I subscribe to a Music review called The Inrockuptibles. It provides excellent critics over a wide spectrum of arts from music to litterature to cinema. Once a month along with the review comes a 15-track CD with a selection of little know artists on the upward slope. I like these CDs because they allow me to check out new sounds in musik categories I am not necessarily attrackted to.

I received the latest CD last week. This time the review chose to bring forward hybrids group with classical instruments as a binding element (like violins, orchestras, etc ...). I mechanicaly put the CD in my car player on my way to a store some 15 kms away from the house. All songs were great but did not touch me enough so that I would buy the albums they were extracted from.

I was on the highway and just 2 kms away from the exit to reach the store. Then comes this song Un Nuevo Dia Brillara by an artist called Luz Casal. That voice ! I just trancended! The song is a remake of a French song I think from a few years ago. Not my type of music, really. But her penetrating voice, and the new form of this melody I knew just got over me. Completely.

In fact I was so much into that song, ... that I lost 3.30 mns of time !!! The song ended and I thought : "Wow great song! ... Man where am I !?" . I had to look around to realise I passed the exit by 5 kms !! I was completely somewhere else during 3.30 mns ... while driving at 110km/hrs !

So I took an other exit, turned twice left to get back on the highway and catch the right exit. Pushed the back button on the player to listen to that song and that voice again. Just too addictive.
Once again, I get high just listening to this ... and wake up too late to take the exit !! Unbeleivable !!

I had to make an other U-turn to finally get to the store ... and then stayed on the parking lot listening to the song in loops for 20 minutes. Beware that's a dangerous song ... if you are affected as much as I seem to be by female voices. :P

Here is the song for those who speak spanish ... nothing exceptional ... but the voice !! That's got to be her voice that does this to me ...


UN NUEVO DIA BRILLARA
(Luz Casal)

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El horizonte se perfila oscuro sin opción
los cuerpos que antes fueron uno rompen esa unión
dejaron paso a la indeferencia y decepción
ya sé que era parte de un acuerdo efímero.

Quiero ver el rojo del amanecer
un nuevo día brillará
se llevará la soledad.
Quiero ser el rojo del amanecer
el sol de nuevo brillará
se llevará la soledad
que en mí se quiere instalar.

Acuden a mi mente imágenes de tí, de mí
son tan intensas y reales que me hacen sufrir
no sé cómo consigo soportar la situación
de un juego con final previsto entre tú y yo.

Quiero ver...