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Contamination # 12: The brotherhood and sisterhood: Sly and Family Stone

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March 21, 2013

The sisterhood and brotherhood as: Sly And Family Stone.
La sororité et de fraternité que: Sly Stone et Famille.

Questo gruppo che parte alla fine degli anni sessanta, oggi è considerato come una band musicale soul variopinta. Eppure tanti gruppi, a loro si sono ispirati. Loro hanno aperto una porta, dove, ancora oggi, i musicisti attingono. La fratellanza e la sorellanza. Freddy, il fratello di Sly, suonava la chitarra. Larry Graham suonava il basso. Cinthya Robinson e Jerry Martini suonavano rispettivamente la tromba e il sassofono. Un bianco e una nera che suonavano assieme sopra il palco. E Greeg Enrico alla batteria: un ispanico. Questo gruppo suonava come se fossero un’unica persona. Il gruppo non attraversava i confini razziali: li cancellava. LE DONNE SUONAVANO STRUMENTI. GLI UOMINI CANTAVANO E LO SHOW ERA MANDATO AVANTI DA UN NERO. In Europa, ancora oggi noi tutti ci dobbiamo arrivare. Ed ecco a voi “Stand” che parla del colore della pelle, dell’odio e dell’amore. Signori questo è il nostro futuro.

This group, which starts at the end of the sixties, is now regarded as a band colorful soul. Yet many groups, they were inspired. They have opened a door, where, even today, the musicians draw. Freddy’s brother Sly, played the guitar. Larry Graham played bass. Cinthya Robinson and Jerry Martini respectively played the trumpet and saxophone. A white and a black playing together on the stage. And Greeg Henry on drums: a Hispanic. This group sounded as if they were one person. The group crossed racial boundaries: they erased. WOMEN played instruments. SUNG MEN AND THE SHOW WAS SENT NEXT TO A BLACK. In Europe, we all still have to go. And here “Stand” that talks about the color of their skin, hatred and love. Gentlemen, this is our future.

Ce groupe, qui commence à la fin des années soixante, est aujourd’hui considérée comme une âme bande colorée. Pourtant, de nombreux groupes, ils se sont inspirés. Ils ont ouvert une porte, où, aujourd’hui encore, les musiciens dessiner. Frère Freddy Sly, jouait de la guitare. Larry Graham joue de la basse. Cinthya Robinson et Jerry Martini respectivement joué de la trompette et le saxophone. Un blanc et un noir à jouer ensemble sur scène. Et Greeg Henry à la batterie: un hispanique. Ce groupe sonne comme si elles étaient une seule personne. Le groupe a traversé les frontières raciales: elles effacées. Les femmes ont joué des instruments. Sung Men et le spectacle était ENVOYÉ à côté d’un noir. En Europe, nous avons tous encore à parcourir. Et ici, “Stand” qui parle de la couleur de leur peau, de la haine et de l’amour. Messieurs, ceci est notre avenir.

Image taken from HERE

To listen to “Stand” click HERE

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# 11 Contamination: Each of us is already a gem: Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations

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February 26, 2013

The “Goldberg Variations” (BWV 988) is a work for harpsichord consisting of an air with thirty variations, which were composed by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1741 and 1745 and published by the publisher Balthasar Schmid in Nuremberg. They are dedicated to Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, at that time he was serving as Kapellmeister to Count von Brühl in Dresden.

The work was conceived as a modular architecture of 32 tracks, arranged according to mathematical patterns and symmetries original.

Johann Sebastian Bach taken from HERE

Glenn Herbert Gould (Toronto, September 25, 1932 – Toronto, October 4, 1982), the pianist who made every work he performed, immediate and accessible to the public, showing respect for the aesthetic sensibility of each.

Glenn Gould taken from HERE

In this recording Bach and Gould are together. The pianist despite sore hands for arthritis, plays the twelve variations that are divided into twelve scales for twelve tones that can be used with different instruments and sounds, giving you the chance to listen to them as if there was a present hope, beauty, compassion , smile. Gould offers a soft homesickness for the past that it now appears in a new form with nothing left behind.

Poverty and nakedness of this listening generate the possibility of the future that covers us with the mantle warm and clean, and they preserve us from some annoying speck vernacular of the present time. A real gem.
To listen to the Goldberg Variations, click HERE.

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# 10 Contamination: The angel of this earth: Patti Smith

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February 21, 2013

Patti in “Glory” shares a message without apportioning blame or blood, with a blues style that is of this earth: that is for all.

Picture taken HERE

“Gloria” in ancient languages also means cheer and clap. Have someone turn up. Bring it to light. He who walks around the many and he brings the message. XLEOS: what gives off light. But sometimes it also says what comes from the darkness, from death and grief. It therefore offers hope.

“Gloria” proclaims hope from the pain, similar to the old Lutheran hymns, where there is a direct relationship with the transfigured child of God.

Picture taken HERE

The musical group “The Doors” resumed and changed the text from “Them”, announcing the transfiguration as interior journey, regardless of the religious community of reference. A dream-like elevation that opens the “DOORS”. The child is already transfigured, through a unique interior journey.

