is no doubt that the acoustic guitar ("classical" or "English ") is a marvelous tool, is portable, lightweight, capable of constructing complex chords, counterpoint allows melodic, and has a rich timbre harmonics. The sound power emitted by wrapping very well to the human voice without competing with it. It is perhaps the most versatile instrument.
When I was growing up in the seventies, the world was full of "troubadours" musicians who were very profound poets, who saw themselves as guerrillas wielding their guitars and guns in the battle for freedom. In Cuba we arrived
Silvio Rodriguez, Victor Jara Chile. In Mexico we had Oscar Chavez and Spain Paco Ibáñez. To mention those who lived closer.
All my respects. I will not mess with their musical quality, or their ideological positions: Everyone does what he can with what you have.
What I'll tell you my personal experience. It
I went to school to give a "left", my classmates were the sons of renowned intellectuals, my teachers militant activists, and of course the "soundtrack" was basically Silvio Rodriguez with his regrets and lost blue unicorn (according to recent findings seem that he stole my little pony). What
nightmare.
At twelve boys are in total uncertainty. Some of them are teenagers, some are still children and most do one or the other. I was among those who were still children, was the shortest in the class, along with Inti, my soul brother, constant targets of abuse of older generations all had above. The freshman year was horrible. This has made my phobia trova, and especially by Silvio Rodriguez, is deeper than just a musical disappointment: it is a full-blown phobia, my body breaks down, I get dizzy and nauseous. No exaggeration.
So when I first heard music based I went synth head.
I had a hard time overcoming the trauma, and although the "trova" is making me run, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe guitar and voice stings me less and less, and largely thanks to Nick Drake.
My sister Aisha, who is a music lover, I recommended him when I was in my Sylvianesca stage, but I had no chance to listen to a couple of years was one of those moments when you're tired of hearing the same thing but while nothing new you like, also went through a severe crisis of creativity. In the Sant Pau library I came across Pink Moon and I took him to rely on the musical taste of Aisha.
I had no idea what I waited, and I confess that the first four bars I produced a shift in the stomach, but when I prepared a cold sweat, I realized that this was not so bad, not bad ... I actually caught.
Nick Drake's music is unconventional. It is extremely simple, almost minimal. But the spell, sure, it is his voice, and here I will make another presentation, with your permission.
I think singing is essentially a sham, is a struggle between who we are and who would want to be. Singing is as naked, is to expose what nature has given us, and as we practice we are "wearing" our voice. I lived in the flesh, and is also evident in the 99.99% singers. We protect ourselves with art, technology or whatever it takes. Fascias, from Montserrat Caballé to Johnny Rotten.
The naturalness of the voice of Nick Drake was overwhelming me, and therefore I think your music has the virtue of recognizing their own individuality, is the music of someone who knows he is alone in the world, and knows it absolutely inevitable. When a musician reaches that level of uniqueness as an individual is assumed to be unique, it breaks every genre in one fell swoop, it is automatically placed above all frivolity.
I will not mess with the myth that has become because I think it's hold over his death than his life.
As an example, here is Road disk Pink Moon, 1974, and to thank him for his music I have Solid Air, the album's title track that he dedicated his friend John Martyn in 1973, and version of Pink Moon I did in 2004. Who knows the original will know that it is infinitely better than mine, everyone does what he can with what you have.
Make a version or "cover" is an exercise in trying to do one or two times a year: in addition to what is learned, provides a very interesting relationship with the composer, especially if the version is not intended as a decal but a reinterpretation of the original.
In this case, while was discovered that part of the charm is the strange tuning the guitar: when I put a sample of the song for processing in the metasynth I found a series of harmonics that I expected.
I will not be so foolish as to put here the two versions, first because it would look like a wimp, then it is a chance that he does not know listen to something else. ROAD
You can say the sun is shining if you really want to
I can see the moon and it Seems so clear
Puede take the road That Takes You
to the stars
now I can take a road that'll see me Through
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