Moravia

Yes, it’s 40 years now since John Lennon was murdered in New York. It’s sad to draw on sad events like this, but one’s inspiration sometimes acts this way when the emotional side of creation gets touched... The fact is that in October 1990 I recorded two songs to Lennon’s memory at ARC studio in Hamburg (Germany) to be included in Spanish versions as bonus tracks for my first album “Matices”. One of them was a ballad called “Here comes a chance (brother John)” and the other, this rocking “Wait a minute, Mr. Chapman” I hereby post, an icy sour allusion to notorious Lennon’s killer vaguely based on the title of the classic “Please, Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes, which the Beatles recorded for their second album “With the Beatles” in 1963. I wish I had never had to write this song...!

Dear fans and subscribers, this year 2020 definitely won't be the best of our lives for nearly none of us. But life goes on even through the current pandemic which has struck us all hard and changed our daily ways... I fear the Covid-19 may have taken away some of your friends or relatives. However, I want to be optimistic and see the light at the end of this long tunnel. As for me, I haven't stop creating, mostly indoors for obvious reasons. So there are some new songs and a video I mean to release in the next weeks, if my plans don't change... Meanwhile, I wish you all the best and lot of caution with the bloody coronavirus.

Here is to you all, dear followers, from the shelter of my home against the coronavirus pandemic outside, hoping you are also safe while we all stay in our own forced house confinements.

I want to thank your praises for my music, especially for my song “Daddy blue“, posted here, which has some curiosities that maybe you should know:

I wrote “Daddy blue“ two years ago as a follow-up story line to 1971’s worldwide hit “Mamy blue“ by the Spanish band The Pop Tops. “Mamy blue“ told the grief of a young wanderlust man who had left his mother‘s house but returned some years later, broke and in pain, and finds his mom isn’t there anymore. My “Daddy blue“ tells of Mamy blue’s supposed-to-be husband who would have left her when their son, whom I call Joe in my song, still was a child. Younger Joe’s brother is the narrative voice in my song, asking his dad to come back home as mama has forgiven him, and his elder brother Joe to tell him the real reason for his leave from the mother’s house “at (the age of) 21“.

I think “Daddy blue“, enrooted in the previous “Mamy blue”, has what it takes to become even a novel or a movie... Some months ago I offered “Daddy blue“ to The Pop Tops’ Trinidadian lead singer Phil Trim, still musically active. Even I played a joke by asking him, since there were now both Mamy and Daddy Blue, how their two sons are called. He had no idea, and then I said: “That’s plain: The Blues Brothers”.

Despite the joke (or maybe because of it), Phil refused to do the song anyway. Thus, I‘ve come to post it here on N1M.

Be careful with viruses, dear followers, and enjoy being at home!

Hey, nice folks. For nearly two months my N1M website has been off after suddenly and oddly collapsing. Now I have finally rebuilt it... and with 3 new songs. The first one is a sort of ecologist hymn called "Canción por la Tierra" I wrote for the last Climate Summit (COP 25) taking place in Madrid in early December. Unfortunately, the English-adapted version of this piece, "Song to the Earth", although already written isn't available yet, but I hope to record it soon.

Besides, I want to remark the priceless collaboration of my friend, the North-American singer songwriter Chrissy Schulte whom I had the luck and honour to meet through this website. Hers is the excellent English lyric-adaptation and superb voice for my song "Downwind" (originally "A favor del viento" in Spanish) here also attached.

I take this opportunity to also wish you all, kind followers, a nice and lovely Christmas time just as a preview of a new year 2020 full of happiness and success.

-Moravia.