Music is abstract, lyrics are concrete, with Elvis Costello, Marisa Monte, Jorge Drexler and Leo Sidran
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Leo, What's Your Corroboration?
As a composer, i was absolutely closed off and solitary. It was hard for me to introduce even the most minimal light through the window of somebody else's ideas. A large proportion of those songs, un painted from memory, were co written musically. We can no longer remember who wrote what line. But i know that certain songs, like, god give me strength, the very first one i began musically, you would have recognized it. They they seem almost like it's really that note. And then when you hear it that way, you can't hear it.
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