De "This isn't happiness™" (Daniel Danger)

this isn't happiness™ (Daniel Danger)

Willard Grant Conspiracy - I Still Miss Someone

Leonard Cohen - Show Me The Place (novo tema)

Show Me The Place by leonardcohen

Novo tema de Leonard Cohen.

Chet & Costello

Sequência daqui.

Chet

Chet Baker - I'm a Fool To Want You (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron)


I'm a fool to want you
I'm a fool to want you
To want a love that can't be true
A love that's there for others too

I'm a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss that Devil has known

Time and time again I said I'd leave you
Time and time again I went away
But then would come the time when I would need you
And once again these words I had to say

Take me back, I love you
...I need you
I know it's wrong, it must be wrong
But right or wrong I can't get along.

Jonathan Wilson - "Gentle Spirit" (2011)

Mais informações aqui.

Rumer (Sarah Joyce)

Rumer (Sarah Joyce) - Take Me As I Am (de "Seasons of My Soul", 2010)

Versão acústica - que aparentemente só se encontra no Grooveshark...

Desire

Novo vídeo de Anna Calvi, desta vez para o tema Desire.

Underworld live studio session

Os Underworld numa live session nos KCRW Studios, Abril 2011

Para THEsintoXXicar do ar poluído

Salvo melhor opinião... as lições dos Young Marble Giants, a concisão dos Durutti Column, a dose certa – mínima, evitando a ameaçadora overdose – dos Everything But The Girl, a atmosfera dos AC Marias, umas guitarras trazendo o melhor de Tom Verlaine (Television) e... algum Herbert... Em canções pop de cerca de 3 minutos. The xx (Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim, Baria Qureshi, Jamie Smith), no tema Islands do primeiro álbum do grupo, e até agora único, xx, de 2009.

I don't have to leave anymore
What I have is right here
Spend my nights and days before
Searching the world for what's right here

Underneath and unexplored
Islands and cities I have looked
Here I saw
Something I couldn't over look

I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore

See what I've done
That bridge is on fire
Going back to where I've been
I'm froze by desire
No need to leave

Where would I be
If this were to go under
That's a risk I'd take
I'm froze by desire
As if a choice I'd make

I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out                                   [x2]
So now I'll never explore

One of these is old

Brian Eno (Some of them are old) revisto por St. Vincent

St. Vincent

Brian Eno

St. Vincent - Some of Them Are Old (Brian Eno Cover) (Live at Sundance) by TwentyFourBit.com


St. Vincent - Some of Them Are Old (Brian Eno Cover) (Live at Burgundy Stain Sessions) by TwentyFourBit.com


E o original (do álbum Here Come the Warm Jets, 1974)




People come and go
And forget to close the door,
And leave their stains and cigarette butts trampled on the floor,
And when they do, remember me, remember me.

Some of them are old,
Some of them are new,
Some of them will turn up when you least expect them to,
And when they do, remember me, remember me.

Lucy you're my girl,
Lucy you're a star,
Lucy please be still and hide your madness in a jar,
But do beware: it will follow you, it will follow you.

Some of them are old
But it would help if you could smile,
To earn a crooked sixpence you'll walk many crooked miles,
And when you do, remember me, remember me.

Bach in Asia?

É publicidade a um telemóvel, de exterior feito de madeira, mas... publicidade da melhor. O 10º andamento da cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 tocado pela gravidade terrestre.

O céu do Porto, agora

The Earth spins 'round while the people fall down

Lisa Germano - From a Shell (de Underworld OST, 2003)





And the Earth spins 'round while the people fall down
And the world stands still, not a sound, not a sound
There is love, there is love to be found
In the worst way, in the worst way, in the worst way

It's the buzz, it's the buzz, it's the buzz
It's the buzz, it's the buzz, I wish I was
It's the buzz, it's the buzz, it's the most fun

From a little shell at the bottom of the sea
With the Earth and the Moon and the Sun above me
But the world fell down with some people still around
There is love, there is love to be found

With the gods all gone and the souls making sounds
In the worst way, in the worst way, in the worst way

It's the buzz, it's the buzz, it's the buzz
It's the buzz, it's the buzz, I wish I was
It's the buzz, it's the buzz, it's the most fun

From a little shell at the bottom of the sea
With the Earth and the Moon and the Sun around me
There is love, there is love, there is love

It's a buzz, it's a buzz, it's a buzz
It's the buzz, it's the buzz, I wish I was
It's a buzz, it's a buzz, it's a buzz

O céu nocturno tem um Screen Saver

Sugere-se a visão em ecrã inteiro.

