Portishead again and cool as always

hi,
this is the cover of the last album by Portishead, that it is going to stores right now. it is called Third, but it is not the third album of the british trio - it is the fourth one.
and it was necessary to wait for ten years - they produced the previous one in 1998.

but the tune you can see and listen here (and remember!) es Sour Times - the big hit from their first album, in 1994.
enjoy it!

last Linda Barry work is about comics

thanks to the spanish blog La Cárcel de Papel (The Jail of Paper), I found out that next month will be published tha last work of Linda Barry - "What It Is", where she tells about the importance of comics in her life.
still, here we can see the six wonderful first panels.

thanks, LCDP!

the beautiful Brazil revisited, Joao Bosco

I think if there were a successor of Antonio Carlos Jobim, this it would be Joao Bosco.
his songs are poetic, romantic, with a tender bossa-nova rythm. they bring the beautiful Brazil - sun, beaches, sea and amazing 'garotas' (girls).

here, Joao Bosco rendering "Imcompatibilidade De Genios", something like "Incompatibility Of Geniuses" - enjoy it:

Joan Manuel Serrat, Mediterráneo

since the late 60s there is one spanish composer-singer that remains the biggest among bigs in all the latin american world. Joan Manuel Serrat has been a constant of great poetry, great songs and high quality popular music. here, he is singing "Mediterráneo", one of my super faves - enjoy it:

Sade, it's a crime

I bring this time the wonderful super hot, Sade, singing one of my faves - It's a Crime (from 1985, my...!):



have a GREAT week!

The Van Gogh's Ear, Rag Doll

one of most important spanish pop bands in these days is La Oreja de Van Gogh (The Van Gogh's Ear).
you can see and listen them in the next video, rendering their hit, Muñeca de Trapo (Rag Doll):

enjoy it - and have a nice weekend!

"Electricity" for IF and naked Mozart

hi,
this is my contribution this week. for a hi-res version of the drawing you must go to my Flickr page.

in the middle of the 80s, Iago Pericót revolutionized ballet in Spain. in these days he is coming back to the stages in Barcelona, with his famous MozartNu, a dance piece of 40 minutes in which two characters dance completely naked under the Mozart's Coronation Mass.

for all those far from Barcelona, here goes this clip about the work (in Catalán):

have a nice weekend!

Belanova - My Heart Dances

hi,
Belanova is a new mexican pop band. two guys and a female singer.
they are doing very well during this spring with his opening album and in the spanish-talking-world think that maybe it will be the "band of the summer".

his tune more "oreja" (ear, slang: that you can listen all the time in radio stations) is "Baila mi corazón" - My Heart Dances, and clicking here you can watch the clip.

have a great day, my friends!

reason for celebration

greetings all,

for a clip, click here. for some reading, here.

see you, guys!

nap, lucky cat, Gilbert Becaud and Nathalie

nothing better than a good nap! (ok, there are some better things... a lot, actually, but a nap is good enough). for a hi-res of the image go to my Flickr page.

in the beggining of the 60s, Gilbert Becaud was one of the pop hottest idols in France (and in Europe, and Latin America). he composed many hits, but no one compared to the huge success of Nathalie, that tells the love story between a french boy and a russian girl in the middle of the Cold War:

"Seed" for Illustration Friday

hi,
this is my contribution this week - I hope you'll like it.
a good topic for spring - here, up north, its time for tulips and new foliages. only we need warmer temperatures and everything will be fine.

Los Iracundos (eng. The Angries) was the most popular pop band in South America (they were from Uruguay) in the 60s and 70s. during twenty years the made hit after hit, and were known from Mexico to Chile. in this video they are singing "Calla" (eng. shut up), one of their first tunes:

have a nice weekend, friday artists!

"Wrinkles" for IF and the Q-A's blonde

hi,
here is my contribution for the creative friends of IF this week.

and this clip is a classical. I don't need to introduce it. just enjoy it!:



have a great weekend, everybody!

friday is here...

have a GREAT weekend!

way to thursday

wednesday

a far weekend

have a nice week!

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