Haken - Nightingale

Haken es una de las bandas más relevantes del prog rock actual. Formados en Londres en 2007, llevan quince años construyendo un sonido que bebe del prog sinfónico clásico, el metal progresivo y el jazz fusion, sin sonar a pastiche de ninguno de ellos.

"Nightingale" fue la primera canción que el teclista Pete Jones presentó a la banda tras su regreso, después de haber sido miembro fundador y de haberse alejado durante más de una década.

 Siete minutos que van de momentos delicados a riffs monumentales, con la producción de Jens Bogren dándole una claridad y una energía difíciles de igualar en el género hoy en día.

La canción está inspirada en el cuento *El Ruiseñor* de H.C. Andersen, y su conexión con el ruiseñor — pájaro nacional de Ucrania — adquirió una dimensión especial cuando estalló la guerra en febrero de 2022, pocas semanas antes de su lanzamiento.

La banda lo describe así: "Líricamente, la canción reflexiona sobre el proceso creativo en sí mismo, con un mensaje de que aunque las cosas sean difíciles, debemos recordar ser agradecidos por los aspectos positivos de la vida, sean grandes o pequeños."

No perception of passing time

The words struggle to escape her mind

New perspectives to redefine

Birdsong awakens her from the storm

Shuffle the sequence of old paradigms

The rhyme and metre still misaligned

Another page lay burning in the fire

The ink and the feather hold their secrets well

Nightingale, I dream in daylight

Nightingale mine, see me take flight

One fateful night

Unspoken binds unravelled

I'm ever of the chosen

My signal fire still burning

I feel like I'm guided by my inner totem

Poetic justice arriving after all

When characters and places start to form

A sullen emperor endures his requiem

Can he live with this lament?

A mechanical animal

A dangerous game

That clockwork song it sings

Will send you to your grave

Now heed the nightingale's cautionary tale

Away, away, for I will fly to thee

Nightingale, I dream in daylight

Nightingale mine, see me take flight

One fateful night

Unspoken binds unravel me

My signal fire still burning

I feel like I'm guided by the totem

One fateful night

Unspoken binds unravel me

My signal fire still burning

I feel like I'm guided by the totem

Dig in with your claws

I push my talons into your skin

Heal me with your song

You are forgiven for all your sins

Dig in with your claws

Sleep now in blissful anaesthesia

Heal me with your song

Still no perception of passing

Nightingale, I dream in daylight

Nightingale mine, see me take flight

One fateful night

Unspoken binds unravel me

My signal fire still burning

I feel like I'm guided by the totem

One fateful night

Unspoken binds unravel me

My signal fire still burning

I feel like I'm guided by the totem inside

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

Para Remain in Light (1980), Talking Heads decidió adoptar un método de grabación completamente nuevo: en lugar de llegar al estudio con demos ya escritas, los cuatro miembros construyeron partes individuales que podían editarse y ajustarse en la mezcla. El productor Brian Eno descartaba cualquier fragmento que empezara a sonar demasiado a un hit de rock convencional. 

El grupo desarrolló la canción a partir de jams extensas, inspiradas en el afrobeat de Fela Kuti, que Eno había introducido a la banda. Byrne describió el proceso como el de "samplers humanos": escuchaban las cintas, aislaban los mejores fragmentos y aprendían a tocarlos repetidamente. De hecho, casi abandonaron la canción. Lo que la salvó fue el riff de bajo de dos compases de Tina Weymouth, que Chris Frantz oyó en su cabeza y le gritó durante la jam. 

Para las letras, Byrne se sentó a escuchar sermones de televangelistas, extrayendo frases y construyendo los textos a partir de ellas. El resultado es una meditación sobre la inconsciencia con la que vivimos: la casa, el coche, la mujer, el trabajo... y de repente la pregunta: ¿cómo llegué aquí?

