VV.AA.: Juegos Olímpicos - Vol. V TyPM
VV.AA.: Juegos Olímpicos - Vol. V TyPM
表演者: Various Artists
专辑类型: 选集
介质: CD
发行时间: 2008-03
出版者: Jabalina Música
专辑简介
Ladies and gentlemen, the Jabalina Olympic Games are officially open! And we’re doing it with the fifth volume in the “Teoría y Práctica Melódica” Series, titled "Juegos Olímpicos", just some months before the media inundate us with stories about the Beijing Olympics. Which, of course, have little to do with our own, more down-to-earth Games - they started as a project with an eclectic spirit, and the results speak for themselves.
Maybe that’s why “Juegos Olímpicos” has actually broken some records: number of contestants and total length. 23 olympic artists are featured on the record, some from our roster and some special guests, some Spanish and some foreign (Pinkie –UK-, heirs to the best British pop of the 90s and the sound of Sarah Records and Soulavki –Chile- one of the greatest exponents of Andean indietronica, with a touch of 60s flavour). Together, they’ve taken this collection to the limit duration for a CD (79:03 minutes), which makes for one of the best sports-inspired indie pop compilation ever. The artists in the Jabalina team include Souvenir, J'aime, Montevideo, Polar, Nadadora, Uke, AMA and Apenino, and the team of guests features artists such as Francisco Nixon, Flow, La Costa Brava, La Estrella de David, Pumuky, Travolta or Prin Lalá. The junior team is full of promising athletes like the alluring Olivia de Happyland, one of the most promising acts of the new Spanish pop-folk scene, Nebulosa (which might be the ultimate alias of Charlie Mysterio?), who again oozes the best essence of the 80s songwriters, Llum (the solo project of Jesús Sáez, from Polar), slowly reaching maturity and the appreciation he deserves, eclectic DJ Aldo Linares, who croons his way to become the ‘Elvis of Arequipa’, Colorado (the solo project of Modesto, from Zipi Zape) or Linda Guilala, heirs to the energy pop of Juniper Moon. All in all, a 5th Volume to be proud of, and which establishes the series as the most prestigious of the Spanish indie scene.
The power of the olympic spirit works miracles, so something special must have happened to make these twenty-three independent artists find an unexpected connection between their art and the heat of the olympic flame. It proves that you need not be an elite athlete, or even a sporty person, to feel the call of the olympic flame and reinterpret it musically in your own spirit. Let’s not forget that the universal multi-sport competition from which this compilation takes its name was originally conceived as an amateur event, and not for professional sportspeople, a fact that really relates to the indie spirit of this series and the artists taking part in it. This is the strongest link there is between the actual definition of Olympic Games, and the reason that has moved our own celebration of the amateur spirit that this worldwide event should have. What we intend to show with this collection is that by applying the olympic postulates to the independent music, a discipline which is anything but orthodox, the results featured here, no matter how surrealistic they might seem, are as legitimate as what the official image of the Olympic Games might be. As they say, it is the taking part that matters, and for us it is. But not just that - entertaining and showing a different take on such an emblematic event was our aim too.
But let’s get back to the facts. These are the most relevant figures of “Juegos Olímpicos”: the majority of the songs (16 of a total of 23) are unreleased tracks (by Olivia de Happyland, Nebulosa, Llum, J'aime, Souvlaki, Flow, Aldo Linares, Montevideo, Colorado, Linda Guilala, La Estrella de David, Polar, Pumuky, Travolta, Nadadora and Pinkie) and they make up a CD chock full of killer tunes and eclectic fun which will fascinate the listener.
For the most valuable aspect of this collection is probably the unorthodox range of interpretations of the same event. Some of the artists focus on specific olympic sports, like Nebulosa and his song dedicated to badminton (“Ba-ba-badminton”), Souvlaki and swimming (“Nadadora”), Aldo Linares and boxing (“Soy el mejor”) and Uke and table tennis (“Tenis de mesa”). Others champion a sport to become olympic (Souvenir and “Les surfeurs”). Then there are other artists who adopt a social point of view (Montevideo and “Olimpiadas sin medallas”) and build a metaphor around the ‘other’ olympics we fight for every day, or a more critical one, like Llum's "No more races", refusing to compete in the daily life, and like La Estrella de David’s “El parking más grande de Europa”, their ironic take on the Barcelona 92 Olympics, or Pinkie and their bucolic “Dirty old town”, denouncing the damages that are committed by the Olympic reason. Other songs are dedicated to the personal sacrifice of athletes (Olivia de Happyland’s “Si existe cielo” or Pumuky and “Lobo estepario contra caballos desbocados en JJ.OO.”, complete with a reference to the work of Herman Hesse). You will also find songs about sports celebrities (Polar’s “Requiem for B. Johnson”, Nadadora’s “Evelyn Ashford”, and two songs dedicated to the same athlete - Francisco Nixon’s “Nadia” and Linda Guilala’s “La fuga de Nadia Comaneci”). There are even some artists who have written about personal experiences from a sports point of view, like Colorado and “El último partido”, La Costa Brava (“Olímpicos”), Travolta (“El día que más corrí de mi vida”) and AMA (“Hasta el último instante”). Last but not least, the eclectic bunch: Suze’s remix of a Flow song (“Se va el avión a Pekín”), or the lyrical “Naves que dan vueltas a un balón” by Prin’ Lalá. There’s room for instrumental tracks too: “After the game”, J’aime (Jaime Cristóbal)’s cover version of a Brian Wilson’s obscure b-side from a 1964 single by The Survivors (a Brian Wilson fake band which only released that record, with the song “Pamela Ann” on the a-side) and the Apenino's “Ceremonia de clausura” (“Closing Ceremony”) which appropriately closes the collection.
We cannot finish these notes about the 5th Volume in our “Teoría y Práctica Melódica” series without mentioning one of its defining features: the artwork. The series mantains the template that Javier Aramburu designed for it, and features the work of Nacho Olivares, who has created the beautiful cover illustration that acompanies this digipack CD.
All in all, these are the main figures of the record:
· 23 grupos: 8 Jabalina-related artists and 15 special guests
· 16 unreleased songs.
· 79:03 minutes of music.
· Format: CD digipak.
· Cover illustration and artwork by Nacho Olivares based on Javier Aramburu’s original template.
· Mastered by Arturo Vaquero.
曲目
01. Olivia de Happyland :: "Si existe cielo"
02. Nebulosa :: "Ba-ba-badminton"
03. Souvenir :: "Les surfeurs"
04. Llum :: "No more races"
05. Francisco Nixon :: "Nadia"
06. J'aime :: "After the game"
07. Souvlaki :: "Nadadora"
08. Flow :: "Se va el avión a Pekín" -Suze remix-
09. Aldo Linares :: "Soy el mejor"
10. Montevideo :: "Olimpiadas sin medallas"
11. Colorado :: "El último partido"
12. La Costa Brava :: "Olímpicos"
13. Linda Guilala :: "La fuga de Nadia Comaneci"
14. La Estrella de David :: "El parking más grande de Europa"
15. Polar :: "Requiem for B. Johnson"
16. Pumuky :: "Lobo estepario contra caballos desbocados en JJ.OO."
17. Travolta :: "El día que más corrí de mi vida"
18. Nadadora :: "Evelyn Ashford"
19. Uke :: "Mesa de tenis"
20. Prin' Lalá :: "Naves que dan vueltas a un balón"
21. Pinkie :: "Dirty old town"
22. AMA :: "Hasta el último instante"
23. Apenino :: "Ceremonia de clausura"