Donald Johnson: Vocals
Javier Hernandez-Miyares: Drums, Percussion, Strings, Bells, Lead Guitar
Roberto Poveda: Acoustic Guitar
Alina Brouwer: Organ
Gustavo Amarante: Bass
lyrics and melody written by steven pacia:
if all of your fears are out tonight;
don’t open your windows,
don’t open your doors.
maybe he’ll wait on the balcony,
i don’t know.
come in here and make me high.
if you don’t get wild i won’t care.
some crowds they sing so merrily,
while others sigh.
all the kings horses and all the kings men,
they didn’t know Humpty had fallen again.
maybe he’s just off his therapy;
i don’t know.
come in here and make me high.
if you don’t get wild i won’t care.
some crowds they sing so merrily,
while others sigh.
if all of your fears are out tonight;
don’t open your windows,
don’t open your doors.
maybe he’ll wait on the balcony,
i don’t know.
Juliet was written by Steven Pacia and Javier Hernandez-Miyares.
Recording was arranged and produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares.
Click to listen: Juliet (Pacia / Hernandez-Miyares)
Fee Fi Fo Fum / Americana (Painting On A Car Hood By Keith Greco)
I have cobbled together the similitude of the live performance of Fee Fi Fo Fum for a benefit for 23 Press. 23 Press was an underground L.A. magazine that published vanguard poetry. Unfortunately nothing exists of that publication now.
Fee Fi Fo Fum was:
Donald Johnson / Keys and Vocals
Javier Hernandez-Miyares / Guitar and Vocals
Alberto Hernandez-Miyares / Bass
John Millspaugh / Drums
All songs were written by Donald Johnson and Javier Hernandez-Miyares
Illustration Of The Pharos Lighthouse By Salvador Dali
I’m floating on an open flame,
the Hercules are far behind…
i finally got the diaphanous vocal effect that i sought, and i didn’t have to hold my nose!
this is the final track template, and the final mix will appear on an orbscure fetish that i will release later this year. if you want one, let me know now.
Diana
my song begins this way:
i’m floating on an open flame,
the hercules are far behind.
Diana
if i only knew three chords,
i would have drowned before i got
to this place in our song.
Diana your coast is a mirage.
The light house keeper turned his tee vee off.
I’m Drinking sand from Zanzibar,
and your mermaid pinata hides your siren song.
I’m Listening.
Diana
when i learn how to sing.
my voice will reach you far away,
from this place that i’m in.
Diana your coast is a mirage.
The light house keeper turned his tee vee off.
I’m Drinking sand from Zanzibar,
and my demon pinata is a man of war.
I’m singing.
JHM plays guitar, hand claps, rain stick, Bells, Voice, jangling keys, and mellotron.
The birds singing track was recorded at the end of the session at the break of dawn in Forest Hills NYC.
Click to listen: Nautical Song
I agree with Mr. Adams on all his points except the last one. The United States is not the best country to make art; It may very well be the best country for a bourgeoisie artist to make a good living, although at the expense of abandoning a dialectical relationship with history. In my opinion the best art is the finest art that challenges, and transforms the public mind: it transforms our sense of ethos. The best art today is available on the internet, and most of the artists that make it, have to work a day job to make a living. They live in every country on the earth.
The video was shot at Cats Paw recording studio in NYC, and the tracks were recorded at Spectrum Studios in Mineola. Most of this song was recorded on new years eve in the hours that arced between 1985 and 1986.
The song was written by Lou Reed and this version was arranged and produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares
Fee Fi Fo Fum will always be:
Alberto Hernandez- Miyares – Bass
Donald Johnson – Vocals
Javier Hernandez-Miyares – Guitar
John Easter Mills – Drums
Mary K – Keys and Vox
Very moving it is to be in an audience, where it is the custom to sing with the master.
Silvio Rodriguez Is the Walt Whitman of the Cuban revolution. His songs are deeply rooted in the humanism which was described by Che Guevara in El Socialismo Y El Hombre En Cuba
Our utopia is still very far away, but its music has always been with us.
It is better to be Brechtian than Manichean.
