Published by DEIA, Dec. 8, 2011
Sometimes the simplest is the most expensive and the projects that are simple on a technical level and of its necessary infrastructure becomes difficult to fulfill desires.
I’m not going to tell here all the "strange" coincidences that happened in order to work together Rolando Luna in Habana Sessions, but it is true that when one finishes a job and enjoys the result, you can’t imagine of having finished it any other way. The young pianist, arranger and composer Rolando Luna is one of those extraordinary Cuban musicians with an incredible talent. Together we recorded our live performance of the themes in the CD HABANA SESSIONS.
It is very comforting to perform with a band behind you, with many musicians, where the music takes its maximum physical dimension. But I have also experienced times when playing with another wonderful musician where we could create and inspire each other's talent. For years I have tried to get this strange connection to export and what I wanted to express, reflect and record in Habana Sessions. Next week I will fulfill the dream of bringing it all together in direct. Vienna on 12 and 13th of December, the 14th of Dec. in Bilbao and the 15th of Dec. in Barcelona will be the places and dates of this special tour. A meeting between Rolando Luna and I, no frills, no tricks, in direct contact with the public, a few meters away, alone, with a piano and a triki, without shades of instruments, only with hands that nude rhythms and melodies, natural, gather together the right ingredients to create a soft and delicate soufflé filled musical magic.
Habana Sessions is the result of an inner need to feel the closeness of the public to experience an intimate encounter free of the thousands of watts and visual effects. A return to the essence, the original of a meeting of two musicians who could well be in the hall of any of our homes. A cocktail of scents, emotions and feelings which the icing is put by all those who own the moment: the public.
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lunes, 12 de diciembre de 2011
domingo, 27 de noviembre de 2011
BISORTZEA
Published by DEIA, Nov. 24, 2011-11-28
From my point of view there are two ways in coming to a conclusion. One is from knowledge, from the wisdom learned through studies, collaboration, etc., and the other is through intuition. Many times it so happens that someone all of a sudden is able to explain to by means of proofs, with proven facts, what many of us considered to see or to peek thanks to our intuition and our experience in life.
Listening to the radio I hear an interview with Dr. Mario Alonso Puig in relation to his book “Reinventarse” (Reinventing). In it the author discusses many issues that would be able to write hundreds of columns, but among all of them, I would highlight the importance of words and emotions. To make it short, Mario Alonso Puig reveals, in his book the true value of what one hears, of what one says, of what we think and how all this interacts with our emotions to slowly build up you innermost being.
The process of making the human being is a complex according to the author and, no doubt, depends on many factors. One of the most important is related to people, environments and trends around the individual. If the person is surrounded by people who love them, positive experiences and is able to hold his or her life trying potentiating the kind or more human side of him or herself, more easily will he or she achieve the goals and desires that yearns since, probably they make better use of their potential.
Instead, those who are surrounded by negative people, ideas and conclusions generate dark feelings; greatly limiting their own being, and therefore, your chances of becoming what they really want. Emotions such as anger, resentment or jealousy generate states of blaming others but conclude affecting both those who experience it and often subject to major changes in the hormonal balance.
Expressing the positive and throwing the negative away is as important as for who gives as well as for the person that receives.
www.kepajunkera.com
From my point of view there are two ways in coming to a conclusion. One is from knowledge, from the wisdom learned through studies, collaboration, etc., and the other is through intuition. Many times it so happens that someone all of a sudden is able to explain to by means of proofs, with proven facts, what many of us considered to see or to peek thanks to our intuition and our experience in life.
Listening to the radio I hear an interview with Dr. Mario Alonso Puig in relation to his book “Reinventarse” (Reinventing). In it the author discusses many issues that would be able to write hundreds of columns, but among all of them, I would highlight the importance of words and emotions. To make it short, Mario Alonso Puig reveals, in his book the true value of what one hears, of what one says, of what we think and how all this interacts with our emotions to slowly build up you innermost being.
The process of making the human being is a complex according to the author and, no doubt, depends on many factors. One of the most important is related to people, environments and trends around the individual. If the person is surrounded by people who love them, positive experiences and is able to hold his or her life trying potentiating the kind or more human side of him or herself, more easily will he or she achieve the goals and desires that yearns since, probably they make better use of their potential.
