David's musical "tastings"

Verdad

A hipper version of same Gardel tune

https://youtu.be/XoCEFGYiU30

https://youtu.be/NHGt1v491ng

Roberto Carlos - El Día Que Me Quieras (Video En Vivo - Stereo Version) Vídeo oficial de Roberto Carlos de su tema 'El DÍa Que Me Quieras'. Haz clic aquí para escuchar a Roberto Carlos en Spotify: http://smarturl.it/RCSpot?IQid=R...

The serenade thru history from back then when you were chaperoned on dates . How many young women were persuaded to elope with artful dodgers as a result? Or was it then and still now an opportunity for starry eyed lovers to melt into one another? I like to believe the second version but of course there’s an infinity of versions… I’d like to attach a Carlos Gardel song still beautiful today

LilaDowns, a new generation of Mexican singer-songwriters... it's not just Rancheros and Los Lobos any more. his video is amazing too:
https://youtu.be/beuRgIqxTnY

Lila Downs - Zapata Se Queda (Video Oficial) Vídeo oficial de Lila Downs de su tema Zapata Se Queda con Celso Piña y Totó la Momposina. Haz clic aquí para escuchar a Lila Downs en Spotify: http://smartu...

Van Morrison: great musician, and lyricist;this recording is worth a listen, if only for one song: "Love should come with a warning: it can break your heart; one minute you're falling, next you're falling apart." about 8 minutes in...https://youtu.be/AUF8JOGwzWc

Van Morrison - Live at Real Studios - Box England - 2021 Van Morrison - Live at Real Studios - Box England - 2021Set List:00:17 - Only A Song03:55 - Deadbeat Saturday Night07:45 - Love Should Come With A Warning11:...

wouldn't be right not to blow my own horn, sometimes! So proud that this music video has made it to the quarter-finals of the international Media Arts Festival
https://youtu.be/Hd6eylC34j8l

the disappearance V3

Thank you everyone for liking this page! and my posts...
Last night I posted a recording by Diego la Cigala and Bebo Valdes, showing modern flamenco Cuban-style, with piano and sax and ,no guitars! So if you miss the guitars here's one with Buika singing "Jodida, pero contenta." It must be her own composition as the language is not flamenco-style - "Fu**ed (up) but happy." It's an angry denunciation of a lying ex-boyfriend, consistent with her book, dedicated to "Difficult women and the men who loved them and the dumped them." Listen:
https://youtu.be/E58_5-FC3k4

Buika - Jodida pero contenta (Directo Cueva Candela 06) Ya puedes tener el nuevo álbum de Buika - La noche más larga en Itunes: http://goo.gl/EvC1oyEscúchalo en Spotify: http://goo.gl/p8guvgSigue a Buika en:Web: h...

Flamenco - "you know," i once admitted to an old friend - a former flamenco dancer and singer from Seville, "i always loved the guitarists, like Paco de Lucia, but the singing, meah, not so much." Then, some 20 years passed and in 2009 i was in Venezuela with a lovely Venezuelan lady, i remember, we had just rented the car for a long trip, it was very hot and dusty, i was anxious to leave but she insisted on going into a store to get
"supplies" one of which was a CD - She said we needed a CD to brand our trip and remember it by. i said ok, looking at the cover with no enthusiasm. Then, we listened to it, over and over, for nearly 3,000 kms in two weeks. so: surprise no.1 = no guitars, but the best Cuban jazz pianist of all time, in my book, Bebo Valdes. and then Diego el Cigala. a gypsy from the Canary Islands who sang with a thick Andalucian accent. He, and Bebo converted me. here's the classic Lagrimas Negras (Black Tears), performed in studio so you can watch Bebo's hands on the piano keys:

https://youtu.be/Bnc7Bz57CME

Bebo Valdés & Diego El Cigala.- Lágrimas Negras Videoclip oficial de la canción 'Lágrimas Negras' del disco homónimo de Bebo Valdés y Diego El Cigala (Calle54 Records, 2003) producido por Fernando Trueba, ...

https://youtu.be/uekZpkYf7-E

Severija - Zu Asche, Zu Staub (Psycho Nikoros) – (Official Babylon Berlin O.S.T.) "Zu Asche, Zu Staub" from the hit series Babylon Berlin Original Soundtrack.Available now: https://BMG.lnk.to/BabylonBerlinIDWritten and composed by Nikko We...

