Come get yourself some goosebumps with Tu Mirá by Lole y Manuel
Because I am pining for Spain here’s another music video from the Land of the Castigating Sun, a television performance by the Spanish Roma duo Lole y Manuel of their 1975 song Tu Mirá (“Your Gaze”). You might recognize it from the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino’s movie Kill Bill. That’s how I discovered Lole y Manuel. I have discovered a lot of music because of Tarantino.
The version of Tu Mirá in Kill Bill has a choir added and an organ, which makes the song even more epic and rousing. It’s not clear to me if that adaption was especially done for the movie. The original studio version also features flamenco hand-clapping (“palmas“) which always gives me goosebumps.
Lole y Manuel are Dolores Montoya Rodríguez and Manuel Molina Jiménez, a ground-breaking flamenco couple who combined flamenco with Arabic music in their tremendously influential debut album from 1972, Nuevo Dia. Manuel died a couple of years ago, Lole is still making music. Her voice is awesome, so emotional and powerful. In the video you can see a woman, I assume one of the other guests in the TV program, almost become the song, she’s really living it.
Spanish music, I swear, there’s not much I find as breath taking and blood curdling and this is one of the finest examples. (PB)
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