Instead, those who are surrounded by negative people, ideas and conclusions generate dark feelings; greatly limiting their own being, and therefore, your chances of becoming what they really want. Emotions such as anger, resentment or jealousy generate states of blaming others but conclude affecting both those who experience it and often subject to major changes in the hormonal balance.
Expressing the positive and throwing the negative away is as important as for who gives as well as for the person that receives.
www.kepajunkera.com
domingo, 20 de noviembre de 2011
PUNTAREN PUNTAN
Published by DEIA, Nov. 17, 2011
Rightly or wrongly we all try to stretch the most of our youth. Health, energy and, above all, the illusion that surrounds us are the hallmarks of it. Not many years ago a 60 year-old person was considered old and was beginning to cease certain daily activities. Today, I guess it could be because of our way of living but also for other reasons, the elderly have to face an abrupt cessation of activity. And as it is, reading a very surprising article I found about a mountaineer.
Carlos Soria was born in Avila in 1939, which lived through the war, and since then he has never stopped dreaming of the mountains, one of his great passions in life. This upholsterer worker, always linked to mountaineering, ascended his first eight thousand at 51 and since then has carried out a series of expeditions until this spring, and with his 72 years, has been able to crown thttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhe Lohtse. Next March he wants to try the Kanchenjunga, Annapurna and then finally closing the Dhaulagiri mountains.
Anyone who reads this article would think Carlos is a lucky man, and yes it is true, it is. But also we must make a second reading of history, Carlos’s knees hurt, his back bothers much, and until he retired he couldn’t live intensity his passion.
To carry out his Everest expedition he had to borrow money from the bank, demonstrating a strong personal involvement in what he wanted. A friend of mine says "do not look at my achievements, let’s analyze my efforts." We usually always stay with the outcome of things without realizing what the person betted and lost on the way. Every dream, every achievement carries a price we have to pay and are the ones who decide to go ahead with it or not. Moreover, in the case of Carlos, this is all possible by keeping your mind young, as I have always said, it is there, where things are born, die and coexist all that we can do or not.
www.kepajunkera.com
Rightly or wrongly we all try to stretch the most of our youth. Health, energy and, above all, the illusion that surrounds us are the hallmarks of it. Not many years ago a 60 year-old person was considered old and was beginning to cease certain daily activities. Today, I guess it could be because of our way of living but also for other reasons, the elderly have to face an abrupt cessation of activity. And as it is, reading a very surprising article I found about a mountaineer.
Carlos Soria was born in Avila in 1939, which lived through the war, and since then he has never stopped dreaming of the mountains, one of his great passions in life. This upholsterer worker, always linked to mountaineering, ascended his first eight thousand at 51 and since then has carried out a series of expeditions until this spring, and with his 72 years, has been able to crown thttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhe Lohtse. Next March he wants to try the Kanchenjunga, Annapurna and then finally closing the Dhaulagiri mountains.
Anyone who reads this article would think Carlos is a lucky man, and yes it is true, it is. But also we must make a second reading of history, Carlos’s knees hurt, his back bothers much, and until he retired he couldn’t live intensity his passion.
To carry out his Everest expedition he had to borrow money from the bank, demonstrating a strong personal involvement in what he wanted. A friend of mine says "do not look at my achievements, let’s analyze my efforts." We usually always stay with the outcome of things without realizing what the person betted and lost on the way. Every dream, every achievement carries a price we have to pay and are the ones who decide to go ahead with it or not. Moreover, in the case of Carlos, this is all possible by keeping your mind young, as I have always said, it is there, where things are born, die and coexist all that we can do or not.
www.kepajunkera.com
domingo, 13 de noviembre de 2011
FABRIK
Published by DEIA, Nov. 10, 2011
Hamburg is a beautiful city. No one would imagine at first glance the state it was after the Second World War; we can still see traces of that period remembering the moments of total barbarism that are experienced in the course of any war. But these people were not content in accept the suffering and the devastation but worked hard to achieve what it is today, a city with fascinating cultural attractions.
