Stacey Kent - close your eyes

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Zygmunt Bauman - sobre os laços humanos, redes sociais, liberdade e segurança

Zygmunt Bauman, sociólogo polonês, idealizador do conceito "modernidade líquida".
 A superficialidade das relações na pós modernidade , a manipulação dos meios de comunicação e a superficialidade das redes sociais.

Omar Sosa - My Three Notes

Esvoaçante...

art of motion Talk: About Contemporary Pilates

Yes, this makes a lot of sense.

You must try to feel it.

Dexy's Midnight Runners- Reminisce (Part Two)

"We were both 16, they were sweet, warm nights and it's a fond memory now. We decided we should adopt a song, a song that was current. She wanted "I'll Say Forever, My Love" by Jimmy Ruffin, I wanted it to be "Lola" by The Kinks(...)Well, she won. It was never really acknowledged but "I'll Say Forever" became the song."

"The overall theme of these columns has been the interplay between place, song and listener in acting as a


trigger for memories or impressions.The ability of music to do this is well known, a Proustian effect by which hearing even a snatch of a song can bring recognition of the past in a present moment(...)


(...)Songs, of course, aren’t usually written with this mind – they are, more likely, intended for the moment.

(...) The track here, however, Reminisce Pt 2 by Dexys Midnight Runners, takes a step back by being a song not primarily about a place but about memories –in this case, of a teenage love affair – recalled by songs of the time.This came from their 1985 album, Don’t Stand Me Down.(...)




There is, however, something troubling about this reminiscence – the date the song recalls and the tunes it is remembered by don’t match up. The words place the romance in the summer of 1969. However, the two songs in the running for the couple’s special tune, Lola by the Kinks andI’ll Say Forever My Love by Jimmy Ruffin, came from the summer of 1970(...)Likewise, the two songs played on the radio and by which Kevin Rowland remembers that summer - Wedding Bell Blues andLeaving On a Jet Plane – weren’t summer songs at all by the time they reached the UK. Wedding Bell Blues was an early Laura Nyro song, performed by her at the Monterey Festival in 1967, but the USA and UK hit was by the Fifth Dimension, reaching the UK charts in January 1970. Similarly, Peter, Paul and Mary’s version of Leaving On A Jet Plane was on the radio in the winter of 1969 and in the charts in early 1970.

(...)In a real sense, this doesn’t matter and could be poetic licence. This is a song, not a historical record, and there may be good reasons for the switch in year and telescoping songs over a period of time into one summer. (...)Perhaps, in the same way, a lost love is more appropriately remembered by I’ll Say Forever My Loverather than, say, by Middle of the Road and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.
(...)Perhaps, too, it merely shows that memory is fallible though, in truth, both Leaving On A Jet Plane and Wedding Bell Blues do sound like summer songs. It is human for the mind to recast the past. It didn’t always snow at Christmas ; the first gig you went to wasn’t really the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club; and it wasn’t always a golden summer on Cromer beach. It only becomes dangerous if you go searching for a rewritten past and expect to find it in the present. This is an odd song.(...)It does make me think about the past though, and realise that the distance between now and this song is greater than between the song and the young love it describes. In the interplay of past and present it has itself become a marker along the way."
Read more in http://songsaboutplaces.blogspot.pt/2011/04/reminisce-part-2.html

Keith Jarret "The Melody at Night, With You"- Be my Love

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"The Melody at Night, With You is a  solo album by American pianist   Keith Jarret recorded at his home studio in 1998 and released on the ECM label in 1999. It was recorded during his bout with  chronic fatigue sindrome and was dedicated to Jarrett's second and then-wife, Rose Anne: "For Rose Anne, who heard the music, then gave it back to me".

In an interview in Time magazine in November 1999, he explained ″I started taping it in December of 1997, as a Christmas present for my wife. I'd just had my Hamburg Steinway overhauled and wanted to try it out, and I have my studio right next to the house, so if I woke up and had a half-decent day, I would turn on the tape recorder and play for a few minutes. I was too fatiqued to do more. Then something started to click with the mike placement, the new action of the instrument,... I could play so soft,... and the internal dynamics of the melodies... of the songs... It was one of those little miracles that you have to be ready for, though part of it was that I just didn't have the energy to be clever.″

Féloche - Silbo

Il existe un endroit où les hommes parlent comme les oiseaux.
Sur l'île de La Gomera, on entend "el silbo" en écho.

Entre deux montagnes amarées aux nuages,
Un "guache" siffle pour s'inviter à dîner.

Au menu ? Un "mojo" piquant qui monte aux yeux.
Et, à nouveau, un sifflement pour se dire adieu.

A le voir crapahuter, le pied agile, les jambes arquées,
On ne le distingue dans l'argile que par le son de son sifflet.

La "lucha canaria" pour protéger son île,
"El silbo" pour braver la "Guardia civil".

Refrain:
C'est une île au paradis où les humains sifflent aussi.
Le plus beau chant du plus bel oiseau, c'est le silbo gomero.
C'est le silbo gomero.

La "guagua" escalade les jardins en escalier.
Sous le volcan d'la ballade, "el silbo" perce la fumée.

Et me voilà, petit géant, prêt à siffler dans le vent,
Les deux-trois mots que j'ai gardés s'envolent vers toi.
Gomero ! Bonifacio !

Refrain
Le plus beau chant du plus bel oiseau, c'est le "silbo gomero".

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- Silbo : sifflement en espagnol, langage sifflé de l'île de La Gomera (Canaries).
- Guache : berger de chèvre, goatherdsmen.
- Mocho : sauce à base d'ail et de cumin, accompagnant des pommes de terre.
- Lucha canaria : lutte canarienne, sport traditionnel.
- Guardia civil : force de police à statut militaire.
- Guagua : réseau de bus publics, appelés guagua Canaries (prononcé UAUA).
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