Written on the 21st of July, 2015 Three years ago, more or less, I decided I wanted to have a wider knowledge of folk music. Until then, folk music and celtic music were the exact same thing in my mind. I started surfing the net and I eventually found a post in a Spanish speaking … Continue reading Heiemo and the troll
Written on the 27th of June, 2015 If there’s still someone out there who reads this blog, I apologize for the delay, it’s been more than a month but I just didn’t have time for anything. My brain is still fried from the latest exams and presentations so I have to write about something that … Continue reading Jethro Tull (X): their absolute peak
Written on the 21st of May, 2015 Today I want to write about an album which, apart from being excellent, will always be my best purchase. Yeah, this means there’s a grandpa story coming, so be patient. I was fifteen years old and I was on a school trip. While we were driving through Portugal … Continue reading The excellent taste in music of Portuguese gas stations
Written on the 4th of May, 2015 Mark Knopfler isn’t only part of Dire Straits. He has also made a lot of music on his own or with other artists, such as Chet Atkins. Atkins was an American guitarist born in 1924 who, along with Owen Bradley, created a smooth country music style known as the … Continue reading Atkins, Knopfler and a beer make life easier
Written on the 13th of April, 2015 If you thought I was done writing about The Alan Parsons Project, you were dead wrong. I still haven’t written about their darkest secret. It was around 1979 and the band and Arista Records were having some trouble in reaching a contractual agreement. Parsons and Woolfson wanted a … Continue reading The Alan Parsons Project’s darkest secret
Written on the 23rd of March, 2015 Busy life, no time, short post. I know I’ve been saying the same thing for the last four months, but last year I had way too much free time so I could spend a lot of time writing. Let me stress again, last year. Anyway, this post is about a … Continue reading Sodade
Written on the 13th of March, 2015 This time I’m not really going to write about a band or artist I love; this post is more about a man who was... more successful than he thought at first. Let’s face it, I’m not even a fan of the artist, but I think many of you … Continue reading The Spanish Sugar Man
Written on the 26th of February, 2015 I’ve tried to diversify a little bit in the last couple of months and I’ve written about a few new things or continued talking about bands I hadn’t mentioned in quite a while, but now it’s time to go back to Tull. Most people think Tull’s first few … Continue reading Jethro Tull (IX): folk rock(s)
Written on the 12th of February, 2015 I’m going to write this post for the wrong reason. This should be a serious dissertation about surrealist poetry, but instead I’ll be saying how I liked this album when my father played it in the car fifteen years ago. However, some people should find this interesting. People … Continue reading Poetas en Nueva York: when surrealist poetry becomes music
Written on the 24th of January, 2015 Mark Knopfler didn’t waste time after Communiqué, and Making Movies, the band’s third album, was ready only months after their sophomore effort. His brother Dave left the band before finishing the album and, although most of his guitar parts were ready, Mark re-recorded them. The sound is more mature than … Continue reading Dire Straits (II): so good, so short
