La canción de la semana #991

...is Cançó No. 6 (Canción No. 6) by the Catalan composer Federico Mompou, from the cycle Cançons i danses. Originally written for piano, it was a favourite encore of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. This song appears in the 1976 film Cría Cuervos by Carlos Saura. I liked the classical guitar version as played by the Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe in the recent (12 December 2025) Tiny Desk Concert.

La canción de la semana #824

...is majestic Finisterrae by Amaya López-Carromero aka Maud the Moth, from the Edinburgh-based pianist and singer-songwriter's album Orphnē. Tonight I had a pleasure to see Amaya performing live at Teatro CASYC, Santander.

La canción de la semana #417

...is Descarga Gaélica by Salsa Celtica. This song opens the band's smashing new album, The Tall Islands (you can listen to all of it in the player above).

Coffee Break Spanish

Just finished listening to Coffee Break Spanish — free course of 80 Spanish lessons. Each lesson is between 15 and 25 minutes, so it makes it ideal to listen to while walking, or on (waiting for the) bus (train), or, indeed, during the coffee break of any description. It is a good fun and I learned quite a lot from Mark and Kara. (And I just adore the Scottish accent!) The second part of the course was more challenging, at least for me, since I find it difficult to visualise the verb conjugation tables without writing things down.


Lesson 77 was actually the first lesson that I heard back in May and, surprise surprise, it deals with some peculiarities of Canarian Spanish.

La canción de la semana #41

...is Fuerte from Salsa Celtica's album The Great Scottish Latin Adventure. Their new album, El Camino, is out in March. The track is taken from this blog.

Kirill