Name: "A Poem of Friendship" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova) by brainpicker in Afrik
Duration: 31 s
Description: Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/15/nikki-giovanni-love-friendship-loneliness/

Afrik

I decided to take a short break from the sad piano vortex & moved north into the Flemish countryside & recorded a drone record. 
Although initially inspired by a recurring dream wherein “if someone listened to the music I created, then they would die.” 
I would like to acknowledge the barbiturate from the album title as both muse and sacred escape: 
“When you are sitting face forward on the daily emotional meat grinder of life, I always wished I could have some, 
so I could just fall asleep automatically and the feeling would not be there anymore.”

Tissue Of Lies

Pre-order the new album ‘Migratory’: https://idol-io.ffm.to/migratory

Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita returns with his new album Migratory, where his sonic explorations into the unknown continue. The record is set for release September 6 and features Moor Mother and Hatis Noit. Fujita has shared the first, synth-lead single from the record, Tower of Cloud.

On the track, Fujita said "'Tower of Cloud' took form when I was preparing a live set for a tour a few years ago, and it evolved as I played in Europe and Thailand. The synth riff gives me a late summer feel and reminds me of cumulonimbus clouds, and I can see a swallow drawing a circle in the sky to the marimba melody.”

Migratory

Tower of Cloud

Masayoshi Fujita - Tower of Cloud

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power
Release date: April 24th 2015
Glitterbeat Records
www.glitterbeat.com

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba’s fourth album Ba Power (and his first for Glitterbeat Records) is a striking, career defining record marked by mesmerizing songs, razor-sharp riffs and full-throttle emotions. Following two years of worldwide touring for the much heralded Jama Ko album, Bassekou’s band, Ngoni Ba, has turned up the volume and dynamics significantly and Bassekou’s masterful ngoni playing has achieved a new level of intensity that can only be called: afro-rock. Distortion and wah wah and propulsive rhythms are now the defining backbone of his songs and the heat lightning vocals of his wife Amy Sacko, more than ever serve as the passionate and perfect foil. This is not the same Ngoni Ba. This is indeed: Ba Power.

When asked what Ba Power means to him, Bassekou told us:
"Ba", in Bambara means "strong" or "great" and it also means "group.” I called the album Ba Power because I think the messages on it are very important and strong, and it is also definitely the album with the toughest sound I've ever made. I want these songs to grab as many people as possible.”

Without question Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba has revolutionized the sound and narrative possibilities of the ngoni, the lute-like instrument that is essential to Mali’s Griot culture. Griots are esteemed musician/storytellers whose lineage stretches back centuries. Bassekou was born into this resonant tradition but his relationship to it has been anything but static. From the beginning of his career, through his invention of a previously unheard repertoire built around the melodies and rhythms of four interlocking (and at times electric) ngonis, Bassekou has demonstrated his respect for the past by radically pulling it into the future. 

Ba Power contains all the swagger, precision and wide-eyed excitement that the title implies. It is the album where Bassekou’s music engages with the world in ways he could have only imagined 10 years before. It is the album where he confirms his status amongst the 21st centuries most relevant musical artists.

I think African music and culture deserve to be spread to the broadest audience possible.
That is what I want to accomplish with Ba Power.
--Bassekou Kouyaté


Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba - Siran Fen

Eve Ensler has helped women all over the world tell the stories of their lives through the stories of their bodies. Her play, "The Vagina Monologues," has become a global force in the face of violence against women and girls. But she herself also had a violent childhood. And it turns out that she herself was like so many of us western women, obsessed by our bodies and yet not inhabiting them — without even knowing we're not inhabiting them. Until she got cancer.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/a-second-wind/6050

Eve Ensler — Messy, Human Love

Alzheimer's disease has been described as "the great unlearning." But what does it reveal about the nature of human identity? What remains when memory unravels? Alan Dienstag is a psychologist who has led support groups with early Alzheimer's patients, as well as a writing group he co-designed with the novelist Don DeLillo. He's observed the early stages of Alzheimer's as a time for giving memories away rather than losing them. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/alan-dienstag-alzheimers-and-the-spiritual-terrain-of-memory/64

Alan Dienstag — Love Endures

Alzheimer's disease has been described as "the great unlearning." But what does it reveal about the nature of human identity? What remains when memory unravels? Alan Dienstag is a psychologist who has led support groups with early Alzheimer's patients, as well as a writing group he co-designed with the novelist Don DeLillo. He's experienced the early stages of Alzheimer's as a time for giving memories away rather than losing them.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/alan-dienstag-alzheimers-and-the-spiritual-terrain-of-memory/64

Alan Dienstag — Alzheimer's and the Spiritual Terrain of Memory

A 4 part tune with some different moods. It starts out a bit festive, then turns into something else. 
i.  The Concept
ii. Forment an Idea
iii. Manifestation 
iv. Crystallisation - Be careful what you wish for.

Corky's Dream ©

Manifest Crystal


From the moment of his diagnosis with ALS, Bruce Kramer began writing — openly, deeply, and spiritually — about his struggle, as he puts it, to live while dying. He died while we were in production on this show. His words hold abiding joy and beauty, and reveal an unexpected view opened by this disease.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/bruce-kramer-forgiving-the-body-life-with-als/7420

Bruce Kramer — Dis Ease, the Great Teacher

Taken from the new EP "Noyaux" - out Nov. 6th  2015 on Morr Music.
Buy the single on iTunes: api.morrmusic.com/itunes/1044652779
Follow Benoît Pioulard for updates:
http://pioulard.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pioulard
www.morrmusic.com

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Benoît Pioulard: Noyaux

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/15/nikki-giovanni-love-friendship-loneliness/

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"A Poem of Friendship" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

Dawn Chorus recorded for International Dawn Chorus Day, 1st May 2016, at Wild Park in Brighton, UK.
1 hour (4-5AM), edited down to 10 minutes.

Dawn Chorus Wild Park Brighton 010516 (10min edit)

From the album A Boat Upon Its Blood by Jason Sharp

Jason Sharp
A Boat Upon Its Blood
180gLP/CD/DL
CST119

cstrecords.com/cst119
jasonsharp.ca

A Boat Upon Its Blood

Jason Sharp • "A Boat Upon Its Blood (Pt 1)"

Recorded on the southern hemisphere spring equinox in Platypus Bay, K'gari, Australia.

We dedicate this recording to Uncle Lewis Walker, Aboriginal elder of the Wahrlabal tribe of the Bundjalung nation of Byron Bay. Uncle Lewis is a Keeper of the Ancient Songlines of the Whales. We honour the Ancestor Spirits of Bundjalung Country. We honour Uncle Lewis's Dreaming Lineage and we honour Uncle Lewis's innate understanding of the relationship between the water, the whales, the Earth and humanity. Uncle Lewis reminds us that all Earth's creatures are our brothers and sisters.

Whale Song Research

Songlines Pleiades

from the album 'sketches from new brighton' available 9/10

loscil 'container ships'

Lead single from Julia Gjertsen's upcoming release 'Fragile'
Pre-order the album: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/fragile 

Stream the single on digital platforms: https://orcd.co/the-fountain 

All music written, recorded and mixed by Julia Gjertsen
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K Mastering
Artwork by Carsten Daub

Fragile

The Fountain

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Julia Gjertsen - The Fountain

a 12 min 12 seconds long tribute to Ravi Shankar

by Marco Lucchi / piano, tools

12 dicembre 2012

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