Joseph Tawadros - Fly Away

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Amanda Palmer reads "Life While-You-Wait" by Wislawa Szymborska

Live @ The Barbican London
Dhafer Youssef: Oud, Vocals, Electronics
Arve Henriksen: Trumpet, Vocals, Electronics
Eivind Aarset: Guitar, Electronics
Audun Erlien: Bass, Electronics
Rune Arnesen: Drums, Electronics

More about Divine Shadows Album:
...After these unlikely encounters between Oud and electronic music (Electric Sufi), Dhafer Youssef sets himself a new challenge which consisted in introducing more string instruments to his creative universe. This surrealist equation resolved with the release of “Divine Shadows” in 2005. The sound is resolutely thrilling without losing its ethereal aspect. Spiritualism is asserted manifesting itself without any complex and far from stereotypes. The album was marked by the arrival of Arve Henriksen and Marilyn Mazur together with the road companions Eivind Aarset, Audun Erlien, Rune Arnesen. After a first nomination for the BBC awards for world music in 2003, “Divine Shadows” will bring him a new nomination in 2006... more http://www.dhaferyoussef.com/#/music



05 - Dhafer Youssef 11th Walk from Divine Shadows Album Live @ Barbican

03 - Dhafer Youssef Wind&Shadows Live @ Barbican

read by Tom O'Bedlam

“Alone”
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
________________

From childhood’s hour I have not been 
As others were I have not seen 
As others saw I could not bring 
My passions from a common spring


From the same source I have not taken 
My sorrow I could not awaken 
My heart to joy at the same tone
And all I lov’d I lov’d alone
Then in my childhood in the dawn 
Of a most stormy life was drawn 
From ev’ry depth of good and ill 
The mystery which binds me still
From the torrent, or the fountain
From the red cliff of the mountain 
From the sun that ’round me roll’d 
In its autumn tint of gold 
From the lightning in the sky 
As it pass’d me flying by
From the thunder, and the storm
And the cloud that took the form 
(When the rest of Heaven was blue) 
Of a demon in my view

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So Now? by Charles Bukowski

the words have come and gone,
I sit ill.
the phone rings, the cats sleep.
Linda vacuums.
I am waiting to live,
waiting to die. 
I wish I could ring in some bravery.
it's a lousy fix
but the tree outside doesn't know:
I watch it moving with the wind
in the late afternoon sun. 
there's nothing to declare here,
just a waiting.
each faces it alone. 
Oh, I was once young,
Oh, I was once unbelievably
young!

"Alone"  Edgar Allan Poe -  So Now?  Charles Bukowski

Angela McCluskey - Don't Explain

Karim Baggili Quartet - Zayak

Charles Bukowski - Bluebird تشارلز بوكوفسكي - طائر أزرق

Anouar Brahem - kashf

“Psalms” was composed during the years of the last Intifada, as the only escape road from the absurdity that endangers sanity, and as the only answer I can give to the recurring question that haunts each and every Arab today: “ Who are you?” 

Amanda Palmer reads "Life While-You-Wait" by Wislawa Szymborska

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