Hola de nuevo, hello again. Sorry for this big gap between last entry and today.
As some of you may know i'm unemployed now, but happier than before ;-) I should have more free time to writte here but...i've been quite busy doing many things usually you dont have time when you are working.

Anyway, we have NEWS.....I went last saturday to LOS PLANETAS gig in Madrid. Just amazing. They have released their last (7th) album after 3 years of silence and a lot of gossips (as usual) about Los planetas separation and so on. But they were there working sometimes but doing things.

They have reinvented theirselves, they have revitalized what they've got in the 90s as the spanish indie reference band.

If there is something i could say i dont like from this last album is that i miss a little bit the pop songs, BUT the rest is almost perfect....

About this album everbody is talking about flamenco-rock fussion but they have done good rock songs based in flamenco roots, but it doesn't mean pure flamenco, even it is difficult to identify where the flamenco is if you dont know a little bit about flamenco.

Trying to sumarize we could say that, they are noisier, more psychedelic, more melacholy, more guitars & drums....but alternating shadows & lights.

Enjoy it. Here you have a couple of songs.

Hello, Hola, we have news from LOS PLANETAS.

They are going to release their new album probably next april "La Leyenda del Espacio". And they have confirmed two gigs.
1.- Primavera Sound Festival
2.- ContemPOPranea Festival

They were playing last 14th February in a local channel from the south of Spain.

First video you have the new songs "Verdiales" & "Alegrías del incendio": Los Planetas en Canal 2 Andalucía (parte 1)

And the second video contains "Fandango" song: Los Planetas en Canal 2 Andalucía (parte 2)

We are so excited .......

Hola a todos! hi to all!
Yesterday i reached my own record: I listened to 4 new albums
08:20h
Bracken => "We Know About the Need"
We Know About the Need is the debut album from Bracken, the shrouded-in-mystery solo venture from Chris Adams (vocalist and co-sound designer behind Leeds, UK legends Hood).

It’s a blunt introduction. I need to listen a couple of times more but i think this album gives you a cold feeling.....like a real bracken (see photo)

http://www.myspace.com/brackenmusic


18:00h
Aerogramme => "My Heart has a wish that you would not go"
This band si more interesting than previous one,....

Craig B gets slow, search for new shades & nuances, he expanding his poetry to 10 songs of Aerogramme last album (scottish band).

http://www.matadorrecords.com/aereogramme/

18:45h
La célula durmiente => "Eclectcinismo"
This guy from Cataluña has release an strange album. what the hell is that??? indie rock? punk? pop? or a little bit of everything....first time i listen to...i found some songs good...sometimes it sounds too noisy....i like noise (i love sonic youth) but this guys make sometimes too much noise.

http://www.myspace.com/celulaband

20:30h The good, the bad & the queen => "Kingdom of Doom"

By Damon Albarn....another different project, now with his new band: Paul Simonon (The Clash), Simon Tong (The Verve) & Tommy Allen. Here there is an event waiting to happen ;-)
http://www.thegoodthebadandthequeen.com/



It was a hard day....the whole day with my mp3 in my ears.

More news upcoming.....

As usual i have a lot of music to talk about but almost not time to sit in front of the computer to writte. Sorry....

This last entry is regarding a swedish man living in France and singing in english. It is some kind of folk music, low music, tender music....

I know that we start to be a little bit boring about this folk music trend. At least i think there are many people doing almos the same. But i like the music this guy, Peter Von Poehl, makes. It is his first album but it is a mature album, know about what he was doing....not hurries, not acceleration, ....

He makes meticulous and detailed minutes of music, with little arrangements of string & wind ...that never steps one on the other. The melodies come, as he says, from scandinavian christmas songs as main influence.

He has done a bunch of good songs, nice, beautiful, lovely,..... but not baroque.

Listen to "Going to where the tea trees are "

Enjoy it

Hola!

How are you my friends? I'm alive....i'm here.... still listening to music. After one month i come back with new suggestions. I'm happy because many people has sent emails to me saying "where are the Jorge's blog news??" and here we are....

Last week i have started to listen to last album Arcade Fire "NEON BIBLE"
After a Funeral (their album debut) it comes a Neon Bible. Please do not forget to visit their website, it is amazing, full of details, corners and places to surf....

http://www.arcadefire.com/flash.html

And the music is that way, i was thinking how to describe it but i dont know, sorry....

In Rockdelux magazine they say "It is a work where organs & military chorus sound like when you are in the middle of the ocean at night" and what does it mean??.... i dont know but i've got the cd last week and i listen to minimum 4 times per day.

Arcade Fire are Win Butler & Regine Chassagne from Canada. They had a very successfull debut album. They've got to be on the stage with U2, Bjork, Coldplay....so why aren't they successfull in SPAIN??? I dont know....sorry ;-)

Enjoy please....and visit as soon as possible:
http://www.neonbible.com/readme.html

Nuevo disco de los planetas

Ante los rumores y más rumores del nuevo disco de los Planetas (LA PAZ EN EL ESPACIO)
Añadimos un enlace para que veais una de las ultimas acuaciones de los planetas en Córdona el año pasado.

After a lot of gossips about Los Planetas new album (LA PAZ EN EL ESPACIO) I have added a link with one of the last gigs in Córdoba last year.

