"ПРЕКРАСНОТО Е ВИНАГИ СТРАННО. НЕ ИСКАМ ДА КАЖА, ЧЕ ТАЗИ СТРАННОСТ Е ПОСТИГНАТА ПРЕДНАМЕРЕНО, ХЛАДНОКРЪВНО, ПОНЕЖЕ В ТОЗИ СЛУЧАЙ ТЯ БИ БИЛА ЧУДОВИЩНА, БИ ИЗЛЯЗЛА ИЗВЪН РЕЛСИТЕ НА ЖИВОТА. КАЗВАМ САМО, ЧЕ ПРЕКРАСНОТО ВИНАГИ СЪДЪРЖА МАЛКО ЧУДАТОСТ, НАИВНА, НЕВОЛНА, НЕСЪЗНАТЕЛНА ЧУДАТОСТ, И ЧЕ ИМЕННО ТАЗИ ЧУДАТОСТ ГО ПРАВИ ПРЕКРАСНО. ТЯ Е НЕГОВ БЕЛЕГ, НЕГОВА ОСОБЕНОСТ. ОБЪРНЕТЕ СЪЖДЕНИЕТО МИ И СЕ ОПИТАЙТЕ ДА СИ ПРЕДСТАВИТЕ БАНАЛНА КРАСОТА!"
Шарл Бодлер



Marco Di Gregorio

 



THIS TIME AROUND: UN MIXAGGIO ASSOLUTAMENTE PERFETTO!

This Time Around non piace a tutti, lo so.
A dirla tutta, è una delle canzoni meno apprezzate del repertorio musicale targato Michael Jackson.
Io la adoro, ma non è questo il punto.
Il vero scopo del post è di farvi apprezzare quanto questa canzone sia mixata in maniera assolutamente magistrale, maiestatica!

Indossate le cuffie e ascoltate This Time Around concentrati al massimo, senza distrazioni esterne.
Sia chiaro, il brano è mixato egregiamente da inizio a fine, ma il Bridge è qualcosa di - senza esagerazione - miracoloso.

Prestate molta attenzione al Rap di Notorious B.I.G.: il Rap è anticipato da una schitarrata, passatemi il termine.
La chitarra (ai sintetizzatori) va in dissolvenza, per far posto ad un suono alquanto cupo, da film di fantascienza, molto evocativo, d'atmosfera: sembra di essere sospesi nello spazio.
Mentre Notorious ci delizia con il miglior Rap contenuto in una canzone di Michael Jackson (dimostratemi il contrario e vi offro una cena), diversi suoni vengono giostrati con maestria da Bruce Swedien, in un gioco stereofonico di straordinaria bellezza.
Passano da destra a sinistra e da sinistra a destra con una leggiadria sbalorditiva: puro godimento acustico!

Poi subentra la cantante lirica, con la sua voce incredibile, eseguire un piccolo ma effettivo stralcio di Nessun Dorma, Opera tratta dal Turandot di Giacomo Puccini: “Guardi le stelle che tremano d'amore / Che tre... / Che tre... / Che tremano d'amore”.

Da notare che suddetta traccia audio viene rallentata per l'occasione, come a creare un contrasto destabilizzante per l'ascoltatore, che si ritrova a dover decifrare le sue parole, nonché l'Opera di appartenenza; il tutto mixato in un genere musicale agli antipodi della stessa, cioè il Rap.
L'aver pensato di inserire un pezzo lirico in un Bridge Rap è di per sé geniale; l'averlo mixato in questo modo è da standing ovation!

Notorious che rappa, la cantante lirica che urla a squarciagola con la sua voce imponente, suoni venuti direttamente dal futuro, come quello stridolio elettronico che sentite nello speaker destro al minuto 3.10, e quella sorta di palla rimbalzante fatta di non materia che dal minuto 3.16 al minuto 3.18 (sempre nella cassa destra) tentenna per poi uscir fuori con un “Bow”... Insomma, tutta la canzone è mixata grandiosamente, ma il Rap è qualcosa di alieno, di ultraterreno!

E non è finita, perché verso fine Rap, la cantante lirica ritorna con un solenne: "D'amoooreeee!”

