23-07-2018, 20:39
Pedro Aznar was born on this day in 1959, in Beunos Aires, Argentina. He is a vocalist and a mean bass player, primarily, but also a multi-instrumentalist. He’s played with an Argentinian prog rock outfit about whom I know precisely nothing, but I do know about Pat Metheny, who invited him to join the Pat Metheny Group (which he doesn't do lightly) and with whom he, and they, recorded three Grammy Award winning albums.
The best translation I could find of the lyrics to this lovely song from Letter from Home …
"I tossed a poem to the sea
That took with it my questions and my voice
Like a slow ship it got lost in the spray
I asked it not to return
Without having seen the open sea
And in dreams telling me of its visions.
Even if it didn’t return
I would know if it arrived.
Travel the whole life
On the blue calm or foundering in storms
Little matters the way if some port awaits
I waited so long for the message
That I forgot to return to the sea
And thus I lost the poem
I cried to the heavens all my rancor
I finally found it written in the sand
Like a prayer
The sea beat in my veins
And set my heart free"
The best translation I could find of the lyrics to this lovely song from Letter from Home …
"I tossed a poem to the sea
That took with it my questions and my voice
Like a slow ship it got lost in the spray
I asked it not to return
Without having seen the open sea
And in dreams telling me of its visions.
Even if it didn’t return
I would know if it arrived.
Travel the whole life
On the blue calm or foundering in storms
Little matters the way if some port awaits
I waited so long for the message
That I forgot to return to the sea
And thus I lost the poem
I cried to the heavens all my rancor
I finally found it written in the sand
Like a prayer
The sea beat in my veins
And set my heart free"
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson