do trapézio e outras coisas

Some time researching how to insert pieces of music for songs and finally I’ve got it. Take a look in the past two posts. Now you can play the songs I’m whistling lately. If you ever saw me live, you know I’m a whistling person. I like music, even thought I go to fewer concerts than I’d like to. I’m still to get the habit of taking a look in some concert guide and start going to them. I remember going (kind-of) by force to the last Vertigo, but the truth is I was amazed, energized, happy, jumping and everything after the show. Those are good things.

I like music, because I’m curious. I go on discovering things, learning about them, improving my knowledge about the bands. How come I love Happy Mondays today? Simple. Paula told me about Joy Division. Some time later I saw 24-hour party people with the history of the Factory Records, got fascinated and started listening to them. Then Tony Wilson died and I found that BBC One tape with a homage to Wilson. I listened to all songs in this tape and some of them caught my attention. One of them was Happy Mondays.

Paula was amazing in my musical formation. Even now people cannot believe she actually recorded 2 whole cds with some 240 different songs of 240 different bands that had a chance with my musical tastes. I don’t remember why Silvia would say Paula was her mother, but she’s certainly the alma mater of my musical taste, specially for indie, alternative, rock and this kind of stuff.

(and because of that, I’ve had the prize of seeing her actually dancing(!!!) in a Placebo concert, long ago)

I remember now why I started listening to Belle and Sebastian. Paula and I were watching High Fidelity in the theaters and she commented about a song: “Valéria likes that band very much”. After Jack Black actually throws the tape with Belle and Sebastian away, I got intrigued, borrowed a cd from Paula and started liking it very much.

My interest for Os Mutantes (one of my preferred bands today) started in a completely different way. One day, there was the wedding of Cristiano, a fellow colleague from work. Cool guy, cool girl = cool party and they gave away a CD with the songs of the wedding. A very nice selection if you ask, and one of the songs was the energetic Ela É Minha Menina. I had that CD on my car for years. And then one day I was at the movies in the Reserva Cultural and I stopped by the small bookshop that they have. There was a biography of the band. In an impulse I bought the book, read the biography and downloaded the whole discography of the band. Amazing. Few bands were so creative, so free of inventing things. Of course the LSD helped, but anyway.

And then one day I started working in an orchestra. And I had to learn about orchestras, not only because I was curious (again, see the pattern?) but also because how could you work in a bakery and not understand how to make bread? Anyhow… I’ve started watching to every single concert they gave, and I could hear some of the rehearsals from my office. And I’d like to discuss about music with some of the musicians, and learn about their idiosyncrasies and tastes. Now I have a couple of favorite concerts (Mahler First Symphony… Rachmaninov’s Variations of a Theme by Paganini… Beethoven Sixty (especially the second movement), something of Dvořák, especially the one that I saw in Prague and now I don’t recall the name).

Some time ago, having dinner with a girl, she starts talking about music, and I go to tell her some of those stories. I’ve become someone who tell stories. She goes and tells me I have an amazing taste (maybe she didn’t had a unbiased opinion…). And I write this to blame Paula for that.

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