E qui accade il miracolo: la voce della donna va in dissolvenza, mixandosi con un suono simil voce umana riprodotto con i sintetizzatori: un suono Synth che subentra perfettamente in simbiosi nella dissolvenza, come se i due elementi si liquefassero in un tutt'uno... Stupefacente!
Nel mentre, una elaborata progressione percussiva del drum beat ci avvisa che il Rap giunge al termine, per far spazio al finale di This Time Around.
Dopodiché, quando torna a cantare Michael, il suono simil voce umana si mixa a sua volta con gli accordi di archi Synth del ritornello.

In definitiva, se non è pazzesco e metodicamente perfetto il mix di This Time Around, non so davvero cosa lo sia.
Bruce Swedien deve essersi divertito parecchio a mixare questa traccia, non c'è che dire!

Buon Ascolto Clinico!

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Michael Jackson’s Personal Photographer Remembers How They Met
Harrison Funk remembers being captivated by Michael Jackson’s eyes. “Michael had the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever photographed,” he told me recently. “They were large. They were expressive. They were deep. I don’t mean that physically. It was a picture into his soul. I think Michael, he knew in every picture what he wanted to convey. Even when he was completely natural he could convey a message to the camera.”
In the early 1980s Funk began shooting Michael and continued on and off until his death five years ago on June 25, 2009. Funk was in his twenties when he made his first shot of Michael, before the singer launched his solo career. He had been invited to a party at New York City’s Tavern on the Green, and at one point during the night he found himself shooting pictures of Michael and the rest of the Jackson family backstage. Shortly afterward, Funk got a call from Michael’s publicist, inviting him to Los Angeles. Without promise of a job or even reimbursement, Funk got on the plane.
He remembers the day that he and Michael connected—really connected—for the first time. Tito Jackson’s kids were playing in a softball game, and while a couple of the brothers hung out on the sidelines, Michael sat by himself in a parked car down the block. When he saw Funk approach, Michael told him to get in and the two sat talking about “everything in the world, and baseball.”
Michael used to do something when he wanted the attention of the camera. He would practice his moves. Like when he’d go ‘hee hee,’ and I could tell that was the moment to pick up my camera and shoot.”
Funk chronicled Jackson’s career, starting with the Jacksons’ Victory Tour in 1984 and Michael’s first solo tour, Bad (1987-89). “He taught me so much about observing, seeing the moment and capturing the moment,” Funk said. “He taught me so much about perfection and Michael was a perfectionist. He wanted everything to be just so, even when it was spontaneous, it was just so. That was part of his brilliance, the ability to make that happen without any effort.”
Access and trust are key to making documentary images, especially with publicity-conscious celebrities. “I was just myself,” Funk said. “There was no pretense. I am who I am. I was open, and they knew that no picture would leave my hands without approval. And it got to the point to the middle of the tour where I was able to approve images. They trusted me.”
I think that image represents a slice of the 80s and the culture of the 80s that’s unbelievable. Here you have the first African American man running for president, Jesse, and the most famous human being alive, and Jesse is giving him advice.”
Funk remembers vividly the day he photographed Jesse Jackson and Michael Jackson. Jesse was running for president, and he was planning to attend an NAACP convention near a location where Michael would be performing. The candidate asked for a meeting with the pop star to talk about how few black workers Michael had on his crew.
Funk and Jesse Jackson’s personal photographer, Bruce Talamon, sat on the floor shooting as the two Jacksons talked, and suddenly Jesse turned and dismissed his photographer. “’Alright, photo op’s over.’ Michael turns to me and says, ‘Harrison, stay.’” Turning back to Jesse, Michael said, ‘My photographer shoots everything.’”
“He got to meet Kermit!”
Musicians started restricting photographic access in the 80s, Funk remembers. “They didn’t want to be photographed snorting a pound of coke.” But Michael Jackson and his family were different, and to them, Funk was a friend. They welcomed him onto the tour and into their lives.
“He liked to play practical jokes, and he liked to have fun. He was a big kid. There was one food fight where I wore a bucket of shrimp...after they poured it all over me,” Funk said.
This week, in Los Angeles, is Michael week, Funk said, and he’s been documenting the gathering crowds who considered Michael Jackson a prophet. Funk still grieves for his friend, but quietly, away from the fans who gather to pay tribute.
by Anna Hiatt
June 30, 2014
Photos by Harrison Funk



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