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Post by Victor on Sept 19, 2004 22:33:49 GMT -5
Adam - If memory serves me (and I'm not sure it does), age 15 was OUCH!! Hang in there buddy! Anyway, Hours and Opium are my most recent additions too. Definitely unique and original works of art. But it's different already having heard other versions of many of those songs on later albums. Oh well, it's all good! (I'm just happy the "Opium guys" let me off easy! ) Luz - Thanks so much for that tip on the Yahoo OL radio station. I'm definitely going to check that out! I often tune in to the flamenco station on Batanga.com - they play Ottmar once in a while but the Yahoo station sounds more my style.
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Post by boris on Sept 20, 2004 3:44:17 GMT -5
Reviewer: Adam Solomon "Fanmenco (www.ottmarliebert.tk)" (Bellmore, Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews If you've never heard of Mr. Liebert and his band Luna Negra, this is the perfect introductory album; if you're a fan of theirs to begin with, then you should know never to expect with a new album anything like what they've done before. "La Semana" is perhaps the deepest and most emotional of the 20+ Ottmar albums recorded in the last decade and a half, and it would make a serious claim to being his best if there were indeed any way to measure his best.
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Post by Adam Solomon on Sept 20, 2004 14:45:30 GMT -5
Yes, yes, Boris, I saw....
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Post by Josie on Sept 30, 2004 17:32:05 GMT -5
Have you a OL`s song with which yo identity yourself? That you feel that is like you. I have only listen NF, Innamorare and Semana, but I feel "2 The Night" is like me.
I hope I havenĀ“t make a lot of mistakes and you understand me.
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Post by boris on Sept 30, 2004 18:15:40 GMT -5
You should meet Victor! He associates "2 the night" with the scent of female perfume.... No, it was the other way round. He associates a good female perfume with "2 the night". I sleep about your question, but my first anwer is: Bluedreamdrops from Opium-Dreaming. [Don't you worry, Josie, you'll get to know Opium! ]
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Post by Adam Solomon on Sept 30, 2004 19:00:03 GMT -5
A song with which I associate myself? Well, I don't think my favorite, Snakecharmer, counts....I don't know if there's one I really associate with myself, just a lot of beautiful ones I really love.
Maybe La Luna? I don't know...
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Post by Matt Callahan on Sept 30, 2004 20:03:26 GMT -5
Lone Rider. The first time I heard it was the first time I listened to The Hours Between Night + Day. I let any new CD play and get a feel for the music my fist time around, not paying attention to song names. That way, I don't have any connection to the song before I've heard it. About half way through Lone Rider, I checked the name of the song and laughed. I am a Lone Rider.
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Post by Victor on Oct 1, 2004 11:25:15 GMT -5
Good question Josie! I would have to say that "Santa Fe" is me - the song, not the city. ;D That song makes me see in my mind a wide open country road - which is somehow the way I see life.
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Post by Brad on Oct 1, 2004 17:55:19 GMT -5
For me it would probably be Candy 4 My Soul. Its such a carefree, upbeat easy goin song. Thats how I am, Im just real easy going, carefree type.
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Post by boris on Oct 4, 2004 15:05:41 GMT -5
I should take my time to elaborate why I think that "my song" is Bluedreamdrops, but I don't find the inner peace to do so these days.
And that's maybe the first reason: because this song creates an atmosphere that I find inside of me when I'm balanced, when I'm happy, peaceful and calm.
It's this very melody that my mind plays often when I wake up in the morning. OL wrote a lot of those melodies (I remember Carol saying something similar about Cave in my heart) and always a different one accompagnies me. But the one of Bluedreamdrops is special, it makes me waking up and feel being in love although there's no-one in sight, it makes me feel as if I'd taken a marvelous breakfast with the scent of fresh coffee and bread all over the place although I had to super rush to leave the house and don't even took a glass of water. Bluedreamdrops fake(s) me in a good sense.
It took me a long time to recognize most songs of OL individually. Especially Opium is an album where the melodies flow into each other. So with noticing that melody in my head, it was like Matt sad earlier: the melody slipped inside of me, found an echo and made me sort out the song.
And then it's the title. I'm too much a dreamer than I can afford to be these days. I quite often get reminded of being so but I can't stop it. I'm helpless in this case. And I'm kind of naive. I soon as I started to trust I find myself bashed around. That makes me vulnerable and blue. But I realized that I may never learn anymore to be the other way round!! And I would prefer not to! Cause every now and then some drops of this sensuality surprisingly remind me that life always has a lot of things left to get on with, to break out of your automatisms........ So in the end Bluedreamdrops make me see the good things.
Bittersweet. Happy sad. Bluedreamdrops. Something like this.
There are other reasons why I like it but none to add why I "identify" myself with it.
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Post by Adam Solomon on Oct 4, 2004 15:11:32 GMT -5
You write as well as Matt Thanks, Boris! You're right, Opium is like that, so I'll definitely take the chance to go back over Bluedreamdrops now...
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Post by Matt Callahan on Oct 4, 2004 23:37:16 GMT -5
Good stuff Boris! Bluedreamdrops is another special favorite of mine as well. And Drop of Water on a Dry Stone, and Ripple/Wind Over Water, and.......
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Post by boris on Oct 5, 2004 16:26:25 GMT -5
The evil burner was at work again (man, I'm summing up donations).
Josie introductory kit # 2:
Borrasca, Solo para ti, In the arms of love.
Sent 2day.
The later was my own. But I prefer having originals. Josie will have too, I'm sure, but first things first.
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