by Pier Marton | May 4, 2013 | Afri, Art, Asia, Highlights, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Music, Politics, Popular, Quotes, Sound, Travel
The multi-talented world hero, musician & ethnomusicologist. If you are not living on the edge, you’re taking too much room. B.B. He used to quote Sun Ra: The planet is asleep, and it’s the fault of musicians who are not true to themselves. [Ed.: I...
by Pier Marton | Mar 4, 2013 | France, Highlights, Hispanic, Humor, Idées, Poet, Wars
Besides his translated warning, God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked...
by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2013 | Dance, France, Health, Hispanic, Music, Poet, Spectacle, Theater, Women
An interview with Ana Salazar Himno al amor – Hymne à l’Amour – Hymn to Love (version Flamenco) From Flamenco Live: Born in Cadiz, she studies Classical Spanish Dance in “Las Bayaderas” with Eva Vicente and Flamenco in “Cibayi” with Charo Cruz. She...
by Pier Marton | Feb 3, 2013 | Eco, France, Hispanic, Human Rights, Native, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, Wars
More pictures below. The world’s lungs – Les poumons du monde. From chief RAONI’s petition in 2000: 10 years ago, I came to explain my concern about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. I told you about the fires, the burning sun and the great...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2013 | Death, Film, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, KeyFilm, Media, Poet, Politics, Sci/Nat
¡La Memoria Existe! Memory Exists! Yo creo que la memoria tiene fuerza de gravedad. Siempre nos atrae. Los que tienen memoria son capaces de vivir en el frágil tiempo presente. Los que no la tienen, no viven en ninguna parte. P.G. Nostalgia de la Luz I am convinced...
by Pier Marton | Dec 4, 2012 | Afri, Hispanic, Middle-East, Music, Women
Jon Balke & Amina Alaoui & Jon Hassell & Kheir Eddine M’Kachiche – Itimad (Reliance) Gharnati/Al Andalus/Andalusian music (730 to 1492), Sufi & Lope de Vega & St John of the Cross texts for another wondrous ECM collaborative project....