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četvrtak, 28.01.2010.

RadioBlueTuesday: Late Great John Martyn

ili kako ga opisase momci
iz The Black Crowes:
"...Scottish folk singer,
rock'n'roll type of guy..."


[11th September 1948 - 29th January 2009]


John Martyn je do mene dosao nekako u isto vrijeme kada i
dEUS. I promijenio prilicno sve sto sam do tada mislio da
znam o muzici, kao i poeziji u istoj.
Sa skoro godinom dana zakasnjenja saznao sam da je umro.

Ove tri kompilacije su nesto sto sam umislio da dugujem
i njemu i sebi. Tu sam smjestio neke od njegovih
pjesama, kojima je, cini mi se, dosegao vrhunce.

Drugi dio karijere se vezuje vise za jazz i trip hop, cime
su najvise zasluzni interpretacije pjesama bendova
poput Portishead i Dead Can Dance

klik: http://www.zshare.net/download/6921207708caf06d/


Prvi dio, vise je obiljezen istrazivanjem folka na njemu svojstven
nacin, sto je dovelo do stvaranja besmrtne pjesme Solid Air

klik: http://www.zshare.net/download/6922488786809032/



I posljednje, tribute mix-tape koji je proizvod mog upornog
trazenja obradjenih Martynovih pjesama a da te obrade
ipak u sebi imaju nesto sebi svojstveno i vrijedno slusanja

klik: http://www.zshare.net/download/692298907759006d/

ponedjeljak, 24.10.2005.

TRAVEL

Loving you, flesh to flesh, I often thought
Of travelling penniless to some mud throne
Where a master might instruct me how to plot
My life away from pain, to love alone
In the bruiseless embrace of stone and lake.

Lost in the fields of your hair I was never lost
Enough to lose a way I had to take;
Breathless beside your body I could not exhaust
The will that forbid me contract, vow,
Or promise, and often while you slept
I looked in awe beyond your beauty.

Now I know why many men have stopped and wept
Halfway between the loves they leave and seek,
And wondered if travel leads them anywhere -
Horizons keep the soft line of your cheek,
The windy sky's a locket for your hair.

Leonard Cohen