On Tuesday, November 8th, we played in a room called Fabrik, which is a magical place. This building, now transformed into a concert hall has hosted bands such as Nirvana, Steel, Radiohead ... The funny thing about this place is that at the time of the First World War it was a munitions factory and now has established itself as one of the best live music venues in Hamburg. When I go on stage in places like this, my imagination goes beyond trying to figure out the life it had in that old factory or what would had exactly at same place where I'm playing, dim lighting with a pilot light blue. Often when people talk about protecting and restoring our heritage, whether it is in the form of wonderful places, art, traditions, etc.., I think that it ignores this type of legacy, perhaps not as nice or valuable, that industrialization has left us in the form of factories, flags, etc... Although usually underestimates the importance of industrial heritage, I think that it is part of our way of life, a way to evolve within an established order, and no doubt the result of the efforts and the dedication of the people.
Ending the concert… a unstop ringing in my imagination of the metallic percussion of the machines, workers' voices ... and all of that accompanied our music to accompany, now more than ever, sounds like a definite future in the past, that is, in the present.
www.kepajunkera.com
Hamburg is a beautiful city. No one would imagine at first glance the state it was after the Second World War; we can still see traces of that period remembering the moments of total barbarism that are experienced in the course of any war. But these people were not content in accept the suffering and the devastation but worked hard to achieve what it is today, a city with fascinating cultural attractions.
On Tuesday, November 8th, we played in a room called Fabrik, which is a magical place. This building, now transformed into a concert hall has hosted bands such as Nirvana, Steel, Radiohead ... The funny thing about this place is that at the time of the First World War it was a munitions factory and now has established itself as one of the best live music venues in Hamburg. When I go on stage in places like this, my imagination goes beyond trying to figure out the life it had in that old factory or what would had exactly at same place where I'm playing, dim lighting with a pilot light blue. Often when people talk about protecting and restoring our heritage, whether it is in the form of wonderful places, art, traditions, etc.., I think that it ignores this type of legacy, perhaps not as nice or valuable, that industrialization has left us in the form of factories, flags, etc... Although usually underestimates the importance of industrial heritage, I think that it is part of our way of life, a way to evolve within an established order, and no doubt the result of the efforts and the dedication of the people.
Ending the concert… a unstop ringing in my imagination of the metallic percussion of the machines, workers' voices ... and all of that accompanied our music to accompany, now more than ever, sounds like a definite future in the past, that is, in the present.
www.kepajunkera.com
domingo, 6 de noviembre de 2011
LAYLA
Published by DEIA, Nov. 3, 2011
How many of us listen to music, read poems, watch movies, etc... and see ourselves reflected in those stories and adventures in which are narrated in them? In many concerts people have told me what a song of mine has made them feel or personal experiences to relive again with my music.
The other day, listening to some vinyl that I have around, I went back to enjoy one of the iconic songs in rock history, Layla, Eric Clapton. The story of a man who falls in love with a woman who loves him in her heart but can not reciprocate. I remember when I discovered this song that I always thought that I would be dedicated to any friendly Layla of Eric, but at the end I discovered that he talked about Pattie Boyd, George Harrison´s wife at the moment, the ex-guitarist of the Beatles. Eric, one of the greatest guitarists of all time, felt a great attraction to the wife of whom was also his friend George. The Londoner was not oblivious to the stares and attention of the guitarist and between them they started to reach a special type of complicity. In Pattie's own words, Clapton was not easy to express his feelings if it was not by stanzas or verses, and in one of those occasions when they were meeting, the musician presented this song, which is a kind of rhythmic declaration love for her. After a difficult period of encounters and disagreements, they separate taking different roads and that's when Eric takes refuge in drugs and alcohol. But this story has a happy ending, because Clapton eventually managed to conquer Pattie´s heart and married in 1979, fulfilling a dream long cherished by the nickname of God. I 'm a big fan of Eric Clapton, his way of caressing the notes, to become one with his guitar. But how much suffering there is to experiment to unite in marriage the talent and the desire of oneself? What strange reason lies in that people empathize more with a theme that expresses the intimacy of its author? I hope to explain in my next album.
www.kepajunkera.com
How many of us listen to music, read poems, watch movies, etc... and see ourselves reflected in those stories and adventures in which are narrated in them? In many concerts people have told me what a song of mine has made them feel or personal experiences to relive again with my music.
