GRAINS FROM THE UNIVERSE

Estaba comentando con una amiga que había vivido la época cuya canción y vídeo pueden observar. Lo descubrí en YouTube hace un par de días. Tras dos o tres veces de repetir y recordar la canción, me pregunté, al ver los planos individuales, cómo podía ser que las tres cantantes, las chicas principales del grupo, vistieran casi como salidas de la serie española "El Ministerio del Tiempo". Mi amiga respondió que tal vez son las modas que se repiten. Yo voy más allá, pues quedé atónito con la imagen (ya que le envié solo la canción y no el vídeo). Si pusiéramos este mismo vídeo en color, HD y en cualquier canal de los que abundan hoy en televisión, cualquiera pensaría que son tres señoras que se reunen para ir de compras, charlar, divertirse, ir a trabajar o simplemente darse una vuelta por los alrededores de cualquier ciudad de España, Europa o el mundo occidental. Es más: si nos fijamos en las mechas de la que parece ser rubia, no tienen un toque muy rebuscado, con muchos re...

Música Reservata Música Reservata es un Podcast de Música Clásica que estoy escuchando este fin de mes. Se trata de un Podcast con matices educativos, enfocados al entretenimiento y la búsqueda de una música clásica y culta para el público mayor de edad y con determinados gustos musicales un poco más exquisitos que los del Blog en general (que es de corte educativo, también exquisito, pero más generalista). Cada Podcast es ligero, agradable y ajustado al tiempo, por lo que para un oído exigente se le hará corto: consta de una breve introducción, biografía del músico o compositor elegido y un fragmento escogido como ejemplo. En definitiva, un delicioso y suntuoso manjar cultural, ahora que tan faltos estamos de estos postres enormemente caros, según mi parecer. Enlace directo a Podcast de Barbara Strozzi El gusto don Manuel López Benito va a dejar muy satisfecho o satisfecha al receptor de cada corte musical. Además, el resto del Blog, seguirá teniendo los mismos contenidos de siem...

I was just revising this blog's design and contents. I read again my article about Suzie Quatro. Fortunatelly, she has been interviewed in Studio 10, acting alive in the 2nd part. I was afraid she could not reach the standards alive, but finally, she could, afters years being away from the scenario and doing a little effort to take a doctorate in music, apart from being very busy. I remembered Bonnie Tyler (though it is not the same singer, I know), for both are sharp fighting spirits, that is to say, similar courage singers that know that age is nothing but an advantadge. Suzie Quatro has a new CD, called QSP, with a long repertoire of new magnificent songs and also a 'book' with the album with the old ones. She herself is the same woman, older, but the same voice somehow and the clear lady (now married and with many more experiences back, I suppose.) Nice, surprising, funny and someone interesting for the words she says. Bravo, Suzie! Such a good example for the ne...

Mr Winters has personally ask their followers to write an essay about how they met him and tell about everything they wanted to via e-mail, for he is thinking to write a CD-Book next Christmas. I think it is an excellent idea, for Winters's main idea was to publish new records of his masterpieces. I did not know who Mr Winters was until I watched his videos on Youtube. Before that, I was looking for some good music to concentrate in my studying. I remembered that Bach's famous Fugue on Clavichord was a useful piece for concentration and that it existed on that instrument. I used to look for it in Spotify, but most of the results were piano pieces and I did not find what I was looking for. When I found Wim Winters' music, I recognize I watched it just for pleasure and like Art itself. Sometimes, he performed a concert in the clavichord and it made me felt astonished at what I was watching for the level of quality I thought it had. Then, there were some of his exp...

I had found the entire album in a cassette my aunt had given me one day in the early 90s. It was a collection of Bowie’s best classical songs. It was one of the first artists and musicians I understood and liked, listened to during autumn and winter time periods, and also shared with my colleagues in high school, when I had my first high speed double tape deck. It took a long time to make some copies, but I used to do my homework while I listened to that sound similar to “The laughing gnome”. David had an awesome voice, good rhythm and an excellent repertoire, amongst many other unforgettable characteristics I have found recently via Youtube –through some videos I had never seen before, like those about Space Oddity -. I had also watched a Sci-Fi film where he appeared as a fan's  phenomena (now it would be a super-friky phenomena for a few or perhaps for millions of followers, who knows). In that movie, vampires, modern computers, special forces and the own UK’s government...

