Luis Soares's Blog, page 291
March 14, 2017
You Want It Darker
From The New York Times Magazine's 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going:
It wasn’t an email from God, but it was close. Leonard Cohen had written to ask if Gideon Zelermyer, the cantor of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim near Montreal — Cohen’s childhood synagogue — was interested in recording with him.
Zelermyer was soon sitting inside the synagogue’s sanctuary with a few members of Shaar’s all-male choir, playing with different arrangements for “You Want It Darker,” the title track of...
Ntozake Shange - My Father Is a Retired Magician
(for ifa, p.t., & bisa)
my father is a retired magician
which accounts for my irregular behavior
everythin comes outta magic hats
or bottles wit no bottoms & parakeets
are as easy to get as a couple a rabbits
or 3 fifty cent pieces/ 1958
my daddy retired from magic & took
up another trade cuz this friend of mine
from the 3rd grade asked to be made white
on the spot
what cd any self-respectin colored american magician
do wit such a outlandish request/ cept
put all them razzam...
Beach Rats
Starring: Harris Dickinson, Nicole Flyus, Frank Hakaj
An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
California
In a new travel book series, luxury lifestyle brand Louis Vuitton whisk readers to five luxurious locations around the globe—California, India, Miami, Paris and Shanghai—through the work of five seminal fashion photographers.
In the second release from the series, Paris-based Canadian photographer Kourtney Roy transports us to the sun-drenched vistas of California. The latest in a long liner of female photographers, Roy was born with image making in her blood. Her highly styliz...
March 13, 2017
Abandono
Letra: David Mourão Ferreira
Musica: Alain Oulman
Guitarra Portuguesa: José Manuel Neto
Viola de Fado: Carlos Manuel Proença
Contrabaixo: Paulo Paz
Coliseu do Porto, Infinito Presente 2016
Tank And The Bangas: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Out of over 6,000 entries — more submissions than we've ever received — Tank And The Bangas won, unanimously, this year's Tiny Desk Contest. I fully expected their victory performance here at NPR headquarters in D.C. to be celebratory. I didn't know we'd all end up in tears.
This band combines R&B with hip-hop's poetry and rollercoaster storytelling, with a flair and alchemy that could only come from New Orleans. Their winning song, "Quick," mixes liquor and revenge — a sort of modern da...
Crime scene
Taken from the upcoming album "Bring The Light" (Out 31/03)
Written by Rui Maia & Jonny Abbey
All Instruments, played & recorded by Rui Maia
Vocals by Jonny Abbey
Produced by Rui Maia
Mixed by Jonny Abbey
Mastered by Rafael Silver
Video:
Released & Directed by Vasco Mendes
Produced by Heloisa Barreira & Vasco Mendes
Cast by Diana de Sousa & Lucas Menezes
Thank You: Ana Cláudia Silva, Andrea Uriarte, Beatriz Mendes, Bruno Silva, Cet Objet du Désir, Elena Amoros, Gracja Zegarowicz, J...
The Cinematography of Moonlight
James Laxton reveals the secrets to his cinematography in this behind the scenes look at Moonlight.
The second feature from writer-director Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) follows its young protagonist from childhood to adulthood as he navigates the dangers of drugs and violence in his depressed Florida neighbourhood, in addition to his complex love for his best friend.
Sisters doing it for themselves
From The Guardian:
These motets were published decades before any other printed music that is proven to be for convents, but I felt certain they were written for nuns by a fellow nun: a nun princess called Suor Leonora d’Este. You may not recognise the name, but you may have heard of her infamous mother, Lucrezia Borgia?
(...)
Hearing these motets, I really understood for the first time why the bishops were so queasy about nuns’ singing. Even those not used to Renaissance music can...
March 10, 2017
Amore e Psiche (Dettaglio)
Antonio Canova, Amore e Psiche (1793), museo del Louvre, Parigi