The other day, listening to some vinyl that I have around, I went back to enjoy one of the iconic songs in rock history, Layla, Eric Clapton. The story of a man who falls in love with a woman who loves him in her heart but can not reciprocate. I remember when I discovered this song that I always thought that I would be dedicated to any friendly Layla of Eric, but at the end I discovered that he talked about Pattie Boyd, George Harrison´s wife at the moment, the ex-guitarist of the Beatles. Eric, one of the greatest guitarists of all time, felt a great attraction to the wife of whom was also his friend George. The Londoner was not oblivious to the stares and attention of the guitarist and between them they started to reach a special type of complicity. In Pattie's own words, Clapton was not easy to express his feelings if it was not by stanzas or verses, and in one of those occasions when they were meeting, the musician presented this song, which is a kind of rhythmic declaration love for her. After a difficult period of encounters and disagreements, they separate taking different roads and that's when Eric takes refuge in drugs and alcohol. But this story has a happy ending, because Clapton eventually managed to conquer Pattie´s heart and married in 1979, fulfilling a dream long cherished by the nickname of God. I 'm a big fan of Eric Clapton, his way of caressing the notes, to become one with his guitar. But how much suffering there is to experiment to unite in marriage the talent and the desire of oneself? What strange reason lies in that people empathize more with a theme that expresses the intimacy of its author? I hope to explain in my next album.
www.kepajunkera.com
domingo, 30 de octubre de 2011
Janire
Published by DEIA, Oct. 27, 2011
Some times am thinking on how controlled that we all are. I remember some science-fictional movies in which in the nape of the neck of the human beings a chip is inserted in the minute they are born in order to have them controlled.
The thing is true that today it is not so exaggerated but definitely I stop to think: We’re born and they catalog our blood type, we are registered in the Department of Certification of Birth, we are obligated to provide evidence of our identity by means of an ID card, and from there on a constant control on behalf of the society across-the-board, and even they can locate us geographically by the GPS on our cell phone. But at the same way that I feel controlled personally, I discover that as to a cure of diseases, something in which I really indeed think it would be usefully taken a census of, goes and not only that we are not, but besides who wants it has to take his own initiative .
Janire is a Biscayan of 31 years that’s been fighting a 4 year disease so-called Bone Marrow Aplasia consisting in the disappearance of the bone marrow cells, spongy mass that is within the bones where the blood is generated, producing red, white blood cells and platelets. Due to the lack of them Janire he gets tired easily, she has palpitations, dizziness, headaches, hemorrhages and a great risk to a lot of infections of which some are mortal. All these symptoms condition her life and the only way out to this disease is finding a compatible donor, in which is very complicated because... Who of us know something about their bone marrow? How is it that we do not have an extensive record of our DNA and of any necessary information taken from our birth to try to heal suchlike diseases?
Only the man can cure man and only the generosity of some, or would even say to the civism, can offer hopes of a new life that needs it. These lines are to encourage all of us to get ourselves up to take an insignificant test and see if we can or cannot be a donator, of Janire or of anybody else.
Good Luck Janire!
www.kepajunkera.com
Some times am thinking on how controlled that we all are. I remember some science-fictional movies in which in the nape of the neck of the human beings a chip is inserted in the minute they are born in order to have them controlled.
The thing is true that today it is not so exaggerated but definitely I stop to think: We’re born and they catalog our blood type, we are registered in the Department of Certification of Birth, we are obligated to provide evidence of our identity by means of an ID card, and from there on a constant control on behalf of the society across-the-board, and even they can locate us geographically by the GPS on our cell phone. But at the same way that I feel controlled personally, I discover that as to a cure of diseases, something in which I really indeed think it would be usefully taken a census of, goes and not only that we are not, but besides who wants it has to take his own initiative .
