A.T.B. is an award-winning Moroccan-born blogger who writes one of the net’s most insightful English blogs on Morocco: A Morroccan About the World Around Him. He is also a poet of extraordinary insight and sensitivity. A.T.B. diligently disseminates relevant information to the English-speaking world regarding the struggles of a region where human rights are upheld… Read more »
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Robert Michaels is a Juno-winning Canadian musician who plays jazz, flamenco, and Latin acoustic guitar to enthusiastic audiences and who has won kudos from across North and South America and Europe. His recently released album Cubamenco is a tantalizing mix of romantic melodies and danceable rhythms and his playing has all the ancient, thrilling, brooding… Read more »
?Jazz legends like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie introduced Arabic flavours in compositions such as ?Night in Tunisia,? ?Caravan,? and ?Nardis? . . . These are songs that are still played everywhere and are famous all over the world.? Jan Wouter Oostenrijk Malika Zarra was born in southern Morocco but was… Read more »
Background Music for Sitting by the Window Staring Out at the Tempest and Thinking Tragic Thoughts Fort Fairfield The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Tale about Love in Retrospective, Acustronica, 2010 ?They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.? Angela Carter ?You… Read more »
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Fort Fairfield is the musical duo, comprising brothers John and Tom Lück, who create an atmospheric experimental music they call ?shoegaze electronic.? See review of their CD The Dead Sea Scrolls (free to download until February 28) in Gregor’s Bed. Recently, elder brother Tom took the time to chat with Wanda Waterman St. Louis about… Read more »
Dinuk Wijeratne is a prolific composer, a brilliant pianist, and a musical visionary with an aesthetic informed by the Buddhist principle of balance. With a sensibility honed by one of the best musical educations?both academic and autodidactic?imaginable, Wijeratne is now welcoming the quiet of his newfound home in Nova Scotia as an opportunity to focus… Read more »
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?If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.? Aboriginal Activists Group, Queensland Australia, 1970s ?The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.? William… Read more »