A take on international politics

Time for alchemy and tango in an upside down world.
And a new hairdresser's for Jim Sturgess.

The candle concerts in Pedraza

Pedraza, a lovely village in the Segovia region in Spain, holds very special open air concerts at the beginning of July. I invite you to take a walk.

 

 

and definitely worth a visit by day anyway

 

Unbelievable

Only  4.097 visits on Youtube??!?!?

Musical digression

Wow, I'm listening to this while I'm updating the pictures and I think I'm going to evaporate/volatilize any minute now. I leave you to it.

Passion

love

hate

revenge

rage

excitement

sacrifice

hope

suffering

pain

regret

despair

resignation

repentance

grief

longing

resolution

All of those and more in Verdi's "Il Trovatore"
and how incredibly exciting those 8 seconds are... la zingarella, la zingarella, la zingarella...

fHow many tales and stories the Romani people have given to artists' imagination through the times

Amparo,  Julio Romero de Torres

via revista de arte

Gypsy with child,  Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarassa, 1925
via revista de arte

Gypsies in Granada, Peter Severin Kroyer, 1879
from mi espacio flamenco via plastic paradise

Unfortunately in the real world Mr. Sarkozy has different plans


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Are you in the mood for a Brazilian love song?

If you are, it has to be this one, Eu sei que vou te amar

Speechless

New love: this Greek song

       

                                 Kenuria Agapi sung by Antique

And now relaaaax...

....Close your eyes and think of faraway places (but only after clicking here below)

That was the song Kolaymi, from the album "Dance into Eternity", by Omar Faruk Tekbilek. I don't have words to explain the beauty of his music.

Better tomorrow

An optimistic song for troubled times by Spanish singer Vega, Better Tomorrow!
How shall we do it? With culture or with politics?
I love the video.

Curious about: tropicalismo

Tropicalismo, the Brazilian art movement of the 60's