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Lebanese-French composer, organist and improviser
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2023-07-30 10:58:00
Music of the Muslim counterculture
[…] has since died, the two Californians had divorced. It would need the right combination of musicians living in proximity with the motivation. It just isn't going to happen. The world has changed. BS: Ian, let's move on from If Man But Knew. I mentioned that you have contributed to several recent recordings of Islamic sacred music. Tell us how they came about. IW: You must be referring to the Tim Winter [Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad] recordings. Rawdhat ash-Shuhada’ was really his project and it took some courage on his part to produce it. I was really just a hired voice. I'd never done anything quite like it though I’m familiar with the musical ideas he has been developing for the last few decades. I had to sing a cappela some verses in English to a Celtic tune which I was to learn off YouTube! The five singers had […]
2021-10-29 07:00:59
I’ll See Your Study And Raise You A Proposal
Recently, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) released a report examining how arts and culture institutions that accepted Payroll Protection Program (PPP) handled staff layoffs. It’s a good report and if you’re interested in a deeper dive, you can find some good analysis and commentary from Hakim Bishara at hyperallergic.com and Joe Patti at Butts In The Seats. These initial studies provide useful context for ongoing analysis ...
2021-04-03 18:16:00
There is no happiness for those who do not travel musically
Bill Laswell's City of Light is an electro-Vedic journey to India's holy city of Benares. The evocative booklet essay is by the anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson), whose book Sacred drift: essays on the margins of Islam was featured here some years back. Music on the margins of Islam has also been a preoccupation of Bill Laswell for decades. His 1992 album Apocalypse Across the Sky offered a refreshingly lucent take on the Master Musicians of Jajouka, in contrast to Brian Jones' celebrated chemically-blurred production. Staying on those creatively inspired margins, Laswell's Gnawa Night captures the spirit masters of sub-Saharan Africa in the same lucence. In his booklet essay for City of Light, Hakim Bey quotes from Diana L. Eck's definitive portrait of Varanasi, Banaras: City of Light, and the quote resonates with my recent post Music is the best way to travel. It comes from the ancient Indian collection […]
2019-02-08 10:26:24
Black Composers Series - 1974-1978
Black Composers Series 1974-78; Sony Classical Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 February 2019 The pioneering recordings of two centuries of music by Black composers, originally issued on vinyl in 1970sThis is very much a labour of love, a 10 CD set on Sony Classical which re-issues recordings which originally came out on vinyl on Columbia Records in the 1970s documenting two centuries of music by Black composers. Originally made thanks to a collaboration between the Afro-America Music Opportunities Association and Columbia Records, the recordings cast their net quite widely with music by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767-1830), Jose White Lafitte (1836-1918), Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875-1912), William Grant Still (1895-1978), Fela Sowande (1905-1987), Ulysses Kay (1917-1995), Roque Cordero (1917-2008), George Walker (1922-2018), Hale Smith (1925-2009), Thomas Jefferson Anderson (born 1928), David Baker (1931-2016), Olly Wilson (1937-2018), Talib Rasul Hakim (1940-1998), and […]
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