Janire is a Biscayan of 31 years that’s been fighting a 4 year disease so-called Bone Marrow Aplasia consisting in the disappearance of the bone marrow cells, spongy mass that is within the bones where the blood is generated, producing red, white blood cells and platelets. Due to the lack of them Janire he gets tired easily, she has palpitations, dizziness, headaches, hemorrhages and a great risk to a lot of infections of which some are mortal. All these symptoms condition her life and the only way out to this disease is finding a compatible donor, in which is very complicated because... Who of us know something about their bone marrow? How is it that we do not have an extensive record of our DNA and of any necessary information taken from our birth to try to heal suchlike diseases?
Only the man can cure man and only the generosity of some, or would even say to the civism, can offer hopes of a new life that needs it. These lines are to encourage all of us to get ourselves up to take an insignificant test and see if we can or cannot be a donator, of Janire or of anybody else.
Good Luck Janire!
www.kepajunkera.com
domingo, 23 de octubre de 2011
Astragalus nitidiflorus
Published by DEIA, Oct. 20, 2011
As always, and in the most normal way, the most incredible discoveries take place. A fan of botany took a bicycle ride by the proximities of the mountain “Cabezos del Pericón” belonging to the town Tallante in the providence of Murcia. While he enjoyed the day he noticed of a very weird and unknown plant, the Astragalus nitidiflorus or Tallante's Garbancillo, is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family considered in critical danger of disappearance, since then the only place known all over the world is located in Tallante.
All this took place in the year 2003, when it was believed that this plant had been already extinct for almost 100 years ago, and ever since the scientists have been accomplishing uncountable studies in order to protect the project of recovering this species.
Each living being has created there own strategy to face its survival. In general there are two types: Or you play in the edict of the generalist or in the ones of the specialists. If you belong to the first ones you are more adaptable and eclectic, at the same time of feeding yourself as in locating a place to live, etc... If on the contrary you belong with the seconds, you are much more demanding regarding nutrition and to the habitat. Equilibrium underlies everything, in its absence all that is generated hinders and destroys the surroundings.
Constantly the land equilibriums and unbalances have followed and in a epoch with hegemony, of the first and is close behind with control of the second.
The ways of life that have bear stoically the previous periods indicated before are the ones that reach a maximum level of development, taking sometimes advantage of, as in the case the human being, almost conquering and molding a whole system upon its way of life returning to break off that hoped-for equilibrium.
The more species that disappear more difficult it will be for the ecosystem to work correctly, because each and everyone of them are basic in order that life works as we know. So it is basic to protect the maximum of the biodiversity as a whole and not as I con-join of isolated species.
www.kepajunkera.com
As always, and in the most normal way, the most incredible discoveries take place. A fan of botany took a bicycle ride by the proximities of the mountain “Cabezos del Pericón” belonging to the town Tallante in the providence of Murcia. While he enjoyed the day he noticed of a very weird and unknown plant, the Astragalus nitidiflorus or Tallante's Garbancillo, is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family considered in critical danger of disappearance, since then the only place known all over the world is located in Tallante.
All this took place in the year 2003, when it was believed that this plant had been already extinct for almost 100 years ago, and ever since the scientists have been accomplishing uncountable studies in order to protect the project of recovering this species.
Each living being has created there own strategy to face its survival. In general there are two types: Or you play in the edict of the generalist or in the ones of the specialists. If you belong to the first ones you are more adaptable and eclectic, at the same time of feeding yourself as in locating a place to live, etc... If on the contrary you belong with the seconds, you are much more demanding regarding nutrition and to the habitat. Equilibrium underlies everything, in its absence all that is generated hinders and destroys the surroundings.
Constantly the land equilibriums and unbalances have followed and in a epoch with hegemony, of the first and is close behind with control of the second.
The ways of life that have bear stoically the previous periods indicated before are the ones that reach a maximum level of development, taking sometimes advantage of, as in the case the human being, almost conquering and molding a whole system upon its way of life returning to break off that hoped-for equilibrium.
The more species that disappear more difficult it will be for the ecosystem to work correctly, because each and everyone of them are basic in order that life works as we know. So it is basic to protect the maximum of the biodiversity as a whole and not as I con-join of isolated species.
www.kepajunkera.com
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