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Category Archives: Deep stuff
LIVE: Collocutor, The Grip, Steve Williamson….
London town regularly delivers an overwhelming array of LIVE music and the late summer has been exceptional with enlightening and stirring sessions from Collocutor, The Grip and Steve Willamson. Last Monday night I caught the launch of the the Collocutor … Continue reading
Climate Change: A World Action – Thanx to Avaaz
A few months ago, the Avaaz community decided on a crazy goal – the largest mobilisation on climate change in history – and on Sunday, around the world, it actually happened. This radical event opens a new chapter in global … Continue reading
Posted in Deep stuff, Follytricks!
Tagged Avaaz, Climate Change Protests, ecology, Ed Miliband, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Global Warming, Labour Party, UN Climate Summit
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REFLECTIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF QI GONG
REFLECTIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF QI GONG. Over the past period Singing Dragon, along with other indie publishers and self published practitioners, have unleashed an avalanche of material on qi gong practices – basic and complex – in both book … Continue reading
Charles Lloyd – Arrows Into Infinity
Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is the focus of an award-winning new documentary film, Arrows Into Infinity, a collaborative work between Lloyd’s wife, painter and filmmaker, Dorothy Darr; and editor / filmmaker, Jeffery Morse. . If there’s one 60s horn player that … Continue reading
Posted in Deep stuff, Is That Jazz?
Tagged Arrows of Infinity, Big Sur, Charles Lloyd, ECM, Fillmore West, Jazz, Monterey, saxophone, spiritual jazz
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“HANDS UP DON’T SHOOT!”… TALIB KWELI ON THE FRONTLINE… LAURYN HILL EXPRESSES ‘BLACK RAGE’
“HANDS UP DON’T SHOOT!”… “I CAN’T BREATHE!” … THAT’S WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE CHANTING ON THE STREETS FROM FERGUSON TO NYC … TALIB KWELI IS ON THE FRONTLINE… LAURYN HILL EXPRESSES ‘BLACK RAGE’… MEANWHILE PHILOSOPHER, ACADEMIC, ACTIVIST & AUTHOR, DR.CORNEL … Continue reading
Posted in Deep stuff, Follytricks!, Urban runnings..., Words, Sound & Power
Tagged Black Rage, Democracy Now, Dr. Cornel West, Eric Garner, Ferguson MO, Hands Up Don't Shoot, Jessica Care Moore, Lauren Hill, Michael Brown, militarisation of police, Police brutality, Rosa Clemente, Talib Kweli
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Late Summer readzzz Pt. 2 The Lacuna + We Need New Names,
I first read a review of this book when it came out in paperback and as I scanned the array of players involved in the story – Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova – … Continue reading
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Tagged Communism, McCarthy-ism, Mexican Muralists, Mexico City
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A few Late Summer Readzzz…. Part 1.
Straight after the SunRa100 at the House of St Barnabas I managed to vacate London for a much needed break and as I’m not quite psyched into owning an e-reader I predictably dragged along a case of stuffed with post … Continue reading
BLOODY RAIN – THE SONGS & STORIES OF SARAH JANE MORRIS
‘BLOODY RAIN’ is the latest album from SARAH JANE MORRIS and it’s an album that will make you weep and your spirits soar. As I’m on a bit a political roll after writing the short reflection the plight of the … Continue reading
