Sly Nell

In the vortex of a Fallas each year that goes more out of control, converted into a diphomaniac collective saturnal, the oasis, although it seems incredible, was possible to find it in a fault of the former seafaring and rice mill town of Pinedo ¬—the old municipality of Russafa—, currently neighborhood of Cap i Casal. Without great ambitions or grand pretensions, as well as a budget that was not even medium, the fallera commission Pinedo-Tres Camins planted a spectacular monument, mix of art and engineering/architecture, modesty and extreme visual power. A giant bust, produced by the fallero workshop Chornet y el lobo, directed by the artist Jaume Chornet, also professor in the faculty of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In the production of the monument, thousands of rods collected from the vicinity were used, where they are abundant as "invasive species"; sustainable material. Unlike in the municipal falla, with parts of pure and hard metal, despite announcing that only environmentally friendly elements would be used for their easy recycling and disposal. The monument of the Pinedo-Tres Camins falla, paradoxically, was constituted as a critique of silence, of self-censorship, in an area from which one can hope that neither this nor the exogenous exists; satirical criticism should be allowed to roam freely. One feature was the opportunity to visit the installation inside, enjoying the view of a flawless workframe, executed on the basis of wood, as well as with concise and caustic reverse messages, or whith minor scale replicas of the falla. Outside, a drawer in which to deposit the written silences of the people who visited the art facility, read before the always turbulent cremà took place. A tangibly ephemeral work of art, although it will prove little less than impossible to place it in collective oblivion; nothing given this, on the other hand, to indulgence. 📷 & ✍🏾 Sly Nell @jcf_falles @fallapinedo_trescamins #Falles #Falles2026 #Fallas #Fallasvalencia #Fallesie #fallesexperimentals #fallesalternatives #disseny #design #fallesinnovadores #innovafalles #ValènciaEnFalles #regalaunninot #TheWorldisonFalla #Foc #Fire #Falles

Mrs. Sheryld Youngblood, drummer, composer, singer, band leader, musical director... A brilliant person, in a universe that a few third-rate psychopaths are trying to overshadow. With Youngblood there, singing to us and telling us the most deeply rooted and profound blues, the orange sirs of the world have it too complicated to make our puta live miserable. 📷 & ✍🏾 Sly Nell @sherylyoungbloodofficial @delmarkrecords @Blackmusiccollective #València #Valencia #chicagoland #chicagogram #chicagomusicians #travelingmusician #rootsmusician #livemusicvalencia #gig #musicianlife #músicaenvivo #musicaendirectovalencia #musicaenvivovalencia #blackmusic #gigphotographer #gigphotography #16toneladas @rollingstone

Extraordinary —for unusual— beach day in Valencia. Which, obviously, opens the doors of desire towards the implacable Lorenzo in, almost exclusively, the turisteo. With a sea water still below 20°, there is no shortage of people who go deep into it; strongly devoid of heroism, that is, given the chicha calm with which that one shows herself. Already in La Marina, the majority presence is of workers working on its eternal works of repair and reconditioning, along with that of some tourist more lost than seduced. A Marina, indeed, willing to lose much of its public ground in favor of private initiatives, consisting all of them, as it could not otherwise be, in cement projects, formed as "useful" buildings, which will cause them to lose ground intended for the use and enjoyment of citizenship. The morbid connivance of the Generalitat Valenciana/Port Authority —both in the hands of the far right— bringing their substantial fruits, always for the benefit of the common, of course. Main machination: a mazacote over 100 meters high, blatantly breaking the model of port/city integration, as well as the historical silhouette of the maritime front, whose licence must be managed by the Port Authority; circumstantially, the city council will return the plot to the shipping agent, since the local corporation lacks competences that would support the start of the work —another trap-bridge more—. The monstrous carbuncle destined for hotel use breaks down the entire cultural landscape of the port. 📷 & ✍🏾 Sly Nell @valenciaport @comissiociutatport @ajuntamentvlc @mjosecatala #València #Malvarrosa #streetphotomag #insidephotosmagazine #photodocumentary #life_streets #eyephotomagazine #streetphotographers #streetphotographycommunity #outofthephotos #street_storytelling #streetphotographycollective #streetphotographer #sea #beach #streetphotographerValencia #playa #playas #playasdeespaña #paisvalencià #valenciagrafias #people_in_bl #fotoreportaje

