Bernie Worrell, who helped shape the sounds of Parliament-Funkadelic, and added a rich, funky palette to the Talking Heads, has died of cancer. He was 72 years old.
[Music] The Last Sabri Silenced
What angering news. I thank Praveer Cheeku of Yatra Arts for posting this earlier in the week, but thanks to tending to my ailing father and a fighting with a computer in dire need of service, I’ve had to wait to post this news until today.
Amjad Sabri, scion of the legendary Sabri Family who have produced some of the finest Qawwali singers ever, was murdered by the Taliban last Wednesday. He was 39 years old, and had continued a wonderful tradition of singing his father, Ghulam Farid and his uncle, Maqbool Ahmed.
May the Taliban be brutally crushed for the evil and misery they have caused to the nations of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Many Sufis grieve for good Amjad this weekend.
[Music] 57562 ambiguous end by nula.cc : a series of filecasts on #SoundCloud
[Music] Booka Shade – Body language (theMaLm and all that jazz flute) by Benwaa on #SoundCloud
[Music] Akira Kosemura – Someday (feat. Devendra Banhart)
Akira Kosemura is a young pianist and composer who comes from Japan. He’s shown making some delicate music with American vocalist Devendra Barnhart.
I thank Miguel Douglas, who has brought to my attention many treasures over the past year.
[Music] Mizar – Svjat Dreams
Behind only Laibach and Bijelo Dugme (White Button), Mizar were the most powerful name in the Balkan rock music scene, and crossed over into Darkwave with ease. This is a cover of The Eurhythmics’ classic hit, “Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This,” done with a heavy dose of Byzantine goth.
[Music] The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Transparent Day
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band were an American psychedelic rock band out of Los Angeles, California, who made some of the best music of the era in my opinion.
[Literature/Art] Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vortograph of Ezra Pound (1917)
Love him or hate him (and I love his work), Ezra Pound turned literature on its head for most of the first half of the 20th Century. Here he is as a model for an experimental photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
[Literature] Improved relations means American supplies for new conservation facility for Hemingway possessions in Cuba — National Post – Top Stories
HAVANA — Just before noon outside Ernest Hemingway’s Havana estate, a metallic screech cut through the chirping of tropical birds and the sound of a live band entertaining tourists. An American worker pulled open one door of a 12-metre shipping container. A Cuban worker pulled open the other. Out spilled treasure: box after box of…
[Music] Bishop Bullwinkel – Hell to the naw naw
Oh, man, this is a real person, apparently. I have found this year’s summer hit.
The next time someone bothers me to do something I find offensive, this will be my stock answer: “Hell naw, to the naw naw naw!”
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 