My Hi-Fi And I…

Hi-Fi stands for High-Fidelity and it’s only applied to a set of electronic devices destinated to play music under certain requirements of quality which music experts decided, many years ago, to classify like so.

The classification speaks for itself: there’s something highly faithful to something! The goal then is to build electronic devices which can reproduce sounds totally equal to the real ones. Being so, the [...]

I feel like shouting...

There I am again pretending I’m a good English/Portuguese translator. This time it’s a female singer (again!), a love song (again!) and a story told in a way that could have been told by someone, somewhere else in the world.

The relevant part here is what this song is capable of doing to me: every time I hear it I feel a huuuge desire of… shouting! [...]

Foolish Games

Three reasons made me writing this post: I feel depressed, Jewel Kilcher is gorgeous, this song depresses me even more and I always had this strong will of translating a song from English to Portuguese. Case you haven’t noticed, I’ve announced three reasons but I gave you four. Case you feel much angry with that, just throw one of them away. In any case, once [...]

While Your Lips Are Still Red

Metal bands still produce the best ballads in the rock universe. It has been like so ever since and hopefully should keep being like so. “Nightwish” is a finnish band born in 1996, in Kitee (Finland), moving around metal music, heavy metal, hard rock or whatever relatives you want to add here cause I even don’t like that music style anyway. However, I always have [...]

What Else?

Although the low consumption per capita of coffee in Portugal (2Kg/person/year of raw material), within an European Union scenario, I do believe there’s no other country where coffee tastes that much good as it does over here. And I don’t remember at all any country where coffee is in fact a pleasure at the dimension achieved in Portugal just because drinking a coffee in here [...]

Commander Cohen

Author of the following discography (the plus sign means I own it):

Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967 [+]
Songs From a Room, 1969 [+]
Songs of Love and Hate, 1971 [+]
Live Songs, 1973
New Skin For The Old Ceremony, 1974 [+]
The Best Of, 1975
Death Of A Ladies’ Man, 1977
Recent Songs, 1979 [+]
Various Positions, 1984 [+]
I’m Your Man, 1988 [+]
The Future, 1992 [+]
Cohen Live, 1994 [+]
More Best Of, 1997
Field Commander [...]

Lady Virginia

Long time no see… A good reason for a writer not writing it’s the lack of inspiration. I assume I am a writer just for the simple reason that I write things I want them to be read by someone. In the last couple of weeks I have had nothing I wanted to be read by someone, therefore I’ve been all this time long without [...]

Motumbá

For those of you knowing me, nothing that I can say here will make you believe I have been out in Pelourinho, Salvador’s downtown, for a Friday night show of Brazilian music but I do declare that it really happened (January 19th). That place in Largo Pedro Arcanjo it’s where you can go every Friday for listening Motumbá, drink good light and cold Brazilian [...]

The Host Of Seraphim

The Host Of Seraphim (from The Serpent’s Egg, 1988) was my first date with Dead Can Dance, an aussie band (if such can be told) formed in 1981 by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, both of them born in Commonwealth countries and, at least until last year, still together despite some separations here and there along the band’s life. A front-end information for you, who [...]

Love Is In The Water !!

Hell with the fake pudency or shame! This is the actual best “fofoca” (chitchat) here in Bahia: ex-Ronaldo’s (The Phenomenon) making sex with occasional boyfriend in Spain. I’ve got this video (click here) from Internet and people is talking a lot about it (on radio and TV). There’s already some jokes about it. There’s happiness flying around it because we, human beings, are like that: [...]