Arriba, Arriba

Keywords: Viva Libre! Viva Musica!, Los Lobos, Miami Sound Machine, The Buena Vista Social Club, Los Roque Romanticas, Santana, Michelle Branch, Astor Piazzolla & Band, Afro Cuban AllStars, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Jorge Ben, Jennifer Lopez, Ry Cooder, Clara Nunes, Alcione Depois, Buena Vista Social Club, West Side Story , The Champs, Ritchie Valens, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Sergio Mendez & Brasil 66

33 thoughts on “Arriba, Arriba”

Hung One On said:

March 21, 2011 at 11:42 pm

All this time and still no Steely Dan, and you call yourself a fan, pfffft

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- Warrigal said:
  
  March 22, 2011 at 2:43 pm
  
  Watch your inbox.
  
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  - Hung One On said:
    
    March 22, 2011 at 3:02 pm
    
    Mate, pure genius, will post soon
    
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Algernon said:

March 19, 2011 at 4:51 pm

Warrigal muy bueno muy bueno. Pero no podría entender ésos que no cantaba en inglés. No podría entender árabe de los chavales de Vectis tampoco.

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- Warrigal said:
  
  March 19, 2011 at 8:23 pm
  
  El Chico de Vectis es una locura pero me gusta!
  
  Larga vida Julian! Me creo que espero!
  
  And that really must be an end to this Algy; though I’m at a bit of a loss as to how you failed to understand the Spanish language songs when you come back with this. Or have you generated this through one of those on line translators?
  
  What was that movie where the Mexican guy is talking English as if he completely understands the complex situation at hand, but when his English finally runs out he has to admit, also in English, that the only English he knows is that first sentence and this one explaining that one. It’s one of those hilarious moments when you know you may never remember the film but the gag will stay with you forever.
  
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  - Algernon said:
    
    March 19, 2011 at 10:36 pm
    
    Well you know Warrigal with whatyou can find on the internet anyone can be a polyglot.
    
    Not sure of the movie though.
    
    You might enjoy the subtitles on this one.
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
    
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  - H said:
    
    March 20, 2011 at 9:57 am
    
    Warrigal, at least you did not use any Google translations; ‘vida’ means ‘life’ and ‘vivir’, ‘to live’ 🙂
    I learnt some Spanish many years ago at one of those Adult Education classes, only pity that the teacher from Barcelona was such a distraction, a dish as NZ friend would say…
    
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  - Warrigal said:
    
    March 20, 2011 at 12:16 pm
    
    La vida es para vivirla!
    
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  - Warrigal said:
    
    March 20, 2011 at 12:19 pm
    
    And Algy; life would be pretty dull without a musical set piece from Bollywood, and this one’s a corker if you’ll excuse me being a dull “boar”.
    
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  - Algernon said:
    
    March 20, 2011 at 12:29 pm
    
    Well I suppose it depends where you put the papaya.
    
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  - Warrigal said:
    
    March 20, 2011 at 1:29 pm
    
    Ah yes, the papaya. I hadn’t thought of that.
    
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Vectis Lad said:

March 18, 2011 at 10:16 pm

Just something that came to mind. When I was in Iran, in 1978, I bought some cassette tapes of their popular singers. Partly as souvenirs and partly because I love music.

I used to play them in the car in London, just to perplex my passengers. Some of it was quite good. I’ve always been attracted to that style. It must go back to travel in my youth. I love Gypsy music, which of course filtered through from Northern India to Southern Spain–taking in Hungary, Eastern Europe, Persia ect, and influencing Egypt as they settled along the Nile banks.

Possibly Valens, as a matter of fact, since the Hispanic sound is a patina arrived at by the melding of Spanish & Afro music. That has just occurred to me….Havens’ sound. All the way from India to S. America; or C. America in his case.

I discarded my old cassettes, as the formats changed.

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- Vectis Lad said:
  
  March 19, 2011 at 11:41 am
  
  Oops, just noted that I slipped into Havens there. Another brilliant artist. Richie this and Ritchie that. I need some caffeine.
  
  Got a couple of Ritchie Havens LPs.
  
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- Warrigal said:
  
  March 19, 2011 at 8:28 pm
  
  You should give us some more of your wonderful life in narrative form Jules. I’d happily gag on your yarns of London in the 60’s and playing Oud music to passengers in your car is definitely something you should talk to someone about. It may as well be us, don’t you think?
  
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Vectis Lad said:

March 18, 2011 at 8:55 pm

Yes it (The Persian mix) was just a bit of nonsense to go with your awful Spanglish.

The Cuban all stars were Santana, with one’s eyes closed .

I hadn’t heard that Richie Valens number before it was great. I have always admired ‘Albatross’ by Fleetwood Mac and found some similarity. Have a listen when you have a mo.

It led me on to reminisce…sigh….you bastard!!

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Warrigal said:

March 18, 2011 at 4:42 pm

Persian poetry VL?!?!

Do you know what it says or are ya jus’ tuggin’ me chain? Please, throw little more light on the subject.

