From Armed Struggle to Music
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- From Armed Struggle to Music
- Brangelina’s romantic holiday getaway on deserted Goa beach…
- Marco Frisina – The Divine Comedy the pera – Dante – Music – New…
- Rock Reality Show Recap: The Clark Brothers Strum ff as Winners of…
- Lydia Mendoza 91 an Early Tejano Star Is Dead
- Jazz great scar Peterson dies
- Call of the ud (Extract)
From Armed Struggle to Music
ÙÙطرة – Dec 24, 2007
Tinariwen is also a name strongly associated with the Tuareg uprising resistance. Under what conditions did Tinariwen come into existence?Ag Alhousseyni: Tinariwen were young Tuareg forced to leave Mali in the mid seventies because of the political and economic situation much like many other Tuareg. The first and oldest were in Algeria when they got into guitar music; they first held a guitar in the hand in 1978. They began to play and sing about exile and about the Tuareg people… Ag Alhousseyni: When we left Libya and Niger to go home we wanted to bring something new back with us something which hadn’t previously existed in the desert but we didn’t just want to adopt another culture; we wanted to create something new for ourselves. The culture of the electric guitar is rock but we didn’t simply want to make rock music. The guitar helped us to develop our own traditional music. Despite this the influences of other musical styles can be heard. Your music is hard to pin down because it fuses a great many genres: rock blues rock ‘n’ roll reggae raï and of course traditional Tuareg music. How did this fusion come about?Ag Alhousseyni: We are guitarists singers musicians and composers. We each listen to different kinds of music and prefer different genres.
Brangelina’s romantic holiday getaway on deserted Goa beach…
thespoof.com – Dec 24, 2007
vercome by the incredible natural beauty the celebrity couple purchased their own private island which they named "Bralina-Mar" where they can now holiday away from the prying eyes of the papparazzi. Humoroso Salvador manager of Bralina-Mar revealed that "All is ready for their arrival". With miles of white sandy beaches; warm breezes blowing off the Arabian Sea; lush green palm trees platters of sea-food and indolent guitar music Brad and Angie plan to chill out 'au naturel' in their double hammocks under starlit December skies. A local gynecologist-obstetrician says he was asked to cancel his holiday and be on standby for the A-1 couple prompting pregnancy rumors. Sources revealed Brad and Angie will usher in the New Year with locals at a tiny taverna although Angie will toast with Evian water as she is on a cleansing diet. 89-year old local dowager and walking library of historical distortions Maria Aurora Noella de Cosmos e Felice Navidade squirmed with excitement as she said "The entire village has been spruced up for their arrival. God grant me good health so I can remain alive through the holidays to see them".
Marco Frisina – The Divine Comedy the pera – Dante – Music – New…
New York Times – Dec 24, 2007
: The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982). “What I like most is the plot watching Dante’s interior voyage from false love to freedom” said Sister Maria one of some two dozen nuns who attended a recent matinee. “And it’s very forceful because of today’s technology though the music is a little loud. ”The effects are so spectacular — including a triumphal march of golden-winged angels acrobats flower-strewing damsels and a gigantic griffin pulling a golden cart — that a special theater measuring 130 feet by 492 feet was built in Tor Vergata about nine miles from the city center. At the Teatro Divina Commedia as the theater is called there are red-eyed demons writhing acrobatically in various spheres of hell against a backdrop of sets inspired by Gustave Doré whose 19th-century engravings of “The Divine Comedy” are arguably the most famous. There are dramatic smoke-machine-propelled entrances and apocalyptic battles between Good and Evil played out on invisible trapezes. Nova Ars a company in Rome that produces cultural and institutional events invested $14… Benigni who won an scar for “Life Is Beautiful” draws large crowds to his “Tutto Dante” (“Everything About Dante”) in which he riffs on the original text to make contemporary analogies. A spokeswoman for the show said it had drawn more than a million spectators in Italy since it began touring in July 2006. Monsignor Frisina’s score touches on a mélange of styles: sweeping melodic arias of Puccinian scope somber Gregorian chants even a dash of heavy metal and a wailing rock guitar riff in some of the numbers composed for the first act which takes place in hell. “The guitars express the deep pain of the sinners” he said quickly adding that the heavy-metal sound “was chosen for its dramatic intensity” and was “not a moral judgment on rock. ”For the record there’s an entire Web site dedicated to adaptations of Dante to music (.
Rock Reality Show Recap: The Clark Brothers Strum ff as Winners of…
Rolling Stone – Dec 24, 2007
Maybe as a concession to all the folks who voted for Denver and the Mile High rchestra (the best Christian band named after a fratboy fuck-in-an-airplane joke) seven of the season?s most popular bands joined forces for eight Christmas songs! All of which would currently be available on a stocking stuffer CD were this a popular show like American Idol that was full of musicians people give a shit about. Best Great American Irony: Judge John Rzeznik who spent a whole season telling bands to be more professional stumbled through a surprise Goo Goo Dolls song with enough ill-tuned guitars and flubbed notes to fuel the third drunken encore of a bar band. What up dudes? Did you borrow Rocket?s guitar tuners?Related Stories:… It would be interesting to see how many more votes over Sixwire the Clarks got. I just hope their first album isn’t all Christian music — they need to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. And Ashley is HT — so intense and passionate. Can’t wait to see what’s in their future. Just to explain my own post.
