A Message from Bogot?, Colombia and Nocturama Review

Bogotá, Colombia
South America
March  2003

Hi there 4AD and Goodson listees. Perhaps you may remember a special 
messagge that I wrote last year. I asked people from these lists to help me 
during a trip I made to Europe. I wanted to meet people who could introduce 
me to nice places in Paris, Cologne, Basel and Berlin. And also those who 
could help me finding a cheap hotel accomodation.

I got an e-mail from Louis Trumpbour an American Goodson Listee who lives in 
Berlin and runs a bar with some other people in there. (The internet address 
is www.8mmbar.com)

Louis gave me the opportunity to stay in his appartment in Berlin. For me it 
was something really good. We had the opportunity to speak some times about 
our lives and music. I was able to visit those nice places where Nick Cave 
lived and played during his Birthday Party years and his time in there. I 
could never believe it in my life I was going to be there. It was somehow 
like a Birthday present. I was there imagining things that people in there 
have taken as an influence to their sounds, films or writting. I walked lots 
of blocks and felt the Berliner touch.
Louis gave me recommendations and advices and well, believe me being there 
was something great.

I was able to buy Nick Cave´s "Nocturama" and missed some other records from 
people like Die Haut, Anita Lane, Sonic Youth, The Cramps and lots of 
others. Why? Same as ever, things in Europe are really expensive for people 
like me who come from Latin America.
But there are priceless things (not even Mastercard ever dreams of paying 
for it jjjaaa) and I refer to the opportunity Louis gave me to be in his 
place.

In these days where most people in my country are seen as dealers or heavy 
smugglers, and watching news is not so good. So finding people who may give 
you a hand when you´re not in your country is nice.

These six years I´ve been a member from these lists and have received nice 
mails from people in different countries. Meeting personally for the first 
time a listee member was something great and enjoying his offering was 
really nice.

So if you people have the opportunity to meet Louis personally, he´s the 
kind of man everyone deserves as friend.

I hope that I ever have the opportunity to meet some other 4AD or Goodson 
listees in any part of the world or in my city, things will be so great like 
they happened with Louis.

Thanks once again.


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For those of you who are able to read spanish, I am enclosing a Nocturama 
review that will be published in a local magazine in here.

Saludos desde Bogotá, Colombia
José Enrique Plata M.


Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
"Nocturama"

Tener la posibilidad de escuchar un nuevo disco de Nick Cave es una de esas 
pequeñas delicias que cada vez más se hacen escasas. Ante toda la cantidad 
de artistas tipo flor de un día o en su defecto algunos relegados cada vez 
más a las corrientes que pocos pueden seguir; un nuevo disco de Nick Cave se 
presenta como un gusto envolvente. Su música, sus líricas, sus canciones y 
el grupo de gente que tiene en su banda no dejan de sorprender.

Siguiendo la línea de su anterior trabajo "No More Shall We Part" (2001), 
"Nocturama" (2003) se grabó en menos de una semana en Melbourne, Australia. 
Nick Cave nos trae una interesante mezcla de poesía en sus textos donde hay 
espacio para hablar de la vida, del (des) amor, el paso del tiempo, los 
recuerdos y a la vez poder disfrutarlos con el gran despliegue de su banda. 
Estas diez nuevas canciones nos traen sonidos románticos, en otros momentos 
cercanos a un abismo profundo, pero aún así manteniendo su medida perfecta. 
Diez pequeñas joyas únicas en este nuevo disco.

“Nocturama” no es un trabajo que se logra de un día para otro. La carrera de 
Nick Cave empezó desde muy joven en su natal Australia con bandas como “The 
Boys Next Door” y luego una aventura más arriesgada llamada “The Birthday 
Party” En 1983 decide lanzarse como solista, y en ese lapso de tiempo la 
vida le ha permitido tener una carrera artística donde no sólo los discos 
han sido su obra para conocer. Apariciones en el cine, publicaciones de 
libros, lecturas en encuentros de escritores, algunas pinturas y hasta 
talleres de composición de canciones de amor han ido guiando la vida de este 
artista en estos años.

En este nuevo disco, los temas introspectivos vuelven a estar presentes como 
en el tema “Wonderful Life” , menciones a los amores sin respuesta “She 
passed By My Window”, una ofrenda de amor “Bring it on” (primer sencillo de 
lanzamiento donde colabora Chris Bailey, legendario cantante australiano de 
la banda The Saints), momentos románticos “Still in Love” y “He wants You”. 
Inclusive hay quince infernales minutos con “Babe I´m on Fire” (canción que 
cierra el disco). Esa particular canción parece una letanía de la salvación 
o de la redención.

“Nocturama” es un disco que no venderá millones de copias (no pretende nunca 
Nick Cave estar en esas ligas gigantes de los dioses esquivos de la música) 
pero no por eso dejará de ser uno de los más sinceros y buenos discos del 
año. Son veinte años de música con la banda The Bad Seeds y que vengan 
muchos más.









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