Music of quality will never end... I'm honoured to present you Post Malone

Austin Richard Post, known as Post Malone, is an under thirty years singer and composer (borned in Siracusa NY) who already in 2018, had two number one singles in USA "Rockstar" (featuring 21 Savage) and "Psycho" (featuring Ty Dolla Sign), and a great success with the hole album "Beerbongs and Bentleys", his second one, nominated for Album of the year at the Grammy's awards. Then came "Hollywood's bleeding" in 2019 with Spider-Man film (Into the Spider-Verse) theme "Sunflower" and the highly succesful "Circles" (with a great video!)of course Nr. 1 and record of weeks in the top 100... This year came "Twelve Carat toothache", an incredible album that when I heard it make me remember the Beatles White Album cause it has no waste... Few musicians achieved that... His compositions are an original mix of influences as hip-hop, rock, trap, pop, and even a country touch... His voice is peculiar and magnetic. as charismatic his personality... One of the greatest artists of these times Rockstar (feat 21 Savage) - 2018 Circles - 2019 Cooped up (feat Roddy Ricch) - 2022 from album Twelve Carat toothache

Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick

Thick as a brick was a masterpiece of progressive rock from 1972 that completely seduced and made me a Jethro Tull fan forever... Since then, LZ and Jethro, together with Beatles and Pink Floyd are in the top of my rock preferences, sharing the altar only with some monsters of other genres as classic, modern brazilian, british pop, etc. With the simphonic format of progressive rock albums... A real jewel

Biffy Clyro - "Different People" Live From London

I return after an almost five years absence, due to familiar and personal problems, lost my beloved mother after a long illness (she was inspirational for me in my love for music, with her wonderful records of classic and brazilian music and also my introduction to guitar playing when she decided to learn it), and also had been moving to different houses planning my retirement of teaching at the architecture faculty and other institutes...
Here, at my new home, far away from my hometown, beginning a new life beside the sea, I'm fully involved with music again...
I recently discovered this scottish rock band (though it has more than 20 years of existence never heard about it here in South America...) that moved me as only Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the first Genesis did in my youth and lately maybe Cold Play and isolated songs of other groups did... If I felt Cold Play were the successors of Beatles and Pink Floyd, attending to their lyricals and musical harmonies, I don't have doubt this band is the heiress of Led Zeppelin cause they bring us the beautiest ballads but also the hardest rock moments, sometimes even in the same song, as in this one. They have also a scent of the Genesis of "Dancing with the moonlit knight" in some musical arrengements and the use of synths chords. I love the lyrics of Simon Neil with it's depth, surrealistic images, and that quote of rage and rebelion emerging in many songs...
Fascinated by this finding, happy for returning,

Ed

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

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Houses of the Holy was caracterized by the stunning cover art design, with a composition made with many photos taken at the Giant´s Causeway (designed by Hipgnosis, the authors of Pink Floyd's ones) and a new musical style departing from blues and incorporating new influences.  This is one of my favourite albums ever and  is difficult to choose one of the songs... So there goes some..

Houses of the Holy se caracterizó por el maravilloso diseño artístico de la portada, con una composición basada en fotos tomadas en la Calzada de los Gigantes (diseñada  por Hipgnosis, autores de de las portadas de Pink Floyd), y un nuevo estilo musical que comenzaba a aprtarse del blues e incorporar nuevas influencias. Es uno de mis álbumes favoritos de todos los tiempos y es difícil escoger una de sus canciones, así que allí van algunas...

                                                  OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

THE RAIN SONG

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                                                                      D'YER MAK'ER

Led Zeppelin, Kashmir

Composed in 1974 when I was still a teen, and even I was already a fan of LZ, I began to enjoy Kashmir (album Physical Grafitti) later... My preferences about the themes of the record have been also changing with the age. Some years ago Kashmir has become my absolute favourite... The repetition of the riff only broken by the other melodie overposed sung by Robert Plant  is hypnotic for me... Here goes two versions: a study one and live

Compuesto en 1974 cuando era aún adolescente, aunque incluso ya era fan de LZ, empezé a disfrutar Kashmir (álbum Physical Graffiti) más tarde... Mis preferencias entre los temas del LP han ido cambiando con la edad. Desde hace unos años Kashmir es mi favorita absoluta... La repetición del riff solo quebrada por la otra melodía sobrepuesta cantada por Robert Plant es hipnótica para mí... Acá van dos versiones, una de estudio y una en vivo.

Richard Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Eumir Deodato

Incredible composition (1896) of the german composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949), inspired on Nietzche's work of the same name, well known contemporarely after Kubrick included it in "2001 Space Odissey", got in 1972 this version of the talented brazilian musician Eumir Deodato (already in USA then). I think Kubrick would enjoyed to use also this version in the film if it was already created then...

The original theme is a symphonic poem, what means an only one movement composition constructed in turn of cyclic form and thematic transformation, evoking some non musical (in this case philosophical) subject.

Increíble composición (1896) del compositor alemán Richard Strauss (1864-1949) inspirada en la obra de Nietzche de igual nombre, bien conocida contemporaneamente por su inclusión en "2001, Odisea del espacio", recibió en 1972 esta versión del talentoso músico brasileño Eumir Deodato (entonces residente en USA). Creo que Kubrick hubiera disfrutado usando también la misma en la película de haber sido ya grabada.
El tema original es un "poema sinfónico", es decir una obra de un solo movimient en general,  que evoca algún tema no musical, en este caso filosófico. Su construcción usual es la de la "forma cíclica" http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forma_c%C3%ADclica y la de la "transformación temática" http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformaci%C3%B3n_tem%C3%A1tica de una melodía.

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by Eumir Deodato

Pocos años después, siendo ya un adolescente, llegaba a mis manos un simple traído desde USA, de alguien totalmente desconocido por estos lares, el genial músico brasileño Eumir Deodato. Con temas como éste y otras reinterpretaciones de clásicos comenzaba a tener gran éxito a inicios de los '70 alcanzando la cumbre al obtener un grammy por su versión de la obra de Richard Strauss "Así hablaba Zarathustra"

A few years later, being a teenager, it came into my hands a simple brought from USA, of a complete unknown in this places, the great brazilian musician Eumir Deodato.

With songs like this one and other covers of classics he began to have success in the early 70's, reaching the top obtaining a Grammy for his version of Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra"