DISLOCADOS LYRICS - CANCION DE LOS MUERTOS

Hey, I decided to post lyrics to our songs, like a good friend of ours suggested might be nice for the listeners. Maybe we'll hear some of you guys singing along next time... we'll even invite you on stage, hehe. :)

I'll do these one at a time.

(Underneath is the translation for those who are wondering)

CANCION DE LOS MUERTOS

Me decían siempre que soy joven

Que tengo mucho tiempo para disfrutar de la vida

Pero ahora me asusta esta enfermedad

Yo se que viví en un mundo de privilegio

Por eso no pregunto "¿por qué a mí?"

Tampoco hice nada malo

O, al menos, lo hice sin intención

Yo le pediría otra oportunidad,

pero no sé qué hice para que esto me pasara

Ahora me dicen que tome precauciones

Pero lo que yo quiero es vivir más

Déjeme vivir, para qué me voy a limitar

Sin saber cuánto tiempo me queda

No quiero que nadie más juegue con mi vida

Con ella quiero jugar solo yo

Me decían siempre que soy joven

Ahora Usted me lo hace dudar

Hay cosas que quiero

Que siempre quería

Yo pensaba que me faltaba paciencia

No me diga que nunca iba a ser más que un sueño

¿Por qué nos contaron historias de abuelas viejas

Si nunca me iban a salir canas?

Por eso no quiero que nadie me diga como pasar mis días

Tampoco quiero pasarlos con alguien que no sea sincero

Voy a hacer todo lo que quiera

Y sentir todo lo que pueda

En cada momento que lata mi corazón

No quiero que nadie más juegue con mi vida

Con ella quiero jugar solo yo

1. Solo más tiempo quiero, porque no queda mucho más

2. Y ya no quiero soñar, quiero vivir todo en la realidad

Porque me quedan más días de llanto y de risa

Porque siento la rumba en el ritmo de mi corazón

Porque al despertarme por la mañana, sigo creyendo en el atardecer

Porque quiero que llegue el día que el pueblo cante mi cancion

Canten conmigo

Sigan el ritmo

Vivan la vida

A su manera, hagan lo que quieran

1. Con mi libertad

Voy a seguir viviendo

Y nunca dejo de respirar y cantar

Que no sé hacer nada más

2. Pero nadie me quitará mi canción

Yo sobreviviré por mis letras que repetirán

Por mi voz que recordarán

Y nos uniremos tras la muerte

Que el aliento de la vida existe por el ritmo de nuestro pueblo

Que bailen, hoy cantan los muertos

1. La vida y la muerte

2. Ritmo cadencioso que obliga a bailar a los muertos

3. Que no, no, no voy a morir

4. A traves de mi musica voy a sobrevivir

5. Oye muerto, oye vivo, goza la salsa que yo cultivo

6. La rumba buena que supera la muerte

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SONG OF THE DEAD

They always told me that I’m young

That I have a lot of time to enjoy life

But now this illness scares me

I know that I lived a privileged life

That’s why I don’t ask “why me?”

But I also didn’t do anything bad, either

Or, at least, I did it without intention

I would ask you for another chance,

But I don’t know what I did for this to happen

Now they tell me to be careful

But I want to live more

Let me live, why would I limit myself

Without knowing how much time I have left

I don’t want anybody else to play with my life

Only I want to play with it

They always told me that I’m young

Now You make me doubt it

There are things that I want

That I always wanted

I thought I had to be more patient

Don’t tell me they were all just dreams

¿Why did they tell us stories of old grandmothers

If I was never going to grow gray hair?

For this reason, I don’t want anybody to tell me how to spend my days

I also don’t want to spend them with anybody that’s not honest

I’m going to do anything I want

And to feel everything I can

In every moment that my heart beats

I don’t want anybody else to play with my life

Only I want to play with it

I just want more time, because I don't have much left

And I don't want to dream anymore, I want to live everything in reality

Because I have more days left of tears and laughter

Because I feel the rumba in the rhythm of my heart

Because when I wake up in the morning, I still believe in the sunset

Because I want the day to come when the people sing my song.....

Sing with me

Follow the rhythm

Live life

Your way, do whatever you want

With my freedom

I will continue living

And I will never stop breathing and singing

Cuz I don't know how to do anything else

But nobody will take away my song

I will survive by my lyrics that they will repeat

By my voice that they will remember

And we will reunite beyond death

Because life’s breath exists through the rhythm of our people

Dance, today the dead people sing

Life and death

Lilting rhythm that makes dead people dance

No, I won't die

I will survive through my music

Listen dead one, live one, enjoy the salsa I cultivate

The good rumba that overcomes death

Article surfing

Not really sure how I found this article, but it's quite interesting.

