All the sad songs
Summer Pierre
Walden Books | 2021
What were once cassette tapes are now playlists on Spotify. but one day, those tapes that now collect dust in a storage room, They were our lifesaver. Gadgets through which we tried to capture our feelings in the form of songs, transmit what we felt for others or provide the soundtrack to our life. They are the memories that illustrator Summer Pierre turns to to open her first graphic novel, All the sad songs, an autobiographical book in which songs are the protagonists. An intimate journey through the first years of university, the friends, the relationship with his parents, bride and groom, his appearance in the Boston folk scene with his first guitar or his anxiety problems. An emotional personal story about the power of music to mark the moments of our existence.
Travelers of the Milky Way
Fernando Benzo
Planet | 2021
From the heart of the Malasaña neighborhood and one of its most emblematic gambling dens, this novel is born in which the lives of a group of friends intertwine., from several decades ago to the present. In the Madrid of the Movida, the relationship between characters who grow and, with perspective, see those endless nights of drunkenness and love, of exaltation of friendship and where the future was nothing more than a dream. But time passes inevitably and Travelers of the Milky Way We will accompany its protagonists to the present in their successes and failures, with situations and personalities with which it will be difficult not to empathize. With constant nods to movies or fashions of the time, a clear musical influence that is reflected in references to bands and songs and close prose, The new novel by the Madrid writer Fernando Benzo immerses us in that generation that, without knowing it, She lived immersed in one of the most brilliant times of the country's culture.
Disco local:
The awards
The awards
Self-published | 2021
Five songs sung in Spanish that move between sixties pop, psychedelia of the seventies, the most ethereal sounds or Jamaican rhythms. Very interesting combination in the debut of this band called Los Premios made up of members of Polock or Bob Lazy.
National Disc:
María Rodés and The Star of David
With you
Elephant Records | 2021
With country-folk airs and exciting melodies comes this surprising collaboration between María Rodés and La Estrella de David. In an album in which the delicious combination of female and male voices stands out, and a very careful instrumentation, arrangements and details.
International disc:
Purple Disco Machine
Exotica
Positive Records | 2021
If one artist is not missing from any DJ suitcase, it is Purple Disco Machine. In his new album Exotica he once again creates authentic electronic songs with the most danceable and chantable melodies, moving between funk and pop on bases that are authentic bombs.
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