After having spent so much time

With my solitude

I know now, that she’s mine

Like a lover wooed

She never leaves me alone

Loyal - like a brood.

She’s outside and at home.

Like a shadow would.

No, I’m never alone

When I’m with my solitude.

When she sleeps with me at night

She takes up all the space

We spend hours by the light

Staring - face to face

I don’t know till when

I’ll run this lonely race

Should I just say amen

Or mend her wretched ways?

No, I’m never alone

When I’m with my solitude.

Thanks to her, now I know

That tears have been sprayed

When I fight her back somehow,

Never is she afraid

And if I prefer the love

Of another chambermaid

She’ll still be standing above

Standing my last crusade.

No, I’m never alone

When I’m with my solitude.

 

Ladies and Gentleman, Yuja Wang with you 

(Source: elpais.com)

I’m yours 

In this version he changes some lines at the end… what a wonderful song! Enjoy it!

 

Well you done done me and you bet I felt it

I tried to be chill but you’re so hot that I melted

I fell right through the cracks, now I’m trying to get back

Before the cool done run out I’ll be giving it my bestest

And nothing’s going to stop me but divine intervention

I reckon it’s again my turn to win some or learn some

But I won’t hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait, I’m yours

 

 

Well open up your mind and see like me

Open up your plans and damn you’re free

Look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love

Listen to the music of the moment people, dance and sing

We’re just one big family

And it’s our God-forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved loved

So I won’t hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait, I’m sure

There’s no need to complicate, our time is short

This is our fate, I’m yours

D-d-do do you, but do you, d-d-do

But do you want to come on

Scooch on over closer dear

And I will nibble your ear

I’ve been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror

And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer

But my breath fogged up the glass

And so I drew a new face and I laughed

I guess what I be saying is there ain’t no better reason

To rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons

It’s what we aim to do, our name is our virtue

But I won’t hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait, I’m yours

Come on and open up your mind and see like me

(I won’t hesitate)

Open up your plans and damn you’re free

(No more, no more)

Look into your heart and you’ll find that the sky is yours

(It cannot wait, I’m sure)

So please don’t, there’s no need

(There’s no need to complicate)

There’s no need to complicate

(Our time is short)

‘Cause our time is short

(This is our fate)

This is, this is, this is our fate

I’m yours

Oh, I’m yours

Oh, I’m yours

Oh, whoa, baby you believe I’m yours

You best believe, best believe I’m yours

CD: We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things (2008)

La capilla de Sant Pere por MIquel Barceló (Album I)

(La Seu)

Dedicada al milagro del pan y los peces del evangelio según San Juan la obra de Barceló se adhiere como una segunda piel y provoca la sorpresa en el espectador… que se introduce irremediablemente en una aventura surreal, llena de simbolismo, forma, movimiento y color. Y ahí se queda: entre el mar infinito y la Tierra; en el contraste de la luz eterna y la oscuridad de la caverna; entre criaturas marinas ( y no sólo peces) y frutos de la tierra (además del pan, tan real que invita a comérselo); con la vida impaciente que irrumpe a torbellinos echándosele encima a golpe de ola y la muerte indeleble apiñada en calaveras, presente siempre, alli a lo lejos.

Es una obra concebida como un reto, influenciado claramente por Gaudí y a veces por Cézanne… un desafío constante donde se entremezclan sus elementos ( pan, peces, frutas, elementos marinos, el agua, la tierra) y con la que Barceló “deseaba que el proceso creativo me permitiera decidir aspectos importantes de la obra cada día, sin predeterminaciones, para mantener la tensión, como en un cuadro”.

Para el autor del inmenso mural  de 300 m² que cubre la capilla ” Es volver a los orígenes. También con la cerámica. La arcilla es lo más parecido a la materia originaria del mundo y me meto dentro”

“La piel cerámica es un memorándum de mi iconografía personal. Para mí lo que era elemental es que cada día improvisaba, me inventaba”.

La intención del artista de crear una obra intemporal es clara, como cuando dice: ” Me gustaría que dentro de dos mil años mis obras provocaran la misma excitación que nos provocan algunas obras primitivas, de cuyos artistas no sabemos nada: ¿fue un hombre, una mujer, un viejo…?” 