In The Land Of The Northern Lights from Ole Christian Salomonsen on Vimeo.

Epílogo

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Epilogue (de Heartbeat, 1992)




Velha Página (Olavo Bilac, Poesias)

Chove. Que mágoa lá fora!
Que mágoa! Embruscam-se os ares
Sobre este rio que chora
Velhos e eternos pesares.

E sinto o que a terra sente
E a tristeza que diviso,
Eu, de teus olhos ausente,
Ausente de teu sorriso...

As asas loucas abrindo,
Meus versos, num longo anseio,
Morrerão, sem que, sorrindo,
Possa acolhê-los teu seio!

Ah! quem mandou que fizesses
Minh'alma da tua escrava,
E ouvisses as minhas preces,
Chorando como eu chorava?

Por que é que um dia me ouviste,
Tão pálida e alvoroçada,
E, como quem ama, triste,
Como quem ama, calada?

Tu tens um nome celeste...
Quem é do céu é sensível!
Por que é que me não disseste
Toda a verdade terrível?

Por que, fugindo impiedosa,
Desertas o nosso ninho?
- Era tão bela esta rosa!...
Já me tardava este espinho!

Fora melhor, porventura,
Ficar no antigo degredo
Que conhecer a ventura
Para perdê-la tão cedo!

Por que me ouviste, enxugando
O pranto das minhas faces?
Viste que eu vinha chorando...
Antes assim me deixasses!

Antes! Menor me seria
O sofrimento, querida!
Antes! a mão que alivia
A dor, e cura a ferida,

Não deve depois, tranqüila,
Vendo sufocada a mágoa,
Encher de sangue a pupila
Que já vira cheia de água...

Mas junto a mim que te falta?
Que glória maior te chama?
Não sei de glória mais alta
Do que a glória de quem ama!

Talvez te chame a riqueza...
Despreza-a, beija-me, e fica!
Verás que assim, com certeza,
Não há quem seja mais rica!

Como é que quebras os laços
Com que prendi o universo,
Entre os nossos quatro braços,
Na jaula azul do meu verso?

Como hei de eu, de hoje em diante,
Viver, depois que partires?
Como queres tu que eu cante
No dia em que não me ouvires?

Tem pena de mim! tem pena
De alma tão fraca! Como há de
Minh'alma, que é tão pequena,
Poder com tanta saudade?!

Last das Unthanks

The Unthanks - Last (de Last, 2011)

Quando Bryan Ferry queria... conseguia

Tem sido impossível encontrar "este" Bryan Ferry nos últimos discos dele.

Bryan Ferry - Falling in love again (can't help it) (música: Friedrich Hollaender, 1930; letra: Sammy Lerner)

Colours fading to black

PJ Harvey - The colour of the Earth (de Let England Shake)

Once in a lifetime?

A propósito disto:
Massive earthquake hits Japan - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime (de Remain in Light)



And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here ?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this ?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile ?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house !
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife !
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...

Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean !

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house ?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go ?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right ?...Am I wrong ?
And you may tell yourself
MY GOD !...WHAT HAVE I DONE ?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...

Memórias de 2002

Incognito - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (do álbum Who needs love, de 2002)

Memórias de 2010

Ashley Beedle & Darren Morris - When I Walk With You (Heartbreak Song) ft. Sarah Cracknell, do álbum Mavis presented by Ashley Beedle & Darren Morris (2010)

Contradições

Simon & Garfunkel - I am a rock (em Sounds of Silence, 1966)

A winter's day
In a deep and dark december;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and its loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.

