June 26th, 2020
KEVIN JOHANSEN presenta su nuevo sencillo y video “The Available 20’s”
MIAMI (26 de junio de 2020) – De aquellos 20’s, los “años locos” motorizados por la prosperidad económica después de la guerra, a estos 20’s actuales con no menos locura, en plena expansión de la pandemia y distintas revueltas estallando en las ciudades. Hay un largo y sinuoso camino entre estos 100 años y Kevin Johansen logró resumirlo en los frenéticos tres minutos y medio que le dan cuerpo a “The Available 20’s”, su nuevo sencillo.
Además de este lanzamiento, Kevin Johansen no se detiene: entre julio y agosto dará cuatro shows especiales vía streaming, desde la sala La Tangente de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, cada uno con su distintiva temática:
28 de julio: Canciones propias en español
08 de agosto: Canciones propias en inglés
18 de agosto: Canciones propias y ajenas
28 de agosto: Canciones Latinoamericanas
Entre estos dos momentos históricos hay un hipervínculo que pasa por el baile. O, por apelar a un juego de palabras típico de Johansen, lo “available”: lo que está disponible, lo que se puede bailar, lo que al cuerpo le produce esa sensación de liberación. Una instantánea en espiral, con detalles de swing y charleston que le dan vida a este pulso, que sin necesitar de ser exactamente novedoso, es actualización pura. Una reescritura de época en clave de fiesta y clima de borrachera extendida. Una mirada caleidoscópica hacia lo surreal que resulta estar de vuelta adentro de los años 20, que acaban de comenzar una vez más.
Las voces hondas de Kevin se entrelazan en inglés y revisten al track de una pátina universal: lo que ocurre allá, se replica acá, y viceversa. Y con el ánimo permeable ante la invitación de una chica sueca que se hace llamar Libertad, aunque el mundo esté apretándonos, exprimiéndonos, trozándonos. Ahí se encierra el espíritu de “The Available 20’s“: la disponibilidad de lo que nos espera en esta época.
En palabras de Kevin: “The Available 20’s es una conjunción de estados de ánimo, son partes musicales que fueron surgiendo y que pude pegarlas casi como un rompecabezas. Fueron compuestas en épocas parecidas y el advenimiento del ’20 me retrotraía a los 20′ de cien años atrás. Me puse a pensar en los ciclos, los tiempos históricos, sociopolíticos, obviamente entre guerras. Los años 20 fueron una época de prohibiciones, como el alcohol en Estados Unidos, pero a la vez de celebraciones, creo que el fin de la Primera Guerra y todavía no se avizoraba la Segunda tremenda que vendría”.
“Es un poco un pensamiento sobre los ciclos y que será de estos años 20’. ¿Serán años locos? Ya lo son, el 20 arrancó muy loco. Tiene que ver con la celebración de la vida, la profiesta, el profest en vez de protesta, como forma de manifestar la libertad individual, la libertad colectiva, de algún modo el ‘no nos joderán’, ‘no nos vencerán’ que había en los años 20’ y sigue vigente 100 años después. The Available 20’s sería eso, la fiesta como protesta colectiva. El baile como la manifestación de la libertad”.
Everybody’s drunk like that punk
Everybody’s drunk, what the funk?
They just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
Everybody’s drunk like a skunk
Everybody´s drunk, what the funk?
They just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
I met a girl from Sweden
Said ¨my middle name is Freedom,
I´m available, I´m available¨.
Yeah, I met a girl from Sweden
She said ¨my middle name is Freedom,
I´m available, I´m available¨.
I feel the world´s inviting me
Exciting me
Yeah, inviting me to dance!
I feel the world´s enticing me
Slicing and dicing me, yeah
Inviting me to dance!
Everybody´s drunk like that punk
Everybody´s drunk, what the funk?
We just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
Everybody´s done with their chores
Everybody´s bored with this war
We just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
I met a girl from Sweden
She said ¨my middle name is Freedom,
I´m available, I´m available¨.
Yeah, I found a little treasure
Said ¨my middle name is Pleasure,
I´m available, I´m available¨.
I feel the world’s seducing me
Squeezing and juicing me, yeah
Inducing me to dance.
I feel the world´s enticing me
Slicing and dicing me, yeah
Inviting me to dance!
(Solo)
Everybody´s drunk like a skunk
Everybody´s drunk, what the funk?
We just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
Everybody´s done with their chores
Everybody´s bored with this war
We just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨!
