I look outside the window and everyone is running with bags and good wills, hypocrisy and hope. Meanwhile I take a coffee and observe that cold gives a special bright to objects, like a mysterious capacity to give them old dust. These tunes are small pieces of time: late nights with friends, her face down the spotlight, the sea, a hand.
This is the last episode of winter season and I’ve selected some of my favorite song from my favorite “song-writers”. Making this program has been delightful. I thank you very much for listening and I hope to see you around in late January.
a.
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Last Tracklist
00 Langston Hughes-Still Here
01 Throbbing Gristle-Beachy head
02 Michael Gira-I remember who you are
03 Micah P. Hinson-Not forever now
04 Madelaine Hart-Clearest Blue
05 Laura Marling-Shine
06 Butterfly Boucher-A bitter song
07 Low-Death of a Salesman
08 Gepe-Victoria Roma
09 Short Term Effect-The dead is coming
10 Holopaw-The lazy matador
11 Elliott Smith-Waltz #2
12 Let's Wrestle-My Schedule
13 Anari-Harriak
14 The Young Republic-Tough Year
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Record of the season: Sunset Rubdown-Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar, 2009)
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Painting by Bernard Buffet

There are not words able to describe the sound of the wind in my window. The snow has started; its fall is slow, like a tender embrace. I look at it and consider all those songs that try to explain the way winter produces melancholy and I found they are wrong. Its lack of alarm is one the purest things in the world: so silent, so bright.
In this episode winter is not the subject but the core; it’s the hand that opened the bottle of wine. It’s the eye who looks through the air and finds a secret in each contour.
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Last episode track list

00 Giusseppe Ungaretti-Nostalgia
01 Kejio_don't go to the highway
02 Perhaps-Hyper planets
03 The National-Racing like a pro
04 Jabier Muguruza-Chelsea Hotel
05 Clare and The Reasons-Mellifera
06 Cheap Star-If your heart
07 Modest Mouse-Gravity rides everything
08 Casiotone for the painfully alone-You were alone
09 Tally Hall-Ben Horn
10 Boston Spaceships-Catherine from Mid October
11 Robert Pollard-(All you need)To Know
12 Stephen Malkmus- Out of reaches
13 The Twilight Sad-Seven Years of letters
14 Private Idaho-The taste of things to come
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Record of the week: Anari – Irla Izan (Bidehuts , 2009) http://www.mediafire.com/?wytyle1zddm)
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Picture by: Bill Dane (http://billdane.com/)

New streets by my window. New neighbors, new sounds, new air; but the rain is the same. As a shadow, it follows the memory; it brings mechanically the hours of winter without pause. And, in the meantime, our hearts get colder each second as if the snow were falling long ago inside the house. This is no the winter is the common life.
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Last Track List
00 Jimmy Santiago Baca- I am offering this poem
01 Arve Henriksen-Loved one
02 Anni B Sweet-Mr. D.
03 Brandi Shearer-Sophie
04 Will Oldham-Always Bathing in the evening
05 Mason Jennings-Which way your heart will go
06 Matt Bauer-Old Clothes
07 Bruce Springsteen-Mary Queen of Arkansas
08 The Rural Alberta Advantage-The air
09 Page France-Air
10 Iowa super soccer-Live as if you'll die tomorrow
11 Rue Royale-Ufo
12 Fran Gayo-En 20 minutos me voy
13 The New Raemon-Mil Gracias
14 Swans-1,000 years
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Record of the week: Malcolm Holcombe - For the mission baby ( 2009)
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Draw by: Glen Baxter

“In the middle of the night we were children again, our hands were little butterflies in a gloomy summer. Little winds break the silence of our lives and in moment of the sight everything starts. In the noise of our words we were the snow of the forthcoming winter. I know this is going to be a secret, our final encounter.”
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Last Episode Track List:

00 Gonzalo Rojas- La sangre es un mar intenso
01 Giants-Fishermens Prayer
02 Evangelista-I lay there in front of me covered in ice
03 Lisa Germano-Magic neighbors
04 Rio en Medio-Standing Horses
05 Paul Clayton-The girls around the Cape Horn
06 Espaldamaceta-Mil millones de veces
07 Mark Eitzel-I live in this place
08 Vic Chesnutt-Flirted with you all my life
09 Hallelujah the hills-Teenage synesthese
10 Malcolm Holcombe-Another one gone
11 Brian Hunt-Happy house old death
12 Destry-Home isn't home
13 Jeremy Enigk-Make believe
14 Dan Managan-Robots
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Record of the week: Rue Royale- Rue Royale
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Picture by: Rogelio López Marín

After certain time in the park, thinking about the way cameras recreate our hearts, the clouds began to take the form of the sea. Coldness’ waves brought the small sound of the forgotten ships of our hearts; their sails were made of drops that disappear behind the gentle sun. With the steam, each word of the wind was transformed into a delicate manner of touch the time. In the last moment, everything disappeared with the sound of a girl whose eyes were made of red leaves.
It seems that autumn doesn’t have an end but the heart still wants to pick up some memories of winter.
In this episode those desires get certain form but ephemerally and with some nostalgia.
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4.12 Track List

00 Dylan Thomas-A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
01 Fjordne-Last sun
02 Iron & Wine-House by the sea
03 Cuff the Duke-Rocking chair
04 Aaron Thomas-Trophy Wife
05 Spide-Sorry little red
06 The young republic-Napoleon blues
07 Low low low la la la love love love-Where're You Goin'
08 Dan Mangnan-Some People
09 Cotton Jones-Gotta cheer up
10 Klaus & Kinsky- Shell for the morning
11 Joseph Arthur and the lonely astronauts-Winter Blades
12 Francois Peglau-I'll never Alain Delon
13 Jeremy Jay- Beautiful rebel
14 Whirpool vision of shame-Felt
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Record of the week: Mecánica popular - ¿Qué sucede con el tiempo? (Dro, 1984) (http://www.zshare.net/download/141558044e16d82e/)
“A great post-kraut album from Spain”
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Picture by: Misty Keasler (http://www.mistykeasler.com)

Behind every sound it’s a sort of sigh that makes me thing in the reciprocity of words. Sometimes making the podcast I pay specially attention to the rhythms and so, but in days like today, when the streets are windy and I’m overcome by the perfection of Fennesz the only thing that matters seems to be the emotion, the delicacy of the notes, the way they evoke the gentles gestures.
Today’s program has a small lack of order but it’s just a method of acting. Enjoy it.
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Last program track list

00 Lèopold Sedar Senghor-Chaka
01 Ryuichi Sakamoto-Put your hands up
02 The Felice Brothers-Coopertown
03 Ryan Adams-Everybody knows
04 Turner Cody-Roll them blues
05 Marissa Nadle-The hole is wide
06 Belmez-Sante Eula'inh
07 Arthur Russell-She's the star
08 Patrick Watson-Where the wild thing are
09 Nine inch Nails-Something I can never have
10 Piano Magic-Exit
11 Say hi to your mom-Super
12 The Lucksmiths- Tha Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco
13 Former Ghosts-Dreams
14 Pale Saints-language of flowers
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Record of the week- Low low low la la la love love love - Feels, feathers, bog, and bees (Other electricities, 2009)
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Picture by: Amy Stein (http://amysteinphoto.com/)

Back in the rain and without time to find the road to nowhere. My health is better but the moments are limited by the kingdom of work.
An episode of few words.

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Last Track List

00 Yanko Gonzáles-Arthur
01 Ursula-A la mañna siguiente
02 Phosphorescent-A Picture of our torn up prise
03 Matt Bauer-Don´t let me out
04 Julie Doiron-Tonight, we sleep
05 Matt Costa- Heart of stone
06 Joan Miquel Oliver-Ryanair
07 Bowery Bboy blue-Take heart, sisters
08 Langhorne Slim- Sunday by the sea
09 Willieam Elliot Whitmore-There's hope for you
10 Benoit Pioulard-Golden grin
11 Red House Painters-Lord kill the pain
12 Daniel Johnston-Mind Movies
13 Eleni Mandell-Right Side
14 Tilly and the wall-Sad for days
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Record of the week: Star of Ash-Ilter Viator (Jester, 2002)
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Photo by Margaret Bourke-White