Last September, I was looking for some good music to listen to, when I heard something I was fascinated for: What it was? It sounded like an old group of Rock-n-Roll or "Smooth Heavy". It was a rythmic music and a good voice recorded, but I didn't remember it or I had listened to it when I was a child , so I didn't know anything about that group. They had a very good and modern way of dressing code that could be 90's or even nowadays if Suzie didn't wear that  metal collars and too much black. The drummer was also up-to-date.  I thought they had all died. I thought 'perhaps they were famous and sold many LPs once a day,' but it was not true. The singer is still alive and was part of the group "Suzie Quatro."  She's one of the most famous Rock'n'Roll girls. I didn't know anything, for new styles and years have become old-fashioned. Suzie, the singer, is alive and still living in England. She recognizes it wasn...

Recordings and Natural 'sound'. Right now, I'm listening to a very interesting interview the musician and piano-clavichord player Wim Winters (who is doing  new recordings in AuthenticSound Project ) made to Philip Newell, who lives in Vigo, Galicia, Spain. Mr Newell is said to be one of the best technicians of our times, according to the interviewer, for he made recordings of rock and classical music like Mac Oldfield, Queen or Bernstein, amongst many others.  Just listening to this video, I'm listening to the sounds they make in English and, for the knowledge I have in that language, I realize the recording is a high quality one: Each vowel, sound pattern and sentence is heard clearly. I'm using my earphones and a common computer like most of you must have, so I think some Digital Remastered pieces should be heard like this way. When I listen or watch a video, the most important thing for me is not only a good quality image (just a clear one) but a high s...

My first blog post was in Spanish and it explained how Classical Music could be a new passion, as well as a kind of educative tool for anyone with some level of knowledge in music. I think nowadays, when we have reached some level of culture with some people which cannot access easily Classical Music, but, at the same time, is able to choose a varied kind of musical videos but with no explanation of what they are listening to or what kind of music they are watching (whether it is jazz, pop, rock, soul or any kind of a new piece of rap)this class of video can be the perfect solution. I think old and new forms will reach each other and mix, not in form but in the net, like we can see a video about sciences or making a cake for a host. In arts and culture in general, I think we should not give up and continue helping others, like children, other cultures and elders, for music (and Classical music in this case) is a divine art which is being substituted by common everyday noises....

Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura). Son muy accesibles, dicen, las películas por Internet y ¡están desbancando al Arte, oh Dios Mío! Pues no. Con Cría Cuervos me las vi y me las deseé: Me costó muchísimo poderla ver. Tan sólo encontré en las redes muchísimas críticas y pareciera que estaba buscando material de muy alto secreto en vez de una de las mejores películas del cine español moderno. Se trata de una excelente y muy original producción de principios de la Transición española. Se entremezclan en este filme la inocencia y la pureza de los sentimientos de la infancia junto con la realidad, los sueños, la fatalidad del pasado, la enfermedad, el sexo y las ilusiones perdidas tanto por las luchas internas como externas de los seres humanos. También salen a la luz sentimientos muy reprimidos durante décadas de dictadura franquista en España, altas dosis de surrealismo -que se reflejan en las patas de gallina de la nevera según Wikipedia, cosa que dudo, pues se usarían ...

OCTAVIO KRAUS PRESENTS HIS NEW ALBUM, 'ROLLING THE NUT' ; 'VUELTA DE TUERCA.' Octavio Kraus, Mr Kraus , the grandson of the brother of the world-famous Canarian-Spanish Opera singer Alfredo Kraus, has again surprised us with a new video-masterpiece dedicated to the also famous DJ David Guetta.  From my point of view, the music is quite  impressive  and better than his previous works, and it even has a variety of sounds and rhythms that change more than in his initial or former records. The video is for experts, for I cannot catch the significance of 'the walk and the music' at the same time. It has got a deep meaning, a relationship with the song, but this time I'm not able to get all the feelings that emerge from it. If there's some Spanish-Canarian or English expert who could pay attention and watch to the entire video and music, please, leave me a comment and I'll be very thankful for it. I do not mean that it's mea...