Música de 2010

Quase no final destes 365 dias que contarão a história de 2010, e à semelhança do que aconteceu nos outros anos que este cantinho já leva, deito-me a pensar naquilo que ouvi e que merece figurar na minha lista de preferências. Mais uma vez os critérios são os mais subjectivos possíveis e a apresentação segue a ordem alfabética. No entanto, se destes dez álbuns tivesse de escolher um só, optaria por "Have one on me" de Joanna Newsom. Este, em particular, e os outros, são paisagens sonoras que vi, vivi e ouvi de forma especial e que, por isso mesmo, permanecerão no tempo.

• Beach House | Teen Dream ("Teen Dream is a stirring reminder that good things can happen when you move out of your comfort zone.")
• Chris Joss | Monomaniacs Vol.1 ("Like a long lost vintage LP plucked from a time capsule buried sometime in the 1970’s this album brings Joss back to a distinctly traditional and dusty funk groove")
• David Sylvian | Sleepwakers ("Thoughtful, considered, sombre yet still capable of surprising, it is surely set to be recognised as one of 2010's more cerebral listening pleasures")
• Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest ("Deerhunter has found the perfect balance between noisy adventurism and pop immediacy on its latest album".)
• The Divine Comedy | Bang Goes The Knightwood ("And he approaches it all with a sense of unbridled melodrama that sometimes makes the humor hard to separate from the serious musing.")
• Gil Scott-Heron | I'm New Here ("An unlikely but triumphant return, packed full of sadness and experience.")
• Joanna Newsom | Have One On Me ("When I hear Newsom sing the word "easy" in "Suffice" and my mind jumps back to the opener, it reinforces just how many threads she's weaved between those songs and how incredible it is to discover new things with every listen.")
• LCD Soundsystem | This Is Happening ("its electronic textures thrum and shimmy, and wall after sonic wall is built up and torn down with impeccable precision.")
• of Montreal | False Priest ("The delivery and confidence is immediately comparable to Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, except for the fact that False Priest offers production with greater clarity")
• Perfume Genius | Learning ("Learning is one of the finest illustrations of human emotion ever captured on record. Just make sure you have a box of tissues nearby.")

Melodias que me fizeram...

Nick Cave - "Far from me"

For you dear, I was born

For you I was raised up

For you I've lived and for you I will die

For you I am dying now

You were my mad little lover

In a world where everybody fucks everybody else over

You who are so far from me

Far from me

So far from me

Way across your cold neurotic sea

Far from me

I would talk to you of all matter of things

With a smile you would reply

Then the sun would leave your pretty face

And you'd retreat from the front of your eyes

I keep hearing that you're doing your best

I hope your heart beats happy in your infant breast

You are so far from me

Far from me

Far from me

There is no knowledge but I know it

There's nothing to learn from that vacant voice

As it sails to me across the line

From the ridiculous to the sublime

It's good to hear you're doing so well

But really can't you find somebody else that you can ring and tell

Did you ever

Care for me? 

Were you ever

There for me? 

So far from me

You told me you'd stick by me
Through the thick and through the thin
Those were your very words
My fair-weather friend
You were my brave-hearted lover
At the first taste of trouble went running back to mother
So far from me
Far from me
Suspended in your bleak and fishless sea
Far from me
Far from me

São harpas, Senhor!

Do mais recente de Joanna Newsom, apetece-me gritar: até que enfim! Se nos dois anteriores trabalhos optou por seguir caminhos sonoros que, de tão complexos se tornavam quase atalhos, neste seu mais recente "Have one on me", descomplicou-se. Continua a fugir de facilidades mas amaciou melodias e conformou-as com os ouvidos de comuns mortais. Ela que parece ter uma espécie de pacto secreto com o Criador. Ou não fosse harpista.
Estará na listinha dos álbuns do ano, sem dúvida. Bless her.

Felicidade relatada

Mais uma lição de vida proporcionada por TED. Desta vez, temos as considerações de Matthieu Ricard, aquele que é considerado o homem mais feliz do mundo. Se vale a pena!

Legendas disponíveis no vídeo.

Vida que às costas me levas

Mãos feridas na porta dum silêncio

Vida que às costas me levas
porque não dás um corpo às tuas trevas?

Porque não dás um som àquela voz
que quer rasgar o teu silêncio em nós?

Porque não dás à pálpebra que pede
aquele olhar que em ti se perde?

Porque não dás vestidos à nudez
que só tu vês?

Natália Correia

Pontos de sons

E a Yamaha reinventa a forma de fazer música com o seu Tenori-On.

 

Geniais: quando menos é mais

Apeteceu-me olhar para coisas bonitas...

Designer: Suzdalev Oleg

Mind control...

Lookout, Lookout

Imagens para sons de um dos discos do ano: Perfume Genius com Learning. Cantar pode doer.

Melodias que me fizeram...

A propósito de Old Joy, recupero o bardo Will Oldham. Old Joy é um filme sem intriga e é belíssimo exactamente por isso (Kurt: "Sorrow is nothing but worn out joy"). A amizade é um lugar estranho. Ponto.

Will Oldham, A.K.A. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
Well you're my friend 
(It's what you told me)

And can you see

(What's inside of me)

Many times we've been out drinking

And many times we've shared our thoughts

But did you ever, ever notice

The kind of thoughts I got

Well you know I have a love

A love for everyone I know

And you know I have a drive

To live I won't let go

But can you see it's opposition

Comes a-rising up sometimes

That it's dreadful and position

Comes blacking in my mind

And that I see a darkness

And that I see a darkness

And that I see a darkness

And that I see a darkness

And did you know how much I love you

Is a hope that somehow you you

Can save me from this darkness

Well I hope that someday, buddy

We have peace in our lives

Together or apart

Alone or with our wives

That we can stop our whoring

And pull the smiles inside

And light it up forever

And never go to sleep

My best unbeaten brother

This isn't all I see

O no I see a darkness

O no I see a darkness

O no I see a darkness

O no I see a darkness

And did you know how much I love you

Is a hope that somehow you you

Can save me from this darkness