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Saint Peter’s Chapel by MIquel Barceló

( La Seu)

This enormous ceramic wall with over 300 m² that cover the chapel of the loaves and fishes like a clay skin, is bringing to life the passage of Saint John’s Gospel which describes the miracle of the multiplication.

It is an ambitious and complex work finished 2007, for the artist also a challenge.

Barceló said about it: ” I wanted the creative process to allow me to decide important aspects of the work an a daily basis, without premeditations, to keep the tension, as in a painting.”

For him it means as well: ” It is about going back to the origins. Also with ceramics. Clay is closest to the original matter of the creation of the world, and I get inside it”.

“The clay skin is a memorandum of my personal iconography. What was basic for me was that I could improvise each day, I reinvented myself.”

His intention is clearly to create a non-temporal  work:  “I would like my works to bring about in two thousand years the same excitement of some primitive works about whose artists we know nothing about. Was it a man, a woman, an old man…?”.

Round Table Knights re-rub Detroit folk hero Rodriguez’s Hate Street Dialogue (taken from the 1970’s album Cold Fact) into a smooth groove, that’s laced by extra percussive grooves and extra handclaps. A hazy, easy listening track that’ll warm the spirits.

HATE STREET DIALOGUE 

Woman please be gone
You’ve stayed here much too long
Don’t you wish that you could cry
Don’t you wish I would die

Seamy, seesaw kids 
Childwoman on the skids 
The dust will choke you blind
The lust will choke your mind

I kiss the floor, one kick no more 
The pig and hose have set me free
I’ve tasted hate street’s hanging tree
I’ve tasted hate street’s hanging tree

I kiss the floor, one kick no more 
The pig and hose have set me free
I’ve tasted hate street’s hanging tree
I’ve tasted hate street’s hanging tree

The inner city birthed me 
The local pusher nursed me 
Cousins make it on the street 
They marry every trick they meet

A dime, a dollar they’re all the same
When a man comes in to bust your game 
The turnkey comes, his face a grin
Locks the cell I’m in again.

I kiss the floor, one kick no more 
The pig and hose have set me free
I’ve tasted hate street’s hanging tree
I’ve tasted hate street’s hanging tree
I’ve tasted hate street’s hanging tree
I’ve tasted hate street’s hanging tree…

Source: http://sugarman.org/coldlyrics.html#hate

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez is going to be playing in Montreux  Jazz Festival on 4th. July 2013 and tomorrow  the 9th. of May he will receive  his Doctor of Humane Letters at the Wayne State University.

He has indeed spent most of his life struggling to provide for his family by taking poorly paid jobs on local building sites. But he’s also a rock star — at times “bigger than Elvis” in Australia, New Zealand and especially South Africa, where he’s sold hundreds of thousands of records — and has been since the 1970s.

Here he sings Dead End Street (originally recorded by Lou Rawls in 1967).

Source: http://sugarman.org/index.html

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http://sugarmandotorg.tumblr.com 

Sixto Rodríguez is an american folk musician from Detroit. His career initially proved short-lived with two little-sold albums in the early 1970s. Unbeknownst to him, however, his work became extremely successful and influential in South Africa, although there he was mistakenly rumoured to have committed suicide. The full story is reflected in the 2012 Oscar winning documentary: Searching for Sugarman.

This retreat is done with respect to the original by RocknRolla Soundsystem and Joris Vos

SUGAR MAN

Sugar man, won’t you hurry 
‘Cos I’m tired of these scenes
For a blue coin won’t you bring back 
All those colors to my dreams 

Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane

Sugar man met a false friend 
On a lonely dusty road
Lost my heart when I found it
It had turned to dead black coal

Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane

Sugar man you’re the answer
That makes my questions disappear 
Sugar man ‘cos I’m weary
Of those double games I hear

Sugar man, Sugar man, Sugar man, Sugar man, 
Sugar man, Sugar man, Sugar man

Sugar man, won’t you hurry 
‘Cos I’m tired of these scenes
For the blue coin won’t you bring back 
All those colors to my dreams 

Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane

Sugar man met a false friend 
On a lonely dusty road
Lost my heart when I found it
It had turned to dead black coal

Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane

Sugar man you’re the answer
That makes my questions disappear

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