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Miércoles, 21 de Diciembre de 2011

01 JON BRION - (Ode to Solitude - Alexander Pope)

Happy the man, whose wish and care
   A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
                            In his own ground.

Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
   Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
                            In winter fire.

Blest, who can unconcernedly find
   Hours, days, and years slide soft away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
                            Quiet by day,

Sound sleep by night; study and ease,
   Together mixed; sweet recreation;
And innocence, which most does please,
                            With meditation.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
   Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
                            Tell where I lie.

El poema fué tomado prestado de acá

02 JON BRION - Spotless Mind

03 BECK - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes






04 GENESIS - Snowbound

Lay your body down upon the midnight snow,
Feel the cold of winter in your hair
Here in a world of your own,
In a casing that's grown
To a children's delight
That arrived overnight.

And here they come to play their magic games
Carving names upon your frozen hand.
Here in a world of your own,
Like a sleeper whose eyes
Sees the pain with surprise
As it smothers your cries
They'll never never know.

Hey there's a Snowman
Hey, Hey what a Snowman
Pray for the Snowman
Ooh, Ooh what a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep.

Smiling faces tear your body to the ground
Covered red that only we can see.
Here in a ball that they made
From the snow on the ground,
See it rolling away
Wild eyes to the sky
They'll never, never know.

Hey there's a Snowman
Hey what a Snowman
Pray for the Snowman
Ooh, Ooh what a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep.

Hey there goes the Snowman
Hey there what a Snowman
Hey there lies the Snowman
Hey he was a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep.


05 ANTHONY PHILLIPS - Henry- Portraits from Tudor Times - Fanfare-Lute's Chorus
06 PETER GABRIEL - The Drop
07 MIKE RUTHERFORD (Smallcreep's Day)- Between The Tick And The Tock
08 MIKE RUTHERFORD - Time And Time Again

09 GENESIS - Blood on the rooftops




10 PETER GABRIEL - Wallflower (2011)

6x6 - from wall to wall
Shutters on the windows, no light at all
Damp on the floor you got damp on the bed
They're trying to get you crazy - get you out of your head
They feed you scraps and they feed you lies
To lower your defences, no compromise
Nothing you can do, they day can be long
You mind is working overtime, you body's not too strong

Hold on, hold on
They put you in a box so you can't get heard
Let your spirit stay unbroken, may you not be deterred

Hold on, you have gambled with your own life
And you face the night alone
While the builders of the cages
They sleep with bullets, bars and stone
They do not see your road to freedom
That you build with flesh and bone

They take you out - the light burns your eyes
To the talking room - it's not surprise
Loaded questions from clean white coats
Their eyes are all as hidden as their Hipppcratic Oath
They tell you - how to behave, hehave as their guest
You want to resist them, you do your best
They take you to your limits, they take you beyond
For all that they are doing there's no way to respond

Hold on, hold on
They put you in a box so you can't get heard
Let your spirit stay unbroken, may you not be deterred

Hold on, you have gambled with your own life
And you face the night alone
While the builders of the cages
They sleep with bullets, bars and stone
They do not see your road to freedom
That you build with flesh and bone

Though you may disappear, you're not forgotten here
And I will say to you, I will do what I can do

You may disappear, you're not forgotten here
And I will say you you, I will do what I can do
And I will do what I can do
And I will do what I can do
 
11 PETER GABRIEL - My Head Sounds Like That


The metal jangles as the key turns
Unlock the door, wipe my feet clean
Oh my head sounds like that

The oil is spitting in the saucepan
I squeeze the sponge and let the cat out
Oh my head sounds like that
Oh my head
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

The water's dripping in the hallway
The guy next door, he knocks his wall down
Oh my head sounds like that

The knife it scrapes across the burnt brown toast
The freight train rumbles past my window
Oh my head sounds like that
Oh my head
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Around the axis we all spin
To determine what's left out and what's left in
What's left out and what's left in
What's left out and what's left in
Who's left out and who's left in
Who's left in

The moments come and go like water
I try to hold them but they're fading
Oh my head sounds like that
Oh my head
Oh oh oh 
12 STEVE HACKETT - Kim
13 STEVE HACKETT (Richie Havens) - How Can I

The local radio says sorry time to go
But I don't sleep too well.
Where are those Southern Belles

Tryin to get a telephone line through South Caroline
Your call may bring somebody down for miles around
I'm watching her eyes again.
I won't use no fountain pen.

The lady isn't here. The message wasn't clear.
She left an hour ago, screamed from the floor below.

