#generalmusic
Got tagged by @minglana to post my top albums of 2021, here they are! The first three are ones that I literally built my entirely personality out of and the rest are just ones that I listened to a lot (and also loved ofc <3 they’re all masterpieces):
- Llepolies by Zoo
- Jaja salu2 by El Pony Pisador (yes it’s a meme album yes it’s literally perfect)
- Rosa permanent by Roba Estesa
- Carrer by Ebri Knight
- OKTA by KEiiNO
- Gioventù bruciata by Mahmood
- Supernova by Valira
- Embruxo by Baiuca
- Fotosíntesi by La Fúmiga
Anyways, I’d highly recommend them all to you guys! I’m going to tag @espanhois@chatwiththeclouds@alvallah@res–publica@langsandlit@euryalus@anthropologicle and anyone else who wants to, the more music the better <3
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This song is a bop (as are all the songs on this album), but I thought if I translated it then maybe I could convince some of you guys to scream over Rosa permanent with me. Anyways, please enjoy, and also listen to their whole album!
A tu, que ets llavor i que creixes lliure
You, who are a seed and growing free
t’he vist en els ulls milers d’estels.
I’ve seen thousands of stars in your eyes
Dins teu surt la llum de la ferida
Inside you, light emerges from the wound
que ha cicatritzat amb temps.
That has scarred over with time
[ PRE-TORNADA:
Tot el plor del món no n’abasta gens
All the tears in the world won’t encompass it at all
per del pit omplir el forat, per estimar tot el que es perd.
To fill the hole in your chest, to love all that is lost
Plorem del riure que ens fa la vida,
Let’s cry from the laughter that makes our life
brindem pels amors eterns.
Let’s toast to eternal loves ]
Cada llàgrima que et cau (dibuixa el teu camí)
Every tear that falls from you (draws your path)
Full en blanc, esperit d’estrip.
A blank page, the spirit of shreds
Cada pas que et fa saber (dibuixa el teu destí)
Every step that makes you know (draws your destiny)
Desplega l’ànima!
Bare your soul!
[ TORNADA:
Vesteix-te de somnis i utopies.
Dress yourself with dreams and utopias
Recull l’alegria dels mals dies,
Gather up the joy of your bad days
i torna, torna a brillar
And return, shine again
i torna més forta que abans.
And return stronger than before
Preferim ser un incendi que morir en el glaç.
We’d rather be a fire than die in ice ]
La por als moments difícils només posa llum
Fear in difficult moments just shines a light
a les teves veritats.
On your truths
Les millors coses arriben quan deixem el fum,
The best things happen when we leave behind the smoke
quan seguim l’estel fugaç.
When we follow the shooting star
[ PRE-TORNADA ]
Dins teu, dins teu reneix aquella llum que et fa viure.
Inside you, inside you, the light that makes you live is reborn
Dins teu, dins teu colpeja fort el crit que no dius.
Inside you, inside you, the cry that you won’t let out knocks insistently
Desplega l’ànima!
Bare your soul!
[ TORNADA X2 ]
The Evening of the Year - A November Playlist
Our twilight month November is
The evening of the year
The brilliant summer noontide left
A pallor soft and clear
I put together a little playlist of songs in multiple languages (the goal was as many as possible) which captured all the different feelings that November makes me feel. It’s a lot of indie and folk, and I tried to make it as chill as my music taste would allow. Hope you guys enjoy it!
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ROMANTICIDI|Pantaleó & Anaïs Vila(Catalan)
Lo Berde|Rewşan(Kurdish)
Veleno|Baiuca & Rodrigo Cuevas(Asturian)
Aeode|Mashrou’ Leila(Arabic)
Sebi|zalagaspar(Slovenian)
Zigzan|Bombino(Tamasheq)
Cançó|Marala & Xarim Aresté(Catalan)
Tyrd yn ôl|Plu(Welsh)
Fioled|Sŵnami(Welsh)
I Barval Pudela|Šaban Bajramović(Romani)
Torna a casa|Måneskin(Italian)
Kea|Zea Mays(Basque)
Quart de Lluna Minvant|Blaumut(Catalan)
La Canción del Pensador|Ciudad Jara(Spanish)
Dh'éirich mi moch, b'fheàrr nach do dh'éirich|Julie Fowlis (Scottish Gaelic)
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Por el filo de una espada Along the blade of a sword
se pasea una culebra a serpent slithers
Por el filo de una espada Along the blade of a sword
se pasea una culebra a serpent slithers
No tiene tanto veleno It doesn’t have as much poison
como tienes tú en la lengua as you have on your tongue
VELENO ✣ Baiuca & Rodrigo Cuevas
Hey all! So if you remember last year I made this post, and unfortunately for everyone I’m back to do it again :p
What the idea here is, is that every year for the past two years, I’ve tried to keep a running playlist of songs that I get really into over the course of the year, mostly for posteriority’s sake because otherwise I’ll forget them. But it’s also cool because I can use it to get a handle on the linguistic sonoric landscape of my life for the year, and also to see if my perceptions of my music consumption actually match what I’m listening to. So here are the results:
- Catalan (40.3% or 93 songs) - This is much higher than I thought, as happened last year, but it is a fair amount less than last year, when it was more than half of the music I listened to.
- English (18.2% or 42 songs) - This number went up a horrifying amount, mostly because I went through Mika, traditional folk, and Eurovision phases though. That being said, I’m still disappointed in myself for buckling to the anglophone domination of the music world
- Spanish (11.3% or 26 songs) - This was really low and I’m kind of surprised, I literally have no clue why. I know I always think I listen to more music in Spanish than I think I do but this is an eyebrow-raising drop.
