Tom Waits em Sanremo, 1986

MORREU a Channthy Kak, cantora dos Cambodian Space Project, que vi actuar em Phnom Penh e em Macau. Grande cantora, na tradição e peculiar estilo da música rock Khmer. RIP

JP Simões, Alvoroço, uma canção que quer dizer muitas coisas, a fazer lembrar o Chico Buarque, mas também espécie de resumo da lírica do JP. Muito bom:

"This is the strangest life I've ever known"

FAZ hoje 46 anos que morreu Jim Morrison em Paris. Ao pesquisar possíveis ilustrações para um artigo publicado no Macau Daily Times, encontrei online esta foto tirada cinco dias antes da sua morte, durante um passeio à zona de L'Oise, no norte de França. 

E há também esta, tirada na mesma ocasião, com a namorada Pamela, que viria a morrer no dia 25 de Abril de 1974:

OU yeahh:

BOWIE  sabia espalhar a confusão. Espalhando a confusão deixa crescer as fantasias de cada espectador. Cada um fica com a liberdade de completar Bowie, de fazer um Bowie pessoal, só para ele. (MEC, Público)

BOA leitura sobre o Tom Waits no Guardian, embora os meus 10 melhores momentos dele fossem outros (como não estão lá o Black Rider e o Alice, a faceta mais teatral?). De qualquer dos modos, é tudo bom:
"Working in an industry that until recently was obsessed with youth, Waits is one of those rare artists who is improved the more wizened he becomes, and the more he resembles an old baseball glove."

TOM Waits Onstage and Off, great pics by the Rolling Stone magazine.

MORRISEY, no seu último álbum, faz uma referência ao herói "beat" Cassady e a Allen Ginsberg



Não sei bem o que dizer da letra, mas a música soa muito bem:

Neal Cassady drops dead
And Allen Ginsberg’s tears shampoo his beard
Neal Cassady drops dead
And Allen Ginsberg’s lips tighten and thin
Neal Cassady drops dead
And Allen Ginsberg’s hosed down in a barn
Neal Cassady drops dead
And Allen Ginsberg’s howl becomes a growl
Everyone has babies
Babies full of rabies
Rabies full of scabies
Scarlet has a fever
Ring’s [?] full of ringworm
Angel of disdain
Poor little fella has got rubella
Liver full of fungus
Junior full of gangrene
Mine is melanoma
Tikes full of gripe.
Whippersnapper’s scurvy
Urchin made of acne
Get that thing away from me
Victim, or life’s adventurer
Which of the two are you?
Victim or life’s adventurer
Which of the two are you?

(Segundo a Vogue, "the song “Neal Cassady Drops Dead” references Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, spiraling through a litany of rhyming horrors (babies, rabies, scabies) at an excited pace, before landing on the final words: Victim? Or life’s adventurer? Which of the two are you? Play it loud, get up, dance . . . sway in that particular Morrissey fashion with all your friends somewhere, anywhere on a Saturday night. Things will be better.")

RECORDANDO Cobain e a poética dos Nirvana... grande texto do Guardian. 

 e hiper-concerto aqui

Infelizmente acabou assim, violentamente como suas música e poesia:

This April 1994 photo provided by the Seattle Police Department shows a box of ammunition lying next to Kurt Cobain's foot at the scene of the musician's suicide, in Seattle

Filosofia de Waits

AQUI se vê como Waits é um genial visionário. É um tipo que tem música dentro, é possuído pela música.


Diz ele neste doc:
"I believe that all things really aspire to the condition of music, including films, stories... If it has music in it, then it has value. I don't think songs try to be films, I think films try to be songs. It's a pure form of expression, it's a very simple one, it's one that anyone can do. You don't need to have a lot of gear... kids write thousands of songs before they learn to talk. Everybody has music that they just are trying to get out."

SOBERBO, um pedaço de poesia
"Tom Waits, a Day in Vienna"  (uma noite velhinha, ainda muitos de nós éramos imberbes, 19 de Abril 1978, e já o Waits era uma lenda)

ROLLING Stone review: It's a tragedy that Tom Waits doesn't tour more often. Nobody does what he does, and he's doing it almost better than ever. Why assemble a band this great and rehearse a show this magnificent, only to do it once?

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-waits-triumphs-at-bridge-school-benefit-20131028#ixzz2j8X1YnUA

"KNOWN for his cold stare and gaunt features, he was a cynic and a seeker who seemed to embody downtown Manhattan culture of the 1960s and '70s and was as essential a New York artist as Martin Scorsese or Woody Allen."

GRANDE malha:

THE blues

ISTO é cantar