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"I never realized my family was poor until I left my neighborhood," Ruben Blades says. During his adolescence, the family's economic problems got worse while the country's political situation with respect to the United States was getting more and more difficult. This had an important effect on the life of young Ruben, forcing him into thinking about problems he never thought about before. "Up to 1964, I had been totally pro-Yankee. In tastes, in music, in everything. But the events of January of '64, when the United States refused to raise the Panamanian flag at the Canal Zone - a situation that resulted in 25 people dead - opened my eyes and, like me, many of those who had been absolutely pro-American started to ask themselves questions of a political and social nature."
Rubén Blades started his musical life listening to rock, Central American music especially the music of his native Panama and, according to himself, a lot of Brazilian music too. This would yield such a passionate and diversified music, as one would expect. He brought the political and social feeling of his time to salsa, what is oodity enough for a rhythm which is designed to only or almost only speak about love and sexual passion.
He brought the lyrical sophistication of South American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova to salsa, telling acidly-rendered stories of devastated lives, but with an ever-present message of hope. After 1980, Blades wanted out of his contract with the exploitative Fania label, but was contractually obligated to record several more albums; these were generally toss-offs and Blades himself tells his fans to avoid them. After signing with Elektra, Blades assembled a top-notch band (known variously as Seis Del Solar, or Son Del Solar). Then he fell in with a set of West Coast liberals (Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt), started making movies, ran for president of his native Panama (although he hadn't lived there for two decades) and in between still manages to make some excellent music. Note to Americans: Blades is fully bilingual, and does his own translations into English (all his post-Fania LPs come with lyrics in both languages), which makes it possible to fully appreciate the poetry in his best work. And there's a Rubén Blades web site with biographical info and discography. I'm missing almost all the early Willie Colón albums, and I'm still reviewing most of Blades' Fania work, so stay tuned. I do have many of Colón's early hits - La Murga, Calle Luna Calle Sol , Che Che Cole, Piraña - on compilations, and they're well worth tracking down. Hector Lavoe is the vocalist on many of Willie's early records (Willie also produced Lavoe's first solo albums); after a while Colón got tired of dealing with ego crises and starting singing lead himself. Colón has now set up his own web site; he's even linked to us, which is nice of him since we don't exactly see eye to eye on certain of his albums. (DBW)
www.rubenblades.com
Coming soon, bookmark it, still under construction.
Rubén Blades started his musical life listening to rock, Central American music especially the music of his native Panama and, according to himself, a lot of Brazilian music too. This would yield such a passionate and diversified music, as one would expect. He brought the political and social feeling of his time to salsa, what is oodity enough for a rhythm which is designed to only or almost only speak about love and sexual passion.
He brought the lyrical sophistication of South American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova to salsa, telling acidly-rendered stories of devastated lives, but with an ever-present message of hope. After 1980, Blades wanted out of his contract with the exploitative Fania label, but was contractually obligated to record several more albums; these were generally toss-offs and Blades himself tells his fans to avoid them. After signing with Elektra, Blades assembled a top-notch band (known variously as Seis Del Solar, or Son Del Solar). Then he fell in with a set of West Coast liberals (Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt), started making movies, ran for president of his native Panama (although he hadn't lived there for two decades) and in between still manages to make some excellent music. Note to Americans: Blades is fully bilingual, and does his own translations into English (all his post-Fania LPs come with lyrics in both languages), which makes it possible to fully appreciate the poetry in his best work. And there's a Rubén Blades web site with biographical info and discography. I'm missing almost all the early Willie Colón albums, and I'm still reviewing most of Blades' Fania work, so stay tuned. I do have many of Colón's early hits - La Murga, Calle Luna Calle Sol , Che Che Cole, Piraña - on compilations, and they're well worth tracking down. Hector Lavoe is the vocalist on many of Willie's early records (Willie also produced Lavoe's first solo albums); after a while Colón got tired of dealing with ego crises and starting singing lead himself. Colón has now set up his own web site; he's even linked to us, which is nice of him since we don't exactly see eye to eye on certain of his albums. (DBW)
www.rubenblades.com
Coming soon, bookmark it, still under construction.
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"A painter is like a book that never ends." Fernando Diniz
An art gallery that could show work in progress from psychiatric patients, from darkness to light (and sometimes even back into darkness again). Museu De Imagens Do Inconsciente. Sorry fellows, only Portuguese most or all the way, only hope you can lay your eyes on the pictures, especially the pictures painted by Fernando Diniz, their featured artist of the moment at the virtual exhibition O Universo de Fernando Diniz.
Marlui Miranda: Kewere: IHU 2
Marlui Miranda: Kewere: IHU 2.
December of 1997: Marlui's new CD is called 2 Ihu Kewere: Rezar. It's a Mass that celebrates the 400th anniversary of the death of José de Anchieta. This is also a Blue Jackel release. Marlui is now immersed in her next project: ten more CDs! The next is a ballet, to be performed by Ballet Stagium from São Paulo, with sets by Japanese-Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake (isn't Brazil the most amazing melting pot?). We'll keep you posted!
Arara - Marlui, we don't know where you come from...
Marlui - The Amazon, but I live in São Paulo, I really never lived in the Amazon, I just go there
Biography / Biografia
English:
Matias Romero, born in the city of Santos, on the coast of the state of São Paulo, works with music, video, literature and almost all forms of art where he can lay his hands on. Since he was a child he has shown a knack for literature, reading street signs precociously, according to his mother. This is where his passion for literature came into being, from its most primeval nucleus: the letters of the alphabet themselves. From this passion to music it was not exactly just a leap away, but it was through the record sleeve concepts from the seventies (especially those produced by Hipgnosis for the likes of Pink Floyd and Led Zepp
Piano On The Fly
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