Monday, May 30, 2005

TOM WAITS



Here is another dramatic song from the Cd "Real Gone"by Tom Waits. Tom Waits has not cease to surprise me. He is an incredible artist and a great story teller.

http://media-01.anti.com/tom_waits/real_gone/Hows_It_Gonna_End.mp3


How's It Gonna End

He had 3 whole dollars
A worn out car
And a wife who was
Leaving for good
Life's made of trouble
Worry pain and struggle
She wrote good bye in
The dust on the hood
They found a a map of Missouri
Lipstick on the glass
They must of left
In the middle of the nite
And I want to know
The same thing
Everyone wants to know
How it going to end?
Behind a smoke colored curtain,
the girl Disappeared,
the found out the ring was a fake
A tree born crooked
Will never grow straight
She sunk like a hammer in to the lake
A long lost letter and
And old leaky boat
Promises are never meant
To keep
And I want to know
The same thing
Everyone wants to know
How it going to end?
The barn leaned over
The vultures dried their wings
The moon climbed up an empty sky
The sun sank down behind the tree
On the hill
There's a killer and he's coming
Thru the rye
But maybe he's the Father
Of that lost little girl
It's hard to tell in this light
And I want to know
The same thing
Everyone wants to know
How it going to end?
Drag your wagon and your plow
Over the bones of the dead
Out among the roses and the weeds
You can never go back
And the answer is no
And wishing for it only
Makes it bleed Joel Tornabene was broken
On the wheel Shane and Bum Mahoney on the lamb
The grain was as gold
As Sheila's hair
All the way from Liverpool
With all we could steal
He was robbed of twenty dollars
His body found stripped
Cast into the harbour
There and drowned
And I want to know
The same thing
Everyone wants to know
How it going to end?
The sirens are snaking their
Way up the hill It's last call somewhere in
The wordl
The reptiles blend in with the Color of the street
Life is sweet at the edge
Of a razor
And down in the front row of
An old picture show
The old man is asleep
As the credits start to roll
And I want to know
The same thing
Everyone wants to know
How it going to end?

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Sunday, May 29, 2005



Com esse teu ar
de arcanjo negro
polido e magro
triste e alheado

ficas por vezes quase etereo
calado
enquanto eu te olho docemente

Num espanto condenado
quase mistico
debruco-me secratamente

a
tua beira

e numa especie de prece
porque existes

alheado- magro
belo e triste

estou de joelhos
meu amor
e beijo-te


Maria Teresa Horta(CANDELABRO, 1964)


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Saturday, May 21, 2005

Miguel Torga


Excerto de "Diário IV" - (1946/1949)

Lamego, 5 de Outubro de 1946

Já uma vez tentei escrever da minha meninice passada aqui, mas não fui capaz de coisa de jeito. A infância não se repete, nem na lembrança, nem na imaginação. Quando muito, dá-se outra infância. As cenas ingénuas, porque eram ingénuas, não tinham consciência; e as humilhações, de tão pungentes, não há memória que consinta na sua perfeita expressão. "

Miguel Torga
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" who can not see well, one word
is not able to see well, one soul "

Susana Pestana
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Saturday, May 14, 2005

True Loves Leave No Traces



From the album Death of a Ladies' man.
Leonard Cohen

True Love Leaves No Traces

As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will
Through windows in the dark
The children come, the children go
Like arrows with no targets
Like shackles made of snow
True love leaves no traces
If you and I are one
It's lost in our embraces
Like stars against the sun
As a falling leaf may rest
A moment on the air
So your head upon my breast
So my hand upon your hair
And many nights endure
Without a moon or star
So we will endure
When one is gone and far
True love leaves no traces
If you and I are one
It's lost in our embraces
Like stars against the sun



http://leafandlime.hobix.com/mp3/True%20Loves%20Leaves%20No%20Traces.mp3
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Leonard Cohen


the song
Dance me to the end of love" by Leonard Cohen and very nicely done by Peyroux.

Leonard Cohen - Dance Me To The End Of Love Lyrics

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
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Monday, May 09, 2005

Madeleine Peyroux



Here is a fantastic new singer.

