voltando sempre
a Lila Downs
01 novembro 2017
Festejos do fim da URSS
Uma leitura
completamente ao contrário
completamente ao contrário
No quadro das peças que tem vindo a publicar sobre o Centenário da Revolução de Outubro, perdão sobre o fim da URSS, um texto de Manuel Carvalho termina hoje assim de uma forma que me parece bastante estranha : «A Rússia, de acordo com um relatório do banco Credit Suisse de 2015 é, entre as economias desenvolvidas, a mais desigual do mundo, na qual os 10% mais influentes dominam 87% de toda a riqueza nacional. Para quem procura lições na Revolução para projectar o futuro, talvez este facto seja um bom começo.»
A questão é que posso estar a ser pouco inteligente mas parece-me antes que «este facto» é um «bom começo» mas é para quem «procurar lições» na contra-revolução para «projectar o futuro ».
31 outubro 2017
Um livro estrangeiro por semana ( )
Reckless Daughter -
A portrait of Joni Mitchell
19,25 $
Apresentação :"She was like a storm." ―Leonard Cohen
Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1970s, and the songwriter who spoke resonantly to, and for, audiences across the country.
A Canadian prairie girl, a free-spirited artist, Mitchell never wanted to be a pop star. She was nothing more than “a painter derailed by circumstances,” she would explain. And yet, she went on to become a talented self-taught musician and a brilliant bandleader, releasing album after album, each distinctly experimental, challenging, and revealing. Her lyrics captivated listeners with their perceptive language and naked emotion, born out of Mitchell’s life, loves, complaints, and prophecies. As an artist whose work deftly balances narrative and musical complexity, she has been admired by such legendary lyricists as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and beloved by such groundbreaking jazz musicians as Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock. Her hits―from “Big Yellow Taxi” to “Both Sides, Now” to “A Case of You”―endure as timeless favorites, and her influence on the generations of singer-songwriters who would follow her, from her devoted fan Prince to Björk, is undeniable.
In this intimate biography, drawing on dozens of unprecedented in-person interviews with Mitchell, her childhood friends, and a cast of famous characters, Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs―from Mitchell’s youth in Canada, her bout with polio at age nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for adoption, through the love affairs that inspired masterpieces, and up to the present―and shows us why Mitchell has so enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends. Reckless Daughter is the story of an artist and an era that have left an indelible mark on American music.
A portrait of Joni Mitchell
Apresentação :"She was like a storm." ―Leonard Cohen
Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1970s, and the songwriter who spoke resonantly to, and for, audiences across the country.
A Canadian prairie girl, a free-spirited artist, Mitchell never wanted to be a pop star. She was nothing more than “a painter derailed by circumstances,” she would explain. And yet, she went on to become a talented self-taught musician and a brilliant bandleader, releasing album after album, each distinctly experimental, challenging, and revealing. Her lyrics captivated listeners with their perceptive language and naked emotion, born out of Mitchell’s life, loves, complaints, and prophecies. As an artist whose work deftly balances narrative and musical complexity, she has been admired by such legendary lyricists as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and beloved by such groundbreaking jazz musicians as Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock. Her hits―from “Big Yellow Taxi” to “Both Sides, Now” to “A Case of You”―endure as timeless favorites, and her influence on the generations of singer-songwriters who would follow her, from her devoted fan Prince to Björk, is undeniable.
In this intimate biography, drawing on dozens of unprecedented in-person interviews with Mitchell, her childhood friends, and a cast of famous characters, Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs―from Mitchell’s youth in Canada, her bout with polio at age nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for adoption, through the love affairs that inspired masterpieces, and up to the present―and shows us why Mitchell has so enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends. Reckless Daughter is the story of an artist and an era that have left an indelible mark on American music.
Oito mortos
The New York Times em cima do acontecimento
A bystander’s video appears to show the suspect trying to flee the scene of the attack before being stopped by the police.
30 outubro 2017
Imprensa de «referência», pois então !
Um título de página
inteira no Público
inteira no Público
Eu bem me parecia que, nisto do Trump, a mão russa já era antiga. Mas também se pode perguntar : porque não Ramsés II, Alexandre, o Grande, Carlos Magno ou Randolph Hearst ?
29 outubro 2017
Registado
«Isto quer dizer que o
governo tem menos de dois
anos para resolver o problema » - disse ele de boca no ouvido
de popular e olho nas câmaras
de televisão
governo tem menos de dois
anos para resolver o problema » - disse ele de boca no ouvido
de popular e olho nas câmaras
de televisão
28 outubro 2017
Porque hoje é sábado ( )
Rakta
A sugestão musical deste sábado vai para a
cantora «punk» brasileira Rakta.
cantora «punk» brasileira Rakta.
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