Comments on: La Tarea

La Tarea

ORthey — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:07:35 -0800

A musical version of an old Spanish assigment from high school that I found in a box. I appear to be describing a scene of a cafe and the two people standing outside of it. I think it was from a drawing. Mistakes not corrected! Lyrics: El hombre alto en el abrigo el da dinero a una mujer la mujer le da al hombre dos billetes de loteria Las dos personas estan alegras el hombre es quizas muy rico pero la mujer quizas no tiene tantas cosas pero ella parece satisfecha el tiempo no es bueno - hace mucho, mucho frio hay un "sign" el el cafe Retiro qui dice Feliz Navidad dos personas abran la puerta del cafe quizas para tomar un cafe y quizas para platicar quizas para discutir de cosas, de amores, de excusas y de razones

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:40:11 -0800

Gees, where do you come up with ideas like this and "As Kids"?? Very cool, man.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:16:36 -0800

Guiro + banjo = I like. Very charming, this!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:05:19 -0800

Nice.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:34:42 -0800

Very sweet, man. If it weren't for the tags, I would have sworn you were playing slide on the banjo. Very cool.

By: edlundart

edlundart — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:51:09 -0800

Love it! One of your best melodies. It's so pure. As usual, there is a relaxed and effortless feel to the playing. The different instruments work beautifully together. I really like the background vocal too. I could see this and some of your other song working well with the whole neighborhood lazily singing in the background in parts.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:53:09 -0800

snsranch - I am playing slide on the banjo!

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:10:30 -0800

And that's a bit of pizzicato on the French Horn in there, too, right?

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:21:55 -0800

I had never heard of that before, but slide on the banjo sounds awesome!

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:56:24 -0800

This makes me smile. I love the lazy, loping picking.

By: umbú

umbú — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:36:43 -0800

This song breathes in such a wonderful way. I also really like how the awkwardness of the language fits the revisiting of earlier, more awkward days through the discovery of old homework.

I am feeling a little blue and this turned out to be just what I needed. Thanks!

¡A mí me encantó!

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:16:15 -0800

I haven't had much time lately, and when I first heard it I was gonna say something like "this is my new favorite song of yours", but I'm always telling you that. The perils of being a fan, I guess.

It was great to hear you singing in Spanish. Your Spanish is definitely better than my English!