cucurrucucu paloma

We are now waching a Spanish movie called talk to her which incidentally won an academy award and the golden globe in 2002.

I'm posting this original sound track from the movie,which is actually a mournful lament for lost love.In the movie this wonderful song by Caetano Veloso is complemented by an equally moving picturisation.

In case you want to follow the song in Spanish and want to know the meanings, i've found a translation of the song and have posted both the versions.


Dicen que por las noches no más se le iba en puro llorar.
Dicen que no comía, no más se le iba en puro tomar.
Juran que el mismo cielo se estremecía al oír su llanto.
Cómo sufría por ella, que hasta en su muerte la fue llamando!

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, cantaba.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, gemía.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, cantaba.
De pasión mortal moría.

Que una paloma triste muy de mañana le va a cantar
A la casita sola con sus puertitas de par en par.
Juran que esa paloma no es otra cosa más que su alma,
Que él todavía la espera a que regrese, la desdichada.

Cucurrucucú, paloma,
Wucurrucucú, no llores.
Las piedras jamás, paloma,
Qué van a saber de amores?

Cucurrucucú, cucurrucucú,
Wucurrucucú, paloma,
Ya no le llores.

In English these lyrics transalate into:

They say that at night he didn’t do anything but cry.
They that he didn’t eat and didn’t do anything but drink.
They swear that heaven shuddered when it heard his cry,
How he suffered for her, calling out to her even as he died.

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he sang.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he wept.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he sang.
As he died of mortal passion.

That a sad dove came that morning to sing to him,
To the small house with its windows open wide.
They swear that the dove is nothing less than his soul,
That is still waiting for her to come back, her, the unfortunate.

Cucurrucucú, dove,
Cucurrucucú, don’t cry.
The stones never do, dove,
What do they know of love?

Cucurrucucú, cucurrucucú,
Cucurrucucú, you don’t cry any more.

cucurrucucu paloma

kayaking is fun !!!

We had our first kayaking experience at Key Largo during our thanksgiving holiday.The gentleman hiring out the boats had doubts about our return...alive, since we'd never done it before...we did bump into the mangrove trees once in a while but considering the fact that we were first timers we didnt do so bad at all...as is evident from the pic :)dont we look like pros!!!
wow!!there was this whole different world to having fun and we discover that so late!!anyways,from now on whereever we go, looking out for opportunities to kayak will be first priority!!

hun toh tore karan- kishori Amonkar

once again the same raga deshkar and the same 'hun toh tore karan' This time by smt Kishori Amonkar in Jaipur-Atrauli gharana.

'hun toh tore...mp3

jha na na na baaje payaliya

ok this one is Pt Bhimsen Joshi's rendition of the same raga deshkar.Notice the subtle difference...while 'hun toh tore karan' by Rashid khan was in Rampur-Sahaswan gharana.Bhimsen Joshi has sung the same raga in the Kirana gharana.

jha na na na-mp3

Hun Toh Tore Karan

Ustad Rashid Khan is considered to be the successor to the great maestros of the Hindustani vocal tradition....Listen to this piece...'hun toh tore karan' in raga deshkar.

hun toh tore karan-mp3

the monarchs

every year a wonderful phenomenon occurs in nature which has fascinated entomologists and amateaurs alike.It is the migration of the monarch butterflies who travel great distances to spend the winter in a temperate climate.Some of these butterflies travel over 2,900 kilometers, just to overwinter in some places in Mexico.Each Autumn, thousands of Monarch Butterflies gather in southern Canada to migrate south.Monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains travel to small groves of trees along the California coast. Those east of the Rocky Mountains fly farther south to the forests high in the mountains of Mexico. Amazingly, not one butterfly makes the entire round-trip journey. As they travel,they breed and perish and its their children and grandchildren who move on to the next stop.



wondering what i'm talking about?well...last weekend we were very lucky to witness the tagging of these butterfiles who stop at St mark's national wild life refuge,FL every year on their southward journey.although St mark's does not host the largest number of them it was wonderful to witness one of the miracles of nature....at that instant,after years of urbanisation and resultant alienation from the elements...u want to burst with feelings of wonder and awe at the at once terrible and beautiful goddess Nature.

lets play!!

try this game now that u are here and are trying hard to kill some time...u might as well try this :)

link to game

At last...!

Check out this Soul number by Etta James...one of the greatest Rhythm & Blues singers of the sixties and seventies.

At last-mp3

Summertime

'Summertime' by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

This song is by the most charismatic performers in all of jazz history...ella and Louis Armstrong.this is my personal favourite...the angelic voice of ella a perfect complement to Louis's gravelly voice.enjoy!!

summertime-mp3