The new Sorrentino's TV series is already a success and, as usual, the choice of the soundtrack is profound and extraordinary. The Young Pope soundtrack mixes classics with electronic music, forgotten Italian songs (Nada "Senza un perchè" / Roberto Murolo "Era di Maggio") with Jeff Buckley, Max Richter, John Adams, Bela Bartok, Antonello Venditti, Jefferson Airplane and Domenico Modugno. A mystic experience.
After seven years at the top of the British charts, even Status Quo fans were beginning to wonder whether the band wasn't simply rewriting the same riff over and over again, then putting it out with a new catch phrase for a title. From "Down Down" to "Rocking All Over the World," Status Quo had enacted some of the most excitingly primal rock behemoths of the decade. But they'd also composed some of the most enduring clichés as well. However, nothing - repeat nothing - could have prepared the world for Whatever You Want, a record which, almost three decades later, still sounds like the most ruthless piss-take you've ever heard. And, of course, it became one of their biggest hits ever. Mercifully, the remainder of the album titled by this unfortunate monstrosity shows that there was more than one idea rattling around the band's heads at this point: "Living on an Island," with its acoustic wash and mournful melody…
La RAE da una sola definición para De Cerca: "a corta distancia". Una definición que podría ser también válida para este trabajo de Josemi Carmona (guitarra flamenca) y Javier Colina (contrabajo) con la colaboración especial y central en su proceso de creación de Bandolero (percusión, palmas) y dos invitados de lujo: Jorge Pardo (flauta) en "El incomprendido" y La Negra (voz) en "Verdad amarga". Sí, la corta distancia (entre ellos, pero también en relación al oyente que recibirá estas melodías) es uno de los lugares posibles en los que se establece el diálogo entre dos de los músicos con más personalidad de la escena internacional de nuestros días.