MLT Club Member Jürgen
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…and the musicians of “Buena Vista Social Club”. Behind this somewhat unwieldy name hides the American guitarist Ry Cooder, who, together with some of the old masters of Cuban music, recorded the music album of the same name, which became a great success:
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From Machu Picchu and Peru now a short jump to Cuba, the birthplace of Gloria Estefan (by the way, her full name is Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García)….
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Jung, I’m happy for you that you were able to keep such a positive view of the world. George Orwell, Ray Bradbury or Heinrich Mann: pessimistic realists or realistic pessimists? I don’t want to delve further into the topic for myself, for that I would have to go very far, and become political. This isn’t the right place for it. Instead, I’ll just quote my grandma: („Geld regiert die Welt“) „Money rules the world“. Mona and Lisa recognized that well in their song. At the moment there is a lot of money on the way and that is moving a lot, unfortunately not always for the better…
…and last but not least: a happy song with a serious note:
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Gloria Estefan was born in Havana and is known for performing with her band Miami Sound Machine. She later focused on a solo career, producing songs presented in her native language.
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Hi Jung,
the introduction from the children’s book unfortunately portrays the world as it is: madness dominates reason, greed displaces charity, and the hunger for power kills humanity. This is the sad legacy that we carry within us. If it wins, we can only lose. Or as Yoda put it so well: “Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.”
The songs you mentioned by Mona and Lisa are very beautiful and the critical lyrics are thought provoking. A nice contrast to „I wanna hold your hand“ (although that’s important too, of course). But if I understood Mona and Lisa correctly, they don’t want to be understood as political at all.
Jumpship actually describes very nicely how I feel at the moment. Often I want to say: Stop the world, I want to get out:
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But if I understood you correctly, you want to convey a hopeful mood, so I would like to end my contribution with the following idea: Let us sow the seeds of love
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Hi David, I took up your idea of the Peruvian flute band on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. „Los Kjarkas“ are a Bolivian music group formed in Capinota in 1965 by Hermosa brothers – Wilson, Castel and Gonzalo – and Édgar Villarroel. The group’s name derives from the word „qarka“, which means “strength” or “power” in the Quechua language. The group became very popular not only in Bolivia but with concerts all over South America, as well as in Europe, North America and Japan. There are also some fine live performances of „Los Kjarkas“ available online.
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What would the world of music and dance be without the tango from Argentina and Uruguay (Tango Argentino)? Maybe one of the most famous and recognizable tangos of all time was written and composed by the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos Rodríguez in 1917.
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A beautiful tango adaptation: the melody of Georgia Gibb’s first #1 hit in 1952 comes from the composition “El Choclo”:
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„El Choclo“, composed by the musician Ángel Gregorio Villoldos, is the title of the following tango, which was first performed in Buenos Aires on 3 November 1903 in the elegant restaurant “El Americano”. With this, the tango was also established in the upper class. Until then, the tango was rather the music of the poor and common people.
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The Girl from Ipanema is the better-known English title of a popular Brazilian song composed in 1962 by Antônio Carlos Jobim. The Portuguese-language original, whose lyrics were written by Vinícius de Moraes, has the equivalent title “Garota de Ipanema”. At the time the song was written, Ipanema, a district of Rio de Janeiro, was considered the artists’ quarter of the Brazilian metropolis. A recording for the Verve music label in New York on March 19, 1963, which appeared on the Getz/Gilberto long-playing record the following year, made The Girl from Ipanema one of the world’s most famous bossa nova songs.
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….and Machu Picchu by foot.
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Thanks for the video link David. Wow, the group ÑUCANCHI ÑAN is already a real “big band”. Most of the panpipe players who performed with us were three or four musicians and rather unknown, but they played beautiful music. However, they do not come close to the professionalism of this group.
Have you ever been to Central or South America? I would like to see and experience Machu Picchu (and the Amazon, but I already wrote about that). Two years ago I had a little Andean experience. There are some private people near us who keep alpacas and offer hikes with these animals. Each participant gets his own alpaca and leads it on a leash next to him. So it’s kind of like walking a dog, only this particular dog is a little bigger. Alpacas are very sensitive animals. We passed a horse pasture and the animals got very nervous, because they don’t like the presence of other large animals and like to react by fleeing. And very stubborn they can be too. Well, now a hike in the German lowlands can not necessarily replace the Andes, but it was still nice. I also ordered an alpaca blanket (from the animal I went for a walk with). Very light and cuddly warm in winter).
You can get to Machu Picchu either by foot or by train. I’ve been looking for a nice video documenting the train ride up to Machu Picchu for some time. Surprisingly, most travel videos on this subject either show young men chattering into the camera the whole time or some luxury trains serving cocktails and champagne. Did the travelers also get anything of the landscape and the culture there or just looked at their red wine and food all the time? ????
Anyway, here are two nice video clips: Machu Picchu by train…
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Hi Jung,
thank you for the music video. I didn’t know Sixto Rodriguez and the movie “Searching for Sugarman” before, but I will catch up. The song „Sugar Man“ by Mona and Lisa is very nice and catchy. The video was not so present to me now (a nice paraphrase for “I somehow also did not know…). I am glad that you have a pronounced affinity for Latin American music. I like songs with Spanish and Portuguese lyrics very much (even if I don’t understand them). The singing exudes an elegance and lightness, a joie de vivre that I often miss here with us.
My love for South American music was awakened by Manuela. She lived in Chile for a while with her sister and spoke Spanish quite well. Her enthusiasm for Latin American music has also been transferred to me. It is something very special when a person who is close to you brings you closer to such music or even parts of a culture. I think it happened to you in the same way. Maybe you also know some nice music from El Salvador?
This wonderful bolero was written in 1955 by Panamanian composer Carlos Eleta Almaran as a tribute to the beloved wife of his brother Fernando, she died in childbirth. Sad and beautiful at the same time.
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Thanks for the video Jung. Yes, the number of tracks per album is a possible explanation. I bought the US album „Beatles VI“ on a whim (the compilation of tracks is quite nice) and there are even only 11 tracks on the album. In this way you can make seven albums out of the original of six. Looks familiar. That reminds me of my chips bags: The bag is always the same size, but less and less content… Another thing I didn’t think about: at the time when the Beatles were producing music, there existed many different record labels. Not like today, where four or five global player have divided the music market among themselves. „Beatles VI“ for example was released by Capitol, not EMI. There were probably also legal reasons why some of the albums were named differently and contained different songs. Or to put it another way: even more people who wanted to earn even more money with the same music.
PS: what capitol did there is a bit scary: Just imagine they would have done the same thing with novels. I imagine it like this: Tolkien’s „Lord of the Rings“ will be published for the US by Capitol. Instead of the 9 Ringwraiths there are now only 7, but 6 Hobbits (because they are so cute). Gandalf doesn’t wear a gray and later white cloak, but instead wears yellow and purple (because the colors are so trendy in the fashion industry right now) and Bilbo Baggins doesn’t find the elf blade Sting, but a carving knife (because it’s barbecue season).
…or a swiss army knife ha, ha…????
