A few years ago I saw Manu Chao (and other very interesting artists that I might talk about with other occasions) performing at the Pinkpop festival. As I remember it, I ended up somewhat dissapointed because he did not sing any of the pieces from the “Clandestino” album, which is by far my favourite from Manu Chao (instead he and his collaborators sang mostly Mano Negra songs, very good otherwise, but, well, not my favourite…).
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Today’s song: Francesco de Gregori’s “La Donna Cannone”
Francesco de Gregori does not need any introduction: for anybody who knows Italian music, this artist is one of their gods. He is one of my top 5 favourite Italian musicians, in his case superlative both as singer and as songwriter.
→ Read more Song of the weekend: Eva Cassidy’s “Autumn Leaves”
This is a special weekend edition of the ‘song of the day’ category on my blog. And for special editions, we certainly need special artists and special songs. Today it is time for one of the best voices of all times; it is time to talk about pure talent and musical genius; it is high time I shortly reminded you of Eva Cassidy and her story, a story sad and (ultimately) happy, at the same time.
→ Read more Song of the day: “De Bom”, by Doe Maar
My absolute favourite Dutch band (I’ll come back to Dutch bands with other occasions as well) is, by any measure, Doe Maar (chose the only rather complete bios in English to link here, the wiki one).
→ Read more Song of the day: Goldfrapp’s “Utopia”
Alison Goldfrapp, from the British band Goldfrapp (the other member of the duo is Will Gregory), could be the perfect woman. I just said it. Skeptical? Judge for yourself: looks, personality (sorry, PERSONALITY), style, voice- and you might sense part of these from Goldfrapp’s hits, among them “Black Cherry” or “Strict Machine” or “Number 1“, the latter from their very succesful most recent album, Supernature.
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