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LoFi
March 11, 2023Rock Choir
September 17, 2022Rock Choir performing on Castle Hill outside Lincoln Castle .
A pleasant change from the usual noise nuisance in this area and down in the city centre.
Interstellar
June 17, 2022Interstellar Hans Zimmer on Royal Albert Hall Organ
Watched drinking Tia Maria as the sun rose.
The successor to Vangelis.
Thoughts of 2001 and Foundation.
GWR takes on the Jerusalema Dance Challenge
September 12, 2021Incredible performance at Paddington Station.
The dance challenge originated with a group of kids in Angola, and Oh My God can they move.
This has has gone viral around the world.
Music written by South African DJ Master KG.
The original DJ Master KG video has racked up an astounding 444 million views.
Christmas Eve Concert with Sangah Noona
December 25, 2020Live streamed Christmas Eve Concert with Sangah Noona.
Early hours of Christmas Day, I stumbled across a live-streamed concert with Sangah Noona.
It was forty minutes into the concert.
I rewound to the beginning watched a little, then watched later on Christmas Day.
The Sound of Silence
December 25, 2020Beautiful rendition of The Sound of Silence.
Each day a special mass is held in Catedral de Santiago in Santiago de Compostela for the pilgrims who have completed El Camino de Santiago.
America
August 6, 2020America performed by First Aid Kit to honour Polar Music Prize Laureate Paul Simon.
Very moving performance of Simon and Garfunkel class America by First Aid Kit (sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg) at Polar Music Prize 2012 to honour Laureate Paul Simon.
Paul Simon moved by their rendition of America.
The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989, by the late Stig ”Stikkan” Anderson, publisher, lyricist and manager of ABBA, and he played a key role in their enormous success. The name of the prize stems from Anderson’s legendary record label, Polar Music.
The Polar Music Prize celebrates the power and importance of music and is awarded to individuals, groups or institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements.
The prestigious Polar Music Prize awards two Laureates in order to celebrate music in all its various forms and to emphasize the original intention of the Polar Music Prize: To break down musical boundaries by bringing together people from all the different worlds of music.
The board of the Polar Music Prize Foundation consists of representatives from the Stig Anderson family, SKAP (The Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) and STIM (The Swedish Performing Rights Society). The task of scrutinizing nominations submitted and selecting the ultimate Laureates is empowered The Polar Music Award Committee comprising of internationally renowned artists and musicians as well as other key figures in the Swedish music industry.
Tired & Suzanne
August 2, 2020We’re tired of being white and we’re tired of being black
Tired
We’re tired of being white
and we’re tired of being black,
and we’re not going to be white
and we’re not going to be black any longer.
We’re going to be voices now,
disembodied voices in the blue sky,
pleasant harmonies in the cavities of your distress.
And we’re going to stay this way until you straighten up,
until your suffering makes you calm,
and you can believe the word of G-d who has told you so many times,
and in so many ways, to love one another,
or at least not to torture and murder
in the name of some stupid vomit-making human idea that makes G-d turn away from you,
and darken the cosmos with inconceivable sorrow.
We’re tired of being white and we’re tired of being black,
and we’re not going to be white and we’re not going to be black any longer.
We’re going to be voices now.
— Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
Tired by Leonard Cohen from Book of Longing, followed by Suzanne.
From a live concert Who By Fire?, First Aid Kit and friends, a concert of poetry and music Stockholm 2017 to commemorate the life of Leonard Cohen.
Leonard Cohen on Hydra
July 20, 2020In 1960 Leonard Cohen bought a house on the Greek Island of Hydra.
Once you’ve lived on Hydra you can’t live anywhere else, including Hydra. — Kenneth Koch
Leonard Cohen wished for somewhere quiet to write. He left Montreal on his first trip outside North America with a Canadian Arts Council Grant of $2,000 and one published book of poetry. He was writing a novel or trying to, blackening the pages three pages a day. Hydra seemed the ideal place, warm and sunny, especially compared with cold and grey and damp London. He arrived on Hydra with his green Olivetti. He had taken up an offer of Barbara Rothschild to stay on the island, only when he arrived at the house and mentioned her name, he was turned away by the housekeeper ‘we don’t need any more Jews here’. Leonard Cohen put a curse on the house and within six months it had burnt to the ground.
Prior to the purchase of his house, Charmian Clift and George Johnston offered a room in their house. He would sit writing on their terrace.
It was on Hydra he met Marianne and where he wrote ‘So Long Marianne’ and ‘Bird on the Wire’.
In a letter to his mother:
It has a huge terrace with a view of dramatic mountain and shining white houses. The rooms are large and cool with deep windows set in thick walls. I suppose it’s about 200 years old and many generations of sea-.men must have lived here. I will do a little work on it every year and in a few years it will be a mansion… I live on a hill and life has been going on here exactly the same for hundreds of years. All through the day you hear the calls of the street vendors and they are really rather musical… I get up around 7 generally and work till about noon. Early morning is coolest and therefore best, but I love the heat anyhow, especially when the Aegean Sea is 10 minutes from my door.
What more could an unknown writer ask for?
He was part of a group of writers and artist and poets who used to meet at Κατσικάς Katsikas.
One of his friends Charmian Clift wrote Peel Me A Lotus her account of living on Hydra in the late 1950s.
They were all cursed. Charmian Clift killed herself after leaving Hydra, George died a year later.
His first concert in Australia was dedicated to the couple and he opened with ‘Bird on the Wire’.
We have photographer James Burke to thank for a series of photographs of these days in 1960 on Hydra.
A Theatre for Dreamers a fictional account by Polly Samson seen through the eyes of an 18-year-old girl, who with a thousand pounds left to her by her mother escapes from an abusive father. She reads a book Peel Me A Lotus by Charmian Clift, sent to her mother by the author a close friend of her mother, of life on Hydra. She remembers the friend of her mother from when she was a child and writes to her asking if she can find her a room to rent.
We start in 2016, Leonard Cohen has recently died, a very sad loss, and Trump has won the US Presidential elections. Word reaches Hydra ‘and spread rapidly like a stench along the agora. There were horrified groans, even from the donkeys, disbelieving splutters from every table, passer-by and boat. For a moment it was a comfort to think at least Leonard had been spared this.’
Ravel’s Bolero
April 9, 2020
A reminder of those long lost days long ago when people actually gathered in the street.
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