cripples dancing, to the bitter end we live.
I'm not with you, but of you.
I'm not with you, but of you.
Oh, God, I loved you
And all the past we once knew
Some other love becomes you
Whatever else it comes to
I know we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be
We had a birthplace in common
We had separate beds and lives.
Just sit here and blow....
break out the oldest pictures
and your ruined letters out to dry
We had a birthplace in common
We had separate beds and lives.
I know we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be
I know we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be
Yeah, oh.
Pues sí, podríamos ser tan felices...si quisiéramos...
martes, 25 de agosto de 2009
CANCIONES PARA EL VERANO: 16. MARILLION - SPLINTERING HEART
Burnin' under her skin
And it pricks her like thorns
And it's needles and pins
And it twists in her body
And I know what it is
And I'm paying in pain
But it's the cost of the high
'Till the weight of the secret
And the weight of the lie
Makes my heart want to burst
Feel the ache as time goes by
Getting better and worse
Getting better and worse
And there's a screw that I tighten
As I dream of the kiss
And it twists and it cuts me
And you know what it is?
It's a fragment of love
From a splintering heart
And it tears her apart, yeah
But not as much as this
So you save up your tears
For the moments alone
'Till the splinters you gather
Leave you glass-hard and numb
And the same sun is shining
On the old and the young
On the saints and the sinners
On the weak and the strong
And there's a burning and freezing
And a cross for a kiss
So she learns to stop dreaming
And you know how it is
With these fragments of love
And this splintering heart
With the fragments
And this splintering heart
