EL VIEJO LO HIZO DE NUEVO! neil young - le noise (2010)

Para que vamos a reseñar, otra perla del gran Neil
Van los temas


1 Walk wth Me Young 4:25
2 Sign of Love Young 3:57
3 Someone Gonna Rescue You Young 3:28
4 Love and War Young 5:36
5 Angry World Young 4:13
6 Hitchhiker Young 5:31
7 Peaceful Valley Boulevard Young 7:09
8 Rumblin' Young 3:36

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Ravi Shankar and Phillip Glass - PASSAGES

A collaboration between an avant-garde modern classical composer and a traditional Indian/Hindi composer/performer seems as unlikely as ice hockey on the River Styx. However, Passages is a collaboration between Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar and it works quite well. Shankar's smooth style fits nicely with Glass' dissonant orchestrations. There is a great deal of technical data involved here. Both of these artists have long taken intellectual approaches to music. Thus, the liner notes are a bit heavy-handed. The music is brilliant. The symphony dominates the soundscapes, but Shankar's atmospheres are integral to the success of this project. This CD will appeal to fans of John Cage, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich.

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hip hop tano (o mas o menos) vol II

Simone.Cristicchi-Grand.Hotel.Cristicchi
Italian pop musician Simone Cristicchi was born in Rome on February 5, 1977. Simone was always involved with creative pursuits as a youth, experimenting with design before finding his artistic voice in music. Having discovered a guitar in his attic at the age of 17, Cristicchi started forming rock groups in his late teens, playing the repertoire of Nirvana and other alternative rock acts. Around his 20th birthday, he discovered a taste for composing his own songs, and it was just a year later that he received his first accolades as a songwriter, winning an award from SIAE for his song "L'uomo dei Bottoni." As he began to tour regionally and open for notable artists, doors to record his material began to open. Cristicchi signed with Carosello Records in 2000, with whom he released his premiere single, "Elettroshock." Cristicchi first appeared at the Sanremo Festival (an event that offers many Italian musicians their first shot at widespread success) in 2002. His first major-label release emerged in 2006, entitled Fabbricante di Canzoni. The record was received well, topping out at number 11 on national charts. He returned to Sanremo that year to moderate success. A year later Cristicchi won the competition with his song "Ti Regalero una Rosa," a commentary on the state of Italian mental health treatment facilities and the life of their charges. The song, which made it to number three on Italian pop music charts, is featured on his 2007 release, Dall'altra Parte del Cancello.

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hip hop tano vol. 1

Caparezza-Greatest.Hits

(atención, ese no es un trabajo publicado sino que es una recopilación casera)

Before he re-emerged in 2001 as Caparezza, Italy's Michele Salvemini was a clean-cut, B-boy-style pop singer named Mikimix. His 1999 full-length, La Mia Buona Stella, produced the Italian hit single "E La Notte Se Ne Va," a slice of Europop closer to Color Me Badd or Enrique Iglesias than anything resembling American hip-hop. But it was the fluid style of Dr. Dre protégé Xzibit that Caparezza most closely resembled on Tutto Cio Che C'E, the 2001 debut of his new moniker. Caparezza made clear the distinction between past and present personas with furious raps about personal honesty and music business hypocrisy, painting a picture of himself as a pawn who knew he could be king. Tutto Cio Che C'E's kitchen-sink production drew on elements of both West and East Coast American hip-hop, as well as breakbeats, acoustic guitars, piano, and European influences suggesting Salvemini's Europop past, albeit with much better beats and basslines. Caparezza went on to contribute raps to likeminded projects by Speaker Cenzou and DJ Honey.

Caparezza is the pseudonym of Michele Salvemini. He was born in Molfetta in 1973 on the 9th of October, the same day as John Lennon. Caparezza is a famous Apulian rapper. He specializes in groom music, like Frank Zappa, who Caparezza considers his “teacher”. This has earned him the title of “the Beppe Grillo of music” among his fans; in fact, like Beppe Grillo, Caparezza criticizes society with a pungent irony in contexts which are often fantastic and unreal. At first Caparezza appears nonsensical due to his use of unusual metaphors, and above all because he has disowned the mainstream of hip-hop; thus he appears to be a nonconformist rejected by the Italian mainstream. His four albums contain a plethora of emotions: anger, while at the same time desire of redemption, nostalgia, love, guilt, but especially a wish for change. This aspect is particularly evident in his first album, where the artist disowns and nearly rejects his past, when he was Mikimix, because he was incoherent compared to his present self.

[edit]Early career

Caparezza’s mother was a teacher and his dad was a worker who used to play in a group, so Michele has played since he was a child. He studied accounting, although he dreamed of writing comics. After completing High School, Michele began to work in advertising, and won a scolarship for the Academy of Milan, but later decided to devote himself completely to music. Michele started his career under the name Mikimix, but composed melodic songs with poor artistic value and thus did not obtain widespread success. He also presented the program “Segnali di Fumo” with Paolo Maugeri on Video Music. After some shows in Milan’s pubs, Mikimix made his debut in Castrocaro Festival and subsequently took part in two Sanremo Festivals in Categoria Giovani, in 1995 and in 1997, and succeeded in the publication of an album, “La mia buona stella”, which however was a success only in France.

[edit]From Mikimix to Caparezza

When he returned to Molfetta to make a new fresh start, he continued composing music in his garage and grew longer hair and a beard. Salvemini changed his pseudonym from Mikimix to Caparezza (“Curly Hair” in Apulian dialect) and in 2000 published his first album,Caparezza?!. Despite the high quality of the songs, it was his second album, Verità Supposte, which led him to success in 2003-2004. His third album, Habemus Capa, is a criticism against society's contradictions. In this CD Salvemini imagines to be dead and descends to the Hell, which is our world, and in every song he describes a terrible aspect of modern society. It was published in 2006.