Lydia Mendoza 91 an Early Tejano Star Is Dead
New York Times – Dec 24, 2007
ther hits included “La Valentina” and “Angel de Mis Anhelos. ”“She set the trend for others: Las Hermanas Cantu Chelo Silva Las Rancheritas and other women who followed Mendoza’s lead in the world of Spanish music” said Lupe Saenz executive director of the South Texas Conjunto Association. “Mendoza will be remembered for her unique style of the 12-string guitar and unique voice and style of singing. ”Born in Houston Ms. Mendoza learned to sing and play the 12-string guitar before she was 12 and later learned to play violin and mandolin. In 1928 her family landed a recording session at the Blue Bonnet Hotel in San Antonio with the keh label which generated five singles.
Jazz great scar Peterson dies
USA Today – Dec 24, 2007
“He’s been going downhill in the last few months slowing up” McCallion said calling Peterson a “very close friend. During an illustrious career spanning seven decades Peterson played with some of the biggest names in jazz including Ella Fitzgerald Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie. He is also remembered for touring in a trio with Ray Brown on bass and Herb Ellis on guitar in the 1950s. Peterson’s impressive collection of awards include all of Canada’s highest honors such as the rder of Canada as well as a Lifetime Grammy (1997) and a spot in the International Jazz Hall of Fame. His growing stature was reflected in the admiration of his peers. Duke Ellington referred to him as “Maharajah of the keyboard” while Count Basie once said “scar Peterson plays the best ivory box I’ve ever heard. In a statement French President Nicolas Sarkozy said “one of the bright lights of jazz has gone out… “I played at his tribute concert at Carnegie Hall earlier this year and performed ‘Tenderly’ which was always my favorite piece of his. 15 1925 in a poor neighborhood southwest of Montreal Peterson obtained a passion for music from his father. Daniel Peterson a railway porter and self-taught musician bestowed his love of music to his five children offering them a means to escape from poverty. scar Peterson learned to play trumpet and piano at a young age but after a bout with tuberculosis had to concentrate on the latter. He became a teen sensation in his native Canada playing in dance bands and recording in the late 1930s and early 1940s. But he got his real break as a surprise guest at Carnegie Hall in 1949 after which he began touring the United States and Europe.
Call of the ud (Extract)
Jerusalem Post – Dec 24, 2007
The loud cheers and thunderous steady clapping dominated the Jerusalem concert hall long after Israeli-Arab singer Lubna Salameh finished her performance with all its riental flourishes. And the applause continued when the instrumental ensemble led by Israeli-Arab oud player conductor and composer Imad Dalal resumed playing during the recent “Israeli Arabic Music” concert. “nly an audience who is familiar with the music knows how and when to applaud” Salameh has said. And this mixed audience of Arabs and Jews enjoying the Eighth International ud Festival in Jerusalem last month showed that they are certainly familiar with the music. The concert was also evidence that Middle Eastern music once shunned by the Israeli mainstream and brought out only for special occasions has become an inseparable part of the Israeli musical landscape with a loyal audience that transcends ethnicity and nationality. And the festival proved that the distinct and unmistakabletimbre of the oud – father of the lute grandfather of the guitar and considered to be the “Sultan of Arabic musical instruments” – has taken a permanent front-stage position. The festival which ran for three weeks in five Jerusalem venues included classical Arabic and Israeli-Arab music and the more exotic sounds of Turkish Armenian Beduin Sufi and Middle Eastern Jewish liturgical music and was attended by about 7000 people including Jews – of both Middle Eastern and Ashkenazi origin – and Arabs religious and secular young and old… And this mixed audience of Arabs and Jews enjoying the Eighth International ud Festival in Jerusalem last month showed that they are certainly familiar with the music. The concert was also evidence that Middle Eastern music once shunned by the Israeli mainstream and brought out only for special occasions has become an inseparable part of the Israeli musical landscape with a loyal audience that transcends ethnicity and nationality. And the festival proved that the distinct and unmistakabletimbre of the oud – father of the lute grandfather of the guitar and considered to be the “Sultan of Arabic musical instruments” – has taken a permanent front-stage position. The festival which ran for three weeks in five Jerusalem venues included classical Arabic and Israeli-Arab music and the more exotic sounds of Turkish Armenian Beduin Sufi and Middle Eastern Jewish liturgical music and was attended by about 7000 people including Jews – of both Middle Eastern and Ashkenazi origin – and Arabs religious and secular young and old. In addition to local artists the festival included a lineup of world-renowned talent such as oud player Ara Dinkjian from the U. French bassist Jo?lle L?andre singers Janet and Jak Esim from Turkey and Greek lyre player Sokrates Sinopoulos.
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