31 octubre 2010

La canción de la semana #238

...is R&B Latino, from the album of the same name by Alex Wilson.

07 octubre 2010

El premio Nobel de literatura 2010

El premio Nobel de literatura 2010 ha sido otorgado al escritor peruano Mario Vargas Llosa
"por su cartografía de las estructuras del poder y sus afiladas imágenes de la resistencia, rebelión y derrota del individuo".

03 octubre 2010

La canción de la semana #234

Dmitri Mamontov (Дмитрий Мамонтов) was an immensely talented flamenco guitarist from Moscow. Sadly, he died in 2002. I saw him playing live only once, about twenty years ago — he was busking on Arbat! In late 1980s / early 1990s, he was appearing reasonably often on Soviet television. You'd expect a lot of video clips of that era to be found on the web, but alas, no such luck. YouTube has four videos of Mamontov, all of dismal quality. One day, I hope, somebody will unearth better recordings of him and commit it to cyberspace. In the meantime, I hope you still can enjoy Dmitri's rendition of Monti's Csárdás.