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A Little Light Music: March 2015
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A Little Light Music. Monday, 23 March 2015. Busy life, no time, short post. I know I’ve been saying the same thing for the last four months, but last year I had way too much free time so I could spend a lot of time writing. Let me stress again, last. Year Anyway, this post is about a song I used to hate when I was a child. Funny how things change, right? I’ve never been into African music, but I’m slowly starting to like some stuff. When people migrated from Cape Verde, departures of friends and family ...
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A Little Light Music: August 2014
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A Little Light Music. Wednesday, 27 August 2014. Lágrimas Negras: the perfect fusion between latin rhythms, flamenco and jazz. It’s funny how we sometimes look back and think “how could I dislike this? 8221; At least it has often happened to me, mostly with certain music (with food too). One of my biggest moments of bewilderment at my own blindness was when I realized how superb the album Lágrimas Negras. Black tears in English) is. So I wasn’t particularly excited to hear another version of the so...
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A Little Light Music: July 2014
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A Little Light Music. Wednesday, 23 July 2014. Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale: chilled blues at its finest. I guess there are not many people who haven’t heard of Eric Clapton. One of the best known musicians around, considered one of the best guitarists ever and the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. Not bad, huh? And not only because Clapton covers Cale’s Cocaine. The album was originally going to be just ...
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A Little Light Music: January 2015
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A Little Light Music. Saturday, 24 January 2015. Dire Straits (II): so good, so short. Mark Knopfler didn’t waste time after Communiqué. The band’s third album, was ready only months after their sophomore effort. His brother Dave left the band before finishing the album and, although most of his guitar parts were ready, Mark re-recorded them. The sound is more mature than ever before, and, except from Expresso Love. There is one song that stands tall above all the others: Tunnel of Love. Is a relatively ...
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A Little Light Music: Heiemo and the troll
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A Little Light Music. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Heiemo and the troll. There’s one specific song that is stuck in my mind these days. I found it in a Norwegian music compilation called Music of Norway- Nordisk Sang. And its title is Heiemo og Nykkjen. Perhaps some of the more familiar tales come from "The Iliad & Odyssey") Odysseus and the Sirens), the 7th cen. Anglo-Saxon tale from Beowulf (Grendel's Mother was a water troll or "merewif"), and the 15th cen. French tale of "Melusine". The tale tells of a you...
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A Little Light Music: July 2015
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A Little Light Music. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Heiemo and the troll. There’s one specific song that is stuck in my mind these days. I found it in a Norwegian music compilation called Music of Norway- Nordisk Sang. And its title is Heiemo og Nykkjen. Perhaps some of the more familiar tales come from "The Iliad & Odyssey") Odysseus and the Sirens), the 7th cen. Anglo-Saxon tale from Beowulf (Grendel's Mother was a water troll or "merewif"), and the 15th cen. French tale of "Melusine". The tale tells of a you...
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A Little Light Music: May 2015
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A Little Light Music. Thursday, 21 May 2015. The excellent taste in music of Portuguese gas stations. By the way, I’m talking about One More Car, One More Rider. A live double CD from 2001. It combines songs that were new back then (damn, it’s already been fifteen years! And old ones; jazz, blues and rock. It’s a really amazing concert and there’s not a single bad song. The instrumental jazzy Reptile. That was a nice closer! Is a good example of this. PS: here's the facebook page for the blog. He has als...
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A Little Light Music: April 2015
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A Little Light Music. Monday, 13 April 2015. The Alan Parsons Project's darkest secret/ F*ck Youtube. This is where you stop reading, unless you’re a big geek. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. That’s how The Sicilian Defence. The album finally resurfaced, though. Ah, the wonders of the internet. I think it was also included in some compilation, but I’m not sure. Anyway, the thing is that I was relatively surprised. Sure, it’s obvious that Parsons and Woolfson didn’t take the...The alan parsons project. I did...
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A Little Light Music: Jethro Tull (IX): folk rock(s)
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A Little Light Music. Thursday, 26 February 2015. Jethro Tull (IX): folk rock(s). I’ve tried to diversify a little bit in the last couple of months and I’ve written about a few new things or continued talking about bands I hadn’t mentioned in quite a while, but now it’s time to go back to Tull. Most people think Tull’s first few albums were their best. I’ve read people who said their favourite Jethro Tull album was Stand Up. Thick as a Brick. Finally, Maddy Prior, Steeleye’s vocalist, sang in a cou...
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A Little Light Music: February 2015
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A Little Light Music. Thursday, 26 February 2015. Jethro Tull (IX): folk rock(s). I’ve tried to diversify a little bit in the last couple of months and I’ve written about a few new things or continued talking about bands I hadn’t mentioned in quite a while, but now it’s time to go back to Tull. Most people think Tull’s first few albums were their best. I’ve read people who said their favourite Jethro Tull album was Stand Up. Thick as a Brick. Finally, Maddy Prior, Steeleye’s vocalist, sang in a cou...