The night imploded the rock club; like canned sardines, there was no pin and impossible to move with a minimum of space. In addition, from many minutes before the start time of the Lee Fields bolo. However, the performance was undertaken with more than 30 minutes of delay. Suffocating, the heat. The Expresions come out on stage and everything starts to move. Everything. The discomforts fall conclusively into the bag of oblivion once already the North Carolinian, elegant as a paintbrush, on the platform. This was a univocal sign. The first song to ring was “You can count on me”, cut 2 from his 2023 single, which served to make the respectable, if he wasn’t yet, put himself at the feet of the soulman. The rest fell by their own weight; interacting with the audience, he developed his entire repertoire marked by a distinction and a sublime sensitivity: “Ladies”, “Wish you were here” —undoubtedly, with the most moving moments of the evening—, “Time”, “Don’t walk” — glorious Deboe’s solo on the saxo—, “My world”, “Never be another you”… until the end, after imploring the respectable a good handful of minutes, with his expansive bis “Honey dove”, as immaculately genuine as all the above. And then it’s when you leave reconstituted of the club, without even being very aware of what hostias has happened there again with this Lord so traditional, so faithful to his forms —much more, if possible, to his roots—, modern, consequently and finally. His 75 years, perhaps, only perhaps, will lead him to adjust the duration of the bolo more than desired; but it doesn’t matter, if I acted for 2 hours it would still seem so enormously scarce to us... We are very needy in these times that are coming from MAGA and each day more tortuous stick and try. So much so that, nevertheless, may even because of it, we are not content with anything. 📷 & ✍🏾 Sly Nell @mrleefields @daptonerecords @Blackmusiccollective @houston_party #valència #Valencia #northcaroline #northcarolinemusicians #travelingmusician #rootsmusician #livemusicvalencia #gig #musicianlife #musicaendirectovalencia #musicaenvivovalencia #blackmusic #gigphotographer #gigphotography #16toneladas @rollingstone

“Todo se está jodiendo, presi” —“It’s all fucked up, presi”—, said Mazón to his capo, Feijóo. But what was for them, really, that which he was fucking? The friend of narcos —Feijóo, Partido Popular president—, was worried exclusively by the fact that the «molt honorable» at the time controlled the informative speech... He, Matón, being the tarugo psycho that he is! What was he going to control? His sibarityc stay in El Ventorro, while people began to drown with lungs full of mud? Not even. For a whole year he continued to lie every time he spoke, not caring, moreover, about the suffering of the victims and relatives of those killed as a result of his negligent criminal conduct; his ignominious strategy, patibularia, worked 12 months. And here we are, paying him his salary of deputy in Les Corts, with added pluses: EUR 36 thous. base salary, 8,900 as the PP’s spokesman in the Regulatory Commission —has not met for more than 5 years; 3, in the last 10—, 5 thous. for full time employment —to do what? — and 11 thous. for living in Alacant, more than 100 kilometres from Cap i Casal; activated its new office in Alacant on the same day that the video of its arrival at CECOPI was made public —another one of his wicked jokes—, with the possibility of hiring two consultants —one of them, the garrulo who was his chief of staff—, and a driver; this office, for the time being, we do not know the cost that it will entail for the Valencian public treasury. Minimum, will take raw 62 thous. euros annually from our pockets. With more than 230 people dead, victims of his criminal negligence. He's not doing too badly, eh? However, another challenge is approaching for the pajarito: Bussot. As a protected official, he has at most two years left. He's a walking political corpse, the figura. It will be the backstabbing people in his inner circle who will end up, at the very least, throwing him to the lions. ✍🏾 & 📷 Sly Nell @victimesdana @acordsocialvalencia #dana #danavalencia @nytimes

And, ladies and gentlemen, it rained love. Once again we were able to enjoy it until the deepest entrails of our battered wrappers. Love whith blood and fire. Without any regard or fuss. Combined, yes, with the necessary doses of sybaritic pleasure. By the hand, rather by the voice, of a majestic and cyclopean Lee Fields, imperial aristocrat —with permission of the hyperstimulated underground residents—  of the black, deepest and most beautiful R&B. Very, very beautiful... Of the Music, plain and simple. Last night, in Valencia. 📷 & ✍🏾 Sly Nell @mrleefields @daptonerecords @Blackmusiccollective @houston_party #valència #Valencia #northcaroline #northcarolinemusicians #travelingmusician #rootsmusician #livemusicvalencia #gig #musicianlife #músicaenvivo #musicaendirectovalencia #musicaenvivovalencia #blackmusic #gigphotographer #gigphotography #16toneladas @rollingstone