Standstill - Sr.Chinarro

Here we go today with 2 veterans, maybe you don’t know about them, but spanish bands are doing great music and spanish people are not aware of that.

ها نحن نجتمع اليوم مع اثنين من المحاربين ، ربما انك لا تعرف الكثير عنهم ، لكن الاسبانيه هي فرق عمل موسيقي كبير والشعب الأسباني لا يدركون ذلك.

So this is a rebuke to me and to YOU as well. We do have to take care of Spanish bands.

STANDSTILL “Vivalaguerra”

They are from Cataluña, they are playing music since 10 years ago, doing great things, with some changes in their stile but what I have discovered with their last album I like. They have arrived in Spanish lyrics, doing a good job, good construction “Romper un silencio así no tiene perdón”…
::: standstill :::
But besides of languages, lyrics, colours, sounds, trends, …this people is looking forward, to the future, and I hope we can follow after this discovering.

By the way they are playing live next 8th Feb 07 in El Sol – Madrid.


SR. CHINARRO "El Mundo Según"

We become accustomed bad with Antonio Luque. Does not matter where he releases an album he does a good job. He amazes us each time he gives us a new album.

I don’t know how to explain it, his last 2 albums look, at the beginning, simple pop songs, nothing else. But that’s quite enough, to get a bunch of good pop songs, but he gets to say always something, to transmit always something to you.

Pop songs with almost perfect chorus, surrealist lyrics and accessible alternative music, without loosing his identity. In this last album goes deep in his Andalusia (he is from Sevilla) roots or he explores new nuances to decorate some songs.

Next gig in Madrid 17th Feb 07 (Galileo)

This sample is not from this album, but at least you can see and listening to something.

Lo mejor de 2006 - II

CAMBIO DE AÑO

CAMBIO DE DISEÑO

CAMBIOS EN LA VIDA

Tenemos cambio de diseño en nuestro blog, algo mucho más sencillo, en el cual destaque la información frente al continente. Espero que os guste, y por su puesto se aceptan sugerencias y/o comentarios. De paso una pequeña reseña musical.

Ya tenemos la lista de la revista Rock de Lux con lo mejor del año 2006.

Mejor Disco Internacional: JOANNA NEWSOM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Newsom

Mejor Disco Nacional: SR. CHINARRO (pendiente de incluir crítica)
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sr._Chinarro

Y en estos momentos estoy escuchando los discos de:
Sr.Chinarro (bicampeon de RDL, 2005 El Fuego Amigo y 2006 El Mundo Según)
The Divine Comedy (llevan ya muuuuchos años pero este ultimo disco me ha enganchado)
Jarvis Cocker (ex-Pulp, para los menos iniciados, pop adulto)

Hasta pronto.
Jorge

lo mejor de 2006 - Disco Grande

I almost forget about some lists about "the best of"

While we are waiting for "Disco Grande-Radio3-RNE" 2006 summary (Please Julio!!!)

http://www.rtve.es/rne/r3/pr/discogr/discogran.htm

here you go the list from Muzikalia.com this is the podium

(you can see some of the bands are as well inside this blog, coincidence?

NOOOO....good music is good music everywhere)

International:
1- M. Ward- Post War ***
2- Matt Elliott.- Failing Songs ***
3- Cat Power.- The Greatest
4- Tom Waits.- Orphans
5- TV On The Radio.- Return To Cookie Mountain
6- Arctic Monkeys.- Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
7- Scott Walker.- The Drift
8- Gnarls Barkley.- ST Elswhere
9- Liars.- Drums Not Dead
10- Camera Obscura.- Let’s Get Out Of This Country ***

Spanish bands (i know sometimes i do forget about spanish bands but...)
1- Bunbury & Vegas.- El Tiempo de las Cerezas
2- 12twelve.- L’Univers
3- Standstill.- Vivalaguerra ***
4- Grupo Salvaje.- Aquí hay Dragones ***
5- Atom Rhumba - Amateur Universes ***
6- Big City – Call An Ambulance
7- El Columpio ASesino.- De Mi Sangre A Tus Cuchillas
8- Antònia Font – Batiscafo Katiuscas
9- Single – Pío Pío
10- Bigott – That Sentimental Sandwich

Matt Elliott "Falling Songs"

Hello....Hola, here we are again....

NEW YEAR

NEW MUSIC

NEW FEELINGS
I'm pretty busy with new bands i'm listening to but i can not start this 2007 year without talking about ...............

Matt Elliott "Falling Songs"

I was surprised with his previous job, that "drinking songs" full of an special enviroment, dense, hard, smoked, ....long songs that involve you since the begining, suffering at the same time with him.

Why this guy comming from drum'n'bass music give up electronic to be recycled as a folk songwritter?? (with a touch of balkan music, as i read in a newspaper) But listening to Matt Elliott last album you follow a dark path through mediterranean see, you stop somewhere in Spain, somewhere in Romania, somewhere in Greece, somewhere in the old Yugoslavia.....and, to add more weird influences, his grandmother was from Estonia. Me, personally, i was quite impresed by "drinking songs" and now with "faling songs" i have placed him in a preferred position. I know he sings mostly sad songs....but maybe i'm a bit masochistic...who knows?

Enjoy it or SUFFER IT.

See you tomorrow.

Jorge