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  La prima cosa bella

  06.05.10 | Permalink | Comments

  Mogol playing football. Image by Getty Images via @daylife

  Must be the age. I’d have never admitted I like this song when I was young(er). Still, it’s a classic to sing under the shower or while driving. It has a perfect melody. The lyrics though (by nonetheless than master Mogol -Lucio Battisti’s lyricist), were pretty kitsch [...]

• music, politics

  Ojalá

  05.30.10 | Permalink | Comments

  Melancholy after one  night of music…
  Después del concierto de Silvio Rodríguez, 30 de abril, San Juan. Melancolía y tristeza. Incluso cuando canta ser feliz. Linda noche de buena música. Buenas canciones tocadas con mucho ánimo y sentimiento. Buenos arreglos, y calidad del sonido en el Coliseo de Puerto Rico, finalmente. Lindas lucecitas de los celulares [...]

• musiq, philosophic-discourse

  Turn the Status Quo Inside Out

  10.04.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Image by ilgiovaneWalter (Sobchak) via Flickr

  Alan Levine published two gems in one post.
  First, Kaki King’s guitar performance at TED: Enjoy the video and her playing, so unconventional.

  And here’s the second gem. I quote:
  …she turns everything that is conventional about playing guitar and turns it upside down, inside out, and produces something beautiful.
  [...]
  Look for places where [...]

• music

  Buscando América

  08.22.09 | Permalink | Comments

  YouTube – Buscando América
  Looking for America, Rubén Blades came back to Puerto Rico yesterday with a fabulous concert. Even non-Salsa-fans love his music and charisma! His songs were arranged with great depth and the quality of his group, Seis del Solar, was really very high. Apart from some rhetoric, he showed a nice sense of [...]

• media, music

  Redondo Beach

  05.27.09 | Permalink | Comments

  I twitted it: I am in the sacred space known as Redondo Beach (Los Angeles). A pilgrimage it seems, so to speak, even though I’m here to deliver a talk and a couple of seminars. Yet, it is sacred for me since this is the place of Patti Smith’s song from the 70’s, Redondo Beach, [...]

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