Mother nature never gives in, she wants you to sing
But how can I go on just singing this song
My car's out of gas again.
Hurry home to see my friend

Money won't help you to win a new look at things
Loving can bring you down so you fall
Then why do you still try to get up at all
Your good and bad side showing through
Problems are a part of you

You must love someone else or face life by yourself
You may expect a call.
She's waiting in the hall

See the garden grows and it grows nobody else knows
And you can wear just any old thing,
the show can begin
I'm falling asleep to dream.
No more hills to climb it seems

Money won't help you to win a new look at things
You never give in
So why don't you sing
But how can I go on just singing this song
My car's out of gas again
I'll be home to see my friend 



Miércoles, 07 de Diciembre de 2011

01 BRIAN FINNEGAN - Joy

02 DERVISH - The Hungry Rock
03 DERVISH - The World's End



04 MADDY PRIOR - Magpie
05 MADDY PRIOR & THE GIRLS - Turning Point
06 BRIDGET ST. JOHN - Tongue Boy

07 SLOWBLOW - Cardboard Box
08 PSAPP - Curuncula
09 CROOKED STILL - The Peace Of Wild Things Dayblind

10 DANú - The Wise Maid
11 JOHN DOYLE - Tie the Bonnet , Monaghan Twig , A Fair Wind , The Convenience Reel (Reels)
12 LUNASA - The Miller of Drohan
13 JONES, NIC - Bonny bunch of roses, the

Sobre el programa y demas cuestiones

Una de las cosas buenas de vivir en un lugar como estos, es que hay muchas (bastantes? algunas? unas pocas?...) puertas que se pueden abrir para darnos la posibilidad de actividades, que probablemente eran impensadas viviendo en la ciudad. Una de esas maravillosas puertas, es FM Alas de El Bolsón. Una radio comunitaria que acaba de cumplir 20 años y que al no ser un proyecto comercial (es decir, que su finalidad no es generar dinero, como lo es en la casi totalidad de los medios de comunicación establecidos) se puede dar el lujo de hacer programas que no respondan a la "lógica de mercado".

En mi caso, el hecho de hacer radio, es un sueño que lo tenia desde hace varios años, y que en este lugar, se pudo concretar.

Melómano desde mi adolescencia, hace mas de 21 años que recolecto material sobre el folk europeo en general, particularmente enfocado en lo que se conoce como "música celta" (el folk de Irlanda, Escocia, Gales, Galicia, Asturias, y las Islas Británicas en general) Es verdad que alguien podría alegar que la música inglesa no es "celta", pero también es muy cierto, que ninguna de las músicas reconocidas como "celtas", tiene conexiones concretas con las tribus que emergieron en el centro de Europa y que tantos dolores de cabeza les dieron a los romanos (quien no recuerda a Asterix!). Lo cierto es que los celtas, eran una cultura ágrafa (que no les gustaba escribir, bah...) y por lo tanto no han dejado ningún registro de como hostia era su música. Así es que el termino “música celta”, engloba desde las expresiones mas puras, folclóricamente hablando, hasta los pastiches new-age mas pedorros (según el diccionario: “Molesto, irritante, desagradable.”) que nadie se pueda imaginar.

La música del programa, inevitablemente, pasa por el tamiz de lo que a mi me parece “correcto”. Pero todo es discutible.

Lago Puelo, diciembre de 2007.

Sobre el nombre:

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) fue un poeta irlandés fuertemente asociado al "renacimiento celta" en Irlanda. "En los siete bosques" es un poema que también le da nombre a uno de sus libros.

"IN THE SEVEN WOODS"
I HAVE heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods
Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees
Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away
The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile
Tara uprooted, and new commonness
Upon the throne and crying about the streets
And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,
Because it is alone of all things happy.
I am contented, for I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.

"EN LOS SIETE BOSQUES"
He escuchado a las palomas de los Siete Bosques
Emitir su debil sonido, a las abejas del jardín
Zumbar en las flores del limero y apartar
Los gritos inútiles y los viejos dolores
Que vacían el corazón. Por un momento he olvidado
a Tara destrozada y la nueva plebe
Sobre el trono, gritando en las calles
Y colgando flores de papel de poste a poste,
Porque eso es lo único feliz de todas las cosas.
Estoy contento, porque sé que la Calma
Vaga riendo y comiendo su corazón salvaje
Entre palomas y abejas, mientras el Gran Arquero,
Quien espera Su hora para disparar, todavía cuelga
Una aljaba nublada por encima de Pairc-na-lee. (*)

(*) "Campo a la vera del rio Lee" ??

Algunas veces, comenzamos el programa con este poema, grabado por Al Atkinson, un amigo, cantante y pintor de Nottingham



Y esta es una de las tantas intros que hicimos para el programa... Creo que fué la primera de todas