AZUL Y NEGRO/ CRYSTALLINE WORLD
- TODAY, NOW (05:45)
- MY BICYCLE (03:51)
- SMOKE (05:24)
- SPANISH REVOLUTION (04:58)
- SAVE OUR LOVE (05:12)
- CALCUTTA (05:12)
- THE CHANGING (O5:10)
CRYSTALLINE WORLD (ROCK OPERA):
- Part I: PROPHECIES (05:10)
- Part II: PSALMS (06:32)
- Part III: CHANTS AND DESTRUCTION (05:14)
- Part IV: LAMENTS (07:21)
- Part V: ELEGY (05:05)
PRODUCED BY CARLOS VASO
All songs written by Carlos Gª-Vaso.
Carlos Vaso aka AZUL Y NEGRO (Blue and Black) plays all the instruments and voices.
Choirs in "Save Our Love" Paloma Vaso and Conchi García.
Recorded, mixed and mastered in Technovision (Madrid) by Carlos Vaso.
Drawings of Ramón de la Cuesta (Islanimation Studios).
Art design by Carlos Vaso.
Management: Vaso Music Spain. tel +34 91 5493381
Contact: www.azulynegro.com e-mail: info@azulynegro.com
It seems like yesterday when AZUL Y NEGRO (Blue and Black) started a new stage in 1998 and already are 12 albums released ...
In this album you will find big changes, following my custom to not repeat myself, that correspond to my mood and my new perspective with which I am performing my music. Also I could record at last one of my three rock operas composed in the 70s: CRYSTALLINE WORLD. I hope will not disappoint and we continue on this journey together ...
My thanks to all my fans. To Ramón de la Cuesta (my grandnephew) by these drawings so cool. To facebook/azul-y-negro and facebook/carlos.garciavaso fans. To all my family for being like you are, I love you ...
TODAY, NOW (Carlos Gª-Vaso Torres)
Sometimes you meet
face to face with yourself
knowing that hell
is living day to day
without knowing
the reason for your life
but no matter
the wind will guide you.
keep an eye on
the horizon
because life is a game
it´s played only once.
Look for someone
to love and live.
Live each day as
if it were your last.
Where is your way home.
Today, now, fighting and rolling.
Today, now, you´re what you are
Today, now, fighting and rolling.
Today, now, is better to be smart.
If you fall asleep
In the cold snow
Can´t hear the arrival
Of your white death.
There is never
a tailwind for those
who don´t know where
is the way home.
Where is your way home.
Today, now, fighting and rolling.
Today, now, you´re what you are
Today, now, fighting and rolling.
Today, now, is better to be smart.
The unexpected always lurking everywhere
if you dance with the devil
he doesn´t change,
The devil´ll change you.
MY BICYCLE (Carlos Gª-Vaso Torres)
On my bicycle, I´m riding all the time.
On my bicycle, I feel free like the wind.
On my bicycle, I travel around the world.
On my bicycle, The Earth is bluer than before.
SMOKE (Carlos Gª-Vaso Torres)
Smoke is important to dream,
It fogs the decisive moments,
And makes all the clocks are stopped,
And blurs the outlines with fog.
Smoke turns blue eyes gray eyes,
Transforms the veins in shadows.
Smoke also changes the plot,
And then your dislike seems a smile.
For those unable to see reality, reality.
Smoke is only the way to get happiness, to get happiness.
Smoke also changes the thoughts,
And your silence seems a pledge.
Our charm becomes repulsive,
And your laughter makes me fear.
For those who don´t want to live in the real world, in the real world.
Smoke is only the way to eternity, to eternity.
Invisible knives threaten me everywhere.
Growing the fog wounds in every part of me.
I want to get into a burning suns zenith.
I want to immerse myself in the light and purify.
I´m going beyond the frontiers of the dark kingdom.
The voice of the smoke transcending the realist.
I look around me and just find my shadow line.
Without realizing I´ve created atmosphere.
And I´ll return with a mist and walk away from flames.
SPANISH REVOLUTION (Carlos García-Vaso Torres)
No job. No home. No days. No way.
With faith. With hope. With love. With sit-ins
It is the Spanish Revolution
Trying to change the world.
People exchange lovely flowers
And beating by police.
This is the May Revolution
Of a generation cool...
How cool!
With cold. With heat. With calm. With peace.
.
This life is hard. Hold up so long.
Silence my mind to speak my heart
I want to see what lies beyond.
Do not fear your Goverment, remember:
People united will never be defeated.
SAVE OUR LOVE (Carlos Gª-Vaso Torres)
In that place without a roof or walls
We played with clouds and I felt your love.
Only with your eyes You shook my soul
and I learned to love you without shame
And always we walked future as kindred spirits.
But time goes by and I know you're afraid of our failure,
and the distance is between us.
I don´t remember when I lost your love,
I have followed your trail everywhere.
And now I can rest in a letter of your name,
and all my dreams are as soft as your skin white because I know that
always be right here next to me.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la.
La, la, la, la, la, Save our love.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la.
