segunda-feira, maio 08, 2023
Roberto Rossellini nasceu há 117 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:17 0 bocas
Marcadores: cinema, Isabella Rossellini, Itália, neo-realismo, realizador, Roberto Rossellini
O álbum Let It Be foi lançado há 53 anos
Let It Be é o décimo terceiro e último álbum lançado pelo grupo inglês de rock The Beatles. Gravado entre janeiro de 1969 e março/abril de 1970, o álbum foi somente lançado em 8 de maio de 1970, após o disco Abbey Road (último disco gravado) e juntamente com o documentário com o mesmo nome. Inicialmente estava previsto chamar-se Get Back.
A Peneda-Gerês, único Parque Nacional português, faz hoje 52 anos
O Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês é considerado pela UNESCO como Reserva Mundial da Biosfera de forma a possibilitar "a conservação do solo, da água, da flora, da fauna e da paisagem".
É uma das maiores atrações naturais de Portugal, pela rara e impressionante beleza paisagística e pelo valor ecológico e etnográfico e pela variedade de fauna (íbex-ibéricos, corços, garranos, lobos, aves de rapina) e flora (pinheiros, teixos, castanheiros, carvalhos e várias plantas medicinais). Estende-se desde a serra do Gerês, a Sul, passando pela serra da Peneda até a fronteira espanhola.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:52 0 bocas
Marcadores: Ecologia, Minho, Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês
Enrique Iglesias nasceu há 48 anos
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Joe Bonamassa nasceu há 46 anos
Joseph Leonard Bonamassa (New Hartford, New York, May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He started his career at age twelve, when he opened for B.B. King. Since 2000, Bonamassa has released fifteen solo albums through his independent record label J&R Adventures, of which eleven have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Blues chart.
Bonamassa has played alongside many notable blues and rock artists, and has earned three Grammy Awards nominations. Among guitarists, he is known for his extensive collection of vintage guitars and amplifiers.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:46 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues rock, Drive, guitarra, hard rock, Joe Bonamassa, música
Gilles Villeneuve morreu há quarenta e um anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:41 0 bocas
Marcadores: acidente, automobilismo, Canadá, Fórmula 1, Gilles Villeneuve
Matt Willis faz hoje quarenta anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: Busted, Electronic dance music, Matt Willis, música, pop, pop punk, pop rock, Reino Unido, Year 3000
Gauguin morreu há cento e vinte anos...
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (Paris, 7 de junho de 1848 - Ilhas Marquesas, 8 de maio de 1903) foi um pintor francês do pós-impressionismo.
Encontra-se sepultado no Cemitério de Atuona, Atuona, Arquipélago das Marquesas na Polinésia Francesa.
A sua pintura é caracterizada por:
- Natureza alegórica, decorativa e sugestiva;
- Formas dimensionais, estilizadas, sintéticas e estáticas.
Jacob e o Anjo, 1888
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:12 2 bocas
Marcadores: França, Gauguin, impressionismo, Paul Gauguin, pintura, Taiti
Paul Samwell-Smith celebra hoje oitenta anos...!
Paul Samwell-Smith (born Paul Smith, 8 May 1943, in Richmond, Surrey) is an English musician and record producer. He was a founding member and the bassist of the 1960s English rock band the Yardbirds, which launched leading guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page to fame. As a youth, Samwell-Smith attended Hampton School with Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty.
While in the Yardbirds, he co-produced and engineered much of their music, working with record producers such as Mickie Most, Simon Napier-Bell and Giorgio Gomelsky. Samwell-Smith was a major contributor to the original tracks written by the Yardbirds during his tenure with the band. He left the group in June 1966 to pursue a career as a record producer.
The Yardbirds
In late May 1963, he formed the Yardbirds with Keith Relf, Anthony Topham, Chris Dreja, and Jim McCarty. During this period his primary instrument was a short-scale Epiphone Rivoli bass. He played on the UK albums, Five Live Yardbirds and Yardbirds (also known as Roger the Engineer) and on the US albums For Your Love, Having a Rave Up, and Over Under Sideways Down (which was Roger the Engineer retitled for the US market), all released on Epic Records. He provided background vocals on many songs like "Good Morning Little School Girl", "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul", "Evil Hearted You", and more. He composed the Gregorian chant arrangements and lyrics of the songs "Still I'm Sad" and "Turn Into Earth". While in the Yardbirds he started working on the technical side in the studio. In 1966, becoming tired of touring and wanting to focus on production, he left the Yardbirds and was replaced by Jimmy Page. The last Yardbirds album he played on was Roger the Engineer.
Regarding Samwell-Smith's years with the Yardbirds, a 2020 article in Guitar World opined: "As a bassist, Paul Samwell-Smith was solid and occasionally prominently inventive. No doubt, had he stuck to that he’d have been feted as an influence by many."
