31/3/11
ANA TORROJA - ÚLTIMAS NOTICIAS: SOLIDARIA EN CONCIERTO / Latest news: Solidarity in concert
29/3/11
"DRAMA Y LUZ", MANÁ: ¡POR FIN! / At last! [ACTUALIZADO +VIDEO Updated]
Video "LLUVIA AL CORAZÓN", Maná:
27/3/11
"BREATHE", ANNA NALICK ["Grey's Anatomy" video]
Video "BREATHE (2AM)", Anna Nalick:
26/3/11
BLACK EYED PEAS, "JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH", X JAPÓN / 4 Japan + "SONGS FOR JAPAN"
25/3/11
ARVO PÄRT, "SPIEGEL IM SPIEGEL": ¡YA ES PRIMAVERA! / It's already spring!
Arvo Pärt (nacido el 11 de septiembre de 1935) es un compositor clásico estonio y uno de los compositores vivos más importantes de la música sacra. Pärt nació en Paide, provincia de Järva, Estonia. Un conflicto prolongado con los oficiales soviéticos le hicieron emigrar con su esposa y dos hijos en 1980. Vivió primero en Viena, Austria, donde tomó la nacionalidad austríaca, y después se mudó a Berlín, Alemania. Regresó a Estonia con el comienzo del siglo XXI y ahora reside en Taillin.
Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs a self-made compositional technique called tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from Gregorian chant.
It is a piece of music written by Arvo Pärt in 1978, just prior to his departure from Estonia. The piece was originally written for a single piano and violin - though the violin has often been replaced with either a cello or a viola. Versions also exist for double bass, clarinet, horn, flute and percussion. The piece is musically minimal, yet produces a serene tranquility.
("Soldados de Salamina" 2002). Today we show it as a celebration of spring's arrival this week.
24/3/11
"WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD", NIK KERSHAW: ANTES Y RECIENTEMENTE / Before & recently
Video entrevista/interview 2008:
22/3/11
EL ÚLTIMO ADIÓS DE SIMPLY RED's last goodbye
Liderada por Mike Hucknall, la banda salió de los clubes de Manchester en 1984, en plena era post-punk. Hasta su última gira de adiós en 2010 (que pasó por Europa y América, Japón y Singapur, Tailandia y Malasia, Australia y Nueva Zelanda) el grupo ha ofrecido 1.100 conciertos ante más de once millones de personas, ha vendido 55 millones de discos, situado 31 canciones en las listas británicas y dos nº1 en Estados Unidos.
Formada originalmente por Mike Hucknall (voz), Tony Bowers (bajo), Chris Joyce (batería), Dave Fryman (guitarra), Fritz McIntyre (teclados) y Tim Kellet (vientos), 'Simply Red' publicó en 1985 su primer álbum 'Picture Book' con el single de éxito 'Moneys Too Tight'.
Para el segundo disco ('Men And Woman', 1987) se agregaron a la banda Ian Kirkham (vientos) y Janette Sewell (voz). Fue el segundo nº2 consecutivo en las listas británicas y permitió al grupo realizar una gira de 120 conciertos por todo el mundo. La canción 'If You Dont Know Me By Now' fue uno de los grandes éxitos y lanzó el disco a ventas superiores a los seis millones de ejemplares.
'Stars' fue el primer álbum de Simply Red con todas las canciones compuestas por Mike Hucknall, tres de las cuales ('Something Got Me Started', 'Stars' y 'For Your Babies') subieron al top 20 de las listas británicas para impulsar unas ventas mundiales que superaron los ocho millones de discos.
En 1995, el álbum 'Life' fue otro éxito, con la colaboración de las estrellas del reggae Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakepeare y Bootsy Collins, y la canción 'Were In This Together' como himno oficial de la Eurocopa de 1996.
A pesar de la resistencia de Hucknall, ese mismo año se publicó un Greatest Hits con 15 canciones y en 1988 apareció 'Blue' con otros cuatro singles de éxito. Después llegaron 'Love and the Russian Winter', 'Home', con temas en listas como 'You Make Me Feel Brand New' y 'Sunrise'), el unplugged 'Simplified' y, en 2007, 'Stay', que dio paso a The Greatest Hits 25 lanzado en 2008.
