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▓█ █▓░█ ▒ Laura L≤pez Castro - Laura L≤pez Castro Y Don Philippe In █░▒█ █▓
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▀█▄▄ ▀ ARTiST..[ Laura L≤pez Castro ▀ ▄▄█▀
░ █ ▀█ TiTLE...[ Laura L≤pez Castro Y Don Philippe Inventan El Ser Feliz █ ░
▒ █ ▀█ GENRE...[ Jazz GRABBER.[ EAC █▀ █ ▒
▓ █▄ █ LABEL...[ Sony / BMG ENCODER.[ Lame 3.97 █ ▄█ ▓
█▄ █▄ █ YEAR....[ 2007 QUALiTY.[ avg. 153kbps █ ▄█ ▄█
█▄ █▄█ SOURCE..[ CDDA MODE....[ Joint-Stereo █▄█ ▄█
█ ▀█ PLAYTiME[ 45:01 min REL.DATE[ 11.10.2007 █▀ █
██▄ TRACKS..[ 11 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ▄██
░ █▓█▄ SiZE....[ 51,0 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ▄█▓█ ░
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█ █░ █ 01 acabou chorare 03:48 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 02 oraci≤n 03:00 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 03 no miramos nada 03:32 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 04 fusi≤n 04:27 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 05 dindi 04:03 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 06 hasta que vuelvas 05:29 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 07 te inventaras el ser feliz 04:36 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 08 tu me acostumbraste 03:11 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 09 mi cuerpo al viento 04:54 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 10 pra dizer adeus 04:44 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 11 b·scame 03:17 █ ░█ █
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█ █▓░█ The most enchanting seduction need involve only the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ slightest of gestures. The new album from Laura █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ L≤pez Castro shows this can be true for music as █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ well. These are songs that charm like a wonderful █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ smile or a flirtatious look and they play around your █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ ears with all the gentle magic of a breeze in high █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ summer. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Laura L≤pez Castro y Don Philippe inventan el ser █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ feliz (æLaura L≤pez Castro and Don Philippe invent █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ happinessÆ): the albumÆs title both misleads and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ explains everything. The happiness that these two █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ musicians mean has nothing to do with flamboyant █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ cheerfulness. It is a serene form of joy that is █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ being invented here. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ The outlines of this happiness were sketched in 2003 █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in Stuttgart, Germany, when singer Laura L≤pez Castro █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and guitarist, composer and producer Don Philippe met █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ for their first musical exchange. She, a vivacious █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ acting student with Spanish parents and a weakness █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ for Bj÷rk and Kyuss, and he a reserved urbane █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ forty-something with French roots, co-founder of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ German hip-hop band Freundeskreis and owner of an █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ exquisite collection of Jazz and Bossa Nova LPs. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ At first the two found themselves re-interpreting █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Bossa Nova classics, fascinated by the way the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Brazilian masters created their lightly worn █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ melancholy. It is this mix of super-cooled elegance █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and blazing sensuality in Bossa Nova, but also the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ harmony of the music from the Spanish-speaking █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ countries of South America, that Laura L≤pez Castro █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and Don Philippe were tracing at first. Before long, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ though, their music developed its own life. Pieces █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ from Joπo Gilberto, Tom Jobim or Atahualpa Yupanqui █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ began to be replaced by their own compositions, and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ their sound enhanced with elements of Jazz, oriental █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ or classical music. Laura took to singing more and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ more in Spanish, her mother tongue. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ In 2005 they both moved to Berlin where they █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ continued their musical essays, finding that █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ PhilippeÆs kitchen had ideal acoustics for their █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ meetings. Their first album Mi Libro Abierto appeared █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in spring 2006, establishing itself as a small █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ milestone of soulful acoustic music. Twenty-thousand █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ people bought copies of it. Extensive tours followed, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ including an acclaimed European tour together with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Stuart A. Staples, singer of the British band █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Tindersticks. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Laura L≤pez CastroÆs second album takes up the story █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ where her first chimed out, although this time more █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ confidence and many more little flourishes are █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ audible. Most of the pieces are original █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ compositions. But the repertoire also includes almost █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ forgotten treasures of music history - songs dreamt █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ up in the shady places of sunnier continents and now █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ distilled by these two, down the essence of their █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ original beauty. Listen to the full-blooded Bolero Tu █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ me acostumbraste, created by the Cuban Frank █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Dominguez to express the bitter aftertaste that █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ escorts every passion. Or the carefree Acabou Chorare █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ by the Brazilian hippie collective Os Novos Baianos û █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ a delightful ode to the little wonders of nature to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ which the young Bebel Gilberto once danced when she █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and her father Joπo Gilberto visited the bandÆs █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ shaggy commune in the early 1970s. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ ôIÆve come to have the same feeling about the cover █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ versions as I do about our own songs,ö says Don █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Philippe. When Laura L≤pez Castro speaks about the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ pieces they have borrowed it is clear that they have █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ not been selected on a whim but because of love █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ affairs stretching back over years. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ To write her own lyrics Laura retreated to Tarifa, a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ city in the farthest south of Spain known as the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ worldÆs end until the discovery of the Americas. ôA █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ melancholic town, she explains, during FrancoÆs times █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the æcrazy onesÆ were sent down there. It is on a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ headland, encircled by a great wall and two seas with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ an inhospitable wind blowing across it the whole █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ time.ö It is a natural environment to inspire lyrics █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ about the perpetual search for love or its █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ impossibility. She and Don Philippe then set them to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ music: songs like the bluesy B·scame (æLooking for █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ MeÆ), a confession on the realisation of happiness by █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ not swimming with the current, or the simultaneously █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ thoughtful yet surging Hasta que vuelvas (æUntil You █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ ReturnÆ), a comforting promise to a past love that █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ has probably played itself out û these songs already █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ convince as little classics before they have even █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ established themselves. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Vocal and guitar: this is the duet that accomplishes █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ most of the songs. At first the strumming just sounds █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ like an accompaniment until you realise you are █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ floating on a multitude of strokes and feints. All █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the while there is LauraÆs beguiling voice, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ dispensing with studied pathos and yet somehow █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ managing to embody a stirring intensity. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ From time to time there is the slinky complement of a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ nimble string-quartet (arranged by Sebastian █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Studnitzky), a double bass (Paul Kleber/ Christoph █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Sauer) or the satisfied sigh of a Jazz trumpet █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ (Sebastian Studnitzky/ Daniel A. Oberto) but even █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ these few guests only appear long enough to tease and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ excite. This is all that is needed for a completeness █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of harmony to unfold. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Laura L≤pez Castro and Don Philippe have not only █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ brought their own conception of happiness into the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ world, but also an album of ageless songs that █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ achieves the suspense of simultaneous melancholy and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ comfort. These songs, in their bittersweet beauty, do █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ usher you to happiness. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ Ane Hebeisen █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ translated by Gabriel Fawcett █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ www.lauralopezcastro.com █░▓█ █
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