Sobre el vídeo: codirigido por Byrne y la coreógrafa Toni Basil, estudiaron archivos de rituales de tribus africanas, sectas japonesas, personas en trance y evangelistas cristianos. Basil puso a Byrne delante de una cámara y lo dejó solo con esas ideas. El resultado es uno de los vídeos más memorables de los 80, rodado con un presupuesto mínimo. Cuando MTV arrancó seis meses después del lanzamiento, entró en rotación masiva y la canción se convirtió en un icono.

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack

And you may find yourself in another part of the world

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again, after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"

And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?"

And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"

And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again, after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Water dissolving and water removing

There is water at the bottom of the ocean

Under the water, carry the water

Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean

Water dissolving and water removing

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again, into the silent water

Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again, after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

You may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful house?"

You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?"

And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?"

And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again, into the silent water

Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again, after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, look where my hand was

Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was (I couldn't get no rest)

Same as it ever was, hey let's all twist our thumbs

Here comes the twister

Letting the days go by (same as it ever was, same as it ever was)

Letting the days go by (same as it ever was, same as it ever was)

Once in a lifetime, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Patrick Cowley feat. Sylvester - Do Ya Wanna Funk

 San Francisco, 1982. Patrick Cowley es uno de los grandes arquitectos del Hi-NRG, el sonido electrónico que definía los clubs de la escena gay de la ciudad. Pero en noviembre de 1981 Cowley cayó gravemente enfermo. Moriría un año después, con 32 años, cuando la palabra "SIDA" apenas tenía cuatro meses de existencia oficial. En sus últimos meses terminó la canción sosteniéndose con almohadas en el estudio. 

El resultado fue esta pieza: el falsete estratosférico de Sylvester sobre una producción de sintetizadores y caja de ritmos que anticipaba la música de baile de toda una década. La canción llegó al top 10 en Bélgica, Finlandia y Noruega, y aparece en Trading Places (1983), en el documental oscarizado The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), y en la serie It's a Sin (2021), donde suena en una escena de club mientras el protagonista debate sobre los orígenes del VIH. 

Una canción grabada al borde del abismo que suena a pura vida.

There is somethin' I wanna ask you

There is somethin' that I want to know

And to this question you have the answer

So tell me what I want to know

Do ya wanna funk?

Won't you tell me now

If you wanna funk

Let me show you how

Do ya wanna funk with me?

Do ya wanna funk with me?

So if I tell you

That you are really somethin', baby

Will you stay or will you go away?

(Don't go away)

And when I lay my good lovin' on you, baby

What will it cost me?

What will you make me pay?

Do ya wanna funk?

Won't you tell me now

If you wanna funk

Let me show you how

Do ya wanna funk with me?

Do ya wanna funk with me?

(repeat & fade)

Änglagård - Jordrök

 

Suecia, 1992. El underground está dominado por el death metal, el black metal y la música electrónica. Seis músicos deciden hacer exactamente lo contrario: rock progresivo sinfónico de inspiración setentera, con flauta y Mellotron. El resultado es Hybris, uno de los álbumes más silenciosamente influyentes de la década.

"Jordrök" — Humo de tierra — abre el disco y marca el tono desde el primer segundo. La pieza se despliega en secciones que evolucionan sin repetirse, con cambios de compás que reencuadran constantemente el material melódico y motivos recurrentes que sostienen la estructura. Armónicamente se mueve en centros tonales menores e inflexiones modales que acumulan tensión sin resolverla. 

Es completamente instrumental. No hay letra hoy. La música no la necesita.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze

 

Purple haze, all in my brain

Lately things they don't seem the same

Actin' funny, but I don't know why

Excuse me while I kiss the sky

Purple haze, all around

Don't know if I'm comin' up or down

Am I happy or in misery?

What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me

Help me

Help me

Oh, no, no

Ooh, ah

Ooh, ah

Ooh, ah

Ooh, ah, yeah

Purple haze all in my eyes

Don't know if it's day or night

You got me blowin', blowin' my mind

Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

Ooh

Help me

Ahh, yeah, yeah, purple haze

Oh, no, oh

Oh, help me

Tell me, tell me, purple haze

I can't go on like this

(Purple haze) you're makin' me blow my mind

Purple haze, n-no, no

(Purple haze)

Haiden Henderson - Sweat

 

Chad Kroeger feat. Josey Scott - Hero

 

I'm so high, I can hear Heaven

I'm so high, I can hear Heaven

Oh, but Heaven

No, Heaven don't hear me

And they say that a hero could save us

I'm not gonna stand here and wait

I'll hold on to the wings of the eagles

Watch as they all fly away

Someone told me love would all save us

But how can that be?