TRACKLIST OF "SIMPLY RED FAREWELL" (cd+dvd):
Video Simply Red @ O2 Arena London:
Video Simpley Red @ the Opera House, Sydney:
21/3/11
CUANDO RONAN CONOCIÓ A BURT / When Ronan met Burt
19/3/11
"FATHER & SON", RONAN KEATING & YUSUF (CAT STEVENS)
17/3/11
RUMER, UNA NUEVA VOZ A DESCUBRIR / A new voice to be discovered
Video "SLOW", Rumer (debut single):
Video "ARETHA" (2nd single):
Video "AM I FORGIVEN", Rumer (3rd single):
16/3/11
¡LARGA VIDA A ABBA! / Long live Abba! ["SUPER TROUPER" DELUXE ALBUM, LOS DETALLES / The Details]
(Así sería ABBA en) 2010
(Así eran en) 1974
Aún hemos encontrado un nuevo artículo sobre Abba en Vanitatis.com del pasado mes de enero. Y también un informe detallado sobre la edición deluxe de "SUPER TROUPER" en la página web de Carl Magnus Palm, quien ha participado en su preparación. Aquí os los dejamos.
We've still found a new article on Abba from Vanitatis.com from past January. And also a complete detailed information on the "SUPER TROUPER" deluxe edition at Carl Magnus Palm's website. Carl has worked on the preparation of this edition. Here they are.
El tesoro de ABBA: ser reyes sempiternos del pop
[Juan Manuel Fernández, 6/1/2011, Vanitatis.com]
Era una de las noticias más esperadas por la industria de la música: Agnetha Faltskog, la rubia de ABBA, confesaba hace unos días a una web de música que le encantaría hablar con sus antiguos compañeros sobre la posibilidad de un regreso a los escenarios. Eso sí, para un solo concierto.
“Creo que sería divertido reencontrarnos, hablar sobre los viejos tiempos y quizá actuar juntos”, confesaba la cantante, que hasta entonces había sido la única reticente al regreso del mítico cuarteto.
Imagínense: ¡Los reyes del pop otra vez unidos! El sueño de sus fans más acérrimos -y no tan acérrimos- cumplido. El premio a la espera durante décadas del reencuentro más esperado de la música. Ya no hará falta esperar a nuevas reediciones de sus éxitos para obtener material ‘nuevo’. Nada de nuevos estrenos del musical de Mamma Mía! para captar la foto de los cuatro juntos.
No obstante, ABBA es uno de esos grupos que nunca muere. Separados de 1982, el cuarteto ha seguido vivo gracias a las distintas reediciones de sus discos, que año tras año han copado las listas de éxitos y llegan a vender entre dos y tres millones de discos anuales.
De hecho, el grupo ha vuelto a la palestra durante los últimos meses de 2010, gracias a una serie de diversas colecciones de música e ilustraciones que han demostrado que ABBA es todo un referente de la música y la cultura pop.
Una de ellas es Los tesoros de ABBA (Editorial Cúpula), una obra que incluye entrevistas inéditas a Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frida Lyngstad y la propia Fältskog, así como veinte documentos extraíbles, entre los que destacan reproducciones de pegatinas, entradas y muchos otros ‘tesoros’.
Asimismo, los fans del grupo más cantarines están de enhorabuena. Y es que la compañía ha lanzado una aplicación para iPhone en la que pueden cantar las mejores canciones del grupo como ya ocurre en el juego de PlayStation, SingStar.
Pero la cosa no queda aquí. Universal ha querido aprovechar la fiebre actual que se vive por el formato del vinilo y ha lanzado una caja de edición limitada que contiene los ocho álbumes originales del grupo y otro más con canciones no incluidas en los discos de estudio.
De igual forma, y tras el éxito obtenido por la colección ABBA Gold en 1992, la discográfica ha querido lanzar una edición especial de la misma que contiene, además del CD original remasterizado, un DVD con los videoclips del grupo y una versión especial animada de Money, Money, Money.
Está visto que los reyes NO han perdido su corona. ¡Larga vida a ABBA!
Video "THE KING HAS LOST HIS CROWN", Abba:
Published March 09, 2011 @ Carl Magnus Palm website.
THE HISTORY OF SUPER TROUPER
Super Trouper was first released in Sweden in November 1980. Sessions for the album began in February 1980 and concluded in mid-October the same year, just a couple of weeks before release. The creation of the album seems to have been one of the smoothest in ABBA history - at least, that's how it looks from the outside: sessions starting off with a bang with five completed backing tracks in just a few days, and, when the recording period was over, just a couple of tracks left unreleased (out of which only 'Put On Your White Sombrero' went beyond the first stages of recording). With hits such as 'The Winner Takes It All', 'Lay All Your Love On Me' and the title track, today it is Benny Andersson's favourite ABBA album.
