Posts Tagged ‘Music’
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Photo: 3652 Days: #170: Serenatas For The History Books: ABQ, NM.
0June 22, 2010 by Citizen192
June 19 2010 Almost a year went by without an instrument in the booth for me. I found this tragic since I listen to countless men and women share stories about how music was introduced into their lives. For some people, the songs they listened to as children played as much a role in the shaping of their identity as their grandfather’s dichos, their mother’s cooking or their father’s migration. This doesn’t shock me. Yet eleven months passed before a single person introduced music into my booth. Above, two participants weave storytelling with music. A serenade of “Las Mañanitas”, “Las
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keep readingCategory 3652 Days, Music, Photography, Travels | Tags: 3652 Days, Albuquerque, Music, Travels
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Photo: 3652 Days: #148: Le Chat Lunatique: Local Jazz At Local Joints: ABQ, NM.
0May 29, 2010 by Citizen192
May 28 2010 Filthy, Mangy Jazz is how Le Chat Lunatique describes themselves on their blog. They played SXSW for the first time earlier this year and they are the local jazz flavor in Albuquerque, NM. A friend of a friend sent me some info about their latest show – a set played in a independent record store celebrating a Grand Re-Opening – and I arrived very early with thoughts of tattooed, Betty Paige and Jesse James-looking types, sipping martinis and Scotch, as some of the patrons of the gathering. I was wrong. I was pleasantly surprised with the sound.
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keep readingCategory 3652 Days, Music, Photography, Travels | Tags: 3652 Days, Albuquerque, Jazz, Le Chat Lunatique, Music
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Photo: 3652 Days: #118: An Evening Set: New York City.
0April 29, 2010 by Citizen192
April 28 2010 For one of their songs, there was a mention of “burning bodies” and “beautiful” and “Kilimanjaro.” I expected something painful and haunting, but sweet and melodic is what we heard instead.
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