terça-feira, 10 de junho de 2008

sometimes i wonder



Once I Was, Tim Buckley

Once I was a soldier
And I fought on foreign sands for you
Once I was a hunter
And I brought home fresh meat for you
Once I was a lover
And I searched behind your eyes for you
Soon there'll be another
To tell you I was just a lie

And sometimes I wonder
Just for a while
Will you remember me?

And though you have forgotten
All of our rubbish dreams
I find myself searching
Through the ashes of our ruins
All the days when we smiled
And the hours I ran wild
With the magic of our eyes
And the silence of our words

Sometimes I wonder
Just for a while
Will you ever remember me?
Ever remember me?

cartas vãs I

Há muito que não leio nada (interessante pelo menos) talvez por isso sinta algum vazio imaginativo. Aliás nem sei porquê que comecei a escrever este post, senão, por uma estranha urgência que me invade, urgência essa simpatizante de uma qualquer barbaridade amoral. Sinto-me isso mesmo... o paradoxo de uma adolescente num corpo de menina, somente porque me apetece que assim o seja.
Calhou hoje, poderia ter sido em qualquer outro dia. Provavelmente daqui a cinco minutos quando acabar de debitar todo um conjunto de incongruências perceberei o pouco sentido que têm, mas isso é de somenos importância agora que me sinto majestosamente grande e idealisticamente perfeita, agora que observo todas as imperfeições do mundo em mim com o sorriso de uma criança.
Talvez me engane, talvez tudo isto não passe de uma manifestação de egocêntrismo metafísico tipicamente adolescente a que me rendo.
Haverá capitalismo nas almas? Serão os sentimentos globalizáveis? Mas que disparates estou para aqui a escrever... Vou-me calar... Desde quando nos vendemos tanto... como se fosse possível... E daí, talvez seja! Porque não?!
E subitamente tudo ficou patético...
Voltei a "crescer" merda!

segunda-feira, 26 de maio de 2008

mono

hoje Mono.
beautiful indeed... very beautiful.




Mono, Halcyon (beautiful days)

sábado, 17 de maio de 2008

post rock girl

acho que sou mesmo 'a post rock' girl...
hoje mais um dia,
hoje mais do que nunca...





Of all I knew, her held too few.
And would you stop me, if I try to stop you.

Old songs stay 'til the end.
Sad songs remind me of friends.
And the way it is, I could leave it all
And I ask myself, would you care at all.

When I drive alone at night, I see the streetlights as fairgrounds
And I tried a hundred times to see the road signs as Day-Glo.

Old songs, stay till the end.
Sad songs, remind me of friends.
And the way it is, I could leave it all
And I ask myself, would you care at all.

(mogwai, cody)

sexta-feira, 11 de abril de 2008

third

Não, não estou a falar do shrek mas sim do último álbum de portishead com o lançamento previsto para 28 de Abril deste ano. Já tive a oportunidade de o ouvir e mais uma vez superaram as minhas expectativas. Melodias suaves, doces e simultaneamente provocantes ressaltam na voz de Beth Gibbons. Acreditem que a dada altura de "We Carry On" me apeteceu saltar para o meio da pista virtual (que só existe dentro de mim) de olhos bem fechadinhos e deixar-me levar!... e foi o que fiz!...
Agora para contagiar deixo-vos:


portishead, 'we carry on', álbum 'Third'




sábado, 5 de abril de 2008

bauhaus

Depois de 25 anos sem lançarem nada de novo, "Too Much 21St Century" é o single de apresentação do novo álbum de Bauhaus, «Go Away White».
Já em Dezembro, no site oficial, era possível obter-se detalhes do que iria ser este novo álbum e que passarei a transcrever.

"December 14, 2007

BAUHAUS - ‘GO AWAY WHITE’


“I come with this darkness and go away white.”


Bauhaus slid fully formed from punk rock's womb in late 1978. Over the course of four hot years, they unintentionally birthed a genre (Goth), moved on, moved forward, and surged mercurial through the post-punk music scene, tearing into tense, stark, dub bass-driven new-wave, T-Rex-esque glam, and swirling, clattering, orchestral atmospherics, whilst churning it all into a grand velvet, Rimbaudian hallucination. It was a wild, inspired, enthralling sound. And it still is. Now there is a new record.


‘Go Away White’ was recorded in 18 days at Zircon Skye in Ojai, with singer Peter Murphy, bassist David J, guitarist Daniel Ash, and drummer Kevin Haskins playing together as a band in one room, taking first takes as final cuts. So, a new record but apparently a final one, the band having decided to release it as a posthumous swan song.


‘Go Away White’ is everything you would
hope Bauhaus would deliver as their final statement. Fronted by a cover photo of Bethesda, the angel of the healing waters in New York's Central Park, the music inside is pure cathartic renovation, a psychedelic glimpse into an enchanted moment. Aided in part by guitarist Daniel Ash's inspired use of Jimi Hendrix's own personal Vox wah wah pedal, gifted to him by Peter Murphy at the start of the sessions, it is pop as much as it is experimental.


The 10 songs on ‘Go Away White’ channel the kind of magic timelessness you could imagine on a mighty bill with Joy Division, Bowie, Devo, the Creatures, Antony, My Bloody Valentine, and Kraftwerk--with Oscar Wilde playing master of ceremonies.


As the NME once said, "Bauhaus are to Goth, what Radiohead are to Prog." It's all building blocks. Give ‘Go Away White’ an honest minute and you'll realize that The Klaxons, The Killers, The Rapture and Foals all got their beats from Bauhaus, and how--without them--there would be no Nine Inch Nails or Jane's Addiction or Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, AFI, TV on the Radio, Interpol, Hot Hot Heat or LCD Sound System.


The accomplishments of the band are too many to list here but to touch lightly, there are the four studio albums: ‘In the Flat Field’ (1980), ‘Mask’ (1981), ‘The Sky's Gone Out’ (1982), and ‘Burning from the Inside’ (1983). There is the riveting appearance with David Bowie in the movie,‘The Hunger’. There are the classic Peel sessions and the hits--seismic rumbles such as ‘She's in Parties’, ‘Kick in the Eye’,’Stigmata Martyr’, and the great, epic, pillar of ether and brooding, psychedelia, that is 'Bela Lugosi's Dead.'


So, an end but an end with one final sonorous statement. Behold ‘Go Away White’.

Watch as night comes, as day breaks and the light . . . pours . . . in.

--Adam Gnade

Released on March 4th, 2008 worldwide. Distributed by Red Eye in North America, Cooking Vinyl for the rest of the world. Will also be available as digital download on iTunes (only in North America). "


Devo confessar que enquanto amante de Bauhaus não estou em nada desapontada com o novo álbum, e só posso fazer jus ao que foi dito anteriormente: 'Go Away White’ is everything you would
hope Bauhaus would deliver as their final statement."

Mais informações consultem a homepage oficial da banda ou o seu MySpace. Até lá deixo-vos,

Too Much 21St Century

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