PUTTING TOGETHER THE DELUXE EDITION
Super Trouper Deluxe Edition is the fourth release in the series of ABBA Deluxe Editions (the fifth if you count the 30th Anniversary Edition of Waterloo). Work on this release began in March 2010, but it was put on the backburner to make way for The Vinyl Collection box set and ABBA Gold CD/DVD Special Edition. With those releases over and done with, we could finally give our full attention to Super Trouper. The format is the same as for previous Deluxe Editions: one disc a CD of the original album plus bonus tracks, one disc a DVD of rare and previously unreleased television material relevant to the Super Trouper era.
All tracks on the CD have been remastered especially for this release, and, to my ears, they sound better than ever. The bonus track ‘On And On And On (Full length version, stereo mix)', is the only previously unreleased track on the release - it has only been released in mono on CD before, but now we finally located the stereo mix of this early, unedited version of the song.
As for the DVD, I think it offers a nice picture of "ABBA in 1980", with television performances of four tracks on the album, plus the Words And Music documentary, detailing the making of the Super Trouper album. The DVD also includes a unique 15-minute featurette, entitled Somewhere In The Crowd There's You - On Location With ABBA. This featurette consists of previously unseen footage that was shot on the night when ABBA and their album designer, Rune Söderqvist, assembled a crowd of friends and circus performers to create the spectacular photograph featured on the Super Trouper album sleeve. This archive footage was never used for anything at the time, and has never been made public until now.
As an "extension" of the featurette, we have included the original promo clips for ‘Super Trouper’ and ‘Happy New Year’ – both of which feature footage shot on the “album sleeve night” – to give the viewer further glimpses of what took place that night. The sequences included in the promo clips, shot by director Lasse Hallström, are completely different to the footage in the featurette, filmed by a separate film crew. The promo clips are the newly restored and remastered versions, out of which only ‘Super Trouper’ has been released before (on ABBA Gold CD/DVD Special Edition); the restored ‘Happy New Year’ is seen for the first time.
For my liner notes, I interviewed Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus in May 2010. They both offered new details and perspectives on the Super Trouper era and the songs created during that period.
The Super Trouper Deluxe Edition project was co-ordinated by Mia Segolsson. The CD was mastered by Masters of Audio, the DVD was put together by Filmtech, Fredrik Hurtig designed the package, Wouter Timmers helped us with the single and album sleeves, and Thomas Nordin contributed memorabilia for the booklet. Ian Cole helped out with additional comments and suggestions, and, along with Paul Carter, was an invaluable sounding-board and proof-reader when I wrote my liner notes.
15/3/11
LOREENA McKENNITT: VUELTA A LAS RAÍCES CELTAS / Back to Celtic roots
Audio "THE LAST INCARNATION", Loreena McKennitt (2011):
14/3/11
BOSÉ & KYLIE: CONCIERTOS DE ESTE PASADO FINDE / Last weekend concerts
Video Kylie Minogue @ Antena3 +Aznar, Rajoy...:
13/3/11
"ALL FOR YOU", ACE OF BASE: RESUCITADOS / Resurrected
11/3/11
ROXETTE CONFIRMA CONCIERTOS EN ESPAÑA / Roxette confirms concerts in Spain [+ video con Per "Detrás de las canciones de 'CHARM SCHOOL' "]
Roxette ha anunciado dos fechas de conciertos en España. El grupo tocará en el Palacio de Vistalegre en Madrid y en el de Sant Jordi en Barcelona, el 18 y 19 de noviembre respectivamente. Las entradas sale a la venta el 16 de marzo a 45€. Habrá más fechas para la última fase de la gira a partir del lunes 14. Incluímos videos en donde Per comenta sobre cada canción del nuevo disco.
Roxette has announced two concert dates in Spain. The band will play the at Palacio Vistalegre Arena in Madrid and the Sant Jordi in Barcelona on November 18 & 19 respectively. Tickets go on pre-sale March 16 09.00. Pre-sale price is €45. There'll be new dates announced for the final leg of the tour on Monday 14th. We include videos where Per comments on each of the songs on the new album.
Video "DETRÁS DE LAS CANCIONES DE 'CHARM SCHOOL'", + Per Gessle (I):
Video (II):
11/11/11, LAURA PAUSINI: ESTÁ DE VUELTA / is coming back
10/3/11
"SOMEONE LIKE YOU", ADELE: DEFINITIVAMENTE ARRASA EN LAS LISTAS BRITÁNICAS / Definitely takes British charts by storm
9/3/11
CANCIONES ENCADENADAS / Enchained songs
Hay canciones que tienen un aire parecido que te llevan a encadenarlas con otras... Aquí unas que para mi tienen un "algo" común, sin tener nada que ver ni artistas ni temas: Train, Jason Mraz, James Blunt y Lucía Pérez.
