tango interrupted
Jul. 31st, 2013 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaLast year I wrote an entry called "the sugar festival," or "an apocalypse of fishes" or "why I want to punch Iyad Ag Ghaly in his face." In an alternate 2012, it would have a different title, probably not Tango Interrupted because I didn't know there was a table of contents from The Fallen Moon floating around the interbutt somewhere, but different nonetheless. And it would have been very similar to this one.
Before I begin:
Caribeña remains unheard and unfound. En Memoria de Chano Pozo remains a Youtube video that sounds like it was mixed with a Seefeel song.
Floop Floop Floop was written on an orange thing.
I want to paint this woman, in watercolors and ink, of course: she had purple and hot pink hair and wore a necklace with an upside-down hand with an eye, called a hamsa or hand of Fatima and earrings of peacock feathers and pheasant feathers.
I appear to have misplaced my program. I thought it was in my copy of Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas, but it is not, alas.
Gottshalk's Night in the Tropics was written by an American abolitionist (so this is pre-Civil War) and premiered in Cuba with a 650-musician orchestra. Or something like that.
¡Mambo! I've heard before.
The Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman sounds like a train, or a steam-powered Short Ride In A Fast Machine, except the ride is longer and the machine is slower and clunkier.
Huapanago is based on traditional music from Veracruz and I spent much of the piece wondering just where that was. It's southern but not in the Yucatan and it's famous for the Olmec culture. Huastecs and Totomecs you've probably never heard of. The spiders there are big but not as big as the Laotian ones.
I heard Viaje and the reason it doesn't exist anywhere else is because it was commissioned for the concert. It's like symphonic Afro-Latin dance music, with an Afro-Latin band and singers, made up of various dances from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia, and included a marimba. There was a sheet with lyrics, but I don't understand Spanish and it all blurred together.
And then they noticed the concert was too short and freestyled it the rest of the way. Oh, it was still too short, of course. I didn't have to post the entry tomorrow. I thought Carlos Nuñez would be there, but the theme was a Night in the Tropics and Galicia is not tropical.
So, she's like "You want to hear my raccoon noise?" and she made a noise that sounded like it was coming from behind her. The guy with a dog named Tux said it sounded more like a squirrel, but I agree with her, it does sound like the sound a baby raccoon makes when it's hungry. She's like "I want a coyote!" and on the photo of a fox that I didn't take "it has cool eyes!" and then
Pidgeon, by the way, is not how you spell Pigeon. This isn't a fucking Renaissance Faire or regency costume drama, it's 2013. We are an advanced civilization with automated gates for our parking garages and displays that tell you how long until the next train comes.
Burning question: How did they get the Aristocats to play the piano?
Before I begin:
Caribeña remains unheard and unfound. En Memoria de Chano Pozo remains a Youtube video that sounds like it was mixed with a Seefeel song.
Floop Floop Floop was written on an orange thing.
I want to paint this woman, in watercolors and ink, of course: she had purple and hot pink hair and wore a necklace with an upside-down hand with an eye, called a hamsa or hand of Fatima and earrings of peacock feathers and pheasant feathers.
I appear to have misplaced my program. I thought it was in my copy of Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas, but it is not, alas.
Gottshalk's Night in the Tropics was written by an American abolitionist (so this is pre-Civil War) and premiered in Cuba with a 650-musician orchestra. Or something like that.
¡Mambo! I've heard before.
The Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman sounds like a train, or a steam-powered Short Ride In A Fast Machine, except the ride is longer and the machine is slower and clunkier.
Huapanago is based on traditional music from Veracruz and I spent much of the piece wondering just where that was. It's southern but not in the Yucatan and it's famous for the Olmec culture. Huastecs and Totomecs you've probably never heard of. The spiders there are big but not as big as the Laotian ones.
I heard Viaje and the reason it doesn't exist anywhere else is because it was commissioned for the concert. It's like symphonic Afro-Latin dance music, with an Afro-Latin band and singers, made up of various dances from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia, and included a marimba. There was a sheet with lyrics, but I don't understand Spanish and it all blurred together.
And then they noticed the concert was too short and freestyled it the rest of the way. Oh, it was still too short, of course. I didn't have to post the entry tomorrow. I thought Carlos Nuñez would be there, but the theme was a Night in the Tropics and Galicia is not tropical.
So, she's like "You want to hear my raccoon noise?" and she made a noise that sounded like it was coming from behind her. The guy with a dog named Tux said it sounded more like a squirrel, but I agree with her, it does sound like the sound a baby raccoon makes when it's hungry. She's like "I want a coyote!" and on the photo of a fox that I didn't take "it has cool eyes!" and then
Pidgeon, by the way, is not how you spell Pigeon. This isn't a fucking Renaissance Faire or regency costume drama, it's 2013. We are an advanced civilization with automated gates for our parking garages and displays that tell you how long until the next train comes.
Burning question: How did they get the Aristocats to play the piano?
