Or putting together Wayne Shorter, Jalal ad-Din Rumi and Migrants. Our project in trio in the past two years has been strongly based on music by artists we admire like Wayne Shorter, Paco de Lucia… , on original compositions inspired by poets like Rumi, W.H.Auden and Neruda, but also very much concerned with the world […]
Songs
The right to be rescued…
…and the right to dream of a better life. We all agree that all of us human beings have the right to choose a better life. We have the innate ability to dream, to aspire to and envision a better future, for ourselves and for our children and dearest ones. And it is because we […]
Crystal Silence and Marian McPartland
The first time I heard this Chick Corea‘s song it was not played by him but by Marian McPartland on her NPR Piano Jazz radio show. She was interviewing Chick, he played something, they played together, and then she tells him that she wants to play Crystal Silence for him. It was (it is) a […]
Yudhishthira’s Song
Yudhishthira is one of the main characters of the Indian epic Mahabharata. At a certain moment of the story he finds his brothers dead, they attempted to drink water from a lake without answering a Crane that advised them. The Crane asks Yudhishthira philosophical questions and after giving all the correct answers his brothers return […]
I, the wind, come and go as I choose… and none can stop me
“…the music of the sun and the stars, the music of yourself, vibrating. Yes, you are the music too…everyone is supposed to be playing their part in this vast Arkestra of the cosmos”. This is Sun Ra, pianist, composer and poet, in the 1972 film Space is the Place. Space is the Place is a […]
Invisible People
Making poetry out of being invisible. “I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a […]
The Perception of What’s Coming
(this image is part of the Art Is AnInsurgent Poem cover) “24 preludes for a fugue” is a beautiful documentary about Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. When he explains something about his music or music in general, it seems to hear the universe talking. “The Perception of What’s Coming” is a song inspired by the magic […]