Name: SUPER SLEUTH by Vennart
Duration: 4 min 44 s
Description: From the new album, 'In The Dead, Dead Wood', available from band camp and Vennart.com from 6/11/20

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Album available From iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tamala/id722299420
Bandcamp: http://amiwassidje.bandcamp.com
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FISF1T4
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/en/album/6986109
eMusic: http://www.emusic.com/album/art-melody/wogdog-blues/13939852/



Aminata Wassidjé Traoré is a rising voice in Mali. Tamala is her debut album, recorded in Bamako between 2000 and 2008. Born in Diré, near the fabled city of Timbuktu, Ami was raised within northern Mali's rich cultural brew. From an Ethnic Songhai family, Ami started singing as a young child. Her music, like the environment that surrounded her growing up in Diré, near Timbuktu, incorporates various cultures and traditions. On Tamala, an album she self produced with the help of artist Mamadou Kelly (http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.bio/project_id/721.cfm) and arranger Baba Simaga, she sings in Songhai and Tamasheq.

While northern Mali still suffers the repercussions of religious and ethnic warfare, Tamala sends a message of reconciliation and inclusion. Ami believes people can work together for a solution, she sees the vast potential of Mali's diverse north. Moving to the Southern capital of Bamako not only enabled her to develop as a musician, backing up well known artists like Baba Salah (http://www.npr.org/2013/03/21/174416220/baba-salah-a-malian-musician-speaks-to-his-nations-displaced), Khaira Arby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UDecjaj4ek) and Afel Bocoum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afel_Bocoum), it also enhanced her vision of a diverse and connected Mali.

Tamala is considered a modern-traditional album in Mali: it is rooted in northern folk musical traditions, but arranged in a contemporary way. it was conceived locally, for a Malian audience, and shines in its subtle simplicity. This album is also the first collaboration between Paul Chandler's Studio Mali (http://www.studiomali.com) and Akwaaba Music.

Paul set up Studio Mali as a label and artist management company, and has worked with legendary musicians such as Afel Bocoum, Vieux Farka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieux_Farka_Tour%C3%A9), Baba Salah, Andra Kouyaté (http://www.afropop.org/wp/3319/3319/), Samba Touré (http://www.samba-toure.com/) and most recently on Mamadou Kelly's album Adibar. Paul also founded i4africa.org (http://i4africa.org/), an NGO whose goal is to preserve traditional music, and provide training in the arts to underprivileged and at-risk youth in Mali.

Aminata Wassidjé Traoré - "Afrique"

Academy in One Day
Whilst Arendt is chiefly famous for her provocative study of the trial of Adolf Eichmann – from which we get the famous phrase ‘the banality of evil’ – Arendt’s important philosophical work, The Human Condition, is a profoundly original study of human life that deserves far greater attention than it receives. 

At the centre of The Human Condition is Arendt’s bold distinction between three spheres of human activity: Labour, Work, and Action. Labour, the toil that is essential for the preservation of biological life, Arendt associates with necessity, with what we must do to survive. The recurrent cycle of Labour and its characteristic lack of individuality is redeemed in part by Work – that is, the creation of and addition to the tangible human edifice, in a way that outlasts our own lives and makes possible our being remembered. For Arendt, however, it is only in Action that we experience freedom, for in Action we show ‘who’ we are (unique individuals), not merely ‘what’ we are (members of the human species). Only in Action are we motivated by concerns that go beyond the preservation of life. Rehabilitating this state of freedom, which Arendt associates with politics, is the central concern of The Human Condition. To this end, she draws on the Christian-Humanist celebration of natality, offering an impassioned defence of the ‘miracle’ that is the birth of each and every unique human being. 

The Human Condition is a challenging yet endlessly rewarding text, and the freshness and erudition of Arendt’s prose stands as a fine advert for the humanist ideals of the academy.

Speakers
Jon Nixon
writer, Centre of International Education and Lifelong Learning, Hong Kong Institute of Education; author, Hannah Arendt and the politics of friendship; founding co-editor, Perspectives in Leadership in Higher Education

Chair
Jacob Reynolds
consultant, SHM Productions


Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

Pre-order now available via Imprec.com
First pressing of 500 copies. Packaged in a heavy duty single pocket sleeve with silver metallic inks.

