Barandales de la Luna
¿Quién llenará de primaveras este enero, y bajará la luna para que juguemos?
¡Magno Alejandro Sanz!
Su Corazón partío me trae a la cabeza ese tema tan impresionante de Ketama, África, de Songhai, con Toumani Diabate1:
¡Quién pudiera subirse a los barandales de la Luna, coger el cielo con mis manos y contar las estrellas una a una!"
No consigo encontrarla, aparte de en mi CD original, pero sale alguna otra del disco en Youtube: Jarabi. Todo el trabajo vale la pena. Otro ejemplo, la rumba mágica y legendaria Vente pa Madrid.
1 La web de Toumani Diabate dice, sobre Songhai: Toumani had been invited to play at a party in London in 1988, and Ketama, signed to the same label, were also there. Immediately they began doing palmas (interlocked flamenco clapping) to his music - to Toumanis amazement - he couldn’t believe that that they could have such an understanding of the rhythmic complexities of his music. The next day they all went to journalist and broadcaster Lucy Duran’s house and within a few minutes they were playing the most sublime music together, as if they had always been listening to each others traditions. The result of this was Songhai, with pieces like Jarabi, a perfect synthesis of kora and flamenco.
De tripas, corazón
“Pilas alcalinas p’a mi corazón cansao”, dice uno. “Corazón partío”, el otro, “Soy un corazón tendido al sol”, “si yo tuviera un corazón”, te maquillaste el corazón...... [more][back]Trackback from Santiago Gala at