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Probablemente nunca antes ni después de Kraftwerk ha existido un grupo capaz de desarrollar elocuentes conceptos sonoros y gráficos, siempre en paralelo a la creación musical, y no necesitar apenas palabras para explicarlo. Se crearon a sí mismos. Ellos inventaron el lenguaje. Y su influencia es, si acaso, más demoledora que la de Elvis Presley o los Beatles. Levantaron toda la infraestructura viaria, ferroviaria y cibernética necesaria para que con el tiempo los músicos sólo tuvieran que coger el coche para comprar el pan. Ahora sufrimos colapsos viarios, pero en su momento aún había que convencer a la gente de que las máquinas bien podían ser la fuerza responsable de una pieza musical. Y fueron estos teutones de aburridas vidas privadas pero fascinantes ideas musicales quienes se encargaron de lograrlo.

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Hearts and Flowers were one of the most eclectic 1960s Californian folk-rock groups, as well as being one of the very first to point the way toward country-rock. Over the course of their two Capitol albums, they blended folk, country, and rock with inventive sprinkles of pop and psychedelia on both original material and covers of songs by Donovan, Arlo Guthrie, Hoyt Axton, Gerry Goffin-Carole King, Kaleidoscope, Tim Hardin, and others. As was the way with many such innovative bands of the time, they were lost in the shuffle in an era when rock was expanding furiously in all directions. If they're mentioned at all by historians, it's usually because one of them went on to join a superstar group in the 1970s that played a far slicker variation of the kind of folk-rock pioneered by bands like Hearts and Flowers the previous decade.

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amb temes de:

Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 revisited, Street legal, Selfportrait, The Freewheelin', John Wesley Harding, Planet Waves & Dylan 1973

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participen:

Terje Rypdal, Keith Jarrett, Kenny Wheeler, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner & Dave Holland

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participen:

Otis Rush, Robert Cray Band, Sonny Boy WIlliamson, Albert King, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Savoy brown

& Fleetwood Mac

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participen:

Jefferson Airplane, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Roger Daltrey, Renaissance, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Tony Orlando & Dawn,

Danny O'Keefe, Peters & Lee & Wizzard

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participen:

Caravan, Camel, Hatfield and the North, Steve Hillage,

In Cahoots, Comus, & Peter Bardens

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amb temes de:

El Greco, Vangelis & Llewellyn, Heaven and Hell, La Fête Sauvage

& Portraits

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amb temes de:

Force Majeure, From Dawn till Dusk, Antarktis, Thief, Melrose & Timesquare/The dream mixes II

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Watchmen is an adaptation of the landmark Alan MooreDave Gibbons graphic novel series. Set in an alternative 1985 in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society and the world is on the brink of nuclear war, WATCHMENS MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE is as wildly adventurous as the filmfrom Modern Rock hero My Chemical Romance covering Bob Dylans "Desolation Row" and 1960s classics from Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to unforgettable gems from Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. How staggeringly entertaining is the album? Watchmen may be the first soundtrack to ever include both Leonard Cohen and KC & the Sunshine Band.