Felipe Presents "Esencial" At Georgetown College

This afternoon, Felipe did a very special participation at the Talent Event Show in Georgetown College in KY, USA. The author presented "Esencial", one of the songs from his spanish songbook released in 2009 - "Amor Y Otros Desastres". Besides that, Felipe spoke to the crowd and talked about how was the experience of writing AOD.

Rendición/Obsesión - Parte 2 Will Be Released On Latino Poemas

Felipe's spanish hit, Rendición, will be finally released this Friday (01/25) on Latino Poemas site. The piece was first debuted in DotLyrics and YoEscribo last year when the author was promoting his first spanish songbook - Amor Y Otros Desastres.

The brazilian artist Rafael Floriano signs the art cover of Rendición/Obsesión - Parte II. If you want to check more of his work click on the following link:

The Third Promo Song Poll

According to the readers, the third lyric that should have been released to promote AOD in the web sites and forum was "La isla" with 35% (245 votes). Check below the other positions:

[2nd] Esencial                      22%

[3rd] Hace Bien Ser Malo       20%

[4th] Las Cosas de Dios         10%

[5th] Recuerdos Perdidos       

        Amarte                          5%

[6th] Rehén de la Suerte         3%

     

The Making Of "Amor Y Otros Desastres" - Part II

Part Two: The Influences

For the last three years, I spent a lot of time maintaining contact with many aspects of the Hispanic culture. I watched almost one hundred movies per year and I believe this was a huge factor that inspired me to write in Spanish. The movies helped me to create the idea of what I wanted to do, but I still needed to know how I would do it. So this question led me to search for Latin music and artists that I could use as a base for my work. After a long research I found wonderful songwriters and musicians, I listened to the most famous as Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Maná and Juanes till new and not-so-known singers as Bernabé and Calle 13. That was an amazing experience, learning about this new culture and bring its features to my pieces just enriched my work and helped to grow as a person. I think I finally could let an unknown part of me come to the surface and this felt so good.

The Making Of "Amor Y Otros Desastres" - Part I

Well guys, I decided to take some time to share with you a little bit of the creative process of my latest work: “Amor Y Otros Desastres”. Here I’ll tell you about the experience of writing these songs, the rhythms and influences that inspired me to create the whole concept for this new project and the expectations I had for this songbook.

Part One: The Concept

I always wanted to write something in Spanish, but I never felt it was the right time or I had the right theme to write about. I had some songs for sure, but I definitely never planned to release a songbook in Spanish, at least not at the moment. One day, I was sitting in my room and I started to scrawl some lines that came to my mind. I had one more song done and when I was saving the file I was surprised to note that I’ve already had almost 10, what it could be perfectly become a songbook. Therefore I decided I’ve had enough material to begin this “Spanish project”, but I still needed to find something to talk about, a subject that I could express the way I see and understand the Hispanic culture. I read again all the songs I’ve already written and I could realize they had something in common, but I couldn’t actually see what it was.

A few weeks later, I rent a movie called “Love and Other Disasters” (with Brittany Murphy) and when the movie ended, the answer hit me like a punch and I knew what I’d talk about: love. I’d already decided that I’d want to impress in my work some aspects of Latin culture and the way I found it was through love, or the way of feeling the many kinds of it. When people think about something related to the Spanish language they usually think about things that are tragic, passionate, intense… The songs I’d written until that moment had those features and all of them were about relationships. Love was seen and written for different angles where it could be good and sweet or painful and tragic. Because of this, the lyrics presented a wide range of emotions and each of them had a single characteristic that made them unique, even when they were about similar themes. Those singular features of each lyric made this songbook colorful and rich of different kinds of feelings. And that was the way I wanted to picture this work.

Dotlyrics Reviews AOD

Yesterday, the site Dotlyrics.com published the review of "Amor Y Otros Desastres". The review was written by Sandra Wollopock and the songbook got a medium rate (2.5/5). You can check a part of it below and the full review is available for download in the Articles & Reviews section.

"I must confess I found Felipe Lima's new work - 'Amor Y Otros Desastres' (Love And Other Disasters) - very strange at first impression, neverthless I decided to read again with a different and open minded look. I'm glad that I've done that because I finally got the beauty of this work. First of all, if you want to enjoy this experience you must open your mind and dive in this cultural pool that Felipe presents to us."

New Poll For June/2010

Yeah guys, there's a new poll on the site. Now we wanna know if it'd be a third release for Amor Y Otros Desastres what track should be released. The poll starts today and it'll be opened for votes until july 11th.

And The Favorite Track From AOD Is...

The AOD favorite track poll is finally closed. The poll got 563 votes and the favorite track was "Ven" with 31,8% (179 votes). Check below the results of the poll:

1st - Ven >>>> 31,8%
2nd - Obsesión >>>> 16,8%
3rd - Rendición >>>> 16,7%
4th - Hace Bien Ser Mal >>>> 11,3%
5th - Esencial >>>> 10,8%
6th - La Isla >>>> 5,9%
7th - Rehen de la Suerte >>>> 3,2%
8th - Recuerdos Perdidos >>>> 2,1%
9th - Amarte >>>> 0,7%
10th - las Cosas de Dios >>>> 0,7%

Felipe Denies Rumors About A New Releasing From "AOD"

Last friday, Dotlyric's manager posted in the forum that Felipe'd may release other lyric from his latest work - "Amor y Otros Desastres". According to the message, Felipe'd decided to schedule a date in the last week of April to promote the last song of his spanish songbook. This'd be an attempt to show to Dot's readers the great potential of the pieces, since the songs from "AOD" got a lower rank than Felipe's previous works.
After reading this post, Felipe has pronnouced that unfortunatelly the info wasn't true. In deed, "Ven" was the last song released from "Amor y Otros Desastres" and still talking about the subject, the author said it was a fantastic work and he was very satisified with the results of it. He said the lyrics lower ranks (compared to the songs from Scrapbook) was not the reason why he decided to "interrupt" the promotion of his latest project. But, it was planned a short kind of promotion for "AOD" since Felipe'd still be working in his main project to be released in the first semester of 2010.

March Poll: "What's your favorite track from 'AOD'?"

It's already open March poll. "Amor Y Otros Desastres" was released four months ago and with it, there're three singles released on internet. So now I want to know what is your favorite track on my latest work. Don't miss it!!!

"Ven" Will Be The Last Piece Of "AOD"

Early today, Felipe announced that "Ven" will be the last song released to promote his spanish songbook "Amor y Otros Desastres". The author said he got an amazing accomplishment with this project and he was very proud of it. But at the moment he felt important to dedicate more time to the current project he's working on.