Luis Soares's Blog, page 8
March 8, 2022
Saeed Jones - Alive at the End of the World
The End of the World was a nightclub.
Drag queens with machetes and rhinestoned
machine guns guarded the red and impassable
door on Friday nights. Just a look at the crowd,
all dressed up and swaying outside, made people
want to yell the truth about themselves to anyone
who’d listen, but no one heard. The End of the World
was loud. The End of the World leaked music
like radiation, and we loved the neon echo, even
though it taunted us or maybe because it taunted us:
kids leaning out of windows hours after ...
March 4, 2022
Harness The Wind
From the upcoming Calexico album "El Mirador" out April 8th, 2022
March 3, 2022
Manuel Amado - Lisboa
Lisboa constitui um tema muito caro a Manuel Amado, ao qual regressou várias vezes ao longo dos anos.
Em 1998 mostrou várias pinturas numa exposição com este título no Palácio Galveias, em Lisboa, incluindo o conjunto de exteriores da cidade, que a mostram totalmente despojada de tudo o que não seja a sua presença espacial. Por isso José Cardoso Pires disse destes quadros que mostravam uma "Lisboa in absentia".
Unnecessary Drama
Taken from Belle and Sebastian's upcoming album 'A Bit of Previous' out May 5th
I read your letter from before
You’ve been having so much fun
Is it possible you’re just telling me
To draw me in?
There’s an array of douchebags lining up
To play their stupid parts
And did you ever pause
Before you give your love away?
This is my life
This is my so-called life
This is my life
This is my only life
And when you came to me that summer
You were just a shell
You were holding close to mother
She was ashen with th...
Ariel Yelen - What Is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People
This small effort
Because this little singing
This little sound
Small song
This fathomless effort
This voice which comes from the gut
This soft effort at making song
This effort at song
This effort to make song which birds do effortlessly
What birds do effortlessly
This tiny bird
This tender worthy effort
And sometimes it is no effort
No effort to sing
Sometimes I’ve had a drink or two
Sometimes it’s effortless to make song
If enough people sing in a group
If I’m part of that group, I cry
I am holding a thing t...
March 2, 2022
Beethoven's Violin Concerto
It’s Beethoven's only Violin Concerto and one of the most beloved worldwide. Isabelle Faust performs the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 together with the Berliner Philharmoniker under conductor Bernard Haitink. The concert was held in the Festspielhaus Baden Baden in 2015 as part of the city’s Easter Festival.
(00:00) I. Allegro ma non troppo
(23:43) II. Larghetto
(32:38) III. Rondo. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 for Austrian violinist F...
Faces on a Big Screen
In this video essay, Evan Puschak argues that explode-y superhero movies aren’t the only movies worth seeing on the big screen, asserting that “massive faces emoting on massive screens is just as epic, if not more epic, than explosions and battles”.
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February 28, 2022
Hometown Dream
Helado Negro - Hometown Dream // Video directed and created by Helado Negro.
Who could really know you now?
Now that you’ve seen these dreams
Who would even know what to say
Even if you feel free
Because now my mind’s made up
There’s no looking back now
And now your mind’s made up
So let’s leave together
Our times
Won’t stop
Lifetimes
Slow down
René Groebli
René Groebli (born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1927) secured his place among the elite of Swiss post-war photographers with his 1949 portfolio MAGIE DER SCHIENE (RAIL MAGIC). In the early fifties Groebli worked as reporter for Life, Picture Post and other international magazines. During the following years he owned a studio for industrial and advertising photography. In 1957 the American Color Annual named him MASTER OF COLOR.
In the early 80s Groebli stopped working for advertising and re...
February 25, 2022
The Messenger
Hélène Grimaud – Silvestrov: The Messenger (For Piano Solo)
Valentyn Vasylyovych Silvestrov (Ukrainian: Валенти́н Васи́льович Сильве́стров; born 30 September 1937) is a Ukrainian composer and pianist of contemporary classical music.