- Basque (6.5% or 15 songs) - I’m always surprised by how little Basque music I listen to in practice, all the songs are bops that are pulling above their weight and so while the actual number is small, their place in my heart is much larger <3
- Galician (4.3% or 10 songs) - I discovered Ezetaerre this year and instantly became very annoying about it, last November and December all I did was listen to Pólvora e Tormenta over and over. Also I’ve been vibing with Tanxugueiras’ new songs which are all bops.
- Italian (3.0% or 7 songs) - I mean, Mahmood is eternal, what else can I say. I also went through a Måneskin phase immediately post-Eurovision, as one does (thank you Italian Eurovision entries for half of my music tbh).
- Welsh (2.6% or 6 songs) - This went up a bit from last year, but I was surprised it didn’t go up more. I’ve been listening to so much Welsh music, ever since Sŵnami saved us all by coming back with that EP in February. In fact, about 99% of this is just Sŵnami, ngl.
- French (2.2% or 5 songs) - Listen. We all make mistakes.
- Arabic,(Scottish) Gaelic, Malayalam, and Ukrainian (1.3% or 3 songs) - “Ha’oud” slapped but besides that I’ve calmed down on the Mashrou’ Leila front. I listened to a lot of Julie Fowlis in the winter for absolutely no reason?? hence the Gaelic. For Malayalam I actually found music I like!! I’m very excited about that development. And Ukrainian was all Go_A, the pretty forest cult lady got hold of me I guess.
- Romani, Irish, Georgian, Russian, and Portuguese (0.9% or 2 songs) - Romani should probably have been more, idk why I didn’t add the Šaban Bajramović. Irish was from the recs I got on here for the songs game, Portuguese was also from a recommendation, Georgian was songs from the And Then We Danced soundtrack
because I’m gay, and Russian was Zemfira my beloved <3 and “Russian Woman” which is a bop. - Tamasheq, Asturian, Breton, Greenlandic, and Hungarian (1 song) - Asturian was from “Veleno” which I am trying to indoctrinate every uQuiz maker into listening to because I feel like if Tumblr as a whole discovered that song it would go feral for it. Breton and Greenlandic were from the ask games, shout out to the people who recommended those songs <3 Tamasheq and Hungarian were me back on my usual BS.
It also stands to add that I went with the language the majority of the song was in, but there were songs with pretty significant portions in (Northern?) Sámi, Albanian, Zulu that I ultimately decided not to count for those languages and instead counted for English. In addition, several of the songs I counted for one language on here also contain significant portions in others of the languages I put on here, so some of these numbers could be shuffled a bit.
If you’re a music listener and have your music in any sort of library, I’m curious to see what the composition of other people’s listening habits are, so please post and @ me if you do it!
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I was tagged by @acadiera to post my three comfort albums (your picks were Immaculate so idk if I can beat them), this is vaguely on topic for this blog because I’m screaming about music recs, so here goes:
- Equilibri by Blaumut. They always show up in my Spotify Wrapped as one of my most played artists and I get confused because I never remember listening to them, but actually I listen to this and 0001 so much as comforting background music, they are really excellent albums <3
- Ravalby Zoo. I mean??? one of the best albums of the 21st century, what can I say
- Esnesaltzailearena by Esne Beltza. I’m sorry sir, that’s my emotional support trikitixa.
(Honorable mention to Ibn el-Leil by Mashrou’ Leila but that’s my gay existential depression album and brings emotional spiraling not comfort so I don’t think it quite counts, also same for Translúcidby Smoking Souls)
I tag anyone who needs to yell about their music, please rec me some good and fun albums because I need large quantities of new music at all times to keep functioning ahaha
Not me back on my Niche Valencian Music BS™ but like….that album really never gets old huh
I just found this song and I thought it was really cute so I thought I would share it! I feel like it’s good enough to deserve more attention and I hope it gets it <3
Gaurko eguna besteen berdina izango da
Today will be the same as the others
Mundua aldatzeko gogorik gabe
Without the desire to change the world
Monotonia huts honetan gaude murgilduta
We’re submerged in this empty monotony
Bizirauten saiatzen
Trying to survive
Hainbeste ahots egin behar duguna esaten
So many voices saying what we have to do
Ixildu nahi ditut une batez
I want to quiet them for a moment
Ohera joan irudimenak egin dezan jolas
Go to bed so your imagination can play
Ametsetan bakarrikan gera aske
Only in dreams are we free
[ ERREPIKA:
Amestu dezagun
We can dream
Egunez
By day
Askatu gaitezen
We can free ourselves
Amestu dezagun
We can dream
Gauez
By night
Esnatu gaitezen
We can wake ourselves ]
Ez ditut maindireak kendu nahi
I don’t want to get out of the sheets
Esnatzean aurkituko dudanaren beldur
Fear of what I’ll find when I wake up
Oheko babesa askoz nahiago dut
I much prefer the shelter of my bed
Esna jaso baititut hainbat gezur
Because I’ve woken up to so many lies
Txikitatikan bideratu gaituzte haitzulora
Since we were little, they’ve guided us into the cave
Amets guztik lapurtu dizkigute
They’ve stolen all our dreams
Ohera joan irudimenak egin dezan jolas
Go to bed so your imagination can play
Ametsetan bakarrikan gera aske
Only in dreams are we free
[ ERREPIKA ]
Ametsetan bakarrik gera aske
Only in dreams are we free
Galdu dezagun burua
We can let our minds go
Joan gaitezen Hogwartsetik Narniara
We can travel from Hogwarts to Narnia
Ahaztu dezagun mundu hau
We can forget this world
[ ERREPIKA ]
