In these depressing and tragic times, I think that we should often turn to one of the biggest source of joy available to all of us, music. And today, I want to share with you a beautiful song written and interpreted by one of my absolutely favorite Brazilian composers and singers: Ney Matogrosso. The song is called “Latin Blood” and under the video, I provided a tentative translation of the lyrics.
I hope that you will enjoy it!
Kind regards
The Saker
I swore lies
And follow alone
I assume the sins
Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh!
The northern winds
Do not move mills
And what I have left
It’s just a groan
My life, my dead
My crooked ways
My Latin Blood
Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh!
My captive soul
I broke treaties
I betrayed the rites
I broke the spear
I launched into space
A cry, an outburst
And what matters to me
It’s not being beaten
My life, my dead
My crooked ways
My Latin Blood
My captive soul
I offer this for the Cubano in all of us.
In thanks for the love of humanity exemplified by the Cuban medical forces working around the world (while the US embargoes aid going to the island of Cuba.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUSVALW_Z4
Many thanks Larchmonter, not only for this marvellous music but for introducing us to this extra special movement for the good of all humanity. Until now I had not known about it.
I loved every aspect of this clip but especially the spontaneous dance moves of a grand elderly lady near the beginning and later, an exquisite young girl – they really touched my heart.
I’ll go through the list and choose another for the Café :)
I received the following message in Australia
Video unavailable
This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
I have the same message.
UMG = Universal Music Group
They have the copyright apparently outside the US apparently….
Really good this song from my teens. Ney Matogrosso was a member of the band “Secos & Molhados” (1973) and released, among them this song, others such as Rosa de Hiroshima, O vira … an anthological album for the quality of the compositions and arrangements.
Another mood changer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08
Con permiso: One of the best parts of America that used to be; still exists…somewhere. In lots of places and people. Music like the above that transports you to the Globe. All of us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
Thanks for the music videos you share here Saker. …”music one of the biggest sources of joy” indeed.
John Prine recently passed away. You might say he was a better poet than he was singer. Here is one of his better songs IMHO;
“That’s how every Empire falls”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsu2oASd6x8
Caught a train from Alexandria
Just a broken man in flight
Running scared with his devils
Saying prayers all through the night
Oh but mercy can’t find him
Not in the shadows where he calls
Forsaking all his better angels
That’s how every empire falls
The bells ring out on Sunday mornng
Like echoes from another time
All our innocence and yearning
And sense of wonder left behind
Oh gentle hearts remember
What was that story? Is it lost?
For when religion loses vision
That’s how every empire falls.
He toasts his wife and all his family
The providence he brought to bear
They raise their glasses in his honor
Although this union they don’t share
A man who lives among them
Was still a stranger to them all
For when the heart is never open
That’s how every empire falls
Padlock the door and board the windows
Put the people in the street
“It’s just my job, ” he says “I’m sorry.”
And draws a check, goes home to eat
But at night he tells his woman
“I know I hide behind the laws.”
She says, “You’re only taking orders.”
That’s how every empire falls.
A bitter wind blows through the country
A hard rain falls on the sea
If terror comes without a warning
There must be something we don’t see
What fire begets this fire?
Like torches thrown into the straw
If no one asks, then no one answers
That’s how every empire falls.
Roger Waters pays tribute to his friend John Prine;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC_WyanLhM
Hello Saker and community,
I’m Brazilian and I regularly read the blog to look for quality information about what’s happening in the “hot spots” of the world, what was my surprise, on this day, when I came across a Saker topic talking about an artist, Nei Matogrosso, very dear in my country, the song “Latin blood” is recorded in the Brazilian popular imagination, especially of the progeny of the population. I would like to bring you another song from him, from this period of his career and that also has to do with the phase we are living (the COVID-19 pandemic), it is called: “spring in the teeth” the song talks about maintaining courage and resilience in difficult times (when it was written and recorded Brazil was living a military dictatorship), I hope you like it. Latin America, Europe and Asia united in the fight against imperialism. 0/ Fábio Marinho.
Spring in the teeth (Nei Matogrosso/Secos and wet.)
“Who has the conscience to have courage
Who has the strength to know that there is
And in the center of the gear itself
Invents against the spring that resists
Who doesn’t waver even if they’re defeated
Those already lost never despair
And shrouded in a storm, butchered
Between the teeth holds the spring”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wirks0kQ7x8
Translation done with the help of the website: Deepl translator.com