Video "HEY, SOUL SISTER", Train en vivo live:
Video "I'M YOURS", Jason Mraz en vivo/live:
Video "STAY THE NIGHT", James Blunt en vivo/live:
Video "QUE ME QUITEN LO BAILAO", Lucía Pérez:
8/3/11
8-MAR: DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA MUJER TRABAJADORA / International Women's Day [KATE BUSH: "THIS WOMAN'S WORK"]
Apart from being Mardi Gras, it's the 100th International Woman's Day, and we didn't want to let it pass by. We thought about which song to choose, we had already posted Donna Summer's "SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY" for a similar date. So with the words WOMAN & WORK, we searched the net and found this precious song by Kate Bush "THIS WOMAN'S WORK", which belongs to a film's soundtrack and that talks about the work only a woman con do: give life. It's dedicated to all women...
Video "THIS WOMAN'S WORK", Kate Bush en vivo/live TV:
Video from "SHE'S HAVING A BABY" film:
MARTES DE CARNAVAL BAILANDO CON ALASKA / Mardi Gras dancing with Alaska
7/3/11
VIRGINIA LABUAT: ¿LA DUFFY ESPAÑOLA? / The Spanish Duffy?
Video-clip "TIME IS OUT":
PHIL COLLINS: SE RETIRA, ¿LE ECHAREMOS DE MENOS? / Retires, will we miss him?
Phil Collins calls time on music career
[By Murray Wardrop, The Telegraph]
He has hearing problems, a dislocated vertebra and nerve damage in his hands, all brought on by a lifetime spent hunched behind a drum kit.
The songwriter also claims that listeners have grown "sick" of him and that there is no longer a place for him in the current music scene.
"I look at the MTV Music Awards and I think: 'I can't be in the same business as this'," Collins says in an interview with FHM magazine.
"I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
"I'll go on a mysterious biking holiday and never return. That would be a great way to end the story, wouldn't it?" Collins, who lives alone in Switzerland after divorcing his third wife in 2007, has enjoyed huge popularity over 40 years as both a drummer and singer with the rock band Genesis and then as one of the biggest-earning solo artists of all time.
He claims that it was this success and the overplaying of his music which made people "want to strangle" him. "It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that," he says.
The star, who has sold more than 150 million records, says his main focus now is his two sons, Nicholas and Matthew, by his third wife Orianne Cevey. "I'm not worried about not being able to play the drums again, I'm more worried about being able to cut a loaf of bread safely or building things for my kids," he says.
"My doctors tell me it's a work in progress, that it will take about a year for me to recover."
He said he has been told his hands are not strong enough to play the drums. "I don't think I'll ever be able to do that again," he said.
Collins once disclosed that the only way he could play was by taping his drumsticks to his hands.
The star, who has two children by previous marriages, joined Genesis in 1970 as drummer and later replaced Peter Gabriel as lead singer. In the 1980s he had hits such as In The Air Tonight, Against All Odds and Two Hearts, while continuing with Genesis.
He won an Oscar for his song You'll Be in My Heart from the 1999 Disney animated film Tarzan, and seven Grammy Awards. His last album, Going Back, released last year, was a collection of Motown and soul classics and topped the British charts in September
6/3/11
ROXETTE 2011: GIRA MUNDIAL / World tour [+biographic-interview 2011 & chronological-hits video]
Yekaterinburg (5-3-11)
Samara (3-3-11)
Roxette is off on a world tour with an unfinishing list of places that will take them to all continents up to the beginning of August. They started on Mrach 1st amd the first three concerts have taken place with great success. thedailyroxette.com is following a complete coverage of the tour including photos and videos of the concerts already held. We include some photos, a recent video-interview, a video hit-chronology and some live videos from Samara.
