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DEIÁ (Spanish & English story)
Hay una historia y luego está la Historia. Siempre es así. Esta canción es más una historia, poética, y un sentimiento, que un estudio histórico. Está dedicada a un lugar y un momento en particular, a los artistas y a la música que se creó en la población de Deiá en Mallorca en los años 70’. Está dedicada a Daevid Allen, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Pau Riba, Pep Laguarda, a algunos otros Robertos, como Robert Graves, el perfecto anfitrión, y Robert Frip, y algunos acercamientos desde Formentera –hoy lugar de solaz para ricos y alta sociedad- de Pink Floyd o King Crimson. Y, por supuesto, está dedicada a Russell Craig Richardson.
Fue un tiempo, desde 1965 hasta finales de los 70’, en que era cuna de artistas, escritores, experimentadores de la sicodelia y el hippismo. Allí se desarrolaron Soft Machine y Gong (el proyecto posterior de Daevid Allen, quien montó un estudio en Deiá, donde, entre otros, grabó a Pau Riba el “Licors”.)
There is a story and there is History. As it often is. This song is rather a story, a poetic story, a feeling, more than a historical study. It’s dedicated to a place and a moment, to the artists and the arts and music created in Deiá (Mallorca), the community of artists and writers centred around Robert Graves in Deià, which attracted musicians such Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt and Daevid Allen. Over in Deiá Robert Graves helped influence Soft Machine and Gong. Graves was an extraordinary character, who straddles so many areas; it’s difficult to know where to start, but was connected in several ways with music, drugs and a general spirit of inquisitive mysticism. So this songs is dedicated to Daevid Allen, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Pau Riba (who was produced there by Allen) and Pep Laguarda (who recorded there the unique masterpiece “Brossa D’Ahir”). It’s also dedicated to other artists who came from Formentera (nowadays a place for the rich ones and high society) like Pau Riba himself, King Crimson’s Robert Frip, members of Pink Floyd, and others from Catalonia, Valencia and from the islands like Toti Soler and many others.
And, of course, this song is specially dedicated to Russell Craig Richardson.
Fernando Garcin. 2019.
lyrics
DEIÁ
El sol asomó
La máquina era suave y genial
Ahí estaban Kevin y Robert
Robert, David, James y Syd
Tantos duendes, tanta magia, locura y dolor
Eran los setenta
Formentera sin fronteras
Luego Pep tras el Gong (bis)
Querer la alegría de la bengala
sin importar el incendio y la razón;
querer el fuego y la razón,
seguir a la bengala alegres
y jugar la carta corazón.
Alguien os vio reír
La máscara del feliz
Un día como una gran ilusión
El cumpleaños de nadie
El accidente, el error nos salvó
El misterio, el misterio...
El sol asomó
El sol se acostó
Fueron chispas en los dedos
La sensación de la única vez
Una bandera roja
Una bandera roja
El mar, la revuelta, la fiesta, cuerdas rotas
Los castillos de un solo día
Sauntering, sauntering, sauntering...
Qué hermoso sería
cantar para gatos y muchachas
en el teatro y en el bar.
Deiá, Deiá, Deiá, Deiá....
El sol asomó
El sol se acostó
Eran los setenta
Formentera sin fronteras
Ahí estaban Kevin y Robert
Robert, David, James y Syd
Tantos…
Luego Pep, luego Pep tras el Gong (bis)
Tantos, tantos, tantos, tantos...
Pau, Toti, Ramón, Tico, Xavier...
El sol asomó
La máquina era suave y genial
Formentera sin fronteras
Ahí estaban Kevin y Robert
Robert, David, James y Syd
Tantos...
Luego Pep tras el Gong (bis)
The sun came up
The machine was smooth and great
There were Kevin and Robert
Robert, David, James and Syd
So many ‘duendes’, so much magic, madness and pain
It was the seventies
Formentera without borders
Then Pep after the Gong (bis)
To want the joy of the flare
in spite of the fire and the reason;
To want fire and reason,
follow the merry flare
and play the card of hearts.
Someone saw you laughing
The happy mask
A day like a great illusion
Nobody's birthday
The accident, the mistake saved us
The mystery, the mystery ...
The sun came up
The sun went down
They were sparks on the fingers
The sense of unique wondering time
A red flag
A red flag
The sea, the revolt, the party, broken strings
The castles of a one single day
Sauntering, sauntering, sauntering ... *
How beautiful it would be
to sing for cats and girls
in the theater and in the bar.
Deiá, Deiá, Deiá, Deiá ....
The sun came up
The sun went down
It was the seventies
Formentera without borders
There were Kevin and Robert
Robert, David, James and Syd
So many ...
Then Pep, then Pep after the Gong (bis)
So many, so many, so many, so many ...
Pau, Toti, Ramón, Tico, Xavier ...
The sun came up
The machine was smooth and great
There were Kevin and Robert
Robert, David, James and Syd
So many ‘duendes’, so much magic, madness and pain
It was the seventies
Formentera without borders
Then Pep after the Gong (bis)
* Saunterer. I pronounce in a mix of french, catalán and english way, in this only single take looking for instant inspirations while walking, as it comes from one of my favourite books:
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks – who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre,” to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a Sainte-Terrer,” a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.”
(D.H. Thoreau, “Walking”)
(c) Fernando Garcin, 2016.
credits
from DAYS OF THE FALL (Sin Detenerse),
released May 5, 2019
Lyrics by Fernando Garcin
Music by Daniel Fernández.
Arrangements by Daniel Fernández and Fernando Garcin.
Fernando Garcin: vocals, palo de lluvia, cassette manual sounds, effects.
Daniel Fernández: keyboards, effects and samples.
Produced by Daniel Fernández and Freddy Garson.
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