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Nick Drake

“Un cane dagli occhi neri bussa alla mia porta, un cane dagli occhi neri mi chiede di più, un cane dagli occhi neri che conosceva il mio nome… sto invecchiando e voglio tornare a casa, sto invecchiando e non ne voglio più sapere.”

Nicholas Rodney Drake (Rangoon, 19 giugno 1948  – Tanworth-in-Arden, 25 novembre 1974) è stato un cantautore inglese. (wikipedia)

• Nick Drake – Day is Done
• Nick Drake – Black Eyed Dog
• Nick Drake – They’re Leaving Me Behind

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jxjv0HkwM]

Day is done

When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

When the day is done
Hope so much your race will be all run
Then you find you jumped the gun
Have to go back where you begun
When the day is done

When the night is cold
Some get by but some get old
Just to show life’s not made of gold
When the night is cold

When the bird has flown
Got no one to call your own
Got no place to call your home
When the bird had flown

When the game’s been fought
You sped the ball across the court
Lost much sooner that you would’ve thought
Now the game’s been fought

When the party’s through
Seems so very sad for you
Didn’t do the things you meant to do
Now there’s no time to start anew
Now the party’s through

When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

Fonte: matteomac.com

Dark was the night – Compilation

L’organizzazione internazionale Red Hot, fondata nel 1989 con l’esclusiva finalità di raccogliere fondi per la lotta alla diffusione dell’AIDS attraverso la cultura pop, ha espletato puntualmente la sua azione attraverso compilation musicali a cadenza annuale, che hanno spesso coinvolto artisti mondiali di prim’ordine. La prima raccolta, “Red Hot + Blue” resta forse tuttora la più conosciuta, anche grazie a una delle ultime splendide interpretazioni degli U2, che per l’occasione reinterpretavano il classico di Coal Porter “Night And Day”. A quella raccolta ne sono seguite tante altre, quasi sempre “a tema” e popolate da più di un nome di grido, fino a quest’ultima, per la quale sono state fatte decisamente le cose in grande, così da celebrare degnamente il ventennale dell’organizzazione.
Il risultato è l’imponente doppio cd intitolato “Dark Was The Night” che, edito dalla prestigiosa etichetta 4AD, promette di emulare i fasti della prima compilation, raccogliendo in oltre due ore di musica tanti degli artisti più validi e in vista del mondo latamente “indie”, che contribuiscono con pezzi inediti e collaborazioni talvolta ardite. (ondarock.it)

This Disc

1. Dirty Projectors + David Byrne – Knotty Pine
2. The Books featuring José González – Cello Song
3. Feist + Ben Gibbard – Train Song
4. Bon Iver – Brackett, WI
5. Grizzly Bear – Deep Blue Sea
6. The National – So Far Around the Bend
7. Yeasayer – Tightrope
8. My Brightest Diamond – Feeling Good
9. Kronos Quartet – Dark Was the Night
10. Antony + Bryce Dessner – I Was Young When I Left Home
11. Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner – Big Red Machine
12. The Decemberists – Sleepless
13. Iron & Wine – Stolen Houses (Die)
14. Grizzly Bear + Feist – Service Bell
15. Sufjan Stevens – You Are The Blood

That Disc

1. Spoon – Well-Alright
2. Arcade Fire – Lenin
3. Beirut – Mimizan
4. My Morning Jacket – El Caporal
5. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Inspiration Information
6. Dave Sitek – With A Girl Like You
7. Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti) – Blood Pt 2
8. The New Pornographers – Hey, Snow White
9. Yo La Tengo – Gentle Hour
10. Stuart Murdoch – Another Saturday
11. Riceboy Sleeps – Happiness
12. Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues – Amazing Grace
13. Andrew Bird – The Giant Of Illinois
14. Conor Oberst + Gillian Welch – Lua
15. Blonde Redhead + Devastations – When The Road Runs Out
16. Kevin Drew – Love vs. Porn

Sito ufficiale: www.darkwasthenight.com
Artisti: www.darkwasthenight.com/artists

Justin Vernon Aaron Dessner – Big Red Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaIx2kBC8_A

Justin Vernon Aaron Dessner – Big Red Machine (Lyrics)

We were safe when love would come in
Wearied my mind, saw relief
Well, the earth is but a sad fucked up and puked up big dismay
And we resolved to swim around in circles, so slowly

Those cents, you said you sent me
Are rolling alone
Burning truth along in one light
For I’m feeling sad

((((So many killed!))))

We’re running their engine
Just like we ought to be, for them, real hard
Could I quitted on or bought in?
The sorry might do it
But I’ve moved on with more life in me
Big, red, machine

‘Cause all I’ve learned is to suffer
‘Cause all I’ve learned is to suffer
‘Cause all I’ve learned is to suffer

See Emily Play è una canzone della band inglese Pink Floyd, uscita come singolo (uno dei primissimi del gruppo) il 16 giugno 1967. Il b-side del singolo è The Scarecrow.
Il brano fu interamente scritto da Syd Barrett. Il testo della canzone parla di una ragazza che Barrett stesso ha rivelato di aver visto in una foresta mentre era sotto l’effetto di droghe allucinogene, effetto ricreato dall’atmosfera psichedelica della musica e dal testo al limite del non-sense. La ragazza, secondo quanto scritto da Nicholas Schaffner nel suo libro A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, sarebbe in realtà l’artista Emily Young, figlia del barone Wayland Young, soprannominata “psychedelic schoolgirl” (studentessa psichedelica). (wikipedia)

Emily tries but misunderstands, ah ooh
She often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let’s try it another way
You’ll lose your mind and play
Free games for may
See Emily play
Soon after dark Emily cries, ah ooh
Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let’s try it another way
You’ll lose your mind and play
Free games for may
See Emily play
Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah ooh
Float on a river forever and ever, Emily
There is no other day
Let’s try it another way
You’ll lose your mind and play
Free games for may
See Emily play