La, la, la, la, la, Hear my song.
CALCUTTA (Carlos Gª-Vaso)
Rites prohibited under the sun.
Sacred temples for Goddesses of glass
where pray Brahmins.
Sacred cows and the monsoon.
Wild tigers and Pasha´s elephant
In enchanted palace.
Mysterious and divine. This is Calcutta.
Calcutta, Calcutta, Calcutta, Calcutta now.
This is Calcutta.
The sitar accompanying me here in Calcutta.
Cobras dancing vertically
hypnotized by a fakir's magic flute
who swallows a sword.
THE CHANGING (Carlos Gª-Vaso)
Some people are born at a time
but it belongs to another era.
This happens to many people
and also happened to me.
Funny thing is that times are changing
but each person also changes.
Your real progress can be what you want,
you can change with the times or go against.
I don´t like life as it is,
I wish it were like a dream.
I wish it were as a film,
as a novel without end.
Other people feel important
following any kind of fashion.
For a while the gang is rocking
and then become punk or gothic,
mod or whatever they want.
CRYSTALLINE WORLD (ROCK-OPERA)
PROPHECIES (Carlos Gª-Vaso)
(THE PROPHET):
Hi Crystal Planet, listen what I´ve to say you:
Wake up from your sweet dreams and warns that
The Law of the Universe condemn you
From Space are coming the children of the Black Death
Please listen to the voice of the Prophet crying out,
soon you will have a great proof of what I mean.
You who have built this monster of crystal,
meditate how far has come your infinite madness.
Your dream surpassed your own mind.
Begetting a beautiful, hard blind giant.
You feared always to all the unknown,
you were thirsty for the truth, yeah.
Your panic has created a transparent world,
Your thirst has created a world of glass.
Your fear of the Black Death it dug your own grave.
Why you ignored your destruction?, yeah.
PSALMS (Carlos Gª-Vaso Torres)
(THE CRISTAL LORD):
Hey Prophet silence your lyric,
How can you call into question
All the infinite greatness
of this world that will be immortal?
the glorious empire of crystal?.
All it is happiness.
All it is truth.
No one else undergo,
Never again,
Never again.
A pure and undefiled world
where truth reigns across the Globe.
Nothing is hidden from your eyes,
without guile and without betrayal.
We all know well our role.
All it is happiness.
All it is truth.
No one else undergo,
Never again,
Never again.
You threatened with destruction,
You are the seed of evil.
You want to end our wonderful world.
I´ll never consent to it,
Get away!. Don´t come back.
Get away!. Don´t come back!.
Get away!. Don´t come back!.
Don´t come back! never again.
I reign on our planet crystalline,
I watch for its great splendor.
It is the light of the universe,
in the endless dark night, infinite.
light radiating this world of crystal.
All it is happiness.
All it is truth.
No one else undergo,
Never again,
Never again.
CHANTS AND DESTRUCTION (Carlos Gª-Vaso Torres)
(THE PROPHET):
Listen!, People of crystal,
I come to give you the light,
The gods send me to you,
Hear my crying over you,
I come from a world without time,
without end, no light.
Nothing goes unnoticed to your Lord,
He made you of crystal,
You can not see beyond,
So much light you blinded.
He has set your path
without thinking of you at all.
You can not hide anything,
He can see inside,
in you.
He will hide the truth
with brilliant mirages.
You must pass without fear
of the light barrier.
He didn´t write your fate,
Do not be deceived.
It´s engraved very high
where he can not catch.
Please find the only truth,
that which is beyond.
All the strength is in you.
I know you can achieve
Find the quintessence
of the grand truth in you.
Today now you have to fight,
to get your full freedom,
for you.
(PEOPLE):
-The prophet is right.
-We must fight now!.
-This planet must be destroyed!.
-Revolution!.
-Let us fight and we will smash all around us!.
LAMENTS (Carlos Gª-Vaso Torres)
(THE CRYSTAL LORD):
What´s the vision that torments my soul?
What destiny was that caused this end?
Why so much desolation?
There comes the end of my mad world.
Did I kill it?
Was I so blind?
Something in me presentiment this end,
it was a force that I always felt,
that I could not understand.
And now it has destroyed me.
What happened there?
Was I the one?
There will be a witness
in the vastness of the universe
that can understand it?
Or all will have been quite in vain?
No one can learn from me,
From my big mistake.
What a sad ending!.
Every mind should look
to the infinite distant
but all our brightness
not let them see beyond.
Not all is in the light,
there is another truth
that can be strong.
ELEGY (Carlos Gª-Vaso)
(THE PROPHET):
Eventually look back into your empty eye sockets.
Look at without fear the desolate road.
The ruins of your golden walls
are covered in blood and forgetfulness.
You saw them break into brilliant pieces.
Bursting like old towers of crystal.
Your fragmented soul crosses the space.
These are remnants cutting that you can not rebuild.
Your golden dream dies,
empire of light and truth.
Your desire to see you hath blinded.
So dies a crystalline world...