Happy birthday in the great beyond to the otherworldly master Zakir Hussain.
I feel so lucky to have seen him perform, some of the best live music I have ever experienced
This was 11.8.23 at the Boulder Theater ♥️
New album from Umut Adan. Four Star review in Songlines Mag-
Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth, Texas on this day in 1930.
Out Today: Başka Bahar, the new album by Turkish singer-songwriter Umut Adan and his Italian band Zebânis, fuses protest folk with Anatolian psych, electronics, and field recordings — a transnational sound that is psychedelic, poetic, hypnotic, and danceable.
ddas.lnk.to/bahar
The world just keeps getting crazier & crazier.
Maybe you need some "sonic relief"-
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
RIP-
Out Now- A new remix of Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society's track "Dubby Signal Chain" by System 7 (Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy):
dasssystem7.lnk.to/EECYWSI6
Another terrible loss.
RIP-
“The first person who ever impressed me in my life was Ravi Shankar, and he was the only person who didn't try to impress me" - George Harrison
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
If only our Congress had an ounce of the moral backbone that our artists have-
Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
This resonates right about now:
We have been so fortunate to have Sly & Robbie play on a few of our label's albums. Sadly, as of today, they are now both gone. RIP-
Sitting here, reading the soul-destroying news of the day, listening to this in the background. David Torn is my favorite guitarist and someone I am proud to call a friend. To my ears, this piece somehow captures the moment we are living through, in a way that greatly moved me-
fb.watch/ESkb7kS7p0/
Today has been shit for a million reasons, but I can't forget that it's also Warren Zevon's birthday. His music means a lot of me and his influence is all over Sandman Slim's LA. Speaking of which, I think this song sums up the city better than any other.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCl...
One of my favorites (of many) from this giant of a musician.
RIP-
Hearing from reliable sources that guitarist Ralph Towner has passed away.
Such a giant of his instrument, with such an incredible body of work- and a huge influence on me.
More terrible news, in what has already been a truly awful year.
Amen!
For obvious reasons, I feel compelled to post this quote at the beginning of every year.
