Fanfarlo, Shiny Things (Rooms Filled With Light, 2012)

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Peanuts: uma paródia na Abbey Road

vi@ Wooster Collective

Herb Ritts

David Bowie fotografado por Herb Ritts

Não desistir!

Um projecto para a Vida (o dia-a-dia)...

Desire // Under Your Spell

Um dos temas da competente e interessante banda sonora do filme Drive (2011). Um thriller que também é uma história de amor e onde Ryan Gosling tem um papel que o define como um dos maiores da sua geração, numa interpretação dominada por uma contenção que em nada diminui a pujança do seu personagem. Sabe bem, passar por um espectáculo destes, quando o enredo propiciaria um exagero de meios e interpretações nos quais o seu director, Nicolas Winding Refn, fez o favor de não se deixar cair.

I don't eat
I don't sleep
I do nothing but think of you

I don't eat
I don't sleep
I do nothing but think of you

You keep me under your spell
You keep me under your spell
You keep me under your spell

You keep me under your spell
You keep me under your spell
You keep me under your spell

Hey!
Ya
I was wondering, you the difference between love and obsession?
No...
And what's the difference between obsession and desire?
I don't know...
Do you think this feeling can last forever?
You mean, like, forever ever
For ever ever
For ever ever
For ever ever
For ever ever
Sure
Oh God, I hope so...
Me too.

I don't eat
I don't sleep
I do nothing but think of you

I don't eat
I don't sleep
I do nothing but think of you

You keep me under your spell
You keep me under your spell
You keep me under your spell

You keep me under your spell
You keep me under your spell
You keep me under your spell


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I don't eat
I don't sleep
I do nothing but think of you

I don't eat
I don't sleep
I do nothing but think of you

WU LYF // Heavy Pop

Mais uma banda de promissores (digo eu, mas não só) rapazes oriundos daquele viveiro musical chamado de Manchester. O tema tocado no passado dia 4 deste mês no programa de David Letterman é a última faixa do primeiro (e até agora único) registo oficial da banda, Go Tell Fire to the Mountain. A reter.

P.S.: Já agora e a título de curiosidade, antes de começarem a magicar se o nome da banda significa alguma coisa, WU LYF significa "World Unite/Lucifer Youth Foundation". Pronto. ;)

Youth Lagoon // July

Youth Lagoon - July from Tyler T Williams on Vimeo.

Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours

Um tema do segundo e último álbum da banda, Closer, para mim o mais importante na curta obra dos Joy Division. A letra do meu destaque musical (mais uma vez...) cola-se-me como se tivesse sido escutado no mais fundo da alma e do ser. Qualidade do espectador atento da vida que foi Ian Curtis ou a prova de que a Vida dá voltas que por vezes vão desaguar nos sentimentos já por outros antes sentidos e aqui tão magistralmente aplicados numa canção?

So this is permanence, love's shattered pride
What once was innocence, turned on its side
A cloud hangs over me, marks every move
Deep in the memory, of what once was love

Oh how I realised how I wanted time
Put into perspective, tried so hard to find
Just for one moment, thought I'd found my way
Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away

Excessive flashpoints, beyond all reach
Solitary demands for all I'd like to keep
Let's take a ride out, see what we can find
A valueless collection of hopes and past desires

I never realised the lengths I'd have to go
All the darkest corners of a sense I didn't know
Just for one moment, I heard somebody call
Looked beyond the day in hand, there's nothing there at all

Now that I've realised how it's all gone wrong
Gotta find some therapy, this treatment takes too long
Deep in the heart of where sympathy held sway
Gotta find my destiny, before it gets too late

Guillemots - Dancing In The Devil's Shoes

Um tema muito meu (deveria antes escrever "muito eu"). Gosto muito do seu tom, da nostalgia que passa por estes sons, mas talvez ainda mais das palavras, que se me parecem ajustar que nem uma luva (ou que nem os tais sapatos do Diabo; a verdade é que já começei a (tentar) descalçá-los...). Destaquei os versos para mim mais significativos.

