Omar Metioui is a Moroccan classical musician who was born in 1962. In this album, Metioui collaborates with Mohamed Mehdi Temsamani in their interpretation influenced by the Andalusian poet Al-Shustari.
Literature
[Literature] Miguel Ángel Asturias’s weird novel Mulata (Book acquired, 14 April 2017)
I admit that I picked up Miguel Ángel Asturias’s 1963 novel Mulata de Tal because of the cover and blurb alone. This 1982 translation is by Gregory Rabassa, and part of a series of Latin American authors that Avon/Bard put out in really cool attractive mass market paperbacks in the 1980s. The titles can be hit or […]
via Miguel Ángel Asturias’s weird novel Mulata (Book acquired, 14 April 2017) — Biblioklept
[Literature] 12 Books To Browse Ahead Of TED2017
TED2017 begins on Monday in Vancouver, Canada, and will explore the theme “The Future You.” If the future you is anything like the future us, you are likely curled up in a big cushy chair right now, devouring the contents of a book that flips your thinking. Below, some reading suggestions from the speaker program. Read, enjoy and…
[Music/Culture] The Bard of the Caucasus: Armenian, Azeri, and Georgian Legacies of Sayat-Nova
It is truly a shame that such a treasure like Sayat-Nova, whose works were written in Armenian, Azeri, Georgian and Russia has been turned into a tool for nationalism.
Kamyar Jarahzadeh writes a wonderful article on the legendary band here for Ajam Media Collective.
[Literature] The Man Booker International Prize 2017: Longlist Predictions
A Little Blog of Books posts on her predictions for the only book prize that should matter.
[Literature] Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment Presented in a Beautifully Animated Short Film
From OpenCulture.com’s website:
In this darkly poetic animation, the Polish filmmaker Piotr Dumala offers a highly personal interpretation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, Crime and Punishment. “My film is like a dream,” Dumala said in 2007. “It is as if someone has read Crime and Punishment and then had a dream about it.”
[Literature] T. S. Eliot reading Ash Wednesday
I wish goodwill and a prosperous Lent to my Roman Catholic friends. T.S. Eliot reads his poem, “Ash Wednesday,” which fits the day well.
[Music] David J. & René Halkett – David J. & René Halkett (20th Anniversary Edition)
Bauhaus bassist David J collaborated with an original member of the Bauhaus movement, painter and poet René Halkett, for this rather interesting collaboration.
[Literature] Paul Bowles – Their Faces Are Masks
He walked through the streets, unthinkingly seeking the darker ones, glad to be alone and to feel the night air against his face. The streets were crowded. People pushed against him as they passed, stared from doorways and windows, made comments openly to each other about him-whether with sympathy or not he was unable to […]
via Their faces are masks (From Paul Bowles’ novel The Sheltering Sky) — Biblioklept
[Music/Literature] William S. Burroughs – Ah Pook the Destroyer
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=f_OJH5_f13A
Everyone’s favorite junkie uncle, William S. Burroughs, being his old cranky self. Splat, indeed.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 