Paco de Lucia - Entre dos aguas (1976) full video

Cajon Solo

The Box : ¨El Cajón¨

Speaking with colleagues about music and instruments, we finally dicussed about the instrument the ¨cajon¨ well known here in Spain, I never heard about it before, so curious like I am, I went directly to my PC and ¨googled¨ it, here some interesting informations:

Cajón, The story :

The Cajón is a kind of box played by playing by slapping the front face with the hands. the cajón is the most widely used Afro-Peruvian musical instrument in the 20th century.

Slaves of West and Central African origin in the Americas, specifically Peru, are considered to be the source of the cajón drum; though the instrument is common in musical performance throughout the Americas, especially Cuba.

The cajón was most likely developed in coastal Peru during the early 1800s.,
Knowing that the cajón comes from slave musicians in the Spanish colonial Americas, there are two complementary origin theories for the instrument. It is possible that the drum is a direct descendant of a number of boxlike musical instruments from west and central Africa, especially Angola, and the Antilles.

Another theory posits that slaves simply used boxes as musical instruments to combat contemporary Spanish colonial bans on music in predominantly African areas. In this way, cajóns could easily be disguised as seats or stools, thus avoiding identification as musical instruments. In all likelihood it is a combination of these factors - African origins and Spanish suppression of slave music - that led to the cajón's creation.

In contemporary times, the instrument became an integral important part of Peruvian music and Cuban music.

In the 1970s the instrument was introduced to Flamenco music by guitarist Paco de Lucia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paco_de_Luc%C3%ADa

It sounds really great and it is possible to make sound with your own body while sitting on the instrument...

We learned something new again today !! :-D

Rome,
just coming back from a weekend there :
Its a beautiful and stressy city, but we enjoyed a lot. The beginning couldnt have been worth :
We arrive at the airport looking for some information to get to the center of Rome, straight to the information desk asking the nice italian women who turns out to be an aggresiv and not really well educated italian women... ok Grazie and Ciaoo !! The first contact wasnt really the one I imagined…

Finally we decided to take the train to Rome ( 11 euros mamma miaaa ) , I jump into the train and suddenly the doors close, great if my friend wouldnt be still on the platform and me inside the train!!

Arriving to the Station Termini, I waited for my friend while it started to rain heavily …… getting better and better……

Finally we arrived at the hostel, they told us we had to go to another one because of some shower and toilets issues ( they were actually not working at all ¡! ) soooo we got back into the rain and went to the new hostel which turned out to be a flat divided in rooms… but its looks clean, quite ok , we just want to arrive in Rome!

The next days were the exact opposite of the beginning : Sunny, friendly and funny. Lots of culture and beautiful monunents…

Coliseo, Vaticano, Spanish stairs, Fontana di Trevi, etc, etc...

The only thing was , I went to Rome 8 years ago and since then I thought ¨God, italian guys are just gorgious ¡! ¨ but this weekend I don´t know what happened :

*My taste changed a lot in the last 8 years, which could be but I still think it didnt

Or

*All the gordious italian guys planed on being away exact this weekend

I will never know until I go back, not in the next years. Its a beautiful city but when you have seen it once i think its enough…

But I threw a coin into the Fontana di trevi so it means I should actually go back one day…. Hopefully with a gordious italian guy on my side….

SE BASTASSE UNA CANZONE - 1990 - EROS RAMAZZOTTI official

Estopa are a popular Spanish rock/rumba duo from Cornella ( Barcelona ) . The band consists of the brothers José and David Muñoz, who sing a unique blend of sounds reflecting many genres, including rock, rumba, flamenco, and a "sonido callejero" that does not easily fit into categories. The band has commented on such difficulty by stating "We don't like to be easily categorized."
http://www.estopa.com/
Very known here in Spain, and always a burnout at Partys !! fiesta, fiestaaa !!

Estopa - Cuando amanece

Tuesday is the day of the spanish song :-P

Singing in the Rain

Whats going on with the Weather here, sun-rain-sun-rain... we need to hear this song !

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Erykah Badu - Bag Lady

Todays songmood, dark, passionate and spicy :-P

Good Bye, Lenin!

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

Yann tiersen´s music soundtrack

Goodbye lenin

Yesterday after a long day at work I arrived finally at home and could enjoy a nice relaxed evening watching TV.cool, Goodbye Lenin on TVE2, really good german film with Daniel Bruehl ( who is half spanish !! ) and I got amazed, again, from Yann Tiersen´s music
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_Tiersen )... who did the beautiful soundtrack from Amelie Poulain.. check out the vids :-D

Semi-Pro:

Todays song, just makes me laugh a lot !!
enjooooooy :-)