Lole y Manuel was a Spanish musical duo which composed and performed innovative flamenco music. Their groundbreaking album Nuevo Día fused traditional Spanish flamenco with Arabic rhythms and styles. The music is recognized for the emotive, yet childlike voice of Lole Montoya and the operatic, flashy guitar of Manuel.
Their 1975 track, "Tu Mirá" (“your gaze”), featured one of Montoya's most emotive vocal performances, accompanied by a large choir and an epic organ (in addition to Manuel's guitar), is included on the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 2.
This song is from Lole and Manuel's first and great album,"Nuevo Día". Announcing the arrival of the morning, Lole's voice rises majestically, just like the victorious sun that has defeated the Moon in the battle field. Lole sings to us a poetic and beautiful vision of the dawn, and the message is, every new day is 'a miracle'.
I have separated the verses of the song when its focus changes. For instance, the rising of the Moon, the fisherman's net, the white butterfly, and the intensity and inequality in human love. The complexity of life expressed in simple poetic images. Poetry, present in our everyday life; we miss it often, we forget to look for it, too.
NUEVO DÍA
El sol, joven y
fuerte,
ha vencido a la
luna
que se aleja
impotente
del campo de
batalla.
La luz vence
tinieblas
por campiñas
lejanas,
el aire huele a
pan nuevo,
el pueblo se
despereza,
¡ha llegado la
mañana!
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Al amanecer,
al amanecer,
con un beso
blanco
yo te desperté.
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La noche llegó,
la noche llegó,
porque la montaña
se ha tragao al sol. (tragado) to swallow
Y en la montaña,
se oye un eco de gemíos,
el viento ha quebrao un junco, (quebrado) to break
que ya estaba florecío. (florecido) to bloom, blooming
Porque se ha escondío el sol, (escondido) to hide, hidden
se quedó muda de
pronto,
la flauta del gorrión.
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Saca la red,
hermano, saca la
red,
que ya ha salío la luna (salido)
no la vayas a
coger.
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Ayer, cuando amaneció,
una mariposa
blanca
de un lirio se
enamoró.
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Que sí, que sí,
Que no, que no,
Que tú a mí no
me quieres
Como te quiero
yo.
Que sí, que
Que no, que
Que tú a
mí no me quieres
Como te quiero
yo (x4)
