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article #MusicMonday Review - February 2022 in The Blog Vault https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-February-2022/ba-p/5351802 <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/bg-p/spotifyct/label-name/musicmonday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#MusicMonday</A> <EM>is the hashtag I've been using for quite a while to share music recommendations from up-and-coming artists. Always fresh, and always different, trying to look for trends before they become one. You can check</EM> <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-January-2022/ba-p/5338753" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">This month's general theme circles around ballads, with some twists between them. They may sound different, but they can share an emotional vibe in the end. Let's have a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:">🎧</span></P> <P> </P> <DIV><STRONG>Dinarés – Foliada</STRONG></DIV> <P> </P> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="dinares.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/139045iEB2E5F13EDFE9D54/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="dinares.jpg" alt="dinares.jpg" /></span></P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Está canción es para dos (vos)</EM><BR /><EM>y lleva en ella un sentimiento:</EM><BR /><EM>siempre hay lugar para el amor,</EM><BR /><EM>pues disfrutemos el momento.</EM></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class="">As you may have noticed from our <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/Celebrating-artists-from-the-Community/ba-p/5306165" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artists Wanted</A> contests, Spain has a very strong artistic presence, and Dinarés is no exception. Coming from Barcelona, this Latin Ballad came to life just to be played on a special evening:<BR /></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> </DIV> <DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"The song was created as a present for a couple of friends who got in love and decided to live together. They were divorced from their previous partners and were already more than fifty five years old when they met. The are from Galicia and had planned to celebrate their love in a great party with friends and music (that is what Foliada means in Galician language). Unfortunately COVID arrived and forced them to postpone the Foliada."</P> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:75rIV2DN61FNji6QuIMgpv:small" target="_self">spotify:track:75rIV2DN61FNji6QuIMgpv:small</A></P> <P> </P> <DIV><STRONG>Harry Gustafsson – Incomprendido</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="harrygustafsson.jpg" style="width: 300px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/139046i9B8B137148C4C6E2/image-dimensions/300x300?v=v2" width="300" height="300" role="button" title="harrygustafsson.jpg" alt="harrygustafsson.jpg" /></span>Por mas que quiera</EM></P> <P><EM>No voy a cambiar mi forma de ser</EM></P> <P><EM>Por nadie</EM></P> <P><EM>por nadie</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Dime si tú cambiarías también</EM></P> <P><EM>Si fueras igual que yo</EM></P> <P><EM>Un poco jodido e incomprendido</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Dime que hacer en esta situación</EM></P> <P><EM>Si hacer maleta otra vez</EM></P> <P><EM>O seguir sufriendo cuando nadie me ve</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Not all ballads are the same, and this track coming from Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, proves it with its Rocky sound. This is how it sounds when you're misunderstood by 'small minded' people:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"My personal experiences are reflected in most of my songs. This one captures the emotional experience of feeling ambivalent about commitment. Especially when forming romantic connections at the expense of freedom and individualism."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3WzORyAGCpkhA2C8J4wYcw:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3WzORyAGCpkhA2C8J4wYcw:small</A>  </P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>One Dream – I Need a Break Away</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="onedream.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/139047i5B77B75461325309/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="onedream.jpg" alt="onedream.jpg" /></span> <P> </P> </DIV> <DIV><EM>I have seen the darkest places</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>I have ever known</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>Try to please a thousand faces</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>Ended up alone.</EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><EM>Can I catch a break</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>I need to find a new place</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>I need to break away</EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">Vocal Trance should be make a comeback, and if you want to know what you may have been missing, just have a listen to this energized Polish track which reinvigorates an old genre:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I was inspired by the old classic trance (Sylver, Ian van Dahl). I also wanted to add something from our times and you can hear what came out from my studio <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":grinning_face:">😀</span>"</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3m22Z5MlZDHjFEqXsXqIqT:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3m22Z5MlZDHjFEqXsXqIqT:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Emmanuel Da Silva – Found My Feet</STRONG></DIV> <P><EM> <span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="emmanueldasilva.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/139048i680EBF55482D34A3/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="emmanueldasilva.jpg" alt="emmanueldasilva.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>I've got a couple dollars,</EM></P> <P><EM>some dreams in my luggage,</EM></P> <P><EM>my life left behind</EM></P> <P><EM>I've been around the world </EM></P> <P><EM>trying to find where I belong</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="">If I've found my feet</SPAN></SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="">It's because I've seen the light</SPAN></SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="">There's no turning back from here</SPAN></SPAN></EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">For a different take on a Ballad, this Venezuelan artist shows us how it's done Country style:</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"It's basically my own story as a migrant. I was forced to flee my home country and had to start over again. I also wanted to inspire people who are struggling and encourage them to never give up on their dreams when starting from scratch."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2SbXYgleFQLkhzTrhZWpaF:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2SbXYgleFQLkhzTrhZWpaF:small</A> </P> <P> </P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Veda Rays – Past Gone</STRONG></DIV> <P> </P> <P><EM><SPAN class=""><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left" image-alt="vedarays.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/139049i2B66B071C7249CC8/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="vedarays.jpg" alt="vedarays.jpg" /></span></SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM>We were grinning and our scars felt so numb hard truths could bend</EM></P> <P><EM>Worlds were spinning as if time had come undone</EM></P> <P><EM>We were too young to pretend</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>There was singing as if angels</EM></P> <P><EM>had begun to descend</EM></P> <P><EM>Heard the ringing like the echo of a gun</EM></P> <P><EM>I was not sleeping then</EM></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">From Brooklyn, NY, we end this month's selection, with a Post Punk bassy track that will take you on a spellbinding trip through the dark atmosphere of your memories: so complex, yet very elemental. I would turn around today, if I could get back:</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"It’s partially autobiographical, the lyrics peppered with personal references, but with the hope that maybe they are delivered in an open-ended enough way that listeners could attach their own stories and meanings. The personal events I’ve based much of it on are not dissimilar to what I get from Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat, though Past Gone sort of ends on a darker note, I suppose.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Another layer was the idea of time and distance distorting the memory of a thing. The image of the tape player in the video speaks to this. I would often think of the scene in David Lynch’s Lost Highway in which Bill Pullman's character is talking to the cops saying something about not liking things taped but instead preferring to remember things in his own way, not necessarily the way they happened."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2hlWxAWYwCFnHEH8WSIIVC:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2hlWxAWYwCFnHEH8WSIIVC:small</A> </P> <P> </P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P><STRONG>Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlist</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:user:osornios:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P" target="_self">spotify:user:osornios:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P</A></P> <P> </P> <P>See you next month!</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:31:34 GMT osornios 2023-03-22T13:31:34Z #MusicMonday Review - February 2022 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-February-2022/ba-p/5351802 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="4.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/154146iA1A33AD2002C7455/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="4.png" alt="4.png" /></span></P> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:31:34 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-February-2022/ba-p/5351802 osornios 2023-03-22T13:31:34Z Re: #MusicMonday Review - February 2022 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-February-2022/bc-p/5369479#M2966 <P>Cold Waters is the best I love to listen this one. Appreciated that You enter this in your list.</P> Mon, 18 Apr 2022 10:53:30 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-February-2022/bc-p/5369479#M2966 NoorCasies 2022-04-18T10:53:30Z Re: #MusicMonday Review - February 2022 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-February-2022/bc-p/5369827#M2967 <P><a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/25274460">@NoorCasies</a> </P><P> </P><P>Great song! It was featured in <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-January-2022/ba-p/5338753" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January's review</A>. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></P> Tue, 19 Apr 2022 03:00:26 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-February-2022/bc-p/5369827#M2967 osornios 2022-04-19T03:00:26Z