I spent Saturday night in the street waiting for a taxi to take me to the hospital because my lungs were making sounds. The cold was benevolent and the chilly atmosphere makes me feel better. It seems that to my heart, and to my lungs, the best cure is an empty boulevard and the tender breeze of late hours. The solitude of two persons sitting in a hospital’s bench is a nice image to portrait my days. A kind solitude filled with words of future.
While traveling across empty Paris in the backset I remembered a lot of songs, a lot of books. It was like painting pictures in the streetlights; recreating old days to forget the pain and the fear.
At the end I get better because of the night but I wasn’t able to make the program on time.
After the dread, here’s the new episode, two days later and still cuffing, but ready to be listened.
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Last episode Track List

00 Octavio Paz-Complementarios
01 Dakota Suite-The night keeps coming in
02 Tim Buckley-Dolphins
03 Daniel Martin Moore-The hour of sleep
04 Micah P. Hinson-The possibilities
05 Linda Thompson-Beauty
06 Mark Olson and Gary Louris-My gospel songs for you
07 Califone-Funeral Singers
08 Langhorne Slim-I love you, but goodbye
09 Ryan Driver-When you were en Mexico?
10 The Partisan Seed-Sound, we make sound
11 Throw me the statue-Baby you're bored
12 The Feelies-When company comes
13 The wave pictures-Too many questions
14 The only ones-Another Girl, Another Planet
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Record of the week: Daniel Johnston - Is and always was (Fearlatone, 2009) (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jgynxnwmxym)
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Painting by James Ensor

Waiting for a miracle is a profession without profit. You can linger for ages for that amazing moment that will change you common days, that will repair you eyes. You can wait in silence a life, just looking at the way, waiting for that car to stop. And you know, deep in your heart, that there’s everything but a car. However, when you are tired, when the options of success are worst than zero. Then, behind the night, appears the miracle that you were longing for, and it’s exactly as you have expected: simple and natural. You smile; you, perhaps, say some ridicule words and everything begins to have sense. This miracle is not other but a hand combing you hair. The same thing happens with songs; they emerge to catch your heart in certain moments without reason, without logic. They give you breath.
With this episode Arroz Amargo gets two years. It has been a long and beautiful road and to celebrate it next Sunday I’ll chose one song of each episode and make a sort of special show. Making this podcast has been amazing, to select the songs, to try to give them a sense is just beautiful. I have to thank you everyone who listen, you are great.
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Last Track List

00 Oliverio Girondo-Alta Noche
01 A Silver Mt. Zion - The tirumph of our tired eyes
02 Tannhauser-Poseidonia
03 Red House Painters-Dragonflies
04 Short term effect-Carry it two
05 Sunset wings-Adieu
06 Alejandro Escovedo - Across the river
07 Modest Mouse-Perpetual motion machine
08 American Music Club-The dance
09 Snowglobe-Nothing I can do
10 Coming Soon- Big boy
11 Frog Eyes-Miasma Gardens
12 The Twilight Sad-Made to Disapper
13 Mesita - Hidden Motivations
14 Arp-Fireflies on the water
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Record of the week: Soap & skin - Lovetune for vacuum (Play It Again Sam, 2009) (http://www.mediafire.com/?hzouzmtmqmy)
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Photo by: Oscar Villanueva
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/oscarinn)

The sun has gone but we have the rain. Each morning the clouds that preside over the horizon bring a beautiful rain that produce a mood of peace that freezes the thoughts. The slender rain touches the hands as if it were trying to stay in the skin forever. It works as the memory; it hits you hastily and it stays there for a while but, as the time goes by, it disappears in streets and shops. It wouldn’t stay in your face or in your clothes; it’s like that smile in the subway or the gentle half-kissed in the pub: brief.
The rain makes me keep in mind that the hands were someday together but nothing remains the same but for a second. As these songs; they could mean a lot in the morning but in the afternoon they will be just sounds but a least for a moment they will be a kind of word.
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Last episode Track List