I'm really enjoying how the guy is completely trying to look at the thing from both perspectives. I mean, the guy IS a bit harsh, but at the same time he gives up complete respect to Santa Rosa where it is deserved. And, however much I would be honoured to play with ANY great salsa musician, you gotta love this guy's commitment to salsa dura/clasica. Either way, I hope he went to that concert in the end.

Long live live music. :)

... We're back!

Yes, it's been a little while, but now we're back from the dead. We've had a lot of things that took us in a lot of directions this summer, but now the blog resumes. :)

Just writing a message to kick start this thing. Soon we'll talk about the things that went on this summer and, more im

portantly, the challenges that lie ahead.

First, let's take a look at the picture of the horns at sound check in Yalta. Ridiculous and hilarious. Love it.

Secondly, we're in the process of planning a couple of concerts and trips. The trick is going to be to see which ones we can swing the fastest and with the highest quality.

Third, Ilya (our bandleader, just to remind you...) has been caught on video and it's posted on YouTube in a jazz thing he did (Piano Kolo in Kiev). This is his composition, Running Away from the Small Apple. It's quite cool to see what our salsa master does in his jazz time.

Fourth is a combination of

2 new things (in one picture). "La Palapa" is now playing on New York City airwaves on Hard Salsa Radio, which is awesome, because it's Lesya's first solo song to debut in New York. Before we had Resaca and Miedo that featured me on lead vocals, and Descarga de 44 which is a great instrumental track that showcases the talents of the whole band. Now, "La Palapa" makes its debut in New York, which introduces Lesya to the US salsa scene. She's got an awesome salsa feeling to her, so much so that nobody can believe she's Ukrainian.

The second awesome piece of news is that Andrei (the other one in the pic) has now become even more valuable to our band. Since we've had a long line of coro singers in the band, we've found the hidden gem of Dislocados! Andrei, after a long time of being Ukraine's best timbalero and one of the hardest working members of the band, has decided to try singing coro. As it turns out, he's got an amazing old school salsa timbre to his voice, and it's also very high. Amazingly, his Spanish pronounciation is great, and what I love the best is that he's very well tuned all the time. :) Welcome, Andrei, to salsa coro, haha. He's gonna soon become our little Sabater.

The last piece of news is that I've moved from France to Poland, which is cool because it's much closer to the band and makes it easier to get in a couple of salsa concerts on the weekend and organize our future salsa bonanzas. But, I'm having a hard time finding the salsa scene here. Out of 3 places that are supposed to be "the" salsa spots according to salsapower.com, only one of them still exists, and it's still not a very hard core salsa place. Hopefully we can discover the hidden salsa scene in Poland to bring the band here, and maybe do a few other concerts in Europe again, because I think Europe suits us nicely. ;)

Ok, that's it for me. Welcome back.

The dream has come true

I'm so happy to announce that La Salida is finally on iTunes! This is a crazy dream that we had a few years ago that I wasn't sure was going to happen... and now here we are. So excited! We're also on Last FM and a bunch of other sites... very exciting!!!

In other news, Ilya and the guys went to Yalta for a salsa festival this weekend, and I'm still waiting on the update and the pics! Too bad I missed it like Kharkov, but hopefully we were able to create some salsa hype down there, and salsa will slowly begin taking over the world!

La Salida available WORLDWIDE via the net!

The day has finally come! La Salida is available to the WHOLE WORLD via online purchase! We registered with cdbaby.com and now we're available online for order, and in only a couple of weeks, we'll also be on iTunes!!!

Click here to find us online, and be able to order a copy!

We did it, I'm so proud of us.

More Sweden

Hey, so I wanted to put up just a couple more pictures and tell you one important thing we forgot.

First, here's a picture of the whole band with Ibi and Marina from the Salsa Akademien. This was taken right before we went to the airport to go back to our "real lives". Only Valik wasn't there, we almost left without him. Still wondering what he was doing...

But, the other great thing is that the first night that we arrived, Chris and the other lovely organizers got us into a concert of Orquesta Aragon (pictured here)! It was really amazing. They were celebrating their SEVENTIETH anniversary as a band. Isn't that insane? This is where you know it's at, when there are a bunch of older guys still singing and playing together, with as much passion as always, with incredible technique, and the audience is going nuts for them!

