From the excelente "This Empty Northern Hemisphere", a great song from Gregory Alan Isakov.
terça-feira, 24 de abril de 2012
Gregory Alan Isakov: Dandelion Wine
From the excelente "This Empty Northern Hemisphere", a great song from Gregory Alan Isakov.
domingo, 22 de abril de 2012
Bandolero: Paris Latino
An automatic message so i won't fail the weekly Italo-Disco song. I hate Sundays...
quarta-feira, 18 de abril de 2012
Arthur Lee & Love: A House is not a Motel
From one of my favourite records "Forever Changes"... The sound isn't really good, those aren't really "Love", but this is the song for today.
segunda-feira, 16 de abril de 2012
Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday
One of my favourite songs by Billy Holiday. The song, composed by Rezső Seress, is reputed to encourage suicide. The song was, supposedly for this reason, banned by the BBC.
domingo, 15 de abril de 2012
Gazebo: I like Chopin
Como será então possível definir Italo-Disco? Acredito que é algo axiomático. Talvez diga isso por sentir dificuldade em enumerar as suas características embora seja muito fácil a sua classificação. Assim, lentamente, tentarei fazer progressos numa eventual definição:
Esta semana a minha sugestão é: "Deve ser possível passar numa pista de carrinhos de choque".
Em relação à música, isso é que interessa, a minha sugestão da semana é "I Like Chopin" e foi um dos maiores êxitos do estilo, representando paradigmaticamente o género.
PS: A melodia em piano não é de Chopin mas sim do produtor Pierluigi Giombini, incontornável do género.
Another Sunday, another Italo-Disco song. In this space I confess that I'll do something, maybe not illegal, but certainly immoral, joining Italo-Disco to other similiar genres. Thus, from this moment, Italo-Disc means a little more. How is then possible to define Italo-Disco? I believe that is something axiomatic. You may say that it is difficult to enumerate its features while it is very easy to classify it's songs. So, slowly, I'll try to make progress on a possible definition: This week is my suggestion: "It's a song you can hear on bumper cars." Regarding the music, that's what really matters, my suggestion for this week is this amazing "I Like Chopin" e it was one of the greatest hits of Italo-Disco. It's one of the songs that represents best the Italo-Disco style. PS: The piano's melody is not from Chopin but for the producer Pierluigi Giombini, one of the most famous Italo-Disco producer.
sexta-feira, 13 de abril de 2012
Karen Dalton: Little Bit of Rain
For what she worth, Karen Dalton should be more known. Especially for a person with friends like Bob Dylan and Fred Neil (this is one of his original). It is true that the fact that she only recorded one disc in the 60s (and only came out in 1969) did not help. Many compare her voice to Billie Holiday even though it might be too different for environments more popular ...
quarta-feira, 11 de abril de 2012
Tindersticks: Factory Girls
From "Falling Down a Mountain", this "Factory Girls" is, for me, one of the best moments of the record. This song has been played in their last tour that passed in "Festival para Gente Sentada".
terça-feira, 10 de abril de 2012
Tom Waits: Somewhere
From a great record from Tom Waits (Blue Valentine), this song from West Side Story, has here a fantastic interpretation.
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