In the early 1980s, Samwell-Smith played in the Yardbirds reunion band Box of Frogs with original Yardbird members Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty. The Box of Frogs did not tour because Chris Dreja was busy with his photography and Samwell-Smith was busy in the recording studio.
He was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992.
He went on to become a successful producer with credits including Cat Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970), Teaser and the Firecat (1971) and Catch Bull at Four (1972). An article in The Washington Post praised Samwell-Smith's "deft, understated touch" on these recordings as a primary reason for their commercial success, and commented: "The chamber ensemble palette Samwell-Smith employed, consisting mainly of acoustic guitars, piano, upright bass and hand percussion, and the refined arrangements he crafted, perfectly complement the interior landscapes that Stevens was exploring. Stevens had the pure, raw talent, certainly, but it was Samwell-Smith who seemed to understand how best to transmute and position that talent for maximum artistic impact." Samwell-Smith also produced recordings for Jethro Tull, Carly Simon, Renaissance, Murray Head, Chris de Burgh, Beverley Craven, Toto Coelo, Illusion and Claire Hamill. Other production credits include two of Amazing Blondel's albums for Island Records; the first and second albums by All About Eve for Mercury; and "American Tune" (1973 single) with Paul Simon.
Film
Paul Samwell-Smith was the musical producer for the film Harold and Maude in 1971, with music written by Cat Stevens, which became a cult classic. In addition, two decades later, he produced Postcards from the Edge in 1990, as a music sound recording and recording supervisor.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: baixo, blues rock, Heart Full of Soul, música, Paul Samwell-Smith, Rock, rock psicadélico, The Yardbirds
O baterista Alex Van Halen faz hoje setenta anos...!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: Alex Van Halen, bateria, hard rock, Jump, Países Baixos, Van Halen
... e hoje é o Dia Internacional do Burro...!
(imagem daqui)
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: burro, Dia Internacional do Burro
domingo, maio 07, 2023
Porque hoje há pachecos - amanhã não sabemos...
hoje há pachecos, amanhã não sabemos…
com vinte escudinhos
nem um copo de vinho
suspeito que os malmequeres um dia vão mudar de cor
por qué no te callas?,
lá para sexta deve vir o burrinho
há dias que nem o presépio nem os santinhos
por qué no te callas?,
há coisas fantásticas!
um avião por exemplo
uma espécie de presépio
melhorado por dentro
por qué no te callas?,
gosto mais do que tem palhinhas
hoje há pachecos, amanhã não sabemos
vai um café?
é melhor esquecer
sabe-se lá…
por qué no te callas?,
olha,
a televisão hipnotiza crianças
restinhos de família
a Júlia florista
só não hipnotiza o Pacheco
sabe-se lá porquê…
vai um joguinho?
por qué no te callas?,
a ginja não é proibida.
ginjinha pás veias!
as barragens fazem toda a diferença!
por qué no te callas?,
conheces o sócrates?
eh pá, não me lembro…
maria azenha - (na morte de Luiz Pacheco, a 5 de janeiro de 2008)
Postado por Pedro Luna às 19:25 0 bocas
Marcadores: crítica literária, literatura, Luiz Pacheco, polemista, Surrealismo
A Nona foi executada pela primeira vez há 199 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 19:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: Beethoven, Hino da Alegria, Hino da Europa, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Nona Sinfonia, romantismo
Salieri morreu há 198 anos...
Antonio Salieri (Legnago, 18 de agosto de 1750 – Viena, 7 de maio de 1825), foi um compositor de ópera italiano. Foi o compositor oficial da Corte de José II, Arquiduque da Áustria. A sua música foi bastante conhecida na sua época. As lendas a respeito do seu mau relacionamento com Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, com quem conviveu em Viena até à morte deste, foram criadas pela peça de teatro de Peter Shaffer, adaptada para o cinema, sob direção de Milos Forman, com o título Amadeus. O filme, vencedor de oito Óscares, em 1984, retrata um Salieri invejoso do génio de Mozart, ao mesmo tempo admirador e que possui um bom talento musical. Tal imagem é resultante da liberdade ficcional dos realizadores, não correspondendo à figura histórica do compositor.
Música adequada ao dia - e viva a Ucrânia...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 11:11 0 bocas
Marcadores: 1812, 1812 Overture, ballet, música, Ópera, romantismo, Rússia, Tchaikovsky
D. Vicente da Câmara nasceu há 95 anos...
O que é a aristocracia? A aristocracia tanto pode estar no povo como noutra coisa qualquer. (...) O aristocrata é aquele que sobressaiu. |
- Vicente da Câmara |
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: Fado, Fado antigo, fado aristocrata, Guitarra soluçante, música, Vicente da Câmara
Luiz Pacheco nasceu há 98 anos...
