Monday, August 11, 2003
The Electric Review is a brand new magazine published by John Aiello. Believe me, the Electric Review is worth more than a cursory glance.
Keep turning the pages there and reading, stay tuned, and be prepared for the surprising eruption of poetry in the midst of writing about music:
"Anoushka's playing, like her father's, is deeply rooted in Buddhism, paying homage to spirits and unnamed ghosts with the gifts of the earthly body. And like her father, Anoushka's music is but an extension of the soul, peeling away these tin masks of human suffering and replacing them with the perfect serenity of unborn dreams. As Anoushka performs, it's almost as if she is lost in conversations with God. This is music of magical proportions, moving men from their secret chairs, casting the whole skulls of mountains into transparent shadows. At once, heaven has been reunited with the earth and the sun."
(From ANOUSHKA SHANKAR & THE SITAR
IN CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD By John Aiello)
And watch for insights into what music might really be:
"Putumayo is unique in that it strives to recreate communities among the scattered cold torn landscapes of America, binding segregated worlds together, uniting the hungry and the forsaken and the blind through the invisible beauty of music. One brief sampling of this material reveals an original vision that has stepped past the "profits first" bottom line and reconnected us with the true idea of art."
(Coming soon, the next issue of Electric Review.)
¶ 8/11/2003 08:19:00 AM
Keep turning the pages there and reading, stay tuned, and be prepared for the surprising eruption of poetry in the midst of writing about music:
"Anoushka's playing, like her father's, is deeply rooted in Buddhism, paying homage to spirits and unnamed ghosts with the gifts of the earthly body. And like her father, Anoushka's music is but an extension of the soul, peeling away these tin masks of human suffering and replacing them with the perfect serenity of unborn dreams. As Anoushka performs, it's almost as if she is lost in conversations with God. This is music of magical proportions, moving men from their secret chairs, casting the whole skulls of mountains into transparent shadows. At once, heaven has been reunited with the earth and the sun."
(From ANOUSHKA SHANKAR & THE SITAR
IN CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD By John Aiello)
And watch for insights into what music might really be:
"Putumayo is unique in that it strives to recreate communities among the scattered cold torn landscapes of America, binding segregated worlds together, uniting the hungry and the forsaken and the blind through the invisible beauty of music. One brief sampling of this material reveals an original vision that has stepped past the "profits first" bottom line and reconnected us with the true idea of art."
(Coming soon, the next issue of Electric Review.)
¶ 8/11/2003 08:19:00 AM