"When she first burst onto the recording scene in 1996, with her stunning debut album Dreamland, Madeleine Peyroux was greeted with a veritable torrent of gushing reviews. Most raved about her smoke-and-whiskey vocals, often comparing her to the late, great Billie Holiday. Others wondered how someone so young could perform classic songs by Holiday, Bessie Smith and Patsy Cline so convincingly as to make them sound like her own. Time magazine pronounced the groundbreaking Dreamland “the most exciting, involving vocal performance by a new singer this year.”
Peyroux, a 22-year-old American who had been living in Paris as a street musician, suddenly found herself on the fast track to fame. Appearances at Lilith Fair and jazz festivals, and opening tours for Sarah McLachlan and Cesaria Evora followed, while Dreamland’s sales reached an impressive 200,000 copies worldwide. “It was great,” recalls Peyroux. “I got to perform with fantastic musicians. I got to see Nina Simone live. I could’ve kept running with it, but instead I stepped back and took a breather.”
You might say Peyroux spent much of her recent past out of the public eye. But with many changes in the music industry in recent years, it is not unusual to find someone in this sort of position. As Peyroux concludes, "It had to do with the climate. ...A lot of artists are no longer getting the kind of attention that they used to." But Peyroux never stopped singing, returning to her busking roots with street performances and club dates around the world from Los Angeles (to New Orleans to New York City) to Western Europe before being signed by Rounder Records in 2003.Eight years have passed between the release of Dreamland and that of Careless Love.
Waiting that long to release her sophomore album is admittedly not a typical career move, but then Peyroux [pronounced like the country Peru] is not a typical artist. One needs only to listen to Careless Love to understand this. The album seamlessly weaves strands of acoustic blues, country ballads, torch songs and pop into a vibrant fabric that is both classically vintage and thoroughly up to date. Produced by Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin), the album features songs as old as W. C. Handy’s bluesy title track, popularized by Bessie Smith in the late 1920s, and others as recent as Elliott Smith’s folky “Between the Bars.” Peyroux also covers material as diverse as Hank Williams’ “Weary Blues” and Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me to the End of Love.”But one of the album’s standout tracks is the sultry “Don’t Wait Too Long,” an original swing number composed by Peyroux, Klein and Grammy Award winning songwriter Jesse Harris, best known for his contributions to Norah Jones’ 2002 hit album Come Away with Me. Peyroux’s relationship with Harris goes back many years. “I met Jesse when I was touring Dreamland,” explains Peyroux. “We started collaborating and then lost touch for a few years. We reconnected in New York as he was about to win a Grammy, and wrote that song together sitting on a bench in Central Park.” Klein later added to the composition, which serves as a kind of mission statement for Peyroux’s career. “Sometimes you’ve got to lose it all,” she sings, “before you find your way.”
Clearly, Peyroux has found her way with Careless Love. More focused and energized than Dreamland, the album benefits from the singer’s time away, as if she’s returned to recording with renewed commitment. She and Klein began working together, one on one, in California last December. After deciding on repertoire, they went into the studio with such stellar session players as guitarist Dean Parks, organist Larry Goldings and bassist David Piltch. “Larry (Klein) convinced me that I could interpret songs by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan in my own way” she recalls. “He has a very personal relationship with these songs, and so do I.” Peyroux also has a very personal relationship with French culture. On Dreamland, she covered Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose.” On Careless Love, she delivers a vibrant version of “J’ai Deux Amours” (“I Have Two Loves”), a song that American expatriate singer Josephine Baker sang to Allied troops in France during the Second World War. “In many ways, Josephine Baker embodied that song because she represented an alliance between America and France during the war. It has so much symbolism and it’s important to remember that in these days of strained international relations.”
Born in Georgia, Peyroux grew up in Paris and New York. Very quickly, Peyroux got hooked on French culture and began singing with groups of talented street musicians in the Latin Quarter, including the Riverboat Shufflers and The Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band, with whom she toured Europe. Several years later, while visiting New York, she was spotted performing in a club, by an Atlantic Records A&R rep. Yves Beauvais, who eventually signed her and co-produced Dreamland. All of the initial reviews that greeted Dreamland focused on the Billie Holiday resemblance. “Like Holiday,” wrote Time magazine, “Peyroux has a bittersweet, brokenhearted alto; she lingers and slides off notes, finding emotion in the slow, sad, fade rather than the obvious vocal burst.” But perceptive reviewers noted that Peyroux wasn’t imitating Lady Day. As acclaimed pianist Cyrus Chestnut, who played on Dreamland, put it: “[Peyroux] has her own story to tell: with her voice, her heart, her spirit.”With Careless Love, Peyroux is once again proving herself to be an original interpreter and an open receptor to songs from earlier eras—an artist who channels vintage jazz and blues with chilling accuracy. “I feel very lucky to be part of a tradition of songwriting that stands the test of time,” says Peyroux. “I also feel lucky to be able to go back and perform as much as I did before—I can’t wait.” Adds Peyroux, with characteristic modesty: “I’m very eager to know what the reaction to the record will be. We did something that felt good. I hope we touch a chord with people.” With its sweet, bewitching sound, there’s no doubt that Careless Love will do just that.


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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Celso Fonseca


CELSO FONSECA, one of Brazil's best kept secrets. The albun "natural" is great.
Here is a song from another project with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gill, I think.

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