100 copies on silver vinyl are available exclusively for Important mail-order. 

Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part 2 contains a new deep-pocket groove disco version of fan favorite Pink Lady Lemonade. Side 2 is a slick kosmiche-electro-disco number that unfurls over a period of 20 minutes and is punctuated by Makoto Kawabata's unruly soloing. 

Last copies of Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part 1 LP are available via Important Records and contain vocals from Cotton Casino. 

Cotton Casino : voice, astral mama
Kawabata Makoto : guitar, fretless bass, bouzouki, organ, rhythm machine, electronics, tapes, speed guru
Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, noodle king
Mitsuko☆Tabata : guitar, guitar-synthesizer, voice, kisses &amp; hugs
Satoshima Nani : drums, another dimension
S/T "Wolf" : bass, tapes, space &amp; time

Recorded at Acid Mothers Temple, Jun. 2016 - Mar. 2017
produced and mixed by Kawabata Makoto

Acid Mothers Temple - Pink Lady Lemonade (Astral Disco) - from Hallelujah Mystical Garden Pt 2 LP

Produced by Astrid Engberg
Translated to portuguese & recited by Carla Schack
English recital Ezra Bruno
Violin Bettina Marie Ezaki
Cello Nicole Hogstrand


Marielle 

Them that’s got shall have
and them that’s not shall loose
so it’s said
And once again it’s true

Marielle, Marielle

Bold and brave
like the sea
We are all enslaved 
'till we all are free

Marielle, Marielle

And as we persist 
just like the dawn
In the darkest days
your light shines on

 Marielle, Marielle


Aqueles que têm devem ter
E aqueles que não têm, devem perder
Então está dito
E mais uma vez, isso é verdade.
 
Marielle, Marielle
 
Atrevida e corajosa
Como o mar.
Somos todos escravizados
Até que todos estejam livres.
 
Marielle, Marielle
 
E enquanto persistimos
Assim como o amanhecer
Nos dias mais sombrios
Sua luz ainda brilha.
 
Marielle, Marielle (presente)

Marielle

I recently gave a talk about my new book, The Power of Showing Up (written with Tina Payne Bryson), to an amazing audience in Portland, Oregon and wanted to share it with you. I talk about our 4S framework and how it helps promote secure attachment and the development of resilience and an internal compass in our children. You'll even hear a complexity choir as we explore the nature of chaos and rigidity, and the harmony that arises with integration! -- Enjoy, Dan

Get your copy of "The Power of Showing Up" here: http://www.randomhousebooks.com/campaign/thepowerofshowingup/

Visit my website at: https://www.drdansiegel.com/

Dr. Dan Siegel and "The Power of Showing Up" - January 2020

Handpan / percussion - Kirill Osherov
Tabla / Violin - Gennady Lavrentiev
Bass - Paata Chakaberia
Sound Produсer - Gennady Lavrentiav
Recording - Arsen Stepanyan

TREUGOLNYY SON - FAREWELL (live in Blanc)

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/05/31/spell-to-be-said-against-hatred-jane-hirshfield

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Amanda Palmer reads “Spell to Be Said against Hatred” by Jane Hirshfield

Nightingale Forest

In this podcast David uses Yoga Sutra 1:33 and discusses the four different attitudes to take to go from a clouded mind to a clear mind.

4 Attitudes To Clear Your Mind

Produced by Didier Sylvain

I AM A DOPE MC came out the Cypher Workshop series I organized at Hi-Arts in East Harlem. The participating MC's were not only doing the Freestyle Union Cypher Workshop exercises but developing as performers for our first Rap Recital. I wasn't sure how they would respond to the idea of affirmations but they loved it. Before that, I was always hesitant to niche my niche so specifically but I ended up creating a series of meditations for artist development. I'm looking forward to sharing them with the world. Hip Hop artists need support and tools to help them in the process of identifying their own voices and staying true to them.

I AM A DOPE MC - Toni Blackman Affirmations

From the new album, 'In The Dead, Dead Wood', available from band camp and Vennart.com from 6/11/20

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SUPER SLEUTH

Formerly of Oceansize. Now flying solo, in between fluffing up Biffy Clyro's live bits.

SUPER SLEUTH

Vennart

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