Miles above the ground below
No particular place to go
Flying higher

Stumble back home to the news at 10
Catch a thought
Let it go again
Flying higher

It's a long way down
Down's not where I want to be

And if these days would never end
If laughter was my very oldest friend
Not a growing trend
Where what I have I always tend to lose
By dancing in the devil's shoes

The clock strikes 10 at the edge of doubt
Nothing I know is my world right now
Play on, play on

And could I see my soul turn blue
Cross the sun
Get burnt for you
Play on
Play on

It's a long way home
When home is the violet sky

And there's a torm in every bottle of wine
There's a ghost that finds me every single time
I think of the games we'll miss
The playground and the avarice

Oh I should learn to know what to keep
What to let go
Talking out loud is not a good thing to do
When you're dancing in the devil's shoes

And I wish your face was just your face
And not the moonlight's chosen resting place
How can the world compare?
It's just a planet when you're not there

Come watch me hit the ground
With the most fantastic sound
Talking out loud is not a good thing to do
When you're dancing in the devil's shoes
Dancing in the devil's shoes

Miles above the ground below

Dead Can Dance: O momento é histórico!

Dead Can Dance com novo álbum este ano e ainda uma tournée mundial, anunciados oficialmente há cerca de 12 horas atrás! Decididamente, 2012 está a ser culturalmente muito mexido. Aleluia & Bem Haja! Tudo já a clicar na imagem abaixo, para sacar o EP "Live Happenings (Part II)" com 4 faixas gravadas ao vivo pela banda. Para a Part I dos Live Happenings clicar aqui.

n.b.: Nenhum dos oito temas das duas partes descritas são inéditos, fazendo parte da discografia anterior dos DCD, apesar de aqui reproduzidos em actuações live nos espectáculos de 2005. Anunciam-se mais novidades para breve.

The Legendary Tigerman & Guests - Coliseu

Mais uma boa notícia da produção Made in Portugal (e agradabilíssima surpresa) este DVD editado em exclusivo pela revista BLITZ no seu número deste Janeiro de 2012. É o filme, dirigido por Filipe Cunha Monteiro, dos 27 temas que o Paulo a.k.a."Legendary Tiger Man" Furtado partilhou no seu espectáculo no Coliseu dos Recreios de Lisboa em 22 de Janeiro de 2011 e para o qual convidou uma panóplia de artistas que com ele colaboram, mais ou menos habitualmente, como Dead Combo, Lisa Kekaula (Bellrays), Claudia Efe (Micro Audio Waves), Rita Redshoes, Wraygunn e João Doce. Vale todos os €6,90 + €2,90 da revista. Corram a comprar antes que esgote (não se arrependerão).

Frank Zappa, Los Angeles 1976 (by Norman Seeff)

E aqui está outro homem que sempre admirei, desde que o começei a ouvir em 1973. Francis Vincent Zappa. Deus o tenha em descanso (ou a infernizar os santinhos tocando guitarra com o seu conhecido abandono genial).

Los Angeles, 1976, fotografado por "Norm" Seeff

While you're at it, aproveitem e explorem o restante trabalho fotográfico do não menos icónico Norman Seeff.

8th Grader, Heavy Without You

Heavy Without You from 8th Grader on Vimeo.