It is the younger generations who, through their resistance, will prevent the advance of fascism in many parts of the world. In Spain, thousands of students prevented fascist agitators from entering several universities. The images show those who did it at the very door of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Valencia, with state security forces showing themselves to be very lenient towards an illegal gathering promoted by the fascist troublemaker Vito Zopellari Quiles —Vito Quiles—, included in a grotesque gira, "allegedly" subsidized —institutional advertising in affiliated media and pseudo-media— by several autonomous communities governed by the far right and the extreme right —Popular Party and Vox—, as well as, also “allegedly”, by important businessmen, owners of the main Spanish mega-companies, recipients of stratospheric amounts of euros through the awarding of public contracts. A “sir”, "allegedly" a pedophile, a convicted criminal, is, on the other hand, the nuclear generator of that starkly anti-humanist current that is spreading like ivy through a world in which its order has imploded before our very noses, busted by that "alleged" pedophile and convicted criminal. In various countries, their nuncios vendepatrias are concentrated in political formations supported by a number of de-claissed people —mostly workers—, that fluctuates depending on the geographical context. Alarmingly high, in any case. Likewise, in this case, the financial support comes from social elites and medium/large business owners —both foreign and native—. 📷 & ✍🏾 Sly Nell @universitatvalencia @adrfftic #València #Valencia #noracism #noracisme #noracism #no_al_racismo #noalracismo #noalracismo👊🏿 #no_to_racism #notoracism #notoracism👊🏿 #non_au_racis #antifascista #antifascism #antifascistas #antifascismo #antifascismomilitante #humanrightsviolation #paisvalencià #multicultural #multiculturalsociety #valenciagrafias #valència #people_in_bl #fotoreportaje #eyephotomagazine #photodocumentary #fotodocumentalista #fotografíadocumental #documentaryphotography @nytimes

The San Silvestre race in Valencia, a way to banish demons, both our own and others', to put an end to the penultimate of those anni horribeles to which we are being so satanically forced to become accustomed. It's about bringing humor to a world ruled by psychopaths, where it's acceptable to exterminate an entire people to build hotel complexes or let people die in terrible agonys, their lungs bursting from mud, while the person who should have prevented it eats peacefully and with company in a restaurant with rooms. Humor, yes. Forgiveness and oblivion, no. There will be no peace for the wicked. 📷 & ✍🏾 Sly Nell #València #SanSilvestreValenciana #SanSilvestreValenciana25 #SanSilvestre #SanSilvestre25 #CarreraSanSilvestre #carreras #races #Endyearraces #paisvalencià #valenciagrafias #people_in_bl #eyephotomagazine #estaes_valencia #asi_es_valencia #photodocumentary #fotodocumentalista #fotografíadocumental #documentaryphotography #documentaryphotography_bw #documentaryphotographer #documentaryphotography_valencia #streetphotogallery #streetphotographer #lensculturestreets #fotoreportaje #lacalleesnuestra @nytimes

Valerie June’s performance last month in Valencia was a sidereal translation whose execution is within the reach of very few artists; it is not that those who fail to do so offer low-quality repertoires, which will be not the case, we must insist; in fact, this must not necessarily be forged next to that; nor are they exclusive, which is what confirmed on stage the singer, composer and poet of Mid-South. She performed it with her own forms, sucking from various and diverse sources, which makes it a useless exercise to try to encasillate it in one style or genre. Throughout her entire set, Valerie, with her very personal voice, emotionally transported us to the cotton fields of horror from which voices and rhythms of unusual depth and beauty emerged, but infused with the chilling pain and suffering endured by black people both on and beyond the fateful plantations. However, he did not do it by letting himself be carried away by anguish —which also— no no, he led us to those nefarious scenarios from a position of sentimental balance. To do this, one must be a person with his feet firmly on the ground, willing to do everything honestly possible to achieve what he wants to get; Valerie June has even worked cleaning houses in order to acquire enough financial resources to carry out her sonic projects. In the evocative scenario, the prodigy was given with three people, little or no ostentation of any kind: Valerie herself —multi-instrumentalist—, Matt Marinelli on electric bass and Casto Sánchez —drummer—: perfect match. The club, petado; it could not be otherwise. Who knows when something similar to sorcery lived that indestructible evening. ✍🏾 & 📷 Sly Nell @thevaleriejune @Blackmusiccollective @concordrecords @houston_party #valència #Valencia #travelingmusician #rootsmusician #livemusicvalencia #gig #musicianlife #tennessee #tennesseemusician #menphis #Menphismusician #tennesseemusicians #músicaenvivo #musicaendirectovalencia #musicaenvivovalencia #blackmusic #gigphotographer #gigphotography #16toneladas @rollingstone