Look what love gave us

A world full of killing and blood spilling, that world never came

And they say that a hero could save us

I'm not gonna stand here and wait

I'll hold on to the wings of the eagles

Watch as they all fly away

Ah, ah-ah!

Now that the world isn't ending

It's love that I'm sending to you

It isn't the love of a hero

And that's why I fear it won't do

And they say that a hero could save us

I'm not gonna stand here and wait

I'll hold on to the wings of the eagles

Watch as they all fly away

And they're watching us (watching us)

They're watching us (watching us)

As they all fly away

And they're watching us (watching us)

They're watching us (watching us)

As they all fly away, yeah, yeah

And they're watching us (watching us)

They're watching us (watching us)

As they all fly away, yeah, yeah

Whoa, whoa

Rhye - Close Your Mouth

 

Oh you came in like a stone, breaking all of my heart

I think I knew it from the start, you would always destroy me

You say you love me but you hit me bitter with this silent storm

Curse me, the moment I felt the pain, a quiet knowing from the dark

Oh it's a shame

Want to murder my faith, have something in the end

Oh save my faith

What you say, don't close your mouth

You kill me with your silence, say it to my face

You see my strong side, you see my false pride

I'm running down these streets, I still wanna play

Don't walk this way

I won't be so unafraid, I won't say

I've seen you run before, don't you wanna stay and fight

We've played this game before, don't you know I think you're right

Come on let's save us

What you say, don't close your mouth

I'm afraid, what you gonna say, babe

Touch my face

I wanna break the silence, I wanna know you're there

What you say, don't close your mouth

I'm afraid, don't kill me with the love song

What you say, don't close your mouth

Love me at all, say it to me, don't stay

Jacob Collier with the world's first Audience Symphony Orchestra in San Francisco

 

Elder - Through Zero

 

Kolm - Olēka

 

Hey, my heart is broken

Oh, in the unspoken way

Of fleeting moments′

True memories chosen

Time's secrets lost

In fading streams

Can I feel less emotion?

How?

Hey, my heart has opened

To this fleeting moment′s

Wave slowly unfolding

Through this bleeding ocean

Time's secrets lost

In fading streams

Can I feel this emotion?

How?

Moments collide in time

Chasing the precious sun

Most fade away like a dream

Yet, some remain unseen

Future Islands - King of Sweden

 

I was on the F train

Thinking 'bout a holiday

I was on the M1

Dreaming 'bout my getaway

Rest right, reset

In-flight headset

Feeling like I'm fifteen

Wandering with the misfits

And all went silent

Purples, violets

The kind of cursive quiet

One with the starry eyelids

A sweet unsweetened

An eve uneven

The lights trailed like incense

To the figure in the distance

You are all I need

Nothing said could change a thing

Where you go, I go, just say, I'll be

'Cause you are all I need

I met the King of Sweden

When I was walking in the headlights

Drowning in a bender

Frozen in a red light

I'm always flying

So I'm always crying

Losing my emotion

On a desert island

Looked just like heaven

Seven alligator seven

Spoke to the reverend

Still filled me with depression

Slept right in tents

The moon was low and incensed

Was it the sun on the horizon?