Finally tonight I will share Yasmin Levy's "Una Noche Mas" beautifully arranged with guitars and, exotically, cymbalom
https://youtu.be/lQMV_S6zShU

Una Noche Mas Provided to YouTube by harmonia mundiUna Noche Mas · Yasmin LevyMano Suave℗ Adama Music under exclusive licence to World Village UK℗ Four Quarters RecordsRel...

i think i forgot to say javier imon is a composer and arranger as well as a brilliant accompanist.... he wrote this and he produced some of Yasmin Levy's best tracks (next)

https://youtu.be/oS9ikzSxEmk

Una de esas noches sin final Written by Javier Limón Inma Cuesta: voice Javier Limón: guitarFilmed by Agustina Covián, Eva Márques & F***y BergeEdited by Agustina CoviánRecorded by Javie...

Cpncha Buika is another of my "discoveries" singing flamenco here with guitarist and producer Javier Limon...
https://youtu.be/icd1c3FpnC4

Javier Limón y Buika en Buenafuente 29/09/10 One of the 12 women on Javier Limón's (producer) 'Mujeres de Agua' CD.

"Vurria.." another neapolitan song by this Brazilian born singer... i loved it before i understood a word... for the musical drama of it...
but it narrates the nostalgia of so many millions of Europeans forced by poverty to leave their beloved homes, but inspired by dreams of a better life in "America." The visuals in this YouTube version evoke the experience of Z**i's parents, who emigrated from Napoli to Brazil, where she was born...
enjoy:
https://youtu.be/cRzx11cspDE

Lacreme Napulitane / Vurria. (Tradução) Z**i Possi Essas duas belas canções italianas expressam bem os sentimentos dos imigrantes italianos e a dor de deixar sua amada terra natal.

AS promised, one of my big "discoveries" since 2019; Z**i Possi, and everything to do with la musica e la lingua napolitana. thanks to my best friend in Sicily, Gdb:
Grazie mille, la mia vita sarebbe molto piu' povera senza di averte conosciuta!
and now I'm going to study neapolitan italiano. they have done to Italian what Argentina did to castellano Spanish... made it so much more musical...
https://youtu.be/-eaBuoiozKM

Tu si' 'na cosa grande - Z**i Possi (Legendado em português) Uma belíssima canção Italiana/Napolitana na interpretação maravilhosa de uma das maiores cantoras do Brasil. Autor: Domenico Modugno

Hi Friends and Welcome to this project: What I want to do with these pages…
I have a friend (TJ Mullen) who tastes wine for Forbes.com as well as his own blog: Vino Voices.
He has an excellent, educated palate. And he writes well.
So I thought I would try to do something similar, with music, with thought, things I know more about than wine, which incidentally, is so abundant and (relatively) cheap in this part of the world I could easily drown in it. Were it not for people like TJ.
And his taste is eclectic, like mine, even more so perhaps.
So I will “taste” for you, and recommend pairings, of music, not with food necessariy, but with other cultural products: art, cinema, books, and even love…
My taste in music extends from Patagonia to Poland, via the Caribbean, West Africa and southern Europe…and of course North America…
This idea came to me tonight as I listened to one of my playlists on Spotify: Soha (1), started 2 years ago when I was dating French women and wanted to find music we could both get attached to. Turns out Soha, from Marseille, also sings in Spanish, and the Portuguese and Hispanic additions to this “French” playlist soon outnumbered the French and Italian. The best of the French was from French Africa… and Z**i Possi, one of my great “discoveries” who sings in Napoletano as well as Portuguese, was born in Brazil of Italian immigrant parents from Napoli…
I will write later about why I think hispanic/portuguese/italian (from mezzogiorno down to Sicilia) music is so derving of your attention. And the idea here is not to replay stuff you have heard but to introduce you to and build audiences for great talent you may never have previously come across.
But your contributions are also welcome!! So please share… that’s the idea of all this sh*t isn’t it?