Spanish musician Pablo Díaz-Reixa (who is apparently "an expert lullaby-singer for small children throughout Spanish-speaking countries") AKA El Guincho has released an awesome/super-catchy album titled Pop Negro.
El Guincho's music resonates with me particularly as a Spanish-speaker yet I would argue even if you don't understand a word of what he's saying, you will still enjoy it immensely, as most people I know have. There is a lot of melodic subtlety that goes into his music that I find to be awesome.
There's really nothing that you can't enjoy about the song.
That being said this music video is a totally different creative undertaking that is absolutely awesome.
First off, the video starts with El Guincho reciting what I'm pretty sure are the opening lines to Carl Sagan's Cosmos translated in Spanish.
Carl Sagan is one of my most favorite people ever, and any of you that know me personally know that I have an almost creepy fascination with Carl Sagan (but how can you blame me? The guy talks like Agent Smith from The Matrix, not to mention he is one of the coolest dudes ever)
The part that's awesome is instead of exploring the cosmos in Sagan's "Spaceship of the Imagination", Guincho sits a a grassy pasture, loads a tape into a catapult gun-like thing, and fires it into the distance as the song begins.
Love this intro.
The rest of the video is a super-eclectic collection of bits of tape. There's really no other way to describe it. Just watch it for yourself.
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