Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.
Album: Ólafur Arnalds, For Now I am Winter ?Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.? William Wordsworth, from… Read more »
Jay Nash is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter whose latest album, Letters From the Lost, will be released May 14. He recently took the time to answer some of Wanda Waterman’s questions about learning music, new funding models, and why he needed to make his latest album in his home studio. You can read the first part… Read more »
Album: North Sea Stories Artists: Irmelin (Eva Rune, Karin Ericsson Back, Maria Misgeld) Genre: Folk, World, A Cappella ?I’ve spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.? Renee Fleming ?I mean, the genuine roots of culture… Read more »
Film: Beauty is Embarrassing Director: Neil Berkeley Genre: Documentary ?When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.? Hunter S. Thompson How Bad Parenting Makes Good Artists Wayne White’s dad was a hometown hero in their small Chattanooga neighbourhood back in the ?70s ?loads of charm, a star athlete, and really popular. But he was… Read more »
?It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.? Rainer Maria Rilke Jay Nash is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter whose latest album, Letters From the Lost, will be released May 14. He recently took the time to answer some of… Read more »
Read Part I of this article here ?I see two stars darting across the sky. Between them darts a shining star. It is coming towards us. It shines over all the planet. Djandjo, the sky is changing colour. It is getting darker. This means that our knowledge escapes us. The divine forces have deserted us…. Read more »
?African cinema is only beginning to explore its unlimited potential.? Férid Boughedir, Camera d’Afrique (1983) Férid Boughedir, Tunisian author, screenwriter, filmmaker, director of the Carthage Film Festival, and jury member at Cannes, can boast among his great achievements his advocacy of other African filmmakers. His ability to see the big picture and his willingness to… Read more »
Album: Mario Rusca, Joyette ?There’s a way of playing safe, there’s a way of using tricks, and there’s the way I like to play, which is dangerously, where You’re going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven’t created before.? Dave Brubeck A Spirited and Joyous Musical Buddy to… Read more »
Rachid Taha, Zoom ?Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.? Kurt Cobain Arab Exile Punk Any fresh work from Rachid Taha is newsworthy. Reports of his lapses into drug and alcohol abuse have… Read more »
