Hombre caminando

This is the trailer of a short film for which I have composed and performed the music alongside Marisol Simó (vocals) and Mark Ribera (vocals, musical saw).


http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=578337000#/video/video.php?v=101083843065&ref=mf

HOMBRE CAMINANDO

Con VÍCTOR MASÁN

Dirigido JORDI CUSSÓ
BSO EVRIPIDIS AND HIS TRAGEDIES
Director de fotografía BORJA LÓPEZ
Animaciones BAYARRI

You made a monster out of me

El señor Pestañas

A healkthy dose of pain IV: Stuff I´ve found

It is funny how you end up finding things you had forgotten they even existed. My personal belongings are piled everywhere in my room and on (and below) my desk. They form layers and layers that were constructed continiously through time. That makes cleaning up an experience that resembles an excavation. I found some relics today. Three drawings I had done on found papers while bored at work or at class. They belong to happier although maybe less exciting times. The koala and the Ferret area recurring themes of course.
Those drawing made me sigh twice , they were my healthy dose of pain for today...and then life goes on I guess. Until the next excavation.

A healthy dose of pain III

All those summer parties

Primavera Sound festival is about to happen once more. Four days left and we will be roaming at Forum Park in Barcelona like animals of prey. And this fills my heart with the sweetest anticipation AND fear at once. Why should be that way?

For 3 days and nights I am going to live the same old story over and over again: I will be out of my head , with friends, watching concerts, drinking heavily, dancing and forgetting that the world outside Forum keeps spinning. For 3 days my life will be almost ideal, a real work of art coloured with music, love and drama. Yes, you´d better watch out you poor indie pop kids: Primavera Sound is not for the faint of heart! In fact, as far as I am concerned, the Forum Park and its special "geography" is the perfect setting for movie-like scenes: I have fallen terribly in love swinging with someone under the stars and I have fallen out of love on the concrete ground. I have said hellos on a grassy slope and I have waved goodbyes outside the bathrooms, I have snogged on the grass like a teenager and I have cried like a baby behind the reeds. I have gone out of my head, ecstatic, dancing to Jens Lekman or whoever, surrounded by my best friends or I have felt lost, dizzy and completely alone, without being able to watch any concert. Oh, I am sure all you festivals goers know the score already. You can spend hours wondering around, doing practically nothing, wasting your time...but then, sometimes, even going to pee can be a wonderful adventure straight out of a children´s book!
Another year then....another year of fun fun fun and tears of course. Emotions ride high, especially when you feed your poor body with molotov cocktails and weird combinations of substances instead of sandwiches and fruits. And there are plenty of songs to make a soundtrack and underline the best and the worst moments. So cry baby, cry and let those tears be tears of joy or infinite sadness. Summer is on its way. Old lovers are fading fast although they still can make your day a little bit greyer. And new loves are on their way.
I think of Catharsis, a vital element of the Greek tragedy. Primavera Sound can give you even this sense when it starts raining at 5 in the morning and you still dance heroically to some old rock 'n´roll song. Or when you tell someone who doesn´t love you anymore that you will never forget him but you will let go because what´s the use in trying?
Three days of absolute fun and then a week of the bluest blues. Every year is the same story. And still we do it. Even when I make calculations and the sum of the embarrassing moments is too high , I still believe it was worthy. My friends from Athens will be there, my friends from Alicante, Valencia, Madrid will be there, my Barcelonian friends will be there...and you, with those sunglasses , your tired face and THAT empty stare...I am pretty sure sure that you too will be there...dancing and kissing. All those summer parties, OUR summer parties, nothing could make them fade away...

All those summer parties that we used to share
I can hardly recall a thing,
that surely means that I was there
dancing and kissing
you don´t know what you`ve been missing
all those summer parties that we shared
no-one could make them fade away

with our fists in our pockets moving nervously
with a spring in our step and our dancing shoes on
we waited for this all winter long and nobody can stop us now

night is falling quickly stars above our head
the sea-breeze cooling our faces ,
noone dreams of going to bed
so give me more of those screwdrivers
and if i go and overdose
they´ll say it was for the sake of sex n drugs and rock n roll
what a shame...

killing time on the grass before the next concert begins
my friends look pretty though slightly dazed
they laugh at this stupid grin on my face
and then Jens comes on stage
and then the Black Lips come on stage
and then the Vampire come on stage
and my head explodes!


let´s twist again like we did last summer
clap and shout and shake it all out , it´s the time
to dance the night away

all those summer parties
left you with an empty stare
8 am trembling with your shades on
that surely means that you were there
dancing and kissing
and poor thing you´re already missing
all those summer parties
now let´s catch the bus before we colapse and try not to miss our stop!

...till next weekend!


you can listen and download the song free here:

http://www.barcelones.com/cancion/

xx

new album tracklist

This is a rough sketch of the new album´s tracklist. The songs are not in the definite order but...you may get an idea!