00 Charles Baudelaire-Je n'ai pas oublié
01 Moto Nakashima -Through the window
02 Good Morning, Captain-Song for Ava Grace
03 Joe Pug - In the meantime
04 Short Term effect-Forest paper
05 Daniel Martin Moore-The Old measure
06 Marce Cranc-Naufragi
07 Ray Lamontagne-I still care for you
08 Casiotone for the painfully alone- Killers
09 The Big Pink- A brief histroy of love
10 Atlas Sound- Attic Lights
11 The Rosebounds-Black Hole
12 Beck- I'll be your mirror
13 Yo la tengo-All your secrets
14 The Two man gentlemen band-Yo make swoon
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Record of the Week: Polvo-In Prism (Merge, 2009)
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Photo by: Ansel Adams

Autumn suits Arroz Amargo. By my window the rain hasn’t stop since morning and while I drink coffee these tunes create certain comfort that makes me want to stay indoors until spring. To be inside is a way to discover the rhythm of the wind, to find the details of the house and the small spots in the wall; those tiny universes that contain, perhaps, words and memories. This season is the time for drinking in petit comité and chat about those old seconds when her face was close making us happy. The rain is the perfect background for enjoy this selection.
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Previous Track List

00 MargePiercy-Putting the good things away
01 Fennesz-Before I leave
02 Ana D-Me quedo contigo
03 Bonnie "Prince" Billy-Careless Love
04 Cowboy Junkies-Sweet Jane
05 Luis Alberto Spinetta-Muchacha Ojos de Papel
06 Mike Patton & Kaada-L'abstent
07 Mus-Adios
08 The Young Republic-EVerybody Looks Better in White
09 Elliot Smith-Happiness (The Gondola Man)
10 Howe Gelb- Love Knows (no Borders)
11 La Buena Vida- Hh.Mm.Ss.
12 Blur-Star Shaped
13 Neutral Milk Hotel -Two headed boy pt. 2 & The Fool
14 Leonard Cohen-So Long, Marianne
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Record of the week: Imogen Heap-Ellipse (RCA, 2009) (for listening: http://rapidshare.com/files/268620819/ImHeE_Vic.zip)
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Paint by: Jean Rustin (http://www.rustin.be/)

Walking in the airport I’m thinking in the smiles I left behind, in those beautiful nights that I spent with the people I love. And suddenly, running across the alley, a song arrives. It has been a good time since I captured it the middle of the day with some fingers across my hair, with the warm of a kiss in the mouth -they were big hands closing my eyes. The tune makes me see the growing grass in the field and some words drop in the shade.
And I just think it will be better to remember you with melodies, I don’t like the illogical drama of nostalgia; I prefer taking words with me to create an airplane and fly each gloomy day. I really will miss the streets of my city but the passers by of my house come with me in songs. This episode, the first recorded in Lille, is for those of you who were there –in the midnight haze, in the sunny shade, in the boring classroom- each song is a piece of memory. (There’s a silence in the podcast but it’s not a mistake)
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Record of the week:Anthony Da Costa - Not afraid of nothing
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Picture: Michael Penn

Aparentemente partir es un deporte extremo; lograr superar los trámites, la intermitencia de la lógica y los baches económicos lo dejan a uno exhausto y sin tiempo para vivir. Pero siempre existe un resquicio entre el traslado de la materia, en la disyuntiva de pensar el paso siguiente, que permite tranquilizar las horas. Pero no hay nada mejor que un poco de música suave para tomar un café a la orilla de estrés, en el descanso de la burocracia.
En este episodio no hay estridencia, ni ritmos mortales, sólo un poco de alegría melancólica. Pronto estaré en otra lengua y pensar lento lo hace más simple todo.
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Tracklist anterior
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Disco de la semana: Espaldamaceta- Espaldamaceta
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La foto es de:Robert Fink