It lit the figure in the distance

You are all I need

Nothing said could change a thing

Where you go, I go, just say, I'll be

'Cause you are all I need

And you are all I need

Oh, you are all I need

So much more

That means so much more

VICTOR CARDENAS, EXOTIC, KONIG PRY, RICARDO RV - CARNE Y TAMBOR

 

CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, Sting - HASTA JESÚS TUVO UN MAL DÍA

 

Cuéntame tus problemas

Desnuda tus penas

Todo va a estar bien

Oh yeah

 

Yo rompí mis cadenas

Pagué mis condenas 

Y tú puedes también 

 

Ni Cartier ni Dior

Van a acompañarte en tu dolor

Ni el perico ni el alcohol

Te van a sanar

 

No no te rindas todavía

Hasta Jesús tuvo un mal día

Sigue tu corazón

Todo todo tiene solución 

 

No no te rindas todavía

Hasta Jesús tuvo un mal día

Sigue tu corazón

Todo todo tiene solución

 

Ya ya, acéptalo

Lo que te duele, suéltalo

Di bye bye, cágalo

Todo vuelve al océano

Ay (ay ay)

You can try (try try)

Don’t give up (up up)

Woman no cry

 

If they should hurt you

One more time

Lift yourself up

Over the line

Even the setting sun

Is always gonna rise

 

Ni Cartier ni Dior

Van a acompañarte en tu dolor

Ni el perico ni el alcohol

Te van a sanar

 

No no te rindas todavía

Hasta Jesús tuvo un mal día

Sigue tu corazón

Todo todo tiene solución

 

Recorre el camino de tu sanación

Sigue la luz

Resiste

Saca el demonio de tí

Free spirits 

(Adelante!)

 

No, don’t give up yet, even Jesus

Had his bad days, yes, even Jesus

Followed his heart, I know,

Everything has a solution 

 

No no te rindas todavía

Hasta Jesús tuvo un mal día

Sigue tu corazón

Todo todo tiene solución

 

Follow your heart 

Todo todo tiene solución

Follow your heart 

Todo todo tiene solución

Mike Mana - Never The Same

 

I rise from the ashes

I breathe in the flame

I walk through the thunder

I carry no shame

I'm done with the sorrow

I'm done with the blame

I'm wild and electric

I'm never the same

I rise from the ashes (the ashes, the ashes, the ashes)

I walk through the thunder (the thunder, the thunder, the thunder)

I'm done with the sorrow (the sorrow, the sorrow, the sorrow)

I'm wild an electric

I'm never the same

Camel - Skylines

 

Romeo Santos, Prince Royce - Dardos

 

Advent Horizon - Past Life Parable

 

Dead Can Dance - Opium

 

Sometimes

I feel like I want to live

Far from the metropolis

Just walk through that door

Sometimes

I feel like I want to die

Reach out to the painted sky

A prisoner to the wind

A bird on the wing

Sometimes

I feel the ocean in my blood

See rain from the sky above

Her salt brine tears

And now

Those tears leave a taste on my tongue

Like the warm rush you get from

Black opium

Black opium

Sometimes

I feel like I want to leave

Behind all these memories

And walk through that door

Outside

The black night calls my name

But all roads look the same

They lead nowhere

They lead nowhere

Aloe Blacc - Believe (From "The Rescue")

 

They said it can't be done

That this one's a challenge you won't overcome

I know your dreams are bold

Keep going, you'll find that you're not on your own

So don't give up

And don't give in

You've gotta believe, believe

Believe that anything is possible

You've gotta believe, believe

Believe that anything is possible

You've gotta keep on and see it through

No matter how hard that is to do

You've gotta believe to find the fire that's inside you

You've gotta believe

So here we are

With billions of prayers out there floating like stars, hmm-mm

I know it seems hard

Just hold onto hope 'cause you've made it this far

Soon, you'll be out of the dark

So don't give up (don't ever give up, don't ever, ever give up)

And don't give in

You've gotta believe, believe

Believe that anything is possible

You've gotta believe, believe

Believe that anything is possible

You've gotta keep on and see it through

No matter how hard that is to do

You've gotta believe to find the fire that's inside you

You've gotta believe

You've gotta keep on and see it through

No matter how hard that is to do

You've gotta believe to find the fire that's inside you

You've gotta believe

Abigail's Ghost - Widomakers

 

Rebirth Brass Band - (I Feel Like) Bustin Loose

 

NuFects - Perseverance (Ignacio Sanchez Remix)

 

Ozric Tentacles - Deep Blue Shade

 

Beppe Cunico - Noi che creiamo arte