End of summer in Madrid, I love it.
Clubbing: some pub crawling on Tuesday night... Sangría at Cuevas del sésamo until 2 am. Then we tried to go to La Boca del Lobo (the name of this superb pub remembers the old name of Lobo [wolf] street, currently Echeagaray), but it was closed. Finally went to the always crawled why not?. On Thursday, typical Madrid Thursday discos were almost empty, so we went to Duom (Arena), a new, cool and fancy session. Instead of having dancers in the stage, they were actors doing live performance (of course in silence, because of the loud techno-house music). A little controversial that they repeated several times a sequence of everyone taking cocaine. Yesterday we went to Ohm, another classic house club.
 | Music: Yesterday I found something wonderful. In 2000, Fernando Trueba (the Spanish director that won an oscar with Belle epoque) producted and directed Calle 54, a documentary film about Latin Jazz (that should be called caribbean jazz) starring Gato Barbieri, Chucho & Bebo Valdes, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Chano Dominguez, Michel Camilo, etc... After this film, he produced Lágrimas Negras, a recording by Bebo Valdes (Latin jazz pianist) and Diego "El Cigala" (a flamenco singer or cantaor) featuring classical boleros, coplas, etc... played with latin jazz styled and sung in flamenco style. The result is awesome, and this recording is a must. So my discovering is a live recording of Lagrimas Negras past year at San Sebastian Jazz Festival with El Cigala, Bebo and his son Chugo |
Caravaggio: At London's National Gallery I was impressed by this Caravaggio's painting:
These days I read a lot about him and his work. It's very interesting. Trying to track where is each of his paintings, I realized that the web is not a very accurate source. I failed to found something similar to Opera Base for paintings. Finally I found that there are 3 Caravaggio's paintings in Madrid. Stay tuned!
