The Langley School Music Project - Desperado

Dia XI

28 de maio de 2007


E se o nosso professor de música teimasse que éramos capazes?
Foi o que Hans Fenger, um professor "gipsy", fez, na década de 70, com as crianças das escolas básicas de South Carvolth e de Greenwood. The Langley Schools Music Project permitiu a estas crianças experimentar a música de uma forma revolucionária, tocando covers/versões de bandas e músicos da época, tais como Beach Boys, David Bowie, Eagles, entre outros, e que posteriormente veio a ser editado em cd.
O tema apresentado é Deseperado dos Eagles. A inocência e o empenho destas crianças, direccionada por este professor, faz-nos lembrar de "pequenos nadas" que mudaram as nossas vidas e para sempre ficarão na nossa memória - as nossas canções, danças frenéticas, risadas histéricas, saltar em cima da cama, subir às árvores... a alegria pura! Que a nossa alegria e a vontade de descobrir o mundo, pelos nossos olhos e pelo olhar dos outros, se mantenha sempre com a intensidade infantil da felicidade. Viva Ser Criança! ; )


These 1976-77 recordings, captured on a 2-track tape deck in a school gymnasium, weren't staged to achieve money or fame, to sell albums or land a record contract. These kids played music because they loved it. Innocent, flawed and bittersweet, guided by Fenger's unsuspecting genius, these recordings deserve to be heard and preserved. They brim with charm and youthful élan, sparked by flashes of lo-fi Spectorian majesty and Pet Sounds subtlety. Call it folk art, outsider, or campfire rock -- the labels don't matter. These are gorgeous, heavenly artifacts. Period.


"The backing arrangement is astounding. Coupled with the earnest if lugubrious vocal performance you have a piece of art that I couldn't have conceived of, even with half of Colombia's finest export products in.me." --David.Bowie (on the Langley students' rendition of "Space.Oddity")
+ info em: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langley_Schools_Music_Project

Desperado (dos Eagles)


Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses? You been out ridin’ fences for so long now/Oh, you’re a hard one/I know that you got your reasons/These things that are pleasin’ you/Can hurt you somehow/Don’ you draw the queen of diamonds, boy/She’ll beat you if she’s able/You know the queen of heats is always your best bet/Now it seems to me, some fine things/Have been laid upon your table/But you only want the ones that you can’t get/Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no youger/Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home/And freedom, oh freedom well, that’s just some people talkin’/Your prison is walking through this world all alone/Don’t your feet get cold in the winter time? The sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine/It’s hard to tell the night time from the day/You’re loosin’ all your highs and lows/Ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away? Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses? Come down from your fences, open the gate/It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you/You better let somebody love you, before it’s too late

Outra Pérola

Space Oddity (de David Bowie, numa versão muito boa para um filme de terror)


O início do Projecto


Programação:

Hj - Oita
4ª - Andrew Bird
5ª - em princípio, Terranova - Sons Pardos 22H-00H
6ª - Dia Mundial da Criança
Klaxons na Casa da Música

Jinhos e Boa Semana per Tutti-Frutti!
Mi


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