SOUNDTRACK: VICENTE GARCÍA-Tiny Desk Concert #701 (February 2, 2018).
Singer-songwriter Vicente García plays a delicate acoustic guitar and has a pretty crooning voice.
The blurb says that he
is still relatively under the radar, but performances like the one he gave at the Tiny Desk are starting to turn some heads.
García’s music isn’t dominated by his native Dominican Republic, but you can hear it in every note. His poetic lyrics are like short stories, sung by a voice both plaintive and evocative, yet always distinct.
“San Rafael” is quite a pretty song echoing the beauty of San Rafael.
Before “A La Mar” (the title of second album which means ‘to the sea’) he introduces [unclear] Vasquez from Dominican Republic on percussion and Ricardo Muñoz from Bogota on the keys. There’s a neat moment where he plays a harmonic on the guitar in a rather unusual way. The delicate percussion really adds a lot, as does the bass line plays on the keys.
“Dulcito e Coco” opens with a lovely guitar melody and a close up of the fascinating percussion box that Vazquez is playing–a purple, strangely-shaped box that seems to get different sounds where you strike it. The song stays quiet throughout although it does get a bit bigger by the end.
[READ: November 13, 2017] Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children
I was so excited to see Trace Beaulieu in person. Ans even though this book is available everywhere, it was especially neat to buy it from the man himself and get him to autograph it.
It is subtitled A Yucky Big Book of Rainy Day Fun for Belligerent Children & Odd Adults with Nothing Better to Do. The illustrations are by Len Peralta who apparently has not done anything else I’ve read even though his work looks so familiar and is really good.
So what is this?
Well the title is pretty accurate. Trace has concocted snarky funny poems. Most of them are pretty short (and in this format are often two or three lines per page) and accompanied by an illustration). (more…)
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