In 2008 his fourth and last album arrived, Le dimensioni del mio caos. The album takes the form of a science-fiction story starring Caparezza as the protagonist. In a concert to celebrate Jimi Hendrix, Caparezza destroys a guitar on an amplifer like him, and creates a space-temporal passage from which a girl from the 60's named Ilaria appears, and with whom Caparezza promptly falls in love. The sad singer realizes that the present is modified because the past was modified. If he doesn’t take back Ilaria, the future will never be the same. But Ilaria is conditioned by the third millennium and does not want to return to 1968. In this alternative 2008, the Church rules and Caparezza is arrested because he has pockets which are forbidden. After he is released from prison, he discovers that Ilaria has married Carneade, a famous person who is the leader of the “Fronte dell’Uomo Qualcuno”, a party reserved for VIPs. Caparezza can’t take Ilaria back to 1968 and, to worsen matters, the “Fronte” is planning to build a “spaceport” in Apulia for the imminent elections. Thus Caparezza visits the construction site and meets Luigi delle Bicocche, a mason who is also the protagonist of the song Eroe-storia di Luigi delle Bicocche. Caparezza, completely demoralized, gives his Stratocaster and his amplifier to Luigi. Luigi is in reality a guitarist, Gigi Hendrix; he destroys the Stratocaster on the amplifer and creates a space-temporal passage which turns humans into bonobos. The future is all water under the bridge.

Caparezza also published a book in 2008, Saghe Mentali, the description of his discography.

Now Michele sings with Diego Perrone, singer in the group Medusa, who has replaced Stefano Ciannamea; Stefano is the creator of Caparezza’s official site. Caparezza is also a member of Sunny Cola Connection, a group who sings in Apulian dialect. Lately he has also cooperated with the Italian rappers Puni, Piotta and Mondo Marcio and whit the pop musician Roy Paci & Aretuska, and naturally with Medusa. At present, Caparezza’s band includes Rino Corrieri (drummer), Gaetano Camporeale (keyboarder), Giovanni Astorino (bassist), Alfredo Ferrero (guitarist).

[edit]Rise to fame

Caparezza became famous for his song Fuori dal tunnel, which was a summer hit. However, the singer has always protested against the use of the song in discos and on television, because it is meant to be a denunciation of the de-individualization of entertainment, especially in discos. Another important song on Verità Supposte is Vengo dalla Luna, which tells about an alien (Caparezza) knocked down to Earth who is astonished by the human mistrust against a different culture. It is a song opposing the prejudices toward immigrants. In Habemus Capa there are many important songs, like La mia parte intollerante which, once again, expresses the marginalization of Caparezza. In the last album there are two purposeful songs: Eroe and Vieni a ballare in Puglia. Eroe is a story of a mason who is regarded as a “hero” because he manages to maintain a family without surrendering to the temptations of loan sharks anddraw poker. Vieni a ballare in Puglia talks about the situation in Puglia today; the “white deaths”, the forest fires in Gargano and the air pollution in Taranto. This song, like Fuori dal tunnel, was misunderstood by the public who considered, mistakenly,a simple praise towards Puglia

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Almost Famous OST

Although it's been pronounced dead more often than Mark Twain, the life expectancy of rock & roll was surely looking faint at the end of the '60s. Few people realize that it wasn't all bad. As Almost Famous' central character slowly realizes, it's much less important what history may mean to music journalists 30 years from now than what it means to actually experience it right then and there. Maybe it was a hard lesson to learn. Because while the counterculture and its music started to become everything it hated (and too soon before punk came to remind everybody what the revolution was really about) rock's "lurch" still promised much for those that paid attention.

Indeed, it would take a concentrated effort to ignore this soundtrack's refreshing outlook. Simon & Garfunkel and the Who are pitted right against Yes and Elton John. The Beach Boys against Cat Stevens. There's a sense of heady nostalgia here — but one more deliberately adolescent and tender than the schlock-infested oldies radio station trends of most soundtracks of this ilk. The Seeds are represented by one of their most psychedelic pop gems ("Mr. Farmer") while Thunderclap Newman sounds almost prophetic with their playfully carny-piano mini-marathon ("Something in the Air"). Even the two new fictionalized compositions both manage to evoke the feeling of a waning era with just the right amount of reminiscence.

This is surely not a definitive collection of post-'60s music and it's proud not to be. Like all great soundtracks, the one for Almost Famous works both as an instant reminder of the film's highs as well as a personal, startling perspective into the very "last gasps" of rock & roll. And like all great soundtracks, music journalists will probably hate it.

1 America Simon & Garfunkel 3:37
2 Sparks Who 3:48
3 It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference Todd Rundgren 3:51
4 I've Seen All Good People: Your Move Yes 3:33
5 Feel Flows Beach Boys 4:44
6 Fever Dog Stillwater 3:10
7 Every Picture Tells a Story Rod Stewart 5:55
8 Mr. Farmer Seeds 2:51
9 One Way Out Allman Brothers 4:59
10 Simple Man Lynyrd Skynyrd 5:56
11 That's the Way Led Zeppelin 5:37
12 Tiny Dancer Elton John 6:15
13 Lucky Trumble Nancy Wilson 2:42
14 I'm Waiting for the Man David Bowie 5:43
15 The Wind Cat Stevens 1:40
16 Slip Away Clarence Carter 2:32
17 Something in the Air Thunderclap Newman 3:54
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