I just heard that we lost the great James Blood Ulmer.
Fascinating, beautiful person. Dazzling, undersung discography.
Have I played any song on repeat more than this one in the past decade? Unlikely.
Hats off to the museum wizard who put the moose and the flying squirrel across from each other at the Walters.
intv: When you’re feeling psychically & spiritually depleted, how do you restore yourself
Cpt. Beefheart: A Mrs Grace Chocolate Fudge Cake. I feel like saying ‘take me to your leader’ when I see one of those things.
May 1940
I’ll be doing presentations on both Saturday and Sunday.
Adieu Areski (1940-2026).
Ici avec Brigitte Fontaine, ils interprètent "Les Vergers" en 1974.
I, for one, had not previously encountered these, I assume, WWII era expressions of soft power.
Uncle Sam saying “music for all our Arab friends!” is antithetical to the Musk Doctrine. Such waste! Ha!
NEW CANARY ALBUM
Over 2 hours recorded by the great Deben Bhattacharya (b. 1921; d. 2001) of performances in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, Judeo-Malayalam, Bulharian, and Uzbek. Plus 2500 words of notes.
Photo by Bhattacharya of two young Yemeni performers. The girl on the right is playing a gas can.
In 2 weeks I’ll be making my only European appearance of the year at the Aman Aman Festival in Berlin.
Sat June 13 I’m on a panel
Sun June 14 I’ll give a 1 hour talk-and-listening session of “Ottoman-American” women from 78rpm discs ca 1917-47
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