Picture taken HERE

Patti Smith, without detracting from the Doors and Them, takes a step forward for our future. The song is about this man who died taking charge of blood and guilt of all. She accepts the glory, the light and the message, but not as a medical disease of darkness. Not because you have to remove the stain of murder. Accept the glory of man. She opens its doors to this man, these men here on earth. Not another world. The glory here on earth for all. A secular message.

To listen GLORIA click HERE

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# 9 Contamination: A breath that is already melody: Nina Simone

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February 18, 2013

Nina Simone, stage name of Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Tryon, February 21, 1933 – Carry-le-Rouet, April 21, 2003).

He was a singer, pianist, writer, and activist for civil rights. It was especially jazz interpreter, although his style varied between different genres, from soul, blues, folk and gospel.

But she also expresses a musical style classic. She is an example of how the heart, technique, talent know no picket fences.

Picture taken HERE

For example, in his song “Sinnerman”, we have Johann Sebastian Bach. The Toccata and fugue.

She follows the stairs with his full-bodied timbre and blood and in the regularity of counterpoint, his voice breaks out in the first minute slowly with a growing tension and withheld. Of this man who brings sleep and blunting of reason, a man she loved, but who is stingy with answers. And then she increases the timbre from the second minute and calls him, keeping order so stepped down, without excess. And then in the second minute he opened his voice. And he repeatsand with recall in rhythmic blouse, as if he corrected himself or his name from the stadium in a wave with the arm that wants attention. And then near the end of of the third minute, she takes up the rhythm and the orchestra goes alone. The rhythm is now expressed with the counterpoint. And she repeated again involving the listener and then she closes the fugue playing the piano.

UNIQUE. WONDERFUL. The rhythm and takes her as if it were in fugue for excellence, along with the orchestra starts and does not sing anymore: she emanates tones only with your breath! And in the seventh minute her voice, and no longer the plan, is leading the orchestra: IMMENSE.

To listen Sinnerman click HERE.

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# 7 Contamination: Woke up from sleep of stone

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February 5, 2013

By “All Quiet on the Western Front ”. E. M. Remarque.

“[..]   He fell in October 1918, on a day so calm and quiet on all fronts, the bulletin of the Supreme Command was limited to these words:” All Quiet on the Western Front. “He had fallen forward and lay with his head on the ground, as if asleep. When he turned around he saw that he could not have suffered long: his face wore an expression so serene, almost as if he was glad to finish so […] ‘  –

Listen to this symphony (Robert Alexander Schumann’s Symphony). Try to rivevere inside these sounds, while this soldier recovers his humanity, just at the moment when it kills itself (the enemy). He kills his enemy, and at that moment he, for the first time, looks into his eyes. And he knows that both are dying.

From the 23-th minute when he is about to shoot and tries to reach it; after when he sees it fall. And he understands too late. You hear the sound of the strings. He feels the humanity in itself, but just at the moment when one takes to his fellow man. The absurd war, murder. If one can identify with this, really: he faints because he feels the horror. And do not cry. No, too easy. Do you hear the music from the 23 th minute when playing wind instruments and strings, and to 23:50. BEHOLD HIM THE FEEL. FEEL IT IN YOUR HEART. COMING OF THE WIND WHO KILLED HIM IN HIS HEART and THE FEEL .. After hearing that, we can cry. Yes, once you can cry for all the dead in a sleep of stone.

Robert Schumann – image taken HERE

To listen to the symphony no. 4 click HERE

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# 6 Contamination: Shy gifts spring

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January 29, 2013

Picture taken HERE

My sister gave me the image of Him (Johannes Brahms), thus illuminating the shadowy spring day.

And that gift was the alternation of light and cloud in the alternating movement of the two themes decidedly mixed. The first theme, very lyrical and melancholy, brings an atmosphere of sore nostalgia for events never happened and he evoked. Like a restless throb along a century. And this is in contrast to the second theme, introduced by woodwinds, Notable for its intense rhythmic and bringing the emotional rainbow as the omen of summer rain (4 minutes and 10 seconds.) – And the yearning of the arches in 4 minutes and 40 seconds.

In this sonata for the first time is not required to repeat the exposure of themes, which are two: the first is drawn in from the opening two sections of violins, cellos and horns from the second, and it is characterized by the broad range of seventh . The absence of a second exposure sheds particular light on the relations between the different moments of the movement, in the development undergone by the first theme, there is one that appears in the second half for the use wind instruments, which seem to want to turn everything into a choir, from which, however, the theme wriggles free quickly to return to his true nature melodic.

What a paradox: what was an early in his career as a composer room, which was tricky with the wind instruments, uses an imposing orchestra here and follow it by arches, which Gently reproduce musical cells that make up their towing. As the silence after the rain, as soon as interrupted by the whispers of the rays of the clouds thinned out.

Me and the picture of him with my sister and from the eighth minute the musical work, with the whole orchestra this time, we invite everyone who is willing.

To listen “L’allegro ma non troppo” of the Fourth Symphony, click HERE

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