El Hombre Orquesta

Arrancamos el lunes con el multi-instrumentalista y multitalentoso Sufjan Stevens, quien tiene en mente lo que se llama ''The 50 states Project'' que consiste en realizar un disco por cada Estado de su pais.

Hasta ahora realizo dos, ''Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State'' y el que en el dia de la fecha les traemos ''Illinoise'', que es, simplemente, el mejor de los dos y de toda la carrera de este músico.

Encontraremos aqui las mil y un referencias al Estado de Illinois, personajes celebres, lugares, cierta aparicion de Ovnis ocurrida en los 90 o la lugubre historia de John Wayne Gacy Jr. uno de los asesinos seriales mas conocidos de Estados Unidos. Pero por suerte, uno no se queda afuera por no conocer estos datos ya que lo importante aca esta en las canciones aveces resueltas con la simplicidad de una guitarra y aveces con esos arreglos orquestales magnificos que van de la mano de una increible interpretacion vocal del amigo Sufjan.

Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (2005)

BAJALO

• 1.Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
• 2.The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'
• 3.Come On! Feel the Illinoise!" (Part 1: The World's Columbian Exposition - Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream)
• 4.John Wayne Gacy, Jr
• 5.Jacksonville
• 6.A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons
• 7.Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
• 8.One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman
• 9.Chicago
• 10.Casimir Pulaski Day
• 11. To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament, and It Involves a Shoe String, a Lavender Garland, and Twelve Strong Women
• 12.The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
• 13.Prairie Fire That Wanders About
• 14.A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
• 15.The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
• 16.They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
• 17.Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bushnell
• 18.In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth"
• 19.The Seer's Tower
• 20.The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders (Part 1: The Great Frontier - Part 2: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now)
• 21.Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few
• 22.Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run

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