Federico García Lorca – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grinding tweets for August 2017

The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.

Proyectos

Mi primera peli, mi primer álbum y hay una cosa más.

¿Te gusta la peluca? No es fácil encontrar unas buenas sintéticas, como me contó el otro día la mismísima Maribel Guardia.

Putting together an organ-song based on “Gacela del amor imprevisto” late last night, the question did cross my mind: Nadie comprendía el perfume de la oscura magnolia de tu vientre. Nadie sabía que martirizabas un colibrí de amor entre los dientes. Mil caballitos persas se dormían en la plaza con luna de tu frente, mientras…

Langston Hughes in Spain

Idealism vs realism as a Stalinist hack copes with the Italian bombing of Barcelona but struggles to explain why Moorish peasants are slaughtering Spanish workers in the battle for Madrid.

A market-oriented etymology of Catalonia

From Gothalania to Land of Alan the Goth.

The Nay of the Chacoli

The Basque provinces demand observance of protected geographical status for their lousy wine, but Burgos fights back with a costly study centre project that will prove that they make lousy wine too. ¡Viva la crisis!

Ya en los nidos de antaño no hay pájaros ocaño

An elderly Andalusian’s way of saying “this year” may constitute early warning of global (or at least Peninsular) cataclysm, perhaps a regional franchise of the 2012 phenomenon.

Why they didn’t find Lorca

Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.

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