Vito Zopellari —or Vito Quiles, as he calls himself— is a political agitator from Elx with airs of journalist —something that is obviously neither by training, activity nor career—. He is proactive in defending the fascist ideology, becoming an anti-system. Their initiation megaphone was EDA Tv, owned by another ultra-rightist “journalist” —Javier Negre—. Later, the communication area of the group of right-wing radical voters Se Terminó la Fiesta, chaired by MEP Luis Pérez, known as Alvise Pérez, immersed in several legal cases —as a defendant, in one case, and pending the withdrawal of his parliamentary immunity, in another, for illegal financing of the election campaign carried out at the last European Parliament elections—. Zopellari started what was supposed to be a “gira” through various Spanish universities to proselytize the fascist ideology; none of the public universities authorized him to hold any event in their faculties or campus. Despite this, he called for events that were seriously harmed by the peaceful opposition of students and university staff, and was finally forced to suspend the “ronda”. This opposition significantly contradicts the mantra that has been run by the right-wing Comunication Media Lies —almost exclusively conservative digital media— that it consists in attributing to the Spanish youth a fondness, not contrasted, by radical conservative ideologies. At the universities, he encountered hundreds of young people who were prepared to prevent him from passing through them by means of peaceful resistance; what they did, thus making impossible the sowing of hatred and phobias that Zopellari tried to spread and instill in and on the space and free thought of the student body. ✍🏾 & 📷 Sly Nell @universitatvalencia @adrfftic #València #Valencia #noracism #noracisme #noracism #no_al_racismo #noalracismo #noalracismo👊🏿 #no_to_racism #notoracism #notoracism👊🏿 #non_au_racis #antifascista #antifascism #antifascistas #antifascismo #antifascismomilitante #humanrightsviolation #paisvalencià #multicultural #multiculturalsociety #multicultureel #multiculturel #multiculturaleducation #eyephotomagazine @nytimes

Exactly one year after the apocalypse given in Zone 0 of the DANA of Valencia, the individual who had in his hands to save the lives of thousands of people, but did not do it, resigned. He carried it out not because his non-existent conscience dictated it to him, according to his religious beliefs, but because, again, he mocked the victims of the meteorological hecatomb by attending the state funeral performed in the Science Museum of Cap i Casal. The victims and relatives of these were unable to contain their anger, their impotence, their pain —they had no reason to do so—, they hurled insults towards the one who until then… continued to be president of the Generalitat Valenciana!, Carlos Mazón. It was the highest authority, the single command in that situation of maximum alert given the fateful 29 October 2024. He left all his people abandoned while developing with total normality his institutional agenda and disappeared during some sinister almost five hours of food with a “lady” —key in the criminal resolution of the careless murder perpetrated by the “molt honorable”—. After the required and indispensable pseudo-resignation —he continues to hold office— have elections been called in order for the people to decide their political future? Not at all. Is that tomorrow being decided in/from the Valencian Country? No, it is in negotiations between the two component parties of the Spanish ultra-right with parliamentary representation in the capital of the Kingdom of Spain; it is in this way that, from centrality, they try to decide the future of a people broken at its core, to whom they try to steal their right to decide which formation —not even a political leader— should manage their nearest horizon. The Partido Popular and Vox, political groups directly responsible for last year’s human tragedy in Valencia, are currently negotiating, from Madrid, we must insist, who will be the next president of the Generalitat Valenciana, plus, if this happens, what will be the benefits, the rewards to be received in return by the kingmarker. Luciferian: necropolitics. ✍🏾 & 📷 Sly Nell @acordsocialvalencia #dana #danavalencia @nytimes

This is what the fascists found yesterday at the entrance to the Facultat de Filologia at the Universitat de València. A building they were trying to access, but far from that happening, several hundred students prevented them. Young people who, according to the surveys "required" by the industry press and mass media from polling companies, vote for those who seek to curtail rights and destroy services and benefits for absolutely everyone. This is not precisely the trend perceived on the Blasco Ibáñez campus. The image says it all. Of course, the radical right-wing flock barked rabidly and brayed as if there were no tomorrow; it didn't feel very good to be rejected by young people capable of freethinking, something so unknown for centuries to the far-right aneuronals. ✍🏾 & 📷 Sly Nell #antifascista #antifascism #antifascistas #antifascismo #antifascismomilitante #humanrightsviolation #paisvalencià #valenciagrafias #valència #people_in_bl #fotoreportaje #eyephotomagazine #estaes_valencia #asi_es_valencia #photodocumentary #fotodocumentalista #fotografíadocumental #documentaryphotography #documentaryphotography_bw #documentaryphotographer #documentaryphotography_valencia @nytimes