When you think of Chinese medicine, what comes to mind is usually acupuncture needles?or maybe strangely named herbs. But what about your ears? Although It’s not common knowledge, our ears are viewed as unique in traditional Chinese medicine. This is because their surface holds a myriad of energetic points, each of which represents one of… Read more »
A Preoccupation With Grief and Loss, as Portrayed in Five Recent Indie Films Films: Morning After Midnight (USA) The Way the World Ends (USA) Soul (Belgium) LaRonde (Canada) Birthday Girls (Ireland) ?No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.? C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed I’ve noticed that death has been the subject… Read more »
Irmelin is a Swedish a cappella folk trio with a talent for exquisite renditions of timeless folk songs from Scandinavia and beyond. (Be sure to read the Voice review of their recently released third album, North Sea Stories.) All three women are also music teachers who give workshops in Swedish folk singing techniques. Recently, trio… Read more »
?When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings?to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the… Read more »
Films: A Little Push (Written and directed by Andrés Moret Urdampilleta) Lines (Written by Vivian Kerr; directed by Alexa Hann) The Deaths of Lucana (Written by Fernando Karl; directed by Alceu Bett) ?Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.? Bertolt Brecht, The Mother Freedom from Pain In A Little Push, a… Read more »
Mario Rusca is an Italian jazz pianist and composer who’s shared stage and studio with a host of jazz greats, including Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Al Gray, Tony Scott, Art Farmer, Toots Thielemans, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, and Woody Shaw. (Be sure to read the Voice review of his recent album, Joyette.) He’s also produced… Read more »
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 »