Here is the bassist from Aragon with our bassist, and the singer with one of our singers. Ilya and I had to leave early, but the rest of the band stayed and chatted with them, and I hear they were awesome, very friendly, very interesting and interested, and a pleasure to meet. Thanks, Aragon, for a great night!!!

DISLOCADOS IN SWEDEN!

We're back from Stockholm, and oh, the fun that was had! The whole band spent five days preparing for and performing two concerts: the Friday night was our La Salida debut (almost the full album was performed minus three songs), and on Saturday night, we were the backup band for Huey Dunbar, from DLG! It was so much fun!

And, the best part is that finally we can have a band picture of the WHOLE BAND including me! (Speaking of which, there was some professional photographer at our concert and I know he got some good shots, so I'm really hoping we can get our hands on a few...???)

Let me recount some of the highlights. First of all, the organizers were super nice. The thing was organized by the Salsa Akademien in Stockholm, but it was four main people taking care of everything, so we want to thank Chris, Vladimir, Ibi, and Marina for everything they did for us, and all the other people that helped us on the way. They were great hosts, and we were really happy to play for them.

Next, we worked with some amazing people. Pictured here on the left is Andrei, our timbalero, with Max Alton, the drummer we worked with for the Huey Dunbar concert. Max has a timba band in Sweden called La Liga and he was really awesome to play with.

We also had a great time with Junito, Huey's musical director. It was an honour to work with someone that has had so much experience in the whole scene as a producer, arranger, composer, keyboardist and director, and he was incredibly professional and pleasant to work with that it was a really great experience. The picture to the right is of the two directors (ours, Ilya, and Junito).

I don't have a picture, but we also worked with Martin Bentancourt as an opening act for both shows, and he was incredibly nice and also a really fun guy to warm up the crowd for us. He was full of energy and I personally loved jumping up and down in the crowd to his music!

And then of course there was Huey Dunbar. Although I have been a fan of his songs for years, I thought that the Saturday concert might be less fun for us because it's not our stuff and because I'm not lead singing, I'm only backup singing. But frankly, I had no idea that it was going to be so much fun and such a great experience. Huey was very nice and he had a great connection with the crowd, so it made the whole concert super fun for the entire band. Also I'd like to thank ET (Eliezer Traval), Huey's production manager, for helping us out a lot during the sound check and concert!

Ok, on to other interesting events while we were there. Apparently, at the beginning of the Huey concert, Dennis (our first trumpet) has some pretty high notes which take a lot of air out of you, and because of the way the stage was constructed and where he was on it, apparently he fell backwards off the stage, lost consciousness for a few seconds, and came back up to play!!! What a trooper...! I don't think that many people noticed because there was no "big bang" when he fell cuz the rest of the band was so loud, and at that very moment, Huey Dunbar walked out, so the attention was shifted onto him at that point. But man... that sounds nuts. (Here's a pic of Dennis learning to salsa in the dance lineup.)
Also, my brother was there and he was having a great time with the band, especially trying to learn to speak Russian, but he was having even more fun just speaking English all the time with a Russian accent. Here's a picture of Nicholas with a "Russian" look on his face (or so he thinks) and Ilya.

Also with us for the Friday concert was Olya, singing coro. She's very easy to sing with and was really helpful and fun for the trip. Actually, it's too bad we didn't get a pic of the three of us, so I'll just post a pic of me and Lesya and then Olya and Valik, our bassist.

Now all that's left to show are some video clips. I've got to get the real ones from Andrei because he had a proper camera that Nicholas actually filmed from, but we got some short clips of concerts just so you can see how it was. First, there's like a 2 second clip of the beginning of the Dislocados concert (from Miedo). Also, we have a bit longer of a video from the Huey concert. The song is A Veces Me Pregunto.



Finally, other funny moments that were had were my brother and Ilya playfighting (rolling around each other) for about 20 minutes at 3am on the floor of the dance studio, Andrei rolling a ball from nowhere onto us to get us to shut up, Arsenio being the guy that reads out metro stops, and finding out new Swedish words that sound ridiculous to me like Baste Taxikund, Hiss (elevator), Upp (means when you want to go up really badly), and Konda Hemft (the Swedish words that we made up that mean Salsa Band).

So, that was our 5-day trip to Stockholm! A lot of great memories, even more great people, and a great time in the band's journey. Let's see what's next...