“Put two Steinways head to toe so that they form a square. Draw a circle with a piece of chalk.

The whole turns into a geometric figure, a ying yang only longing to sound. These two surrounded pianos, that’s Pop Art.

Two iron harps, and, sitting at the keyboards like symmetric figures on one playing card, Rami and Francesco, two runaway accomplices.

One is from the Levant, and the deep oriental singing. The other from some kind of North where the heaves curl up at the feet of steel bridges. They face each other. Almost.

One glance and … go! Double play of Pop Art. The union of the olive tree and the sprout, far away from solfege in an age of digital after-piano.

Here, it is all done in a flash on dual mechanic. It’s a system captured in a mirror. A shared reflection for an improvised Sonatine at the crossroads of the preludes. The piano overcame baroque music when architecture was inventing sounding modules and scattered perspectives. There’s something happening today under the song of these ruins. It has become a solitary machine at the center of the world. A self-repeating chromatic belt.

Diptych – multiples – ornamentation – response – 4-had match – loop…

Pop Art sounds and grooves, flows and brews.

The sequence profuses a flow of woody notes. The strings cringe under the fingernail like a scratch board or a boat adrift, pushed around by a lukewarm breeze. The two of them lead to the dance. One from the moon, the other from the sun. One in the clouds, the other on basalt.

One is a winged cat, the other a hidden fox. Heads or Tails, Pop Art or a kind of inventive atmospheric music, arpeggiating on the hills of the Eixample like a musical hide and seek.

A reverse shot filled with eighth-notes and catchy hitches. It is a dream machine of sound transporting us until its extinction under the vaults of profound grottos. The vault itself traces the volutes like an arabesque. A phylactery scrolls on the inner wall of the gypsum like a massive convulsive body.”

I like the crafted connection between the CD description and tracks’ names…

Beautiful melodies evoking mental, emotional and maybe even physical release … maybe I’ll explain more later, but for now get your copy here! and decide which yourself…

and be sure to explore more of Rami Khalife’s and Francesco Tristano’s work

“Poets For Palestine was published to unite a diverse range of poets, spoken word artists, and hip-hop artists who have used their words to elevate the consciousness of humanity. Sixty years after the dispossession of the Palestinian people, this anthology presents forty-eight poems alongside original works by Palestinian artists. All proceeds from the sale of this collection will go toward funding future cultural projects that highlight Arab artistry in the New York City area.”

Pre-order yours today!

Israeli tanks kill seven Palestinians, including mother and four young children in Beit Hanoun, Gaza.

Mother: Khadra Abu Mu’attaq, and children Ahmad Abu Mu’attaq, three-year-old Hana Abu Mu’attaq, four-year-old Salih Abu Mu’attaq, and six-year-old Rudayna Abu Mu’attaq. (source)

Rest in Peace - for our people back home, it seems the only place to possibly find it is 6 feet under!

Oh, how it feels to be able to - without any reservations what so ever - express your thoughts, your feelings, your dreams, your desires, your needs, every single thought that goes on inside your mind. In writing.

P.S. I’m contemplating burning them…

Who: Just Me

What: Two days and one night in Solitude

When: June, 2008

Where: 400 meters below sea level

Why: To experience something I have not experienced in a long time

How: By ‘falling out of line’

Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Need I mention who ‘allegedly‘ said that…? 

It’s always an accident. And through israeli lens, it is always justified.

“Joy, Sadness, Success, [Truth], Love and Memories” … Rest in Peace, Fadel.

There were two coffins in the funeral procession for Reuters cameraman Fadil Shana’a, one carried his lifeless corpse and the other his camera and his protective vest. Many tears were shed at the funeral. During his career Shana’a also shed many tears as he documented bereaved mothers and children.

Twenty three-year-old Shana’a always went in pursuit of the truth and the last moments of his life were spent in pursuit of that truth. His dead body was found lying among dead Gazan children targeted by Israeli tanks in the area of Juhor ad Dik in the Gaza Strip. The last shot his camera documented was the artillery shell that killed him. The Israeli authorities said he was killed accidentally.

An eyewitness, journalist Yassir Qadih, said, “Reuters journalist Fadil Shana’a was killed while he was in a jeep which was clearly marked ‘Press’.”

“There was nobody around us except a group of children who we were going to film. There were no resistance groups in the area” he added.
Television footage showed the jeep, with large signs reading “Press” and “TV” with a gaping hole blown in the driver’s side.

Reuter’s editor Nidal Al-Mughrabi was working with Shana’a up until he was killed, “The last picture Shana’a shot was a shell and suddenly we lost contact which meant he had been killed.” (Read on …)

Every single day is living proof that people are the worst disease to ever plague planet earth.

Just wondering if there are any sick disgusting people out there who would justify such… so the question is:

Is rape ever justified?

Why/Why not?

Via Exploring Creative Words and Poetry 

Invest me in my motley; give me leave
To speak my mind, and I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of the infected world
~As You like It. The Forest.

Google Earth’s new mapping programme takes you on a virtual reality tour with the UN refugee agency of some of the world’s major displacement crises and the humanitarian efforts aimed at helping the victims.

Highlighted are not only the physical area of the camp and surrounding country, but key parts of daily life such as education and health in photo, text and video format. Within seconds, Google Earth brings the daily life of a refugee camp into your home thousands of kilometres away [source].

Well, whatever it was … it’s utterly outrageous…  Palestinian refugee camps (27 that exist in occupied Palestinian territories with approximately one million people) are not included and wont be experienced in the ‘virtual reality tour’ … It is a reality … the refugee problem is a bitter reality that needs to be recongized the very least…

Please sign this petition asking UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to correct this mistake and add all Palestinian refugee camps within the Occupied Palestinian Territories to their “Google Earth Refugee’s World Layer.”

Via Sabbah

Thanks!

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