A healthy dose of pain II

A healthy dose of pain

EVERY TIME YOU FELL TOO DAMN SECURE
EVERY TIME YOU FEEL TOO FULL OF YOURSELF
TAKE A HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN
IT WILL GROUND YOU AND MAKE A BETTER MAN OF YOU
CARESS SOFTLY YOU GRANDFATHER´S BERET
REMEMBER HOW HE USED TO TAKE YOU IN HIS ARMS
SING YOU SONGS AND SLIP MONEY IN YOUR POCKET
EVERY TIME YOUR MOM AND DAD WOULDN´T WATCH
AND HOW MANY TIMES YOU WENT TO SEE HIM IN THE HOSPITAL
JUST ONCE!
THIS HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN WILL STRAIGHTEN YOU UP


EVERY TIME YOU FELL TOO DAMN SECURE
EVERYTIME YOU FEEL LESS HUMAN
TAKE A HEALTY DOSE OF PAIN
IT WILL GROUND YOU AND MAKE A BETTER MAN OF YOU
TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR PARENTS FACES
NOTICE THE LINES THAT ARE FORMED UP THERE
EACH ONE STANDS FOR EVERY NIGHT THEY´VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU
WITH ALL THE LIGHTS ON
NOW YOU KNOW YOU DON´T HAVE TOO MUCH TIME LEFT
TO GIVE THEM ANY MORE SHIT…

TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE PHOTOS THAT YOU TOOK
WITH YOUR LOVER ON THE SUMMER OF 2000
HE LOOKS SEXY AND BOY YOU DO LOOK HAPPY!
BUT WHERE IS HE NOW?

AND IF THAT´S NOT ENOUGH

LISTEN TO ALL THOSE MIXTAPES THAT GOOD FRIEND OF YOURS
GAVE YOU BACK IN THE NINETIES
YOU HAD PLANS OF CROSSING EUROPE BY TRAIN
AND GROWING UP TOGETHER
IF ONLY YOU HAD UNDERSTOOD , IF ONLY YOU HAD UNDERSTOOD
HOW SAD SHE WAS
SHE´D STILL BE IN YOUR LIFE NOW….

YOU´RE THE LATEST ADDITION IN ALL THOSE THINGS THAT MAKE ME SIGH
I CALL YOU UP FROM TIME TO TIME
JUST TO FEEL THE DISTANCE IN YOUR VOICE
IT´S THEN I KNOW THINGS DON´T WORK OUT ALWAYS HOW WE´D WANT
BUT THIS HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN GIVES ME STRENGTH….

TO CARRY ON!



HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN GIVES ME STRENGTH TO CARRY ON
HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN GIVES ME STRENGTH TO CARRY ON
HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN GIVES ME STRENGTH TO CARRY ON
HEALTHY DOSE OF PAIN IT MAKES OF ME A BETTER MAN FOR SURE

Why do lovers break each others´ heart? part III

Our Love was a Tsunami

OUR LOVE WAS A TSUNAMI
IT WAS BORN IN UNKNOWN DEPTHS
AND CAUGHT US ON THE BEACH ONE MORNING
THE SEA JUST SLIPPED AWAY
EXPOSING ALL THAT WET SAND
WE RUN TO PLAY AND LOOK FOR SEA-SHELLS
THEN WITH A MONSTRUOUS ROAR
THE SEA CAME BACK
DARK THUNDERING TERRIBLE………

BUT WE WERE SKILLED SURFERS
AND RODE THE TIDAL WAVE
WE RODE IT INLAND
AS IT WAS DEVASTATING
AND TOTALLY ERASING
WHATEVER THAT HAD EVER BEEN BEFORE THE DAY WE MET
WE ROSE ABOVE THE HOUSES
ABOVE THE TREES AND HIGHWAYS
HOTELS, DEPARTMENT STORES
AND IN BETWEEN CHAOS AND DISORDER
WE SAW THE FACE OF GOD
AND HE WAS MAD YES HE WAS MAD
BUT STILL WE THOUGHT THAT WE COULD KEEP ON RIDING
FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES

IF ONLY WE HADN´T FORGOTTEN
THIS WAS NO COMMON WAVE
IT WAS THE GREAT TSUNAMI
AND THE SEA JUST SLIPPED AWAY
AS SUDDENLY AS IT HAD EMERGED
AND LEFT BEHIND JUST PAIN AND DEATH
AND EVERYWHERE THERE ´RE TRACES
OF OUR VIOLENT LOVE
BUT WHERE IS THE LOVE ITSELF?
OH I GUESS
IT WENT BACK TO THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS
WHERE IT HAD BEEN BORN
AND LEFT US ALL ALONE
LOOKING FOR TRACES
OF THE LIVES THAT WE HAD BEFORE THE DAY WE MET
AND IN BETWEEN
CHAOS AND DISORDER
WE SAW THE FACE OF GOD
AND HE WAS MAD, YES HE WAS MAD
BUT NOW WE GOT THE HABBIT TO LOOK FOR WAVES TO RIDE

FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES!

Why do lovers break each others´ heart? part II

Why do lovers break each others´ heart?

Ls make the world go round...

I started growing plants again
So I´ll have someone to care for
But they don´t last too long in my hands
Somehow they all dry out and die slowly

Love lust and loss
these dry leaves remind me of
Love, lust and loss
And that you don´t come round here no more

What if we were last year´s favourite couple and
we had our fair share of heads turning when we´d kiss
what if I raved so much to my mom about you
Soon darker times would land upon our hearts

Love, lust and loss
Both-way betrayals would loose our knots
Love, lust and loss
now we are walking different roads

I found an sms I hadn´t erased goddamn
It said you were at work, tired, in need of sleep
I didn´t make me shed a tear they´ve all run dry
But it surely made me heart skip a beat
Love, lust and loss….

Somehow I got used to live without you
But I must confess I have my low moments
When I miss terribly your arched eyebrows
Your perfect teeth and your small soft hands

That couldn´t keep us together!
Love, lust and loss
They couldn´t keep us togeteher
Love, lust and loss
They couldn’t hold us together
They were just too small
we weren´t made for each other after all

Your baby doesn’t come around here no more
Your baby doesn’t come around here no more
so I´ll just water my plants
and let go…

those Ls make the world go round after all