A geóloga Drª Ana Neiva nasceu há 82 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: Ana Neiva, Cotelo Neiva, Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Universidade de Coimbra
O baterista Bill Kreutzmann nasceu há 77 anos
William Kreutzmann Jr. (Palo Alto, California, May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to perform with former members of the Grateful Dead in various lineups, and with his own bands BK3, 7 Walkers and Billy & the Kids.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: bateria, Bill Kreutzmann, Billy and the Kids, Fire On The Mountain, Grateful Dead
Os Stones lançaram Paint It Black há 57 anos...!
"Paint It Black" is a song recorded in 1966 by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it is a raga rock song with Indian, Middle Eastern, and Eastern European influences and lyrics about grief and loss. London Records released the song as a single on 7 May 1966 in the United States, and Decca Records released it on 13 May in the United Kingdom. Two months later, London Records included it as the opening track on the American version of the band's 1966 studio album Aftermath, though it is not on the original UK release.
Originating from a series of improvisational melodies played by Brian Jones on the sitar, all five members of the band contributed to the final arrangement, although only Jagger and Richards were credited as songwriters. In contrast to previous Rolling Stones singles with straightforward rock arrangements, "Paint It Black" has unconventional instrumentation including a prominent sitar, the Hammond organ, and castanets. This instrumental experimentation matches other songs on Aftermath. The song was influential to the burgeoning psychedelic genre as the first chart-topping single to feature the sitar, and widened the instrument's audience. Reviews of the song at the time were mixed and some music critics believed its use of the sitar was an attempt to copy the Beatles, and others criticized its experimental style and doubted its commercial potential.
"Paint It Black" was a major chart success for the Rolling Stones, at eleven weeks (including two at number one) on the US Billboard Hot 100, and 10 weeks (including one atop the chart) on the Record Retailer chart in the UK. Upon a re-issue in 2007, it reentered the UK Singles Chart for 11 weeks. It was the band's third number-one single in the US and sixth in the UK. The song also topped charts in Canada and the Netherlands. It received a platinum certification in the UK from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and from Italy's Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI).
"Paint It Black" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, and Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song number 213 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2011, the song was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "The Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". Many artists have covered "Paint It Black" since its initial release. It has been included on many of the band's compilation albums, and several film soundtracks. It was played on several Rolling Stones tours.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 05:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: anos sessenta, música, Paint It Black, raga rock, rock psicadélico, Rolling Stones, sitar
İbrahim Gökçek, músico dos Grup Yorum, morreu, durante uma greve de fome, há três anos...
Biographie
İbrahim Gökçek, né en 1980 à Kayseri, est bassiste dans le groupe révolutionnaire turc Grup Yorum. Il est marié à Sultan Gökçek, une autre membre de Grup Yorum, détenue en 2020 à la prison de Silivri.
Il est arrêté le 1er mai 2019 et inculpé de «création et direction d'une organisation». En juin, il rejoint la grève de la faim engagée par d'autres membres de Grup Yorum: ceux-ci revendiquent que le gouvernement turc mette fin à la répression contre le groupe, libère ses membres emprisonnés et leur permette de donner des concerts. Le 4 janvier 2020, Helin Bölek et lui annoncent leur décision de prolonger leur jeûne jusqu'à la mort. Le 14, le parquet requiert l'emprisonnement à perpétuité contre Ibrahim Gökçek. Libéré malgré tout en février 2020, il s'installe avec Helin Bölek dans une maison à Küçükarmutlu à Istanbul pour y poursuivre leur grève de la faim.
Le 5 mai 2020, il recommence à s'alimenter - les principaux partis d'opposition lui ont promis de se mobiliser - et est transféré dans un hôpital. Il meurt le 7 mai 2020.
Le lendemain, la police arrête ou disperse aux gaz lacrymogènes les participants à une cérémonie à sa mémoire dans un cemevi du quartier de Sultangazi, et saisit son cercueil. Il est finalement inhumé dans le cimetière de Kayseri, au cours d'une cérémonie qui donne lieu à de nouvelles échauffourées avec la police.
Des membres du Parti d'action nationaliste (MHP) manifestent et menacent de déterrer Ibrahim Gökçek et de brûler sa dépouille, au motif qu'ils le considèrent comme un terroriste. Ces manifestations ont poussé le MHP à fermer les bureaux des Loups gris pendant un certain temps et à licencier son président local.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 03:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: baixo, direitos humanos, ditadores, Erdogan, greve de fome, Grup Yorum, İbrahim Gökçek, música, Sevda Türküsü, Turquia