FLAKO - "THE ODD AND THE BEAUTIFUL" [NATUREBOY, 2015]. MUZIKE ELEKTRONIKE ELEGANTE?

Kaq dihet mbi kete artist!

Nxitur fillimisht nga nje dashuri per hip-hop-in instrumental, skicat muzikore te Dario Rojo Guerra (ne art Flako) ndertohen mbi nje ze te ngrohte, organik, shpesh i drejtuar nga perkusione latine. Stil qe reflekton trashegimine e tij gjermano-kiliane (origjine nga Kili), duke u etiketuar (me shume veshtiresi!) si eksperimentues i elektronikes me pak te njohur nga masat. 

Albumi ne fjale debutues (Natureboy, 2015) terhoqi mjaft vemendjen e kritikuesve fale kesaj freskie ne origjine, aftesise se tij te zhdervjellet per shumellojshmeri ne referenca (cumbia, ritme latine, ambient tipit Vangelis...); gjithcka perpunuar e ngjitur me saktesi ne synth (ketu poshte zgjodha "The Odd & Beautiful" , por me gjithemend, albumi paraqet gjurme me te vertete interesante)! 

Tentative per nje ekuiliber zanor (me momente urgjente ne shpejtesine e rrahjeve-per-minute/bpm,  alternuar me ngadalesi soul-i delikat).

Titulli i albumit? Ftese per udhetim; per ta na larguar nga kjo gri-ja e qyteteve evropiane, tutje ne nje ishull te larget. Organik!

OPEZ - "CARLOS PRIMERO" (DEAD DANCE, 2015). AND PLEASE DO NOT DESCRIBE IT AS "LATIN DESERT & FUNERAL PARTY MUSIC"!

Set in a haunting environment of acoustic instruments and an expertly stylish production, all songs recorded by duo Massi Amadori and Francesco Tappi are a journey into a twilight world of emotion and imagination.

If you take an off-road trip to the region north of Perugia and south of Firenze, west of Livorno and east of San Marino you will find a number of little recording studios. This is Italy’s heartland you pass through when you travel down from Milano towards Rome. 

It is exactly here where multi-instrumentalists Massi Amadori (guitars, slide guitar, percussions, ukulele, freeze sound & harmonium) and Francesco Tappi (double bass, bows, whistle) recorded Dead Dance (2015).

AGNES OBEL - "RIVERSIDE" (PHILHARMONICS, 2010). HUG YOU FROM DENMARK

“I think when you work with quiet music - something that’s minimal and some parts are quieter than each other – it’s important that you have good contact with your audience, otherwise they won’t get all of those different things. That is important for me – not just to recreate the atmosphere but to have that special single concert.”

In her first concept album, she explains: “I was reading Der Spiegel on tour in 2014: this long article about the concept of the gläserner berger – about how these days, as people, we’re all meant to be made of glass.” 

In person, Agnes Obel is tiny and warm – she’s aware that being inspired by broadsheet features isn’t entirely in cahoots with rock’n’roll – but she’s also alert, like a bird, and direct. 

“The idea that we’re meant to tell everyone the stories of our inner and outer lives, to publish them online, to be completely open and transparent, and how big a change that is for us all as human beings. That subject is fascinating to me."

HARRIET SHARP. PYLLI SI TREGUES I LINJES SE HOLLE JETE-VDEKJE [FOTOGRAF, 2015]

ANNE-SOPHIE GUILLET. REMINISHENCE MELANKOLIKE [FOTOGRAF, 2012]

MO' KALAMITY. ME AFRIKEN NE ZEMER

"I quit" ne anglisht do te thote "Une le, heq dore, ndal se kryeri dicka, nje veprim...". Dhe eshte pikerisht nga ky term ku e nis vitin 2017 me nje artikull ne FV.

Sepse u lodha duke shkruar artikuj qe pak veta, zere se askush, i lexojne. Net me fare pak gjume (kush po pyet per cilesine) ku kerkimet e perzgjedhja dukeshin pafund... Labirinte lidhjesh ne rrjete, faqe pas faqesh, preferenca autoresh, shkarkime dixhitale e blerje albumesh (edhe jo brenda mundesive), me sosen. 

Po heq dore te ndaj me tjeret (po keto minoritet leximtaresh!) muzike, fotografi, poezi, filma qe une dua. 

Eh po, ne fakt ka nje defekt ne thelb; qe "une" dua. Besimi qe edhe te tjeret mund t'i duan qenka me gjithemend kaq i forte? Fatmiresisht dhe mrekullisht po; njerez qe nuk e njohin dorezimin, qe ruajne fort deshiren per te bere nje hap per me mire, kane kurajon per te kerkuar jete me te mire e per te (ri)(ri)(ri)(ri)tentuar duke rrezikuar gjithcka... epo, kemi plot sot buze brigjeve(varreve?) evropiane. Vijne ngjeshur mbi varka shumengjyreshe, fshehur neper konteiner bosh qe vijne era peshk te qelbur, sulen siper trenave internacionale... Dhe ne, fajtore, harrojme shume shpejt (sapo mediave u teket te spostojne vemendje e keshtu nderrojne teme). 

Vision of ordinary thing that are unusual
We remain alone in the city
We all need human heat
We all need human heat

Nuk e di nese ka qene ndonjehere emigrante Mo' Kalamity (meqe ka lindur ne Kepin e Gjelbert dhe jeton ne France), po di qe perfaqeson zerin tipik te nje nga pasurite (po po, pasuri!) qe keto njerez duan te ndajne me ne; muziken e tyre. 

Territore te largeta, perzierje racash, menyra shprehie te ndryshme nga e jona, emotivitet te paparashikueshem... E perseri nuk me bind njeri; ne fund te fundit gjithe keto "diferenca", te pershkrueshme keq me fjale, na bejne kaq te ngjashem me njeri-tjetrin, nga cilido cep i botes ta kesh preardhjen! 

This world is acting as blind

We are seeing the truth

Everyone traces is own path

Without raising the eyes towards people

Figure e rendesishme e reggae-s klasike dhe soul-it sot, jo vetem ne Paris e perreth, Mo' Kalamity embelton me zerin melodik, jo vetem mendjen, por edhe veshin "me te larget" asaj kulture xhamaikane te arte te viteve '60-'70. 

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Dhe tani pregatituni te kerceni me "Visions"! 

Ua kemi borxh atyre "te huajve" ritmin. Na e kane lene, falas.