02/18/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Ramona Cordova Video Tete-A-Tete
Ramón Vicente Alarcón (aka Ramona Cordova) lived in West Philly until a few years ago. I would go and see him play his guitar and pluck his enormous upright bass in coffee shop corners and friends' living rooms. I am and was continuously floored by his amazing falsetto and humble performance presence.
Now Ramona Cordova is touring in Europe and working on his next set of tune-yarns after the successful fairy-tale narrative album The Boy Who Floated Freely (2005).
The storytelling nature of the songs led me to wonder why there were no further visual accompaniments than the CD sleeve. I recently came across a video made for "Giver's Reply". The creepily whimsical marionettes and filming style are reminiscent of endearingly homemade stop-motion animations.
But, hark! BLOGOTHEQUE, an mp3 and video blog from overseas, created a smoothly edited reply with the Intro track to the album using live footage, posted below the video for "Giver's Reply".
I must say that from a visual standpoint, I heartily prefer the rough hewn, childish imagery in Ramón's original to the documentary-style BLOGOTHEQUE version.
Decide for yourself. Download the track if you become as irrevocably attached as I.
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Posted by Robin on 02/18/2008 10:06 AM in Folk, Visual Notes
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