RUSSIA (Kazan, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Novosibiris, Kiev, Minsk), / BALTIC REPUBLICS (Vilnius, Riga, Tallin), / MÉXICO (Mexico DF), / ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, Córdoba), / CHILE (Santiago), / BRAZIL (Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte), / SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town, Sun City), ARAB EMIRATES (Dubai), / TURKEY (Istambul), / GREECE (Athens), / BULGARIA (Sofía), / RUMANIA (Bucharest), / HUNGARY (Budapest), / AUSTRIA (Graz), / CZECH REPUBLIC (Prague), / NORWAY (Bergen), / GERMANY ( Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Colonia), / POLAND (Warsaw), / THE NETHERLANDS (Weert), / ITALY (Locarno), / FINLAND (Parainen), / DENMARK (Copenhaguen), / SWEDEN (Gothemburg), / BELGIUM (Tienen)...
...USA, Canada & Australia on the list for second half of the year.
Video interview Roxette 2011:
Video Roxette hit history:
Video "SHE'S GOT NOTHING ON..." Roxette, en vivo/live Samara:
5/3/11
"SUPER TROUPER" DELUXE EDITION: EN MAYO / In May [Actualizado / Updated +Tracklist]
Una Edición Deluxe del séptimo disco de estudio de Abba, "SUPER TRPUPER", saldrá al mercado el 9 de mayo de 2011. SUPER TROUPER DELUXE EDITION es una edición de dos discos, incluyendo un CD con las versiones remasterizadas del álbum original y los bonus tracks más relevantes, y un DVD con actuaciones de TV y entrevistas de los archivos, incluyendo imágenes inéditas. Actualizado con más detalles in inglés (Información de abbasite.com y icethesite.com).
A Deluxe Edition of ABBA’s seventh studio album, "SUPER TROUPER", will be released on May 9, 2011. SUPER TROUPER DELUXE EDITION is a 2-disc release, featuring a CD with a remastered version of the original album along with relevant bonus tracks, plus a DVD of rare television performances and interviews from the archives, including previously unseen footage. Updated with more details. (Infro from abbasite.com & icethesite.com).
Disc 01:
Bonus Tracks -11 Elaine -12 On And On And On (Full length version, stereo mix) -13 Put On Your White Sombrero -14 Andante, Andante (Spanish Version) -15 Felicidad (Spanish Version of Happy New Year)
Disc 02: DVD -01 ABBA On German TV (SHOW EXPRESS, ZDF) – Songs performed: The Winner Takes It All, Super Trouper, On And On And On -02 Happy New Year (SVT) -03 Words And Music (DOCUMENTARY) -04 Somewhere In The Crowd There’s You – On Location With ABBA -05 Super Trouper (Remastered promo clip) -06 Happy New Year (Remastered promo clip) -07 Super Trouper TV commercial I (UK) -08 Super Trouper TV commercial II (UK) -09 International Sleeve Gallery
A few comments on the track list:The original album and the bonus tracks have been remastered especially for this release, sounding better than ever. As for the bonus tracks, an exciting discovery was the stereo mix of the original, full length version of On And On And On, previously only available in mono. We are very happy to be able to include it on this Deluxe Edition of Super Trouper.
The DVD contains a number of television performances of tracks from the Super Trouper album, none of which have been released on DVD before. The same goes for the vintage documentary Words And Music, produced by Polar Music International, which features the group talking specifically about the Super Trouper album in the immediate aftermath of the album’s completion.
We are especially thrilled to be able to include a brand new featurette, entitled Somewhere In The Crowd There’s You – On Location With ABBA. This featurette is a brand new production, compiling footage that was shot on the night when ABBA and their album designer, Rune Söderqvist, assembled a crowd of friends and circus performers to create the spectacular photograph featured on the Super Trouper album sleeve. This archive footage has been gathering dust in the archives for three decades without ever being made public – until now.
As a bonus, we have included the original promo clips for ‘Super Trouper’ and ‘Happy New Year’ – both of which feature footage shot on the “album sleeve night” – to give the viewer further glimpses of what took place that night. The sequences included in the promo clips, shot by director Lasse Hallström, are completely different to the footage in the featurette, filmed by a separate film crew. The promo clips are the newly restored and remastered versions, out of which only ‘Super Trouper’ has been released before (on last year’s ABBA Gold CD/DVD Special Edition); the restored ‘Happy New Year’ is seen for the first time.
3/3/11
SHARLEEN SPITERI VERSIONANDO / Covering songs
Video "RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH", Sharleen Spiteri (live):
Video "THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING", Sharleen Spiteri:
1/3/11
"BOIG PER TU"/"ES POR TI", SAU & LUZ
Video "ES POR TI-BOIG PER TU", Luz en vivo/live TV:
Video "BOIG PER TU", Sau en vivo/live:
Video "ES POR TI", Luz:
Video "ES POR TI", Luz en vivo/live: