5 track tribute to the talented singer Lhasa De Sela:

1) Live recording of Lhasa Del Sela as she sings Fairuz's adaptation of the poem by Khalil Gibran 'The Nay/ A´tini  Al-nay /  اعطني الناي

أعطني الناي وغني, فالغنا سر الوجود وأنين الناي يبقى, بعد أن يفنى الوجود هل إتخذت الغاب مثلي, منـزلاً دون القصور فتتبعت السواقي, وتسلقت الصخور هل تحممت بعطره, وتنشفت بنور وشربت الفجر خمراً, من كؤوس من أثير هل جلست العصر مثلي, بين جفنات العنب والعناقيد تدلت, كثريات الذهب هل فرشت العشب ليلاً, وتلحفت الفضاء زاهداً في ما سيأتي, ناسياً ما قد مضى أعطني الناي وغني, وانسى داء ودواء إنما الناس سطورٌ, كتبت لكن بماء 

Give me the Nay and sing, /The secret song of eternity. /The laments of the Nay will linger /Beyond the decline of existence.

Have you, like me, /Chosen the forest dwelling /Rather than the castle? /Have you followed the stream /And climbed the rocks? /Have you anointed your body /With fragrance distilled in light? /Have you been drunk with dawn /In the goblets full of pure air?

Have you, like me,/ Sat down at dusk,/ Among the glowing languor/ Of vines laden with grapes? /Have you lain down on the grass at night /And covered yourself with heavens, /Opening your heart to the future, /Forgetful of the past?

Give me the Nay and sing, /The song in tune with hearts. /The laments of the Nay will linger  /Beyond the fading of sins. Give me the Nay and sing, /Unmindful of troubles and cures. /For each man /Is nothing more than a watercolor sketch.

2) Bia Krieger con Lhasa de Sela in 2008 singing "Los hermanos" (A. Yupanqui)

3) Lhasa De Sela live on piano singing her own "I'm Going In" (Toronto, 2006)

4) Lhasa De Sela "La Confession," live acoustic recording from France during tour of Living Road album in 2003

5) Studio recording of her song "Where do you go" (2009, self-titled album).

Lhasa de Sela Tribute Mix

...If you were an alien tuning into the sphere of sound that earth has been emitting since we discovered how to radio broadcast, and trying to make some sort of emotional narrative of the human experience, is there an emergent quality to the aural messages that transcends? Could another form of consciousness slice the beats back together across space and time to deduce the language of music? Would there be a similar concept of dance housed in a body to react to the sound? I like to mix imagining how the blend of human radio clips might be pieced together from the outside: sometimes dissonant, sometimes harmonious. Above all, I hope to tell a story through cuts to the emotion that a human journey knows...

Lhasa de Sela Tribute Mix

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