I have been a bit quiet lately… at least on this blog. I have been pretty busy, but this amazing video of a flash mob startting the Copenhagen Philharmonic got me to post, even if briefly… enjoy.
Se acuerdan de Daiquirí, la banda venezolana que sacó un album MUY guapachoso llamado La Casa del Ritmo? Pues este comentario no tienen nada que ver con ellos… pero sí tiene que ver con un documental que un músico ecuatoriano está tratando de financiar sobre otro grupo venezolano, LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES!
Incluyo el press release anunciando la campaña, para que apoyen este proyecto… TALENTO VENEZOLANO!
New York, N.Y. (January 27, 2011) – Ecuadorian musician Juan Miguel Marin recently launched a 30-day kickstarter campaign to raise funds to complete La Casa del Ritmo, A Film About Los Amigos Invisibles. The film includes revealing interviews with the Grammy-winning Venezuelan band and famous supporters including Talking Heads front man David Byrne. By Sunday, February 20th, 12:36pm Marin must raise $30,000 to help complete this documentary; if that goal is not met, Marin receives zero funding via kickstarter.
Kickstarter is an all-or nothing, community based funding website that encourages community involvement and support in order to help creative endeavors, while offering project “backers” rewards for their help.
Marin’s kickstarter campaign began on Friday, January 21st, to date has raised over $5,000 and has nearly 100 backers. The campaign offers different levels of support, starting at $5, all the way up to $5,000 and offers backers at each level rewards such as the full-length documentary, La Casa del Ritmo DVD, a bonus DVD, t-shirts, artwork by Marin himself, who is an artist with a graphic design background, and even a private screening with Los Amigos Invisibles members.
Grammy-winning Los Amigos Invisibles, from Caracas Venezuela, celebrate 20 years in 2011. Marin, whose band La Rua opened tours for them in 2005, was impressed with how hard-working and serious the band was about their music and their fans. Marin felt their story was a dramatic, emotional tale of passion and perseverance – the same six members, together for two decades, discovered and signed by Byrne for his Luaka Bop label. During that time they relocated to New York City and gained a strong global fan base.
Marin, with the help of Ecuadorian film director Javier Andrade, began interviews last summer with the band members, former managers and Byrne. The kickstarter campaign hopes to raise funds by Feb. 20th in order to finance a filming of Los Amigos Invisibles at the Highline Ballroom on March 11th, to intertwine all the interviews with live concert footage, and pay for the remaining post production costs.
By visiting www.kickstarter.com and searching for Los Amigos Invisibles, viewers can see a pitch video by Mr. Marin, and become a backer.
Updated multiple times on a daily basis is La Casa del Ritmo’s twitter feed @casadelritmo and their Facebook fan plage, La Casa del Ritmo.
Los Amigos Invisibles www.amigosinvisibles.com
La Casa del Ritmo blog: www.lacasadelritmo.net
Para que le agarren el tumbao, aqui tienen un sample de lo que viene:
As time goes by, my life continues to be HIGHLY filled by music. I am really listening to music nearly every waking moment. But that does not mean I am listening to as much music (different artists, that is) as I used to. As time passes, I find myself settling around a few albums and artists that I go back to regularly. In 2010, these were the albums I played the most:
A few more albums I liked (nearly all from Canada):
Some tracks I enjoyed:
Amazing HD capture (multiple videos) of the rendition of The Wall by Roger Waters, in Chicago.
Another Brick in the Wall Part 2:
Mother:
Goodbye Blue Sky:
Bring The Boys Back Home:
Comfortably Numb:
Run Like Hell:
An interview with Roger Waters, showing multiple moments of the 2010 tour and the 1980 tour:
Increible version!
¿Se acuerdan de Camilo Sesto? Leía hace un rato en su página de Wikipedia que en Septiembre del 2009 anunció por enésima vez que se retiraba del mundo de la canción.Tambien leí que este año supuestamente estaría grabando el que sería su último disco.
¿Es idea mía o se ha estado retirando desde hace como dos décadas? En cualquier caso, aquí tienen un video muy ochentoso con Camilo Sesto, interpretando su exitazo “Perdoname”.
P.D. Consegui este peculiar aviso en Camilo-Sesto.com, indicando POR QUE Camilo Sesto no esta en Twitter (supuestamente):
“[Camilo Sesto] nos ha pedido también que les informemos a todos que él no participa de NINGUNA RED SOCIAL como por ejemplo FACEBOOK, TWITTER, HI5, MYSPACE Y SIMILARES… Que aunque le gustaría mucho estar más cerca de todos sus fans, por cuestiones de tiempo (falta del mismo) le resultaría imposible atender este tipo de medios de comunicación, por lo que NO POSEE NINGUNA CUENTA EN NINGUNA RED SOCIAL…”
¡Ya saben: no se dejen engañar por impostores! “The real” Camilo Sesto está offline! 