Amigos Em Portugal

Amália Rodrigues

Summer. Time to break out the Vino Verde. And while you are sipping away, dreaming of Lisbon, perhaps your soul yearns for Fado. Or maybe just another dip in the ocean.

Here's a taste of Amália Rodrigues, "the queen of Fado." The music's godmother. The Billie Holiday of Portugal.

Soak up that amazing, haunting voice as you drink up the Vino Verde. And wipe a tear from your eye.

Amêndoa Amarga

Alfama

I was first introduced to Amália Rodrigues by the Durutti Column's 1994 album Sex and Death. Vini Reilly sampled Amália's voice, mimicing her other worldly vocal with his guitar in the track "Fado." Thanks Vini.

Fado -- The Durutti Column

happy summer

Amália Rodrigues photo courtesy of wikipedia

Does that make me crazy Django ?

Danger Mouse & Cee-Lo, better known as Gnarls Barkley, are so stunned by the success of their megasummerhit Crazy, they asked people not to buy it anymore - for they fear over-playing. One can always play the sample-source of Crazy, called Nel Cimitero Di Tucson, music from the movie Preparati la bara! (a Django movie with Terence Hill). Composed by the Reverberi-brothers, great students of master Ennio.
DEAR DMCA, THIS FILE IS DOWN!
Nel Cimitero di Tuscon
AGAIN, DMCA, THIS FILE IS DOWN, IT HAS BEEN FOR A LONG LONG TIME.

Pretty stunning

The jazz og rock keyboardist 60's project with singer Julie Driscoll and the band Trinity.
They went on to produce several hit singles, notably a cover of David Ackles' Road to Cairo and This Wheel's on Fire, a Bob Dylan song.

Their version of 'Seasons Of The Witch' is stunning.

Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll & The Trinity - Season Of The Witch

Music video a gogo : Avi Paul Weinstein

Avi Paul Weinstein spent his youth with one of those 4-track recorders. About 200 songs later he came up with "Here Come the Clones", an over the top concept album about egg machines, clones and defects. On his second release Stumbler, he returned to his sample-based roots and found out what would happen if DJ Shadow and Sonic Youth traveled back in time to the yé-yé 1960's. In the past he's performed as one leg of The Daikon Legs Quartet and in other pop groups. You can get the whole experience by visiting www.paperthinrecords.com or www.avipaulweinstein.com. Here you can find music videos, artworks, more music, and one of a kind giant stuffed animals! Or visit the myspace profile.Here's his "The face of Jesus in my soup" video...

The Hip Hypnotist

Pat Collins, the Hip Hypnotist, owned a nightclub on the Sunset Strip in Las Vegas where she became such a sensation that famous people (like Lloyd Bridges in this picture) started to appear in her show. During the sixties and seventies she appeared in a lot of tv-shows like The Lucy Show and in 1968 she released a record called Turn On With The Hip Hypnotist which contains (among others) the great song I Only Have Eyes For You:


Pat Collins - I Only Have Eyes For You (Turn On With The Hip Hypnotist)