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- atomou said:
  
  March 18, 2011 at 5:08 pm
  
  Waz, it’s all over the net!
  It’s a piece constructed to offend the Iranians by mixing the two languages, arabic and farsi (Persian/Iranian).
  Apart from it being gobbledigook repeated over and over again it is also like spitting in the eyes of the Iranians who consider themselves far superior to the arabs.
  In effect it says this:
  
  “If the light is moved by the shadow and the eye wall, staring role we don the role of light, if no other shadow shadow moved. R was not found shade and eye wall staring role we don the role of light, shadow, if not other shade was not found
  The role of eyes staring at the wall and we…
  If the light is moved by the shadow and the eye wall, staring role we don the role of light, if no other shadow shadow moved. R.
  
  The role was not to find shade walls and eye shadow staring role again we don not find a shade light, if not go wall-eyed stare Our role
  If the light is moved by the shadow and the eye wall, staring role we don the role of light, if no other shadow shadow moved. R.
  
  The role was not to find shade walls and eye shadow staring role again we don not go shadow if the light is found
  
  The role of eyes staring at the wall and we
  If the light is moved by the shadow and the eye wall, staring role we don the role of light, if no other shadow shadow moved. R was not found shade and eye wall staring role we don the role of light, shadow, not again find shade if not go wall-eyed stare Our role
  Shadow. R was not found shade and eye wall staring role we don the role of light, shadow, not again find shade if not go wall-eyed stare Our role”
  
  But you will see the extent of the offense if you read the comments on this blog:
  http://www.sodahead.com/fun/breaking-news-from-egypt/question-1552727/
  
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  - Warrigal said:
    
    March 18, 2011 at 5:26 pm
    
    Thanks Mou. I wondered why it was impenetrable. Sche took a look and said, “It doesn’t make sense!” and then “either that or it’s just appalling poetry!”
    
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Vivienne said:

March 18, 2011 at 3:56 pm

Do you think Peggy Lee’s Fever could sneak in with this lot. I think Beyonce covered it a couple of years ago and she is the only person to do that successfully.

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- Warrigal said:
  
  March 18, 2011 at 4:37 pm
  
  “Fever” is on a list about two weeks away, from memory. I had no end of trouble finding a decent version. Youtube is not as flash as you’d think. I often have difficulties finding the versions of songs I want to include.
  
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  - Vivienne said:
    
    March 18, 2011 at 4:59 pm
    
    Sorry I missed it Warrigal. Some times I pay a lot of attention to various posts and others I do too fast a skim. At that time I was also doing a small edit/proofread job (one or two hours max) which turned into a nightmare (6 days!) as the job wasn’t what I was led to believe.
    
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  - Warrigal said:
    
    March 18, 2011 at 5:23 pm
    
    That’s two weeks hence, not two weeks past, Viv. So you can still look forward to it.
    
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  - Vivienne said:
    
    March 19, 2011 at 8:58 am
    
    Well that is good news.
    
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gerard oosterman said:

March 18, 2011 at 3:41 pm

I stiil think the Cuban Buona Vista Club is hard to beat. Thanks Warrigal. Mucho appreciatoleria con cappucinaria de nero por favoriae. (non latteria) mais mucho zucheriaria, mais votre preferiaria the carryaria con Tea with own bag.

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Emmjay said:

March 18, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Waz, I’m up for a bit of Buena Vista, Ry Cooder and the very first clip – La Bamba – is a total blast. Muchos.

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H said:

March 18, 2011 at 10:56 am

Muchas gracias, Sr. Warrigal, estoy muy contento con la seleccion de esta semana .

I’ll go straight to my favourite, the lovely Ibrihim Ferrer…listening to him makes me
muy felice…after him, to the Romanticas Que Pasara Manana, West Side Story…

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- Warrigal said:
  
  March 18, 2011 at 11:27 am
  
  Usted es agradable, bella dama. Tu felicidad es mi felicidad.
  
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  - Vivienne said:
    
    March 18, 2011 at 12:12 pm
    
    Shows offs !
    
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  - atomou said:
    
    March 18, 2011 at 1:35 pm
    
    What terrible english they speaketh! Not a hint of grammar, of orthography, of syntax… total conjunctivitis!
    
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  - Vectis Lad said:
    
    March 18, 2011 at 2:01 pm
    
    نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه. ر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما
    نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه. ر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما
    نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه. ر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما
    نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه. ر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما
    سایه. ر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نقش سایه دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما
    
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    - Emmjay said:
      
      March 18, 2011 at 2:23 pm
      
      Translation: Please return the trolleys to the supermarket. Well they look like trolleys to me 🙂
      
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  - atomou said:
    
    March 18, 2011 at 2:29 pm
    
    Laddie, your persian is perrible! You sound like Ahmadinejad on queer tea!
    And you repeat yourself over and over, rolling one eye over the shadow of another, splattered against Dan’s wall!
    Spit it out boy! What is it you’re trying to confuse us with?
    
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  - H said:
    
    March 18, 2011 at 3:30 pm
    
    Emmjay, you maketh me laugh, trolleys of course…
    
    Vectis Lad, are you earning your pocket money by working for Coles?
    
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