Talk to me baby
Tell me what you’re feeling
You say you don’t need to go
Don’t you pretend you didn’t know

I wanted this forever
Girl I saw it in your eyes
And baby I can read your mind
And expectations were not insight

You knew that talking dirty to me on the floor would get me here
Cause we both wanted to do this but I could tell that you were scared
Cause you thought there was more to us but you knew how this would end
It’s gonna end how you expected girl you’re such a masochist and I ask why

And you reply
I like the thrill
Nothing’s gonna make me feel this real
So baby don’t go home
I don’t wanna spend tonight alone

Baby please
Would you end your night with me
Don’t you leave me all behind
Don’t you leave my little life [x2]

No no no no no[x6]

Florence + The Machine - Shake it Out (The Weeknd Remix)

Poucas remisturas acrescentam algo de novo à obra original. Para mim este tema da Florence (já de sim um épico por moto próprio) adquire não uma mas várias, novas, dimensões depois de trabalhado pelo jovem músico de Toronto conhecido como The Weeknd, após convite da própria Florence Welch + a sua machine. Ouve-se pelo resultado que tanto um (criadora original) quanto o outro (re-"inventador") sabem do que fazem.

Palavra final para o 3º álbum de remisturas que o Abel Tesfaye colocou há dois dias para download gratuito no seu sítio oficial, Echoes of Silence de seu nome. A minha prenda natalícia para o sapatinho de quem me segue.

Bon Iver - for Emma

[Narrator:]"So aproposSaw death on a sunny snow"
[Him:]"For every life..."
[Her:]"forego the parable."
[Him:]"Seek the light."
[Her:]"...my knees are cold."
Running homeRunning homeRunning homeRunning home
[Her:]"Go find another lover;To bring a- to string along!"
"With all your lies,You're still very lovable."
"I toured a lightSo many foreign roadsFor Emma, forever ago."

Arcade Fire presents Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

Dos subúrbios, ao som do álbum de 2010.



They heard me singing and they told me to stop,Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock,These days, my life, I feel it has no purpose,But late at night the feelings swim to the surface.Cause on the surface the city lights shine,They're calling at me, "come and find your kind."
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small,That we can never get away from the sprawl,Living in the sprawl,Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains,And there's no end in sight,I need the darkness someone please cut the lights.
We rode our bikes to the nearest park,Sat under the swings, we kissed in the dark,We shield our eyes from the police lights,We run away, but we don't know why,And like a mirror these city lights shine,They're screaming at us, "we don't need your kind."
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small,That we can never get away from the sprawl,Living in the sprawl,Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains,And there's no end in sight,I need the darkness someone please cut the lights.
They heard me singing and they told me to stop,Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock.
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small,Can we ever get away from the sprawl?Living in the sprawl,Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains,And there's no end in sight,I need the darkness someone please cut the lights.

James Blake - A Case of You

Hoje (?) estou assim. Sinto cada palavra deste poema como a unha de uma criatura selvagem a cravejar-se-me pelas costas abaixo. Consigo mesmo sentir o cheiro do (meu) sangue. Mas não me sai das costas (afinal), vem do mais profundo da minh'alma...




Just before our love got lost, you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, "Constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be at the bar."

On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh Canada
With your face sketched on it twice
Oh you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet

Oh I could drink a case of you darling
Still I'd be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet

Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

I remember that time you told me you said
"Love is touching souls"
Surely you touched mine
'Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time
Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet

Oh I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet

I met a woman
She had a mouth like yours
She knew your life
She knew your devils and your deeds
And she said
"Go to him, stay with him if you can
But be prepared to bleed"

Oh but you are in my blood
You're my holy wine
You taste so bitter, bitter and so sweet

Oh, I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet

Beirut - Port of Call

And I, I called through the air that night
A calm sea voiced with a lie
I could only smile, I've been alone some time
And all, and all, it's been fine

And you, you had hope for me now
I danced all around it somehow
Be fair to me, I may drift a while
Were it up to me, you know I'd

I, I called through the air that night
The faults were swarming inside
Was it infantile, that which we desired?
Were it up to me, all from your eyes

And I, I called through the air that night
My thoughts were still buried inside
We were closer then, I've been alone some time
Filled you glass with gin
Filled your heart with pride
And you, you had hope for me now
I danced all around it somehow
Be fair to me, I may drift a while

If there's a plan for me
Would it make you smile?
No, don't want to be there for no one
I can see

Röyksopp - Poor Leno

(Please find me)