Charleston, Jitterbug, Bootleg, Rosebud
Charleston, Jitterbug, Bootleg, Rosebud
Doo Wop, BeeBop, Rock´n Roll, Hip Hop
Beatnik, Blacklist, Pothead, Deadhead,
Flower Power, Disco, Hustlin´ to Frisco,
Tango, Mambo, Samba, Lando,
Charleston, Jitterbug, Bootleg, Rosebud
Doo Wop, BeeBop, Rock´n Roll, Hip Hop
Beatnik, Blacklist, Pothead, Deadhead, go!
KEVIN JOHANSEN Releases His Single And Video “The Available 20’s”
MIAMI (June 26, 2020) – From the Roaring 1920s, those uninhibited years after World War I, to the 2020s, with its pandemic and its uprisings, there is a long and winding path. Kevin Johansen sums it all up in three-and-a-half minutes on his new single “The Available 20’s,” available now from all digital-music outlets.
Kevin Johansen will remain in the spotlight in the coming weeks with four livestreamed concerts from Buenos Aires’ exclusive music venue La Tangente, each with their own distinctive set-lists:
July 28: Original songs in Spanish
August 8: Original songs in English
August 18: Original songs and covers
August 28: The Latin American songbook
Kevin Johansen connects the 1920s and 2020s by way of the dance, using the word “available” in both its standard meaning and its Spanish homonym a-vailable which roughly translates to “danceable” – that which causes the body to feel uninhibited. A whirling vignette, featuring influences from swing and Charleston rhythms, give life to this beat that’s at once up-to-the-minute and quite nostalgic. It’s a reimagining of the era in a festive setting and an atmosphere of extended intoxication. A kaleidoscopic view of the surreal scenes of the 20s, which are with us again.
Singing in English, Kevin offers deep-toned vocals that give the song a universal sheen – what happens in one place will be replicated elsewhere. The song references a Swedish girl named Freedom who furthers the festivities’ open spirit even as the world seizes us and puts us through the wringer. In summary, the spirit of “The Available 20’s” reminds us of the availability that awaits us in these times.
“‘The Available 20’s” is a conjunction of moods, and the advent of the 2020s took me back to the 1920s. I started thinking about cycles, historic times, socio-political factors, obviously the Interwar Period. The 1920s were an era of prohibitions, for example alcohol in the United States, but also of celebrations with the expectation that the War to End All Wars had already been fought,” states Johansen.
“It is a thought on cycles and what the 2020s will end up being. Could they be remembered as mad? They already are – this year started off crazy. It’s about the celebration of life, about the 1920s gluttony rather than protest as a way of manifesting individual liberty, collective liberty, of the feeling that ‘we will not be defeated’ that was present in the 1920s and 100 years later. “The Available 20’s” would be just that – the party as a collective protest. Dance as a manifestation of freedom.”
Everybody’s drunk like that punk
Everybody’s drunk, what the funk?
They just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
Everybody’s drunk like a skunk
Everybody´s drunk, what the funk?
They just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
I met a girl from Sweden
Said ¨my middle name is Freedom,
I´m available, I´m available¨.
Yeah, I met a girl from Sweden
She said ¨my middle name is Freedom,
I´m available, I´m available¨.
I feel the world´s inviting me
Exciting me
Yeah, inviting me to dance!
I feel the world´s enticing me
Slicing and dicing me, yeah
Inviting me to dance!
Everybody´s drunk like that punk
Everybody´s drunk, what the funk?
We just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
Everybody´s done with their chores
Everybody´s bored with this war
We just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
I met a girl from Sweden
She said ¨my middle name is Freedom,
I´m available, I´m available¨.
Yeah, I found a little treasure
Said ¨my middle name is Pleasure,
I´m available, I´m available¨.
I feel the world’s seducing me
Squeezing and juicing me, yeah
Inducing me to dance.
I feel the world´s enticing me
Slicing and dicing me, yeah
Inviting me to dance!
(Solo)
Everybody´s drunk like a skunk
Everybody´s drunk, what the funk?
We just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨.
Everybody´s done with their chores
Everybody´s bored with this war
We just wanna party
Like the ¨Roaring 20´s¨!
Charleston, Jitterbug, Bootleg, Rosebud
Charleston, Jitterbug, Bootleg, Rosebud
Doo Wop, BeeBop, Rock´n Roll, Hip Hop
Beatnik, Blacklist, Pothead, Deadhead,
Flower Power, Disco, Hustlin´ to Frisco,
Tango, Mambo, Samba, Lando,
Charleston, Jitterbug, Bootleg, Rosebud
Doo Wop, BeeBop, Rock´n Roll, Hip Hop
Beatnik, Blacklist, Pothead, Deadhead, go!
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