Songwriting and Jams

Jam on Hijaz

Music by Elsa Saade
On Guitar: Dustin Carlson
Performed under the bridge in Prospect Park

Poem by Amal Donqol

شيء في قلبي - امل دنقل

My Hungarian puppeteer friends Sari and Szofi taught me this song. I am forever thankful to them for the balm that they have given my soul. In an attempt to have you hear what I hear when I sing it along with them, here is my harmonizing with my own voice. Note: it would never equate to harmonizing with many others.

Hungarian Lullaby + Improv Tunes

Electric piano and vocal: Elsa Saade 
Setaar Mohammad Golabi

Jam session with Elsa Saade

My humble revival of Audre Lorde's immortal poetry through song*

Poem by Audre Lorde: Recreation
Vocals and music by Elsa Saade
Recording: Mohammad Golabi
Image borrowed from a Photograph by Andre Kertesz

"Coming together   
it is easier to work   
after our bodies   
meet
paper and pen
neither care nor profit
whether we write or not
but as your body moves
under my hands   
charged and waiting   
we cut the leash
you create me against your thighs   
hilly with images
moving through our word countries   
my body
writes into your flesh
the poem
you make of me.

Touching you I catch midnight   
as moon fires set in my throat   
I love you flesh into blossom   
I made you
and take you made
into me."

Audre Lorde, “Recreation” from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.