Memórias de 1987

Bel Canto - Without You (de White-Out Conditions)

Ainda o Egipto

Allen Toussaint - Egyptian Fantasy

Tunísia, pois claro

Dizzy Gillespie teria antecipando, em 1942, a revolução tunisina de 2011? A crer na secção rítmica de A Night in Tunisia, aqui numa interpretação de Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, dir-se-ia que sim...

O Egipto finalmente livre de Mubarak

Haja optimismo.

Julie Driscoll - Road to Cairo


Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile


Weather Report - Nubian Sundance


Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Sue Egypt


Future Sound of London - Egypt


Two Banks of Four - Banks of the Nile

Hoje faz anos... 2

John Tavener, 67 anos

The Lamb

Hoje faz anos... 1

Robert Wyatt, 66 anos

Porque será que esta música, com 37 anos, não cansa?...

A moça também vai aos clássicos

E sai-se muito bem. Joan of Arc, de Leonard Cohen, aqui numa versão instrumental recriada pela Anna Calvi.

Mais Anna Calvi

Dê-se-lhe todo o destaque. Merece!

Moulinette (ao vivo, Luminaire)

Oh... queria ter lá estado...

Há precisamente um ano...

Anna Calvi - Love Won't Be Leaving (Live at Luminaire)



Vá, todos ao mesmo tempo:

Love won't be leaving
It won't be gone until I find a way
(la la ra la lai... la ra la la la la ra la lai)

Anna Calvi - uma surpresa para começar o ano

Uma excelente recomendação de João Lisboa, no Expresso de hoje:

Uma recordação

Jon Lucien - Rashida (do álbum Rashida)

 

No primeiro 5 do ano, venham de lá 5

No primeiro 5 de 2011, eis duas versões de um tema de Paul Desmond, popularizado por Dave Brubeck mas aqui interpretado por Al Jarreau: Take Five (não basta a audição de uma, é preciso ouvir as duas versões!).

Em 1976, na Alemanha


E em 1994, também na Alemanha:

Há músicas que nunca cansam...

Underworld - Jumbo (do álbum Beaucoup Fish, de 1999), aqui numa (excelente) versão ao vivo. Telefones, fios, conexões, desconexões. Click. There are no borders between us/Only these wires.




I need sugar
I need a little water sugar
I get thoughts about you
And the night wants me like a little lost child

Locked in a safe place
Looking out the window
The dark move fast past the window
The dark on the other side of the locked door

Click
Click

Her thumb's on a Tetris keyring
Move in, brilliant timing
You pick up the phone
And I'm imagining

Click
Click

Tiny wires in her ears
Slide into the city
Tiny wires in her ears
Slide into the city

Steel under the
Power above her
Steel under the
Power above her

Click
Click

Rising in the morning I spoke to you
(Beneath the feet in the city)
Click, you disconnect from me
Click when you gonna take your century

Telephone breath between us
There are no borders between us
Only these wires
The dust between the wires
And the green grass
And in the distance
I am your tourist. 

O céu continua nublado...

... e não há observações astronómicas a fazer, assim... Não deu para ver o eclipse solar parcial nem tão-pouco as Quadrântidas... Too bad...
Ouçam-se coisas, então.



Pete Namlook - Air (1993) - Je suis triste et seule ici...

2010 terminou...

... e com ele várias coisas.

Os Underworld sabem também como terminar um disco. O tema final do álbum Barking, de 2010, disponível na versão japonesa.


Underworld - Simple Peal found on Electronic

A primeira segunda-feira do ano

Underworld - Louisiana (do álbum Barking, do defunto ano de 2010)


I fell asleep last night
On a roundabout

A cloud of wings
From the glass around you
Light reflects
The sun on your skin

When you touch me
Bullets in conversation
On a crowded train
Quietly violent

When you touch me
Planets in sweet collision
Quietly violent

I fell asleep last night
On the underground

The air vibrates
With the light around you
The darkness breaks
Whenever you walk in

When you touch me
Planets in sweet collision
When you touch me
Bullets in conversation
Quietly violent
Quietly violent

O primeiro dia do ano...

...continuou nublado...
As abertas da véspera deixavam ainda uma esperança de melhorias, mas não...

E hoje a cidade está deserta. Ou quase. Fantasmas há-os sempre:

Robert Foster - From Ghost Town