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“I never got to thank you properly, Miss Ladybug...”

CRUUUSSSSHHH

Chat is mad cause he does the same thing all the time but it never works :/

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Stranded Horse - Le Blue et l'Ether

"Stranted Horse" is the solo project of the french musician Yann Tambour. Before that, he was the lead singer and musician of "Encre" where we could appreciate how his folk roots mixed with electronic-experimental sounds.

Now, Stranted Horse has made him forgetting a bit the loops and samples of his electronic period and he has focused on pure folk. He plays the Kora, an african stringed folk instrument whose sound is a symbiosis of a guitar and a harp. Of course he plays the guitar as well. His voice is warm, sensible, calm.

I recommend you to lay down on your bed, turn up the volume and simply listen to this theme without thinking of anything else.Then please, get up and watch the video. It is worthwhile to see the incredible coordination of his fingers touching this kind of harp. And at the same time he is not only singing, but interpreting.

We will see our faces again Blogotheque. You are terrific.

Judge yourself and enjoy the tune.

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The great Charlie Parker. The musical icon for an entire generation: the beat one. American young people that, during the 50's rejected the classical american values and looked for their own vision of live, basing it on the oriental philosophy, and freedom in all its forms.

Imagine people like Jack Kerouac or Allen Gingsberg between others, shaking their hips and all their body in some New York dirty holes, where the music never stopped playing and the sweat and the alcohol were mixed in a lively ambience.

Charlie Parker was born in New York in 1920. He played the saxophone and with others jazz musicians of that time as Dizzie Gillespie revolutionized the most classical Jazz giving it another vision:the improvisation was the main character.

This is a song that is one of the jazz and bepop standars: "Ornithology". In live, Massachusetts, 1952.

Judge yourself and "beat" that tune.

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Release - Pearl Jam

Grunge panorama wouldn’t be what it is without the presence of Pearl Jam. Imagine Seattle, twenty years ago. The city was a nest of musicians of this genre: Soundgarden, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone (which after would turn into Pearl Jam), Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, etc… Pearl Jam’s talent emerged as Eddie Vedder’s voice does in this track.

“Release” talks about the loss of Eddie’s father and contains a big deal of melancholy, rage and impotence … Not only because of his death, but for the lack of a relationship, because Eddie never met him. Being more precise, Eddie met him a couple of times, but without knowing he was his father. Maybe this hurts even more.

Once you have clicked the “play”, prepare yourself to be teleported to Eddie’s head and feelings. Because only a band like Pearl Jam can do that. They are not just good, they are simply the best.

Judge yourself and enjoy the tune.

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Marlango is spanish a jazz-vocal group formed by the singer Leonor Watling, the pianist Alejandro Pelayo and the trumpet player Oscar Ybarra. They started 10 years ago and refreshed the spanish musical view of that time. Tom Waits is one of their biggest influences (its name comes from a fictitious character of a Tom Waits song), besides other jazz musicians. Cabaret overtones, pop melodies and a chamaleonlike and velvet voice are the the main ingredients of this great recipe.

This is a song from their first homonymous album and the one I like the most. Judge yourself and enjoy the tune.

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Today is a sad day for the music world,but not only for the ones who were keen on soul, but for all the people that appreciate good music.

Etta James has gone at the age of 73 years old. But her music has not gone with her. Her legacy, her voice, her songs still remain here with us.

She started her solo career at the end of the 50’s in one of the greatest record companies of that time: Chess Records. More or less by the same time another great record company would arise: Motown. The golden period for American music. I recommend you go watch “Cadillac Records”, a film about the 50’s musical period in Chicago and the work of Chess Records.

This is one of my favourite Etta songs: "I’d rather go blind". It talks about how it hurts to see the one you love walking by with another person. It hurts so much that you would rather go blind.

A majestic voice, a strong character, a brilliant artist.

Thank you Etta.

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The Pretty Things - Don't Bring Me Down

London.1963.The British Invasion in all its splendor.  American blues came straight to UK and british musicians gave the genre back to USA in their own particular way. Catchy tunes, pure rock that made you shake your hips and sing like crazy. You can call it beat rock, rockabilly, garage rock...all in its essence is the basis of the British Invasion.

Dick Taylor (ex Rolling Stones guitarist) and Phil May formed The Pretty Things in 1963 and they are a clear example of this movement.This song was an UK Single Chart in 1964 and, as a lot of other British tunes, bombarded the American lists.

Discovering the mod culture is more than driving a Lamberetta or wearing a pair of skinny jeans and an army green coat. It is listening to this fantastic music.

Judge for yourself and enjoy the tune.

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Winchester  - When they were 27

Finding a band that plays genuine rock songs it is not as easy as it seems.

The winning formula is a lot of rhythm, three simple chords and a catchy tune. Is that rock? Or it is something else?

Nowadays, music lovers (and rock lovers) are more and more demanding and we look for something more than a song that can make us enjoy ourselves. We are looking for more than three catchy chords. Before, rock was seen as way of having a good time. People danced, they were uninhibited. We can go back to the 50’s and remember Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard songs and the big parties where all the people used to dance and listen to these hits.

But now, we are looking for something more than a moment of madness and lack of inhibition when we listen to rock. Songs should make us feel. Songs should carry a message. A message of sadness, a message of love, a message of nostalgia, a message of anger, a message of…whatever. Songs should make us think after listening to them. They should make us wonder things. And that is the genuine thing of rock. Those are the things that I appreciate in a band: good music and good lyrics as well.

And I know a local spanish band that meets all the values that I mentioned before. It is a band that can make you go back to the 50’s and dance like crazy. It is a band that can express a message of love or lack of it. It is a band  that can make you savor the taste of the 70’s rock compositions. They try to seek the perfection in their melodies and in their voices (in their four voices because every member sings).

And that song is a tribute to all the musicians that had a huge influence in their way of playing and creating music. Musicians that said goodbye to their lives at the early age of 27 seven years old (I am talking about Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain…).

Judge for yourself and enjoy the tune.