Hay días en los que las horas son demasiado breves, en los que los pequeños minutos de tranquilidad en el sofá se vuelven un oasis con las melodías como sombra. Así he vivido las últimas semanas y en esos momentos de calma las guitarras eléctricas han sido muy buenas aliadas para no claudicar. Por eso el episodio de hoy está marcado por un poco de estridencia. Nada de que temer, sólo un poco de distorsión como mecanismo de defensa.
Debido a las inclemencias del clima esta emisión de Arroz Amargo expresa mi deseo de correr a lo Forrest Gump, sin parar, hasta ver un bello horizonte. Espero que el vértigo del día no los aleje demasiado.
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El Tracklist anterior está bajo el agua…pronto lo encontrare.
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Disco de la semana- Sparklehorse + Fennesz - In the Fishtank
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La pintura es: Colin Mccahon

Mi cuerpo se niega a aceptar estos tiempos, los dolores van y vienen como huéspedes de mala fama. Sin embargo, la música tiene una peculiar manera de darme fuerza; es una inagotable mar que me da aire, que me da sueños. Por momentos entre las migrañas una suave melodía puede ser tan afortunada como el más duro de los fármacos.
Este episodio por algunos momentos se torna un poco lo-fi pero en la serenidad de los sótanos es donde mejor se compone.
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Track List Anterior: Lo perdí pronto lo subo.
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Disco de la semana: Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean
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La pintura es de Joachim Beuckelaer

Las partidas son como heridas pero siempre tiene un lado encantador. Las propias y las de los amigos inundan los días por venir y el silencio de la soledad tiene que ser combatido con melodías. Más que un episodio de tristes despedidas es una manera de desear buen camino, de llenar las mañanas de luminosos deseos porque las tierras lejanas serán afortunadas. Con la alegría que dan los amigos y las maneras de demostrar su amor este episodio es una humilde manera de mandarles buena estrella.
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Track List Anterior:
00 W.H. Auden-Musee des Beaux Arts
01 Mussette-Maj
02 Howard Hudges-Standing in the 1/2 empty hall blues
03 Portastatic-Race your home
04 The Little hands-Julie
05 The Delano Orchestra- How to care
06 Phosphorescent-Too Sick to pray
07 Gary Jules-Umbilical town
08 Eels-Ordinary Man
09 Gregory Alan Isakov-This Empty Northern
10 Richard Swift-The end of an Age
11 Miqui Puig-Una Calle de Paris
12 Manel-Roma
13 Coeur de Pirate- Le longe de Large
14 Madness- On the Town
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Disco de la semana: Cass Mccombs - Catacombs (Domino, 2009)
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La foto es de Oscarin (http://www.flickr.com/photos/oscarinn)

Arroz Amargo está de nuevo en el camino.
Las vacaciones le han sentado bien a mis oídos, la música ha pasado con buena fortuna y un porcentaje de alegría melancólica, como canción de verano española. He encontrados algunas cosas maravillosas que merecen ser repasadas y tendrán su espacio durante los siguientes meses más las bondades que se acumulen. Cada día trae consigo material que luce ciertos encantos en los que espero encontrar la melodía adecuada para que las mañanas soleadas tengan un sonido.
En esta nueva temporada seguiremos con la misma mecánica de catorce canciones y un poema; tratando de que cada episodio traiga un rato de emociones combinadas que les de un momento de sonrisas tímidas.
Esta semana las noticias no fueron afortunadas pero estas notas musicales han aliviado los fracasos personales y las desgracias colectivas; la fortuna a veces tiene un rostro triste. Con el encanto de los principios Arroz Amargo se pone de nueva cuenta en marcha directamente desde la Ciudad de México. Empezar caminos es pensar en lo posible estas canciones son un puñado de pequeños sueños.
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Disco de la semana: Howard Hudges-O Make me a mask (Kitchen Music, 2009) http://rapidshare.com/files/267017329/howard_hughes_-_o_make_me_a_mask.zip.html
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La pintura es de Wislow Homer

Como sabrán el diseño de Podomatic va acumulando todo sin dejar que se dividan por páginas. Así que para no perder el rastro que hemos dejado, mudamos los podcast ausente a un blog para que consulten los tracklist y si quieren el episodio lo puedan pedir, o pronto tratare la forma de hacerlos descargables.
La dirección es
http://www.arrozamargo.wordpress.com