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SAMAI OF TREES: The First Single from the 'Finding Home' album

About 'Samai of Trees':

“I always wanted to write a samai, an ancient form of Arabic music that is built on a meditative 10/8 rhythm. I noticed that when I was writing I was either looking at trees or sitting under a tree in my back garden, so I called it ‘Samai of Trees’. It's a tribute to these ancient guardians of the earth who give so much healing and comfort in these challenging times.” 

Video courtesy of Classic FM 

Shirley Smart on cello 

Elizabeth Nott on percussion

Maya Youssef qanun & composition

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To do list:

Christopher Gorham under development (The Other Side of Heaven 2001) Harry Melling - The Pale Blue Eye 2022

✦Francesca Annis

Wives and Daughters 1999 — under development

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{anya chalotra, 30, ciswoman, she/her} we are so glad to see you safe, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MAYA ROUSSEAU of FRANCE! it’s dangerous out in the world these days, but i hear that you are PERSUASIVE and PRINCIPLED enough to handle it. just don’t let your UNCOMPROMISING bring you down! stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out about your SON’S TRUE LINEAGE AND THE CLAIM THEY HAVE ON THE ENGLISH CROWN. {mara, 26, est, she/her}

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{shannon thornton, thirty-six, cis woman, she / her} we are so glad to see you safe, ROYAL ADVISOR TO THE ORTIZ'S + INDEPENDENT SPY, LAVINIA CAIVANO of SPAIN! it’s dangerous out in the world these days, but i hear that you are METHODICAL and DECISIVE enough to handle it. just don’t let your DUPLICITY bring you down! stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out YOUR LOYALTY TO THE ORTIZ’S IS A FACADE, A FRONT USED TO HIDE WHAT YOU DO IN THE DARK: SELLING SECRETS OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, EVEN TO THOSE WHO HAD A HAND IN THE RECKONING. {tee, 24, est, she / her}

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{halle bailey, 25, demi woman, she/they} we are so glad to see you safe, PRINCESS KIMARA SOLOMAN of ETHIOPIA! it’s dangerous out in the world these days, but i hear that you are EFFERVESCENT and INQUISITIVE enough to handle it. just don’t let your STUBBORNNESS bring you down! stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out YOU FEAR THE WORST IS YET TO COME. {blu, 24, pst, they/them}

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{charles melton, thirty-three, cis-man, he/him} We are so glad to see you safe, FOREIGN AMBASSADOR (IN EGYPT) BRAM GILLESPIE of SCOTLAND! It’s dangerous out in the world these days, but I hear that you are MAGNETIC and SAGACIOUS enough to handle it. Just don’t let your CAPRICIOUSNESS bring you down! Stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out HE’S DELAYING HIS RETURN FOR REASONS NOT FULLY REALIZED BY HIS COUNTRY. {lia, 26, they/she, n/a}

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On 26 October, the Palestinian Ministry of Health released the list of names of Palestinians killed since 7 October. Among them, from the Nofal family, are:

Dr. Amin Mohammed Abdullah (62) and his wife, Dr. Tamam Youssef Khalil (60);

Ayman Ahmed Abdullah (49);

Mahmoud Nasr Mohammed (41) and his son Ayoub Mahmoud Nasr (11);

Saed Nofal Saleh (39) and his children Malak Saed Nofal (17), Abeer Saed Nofal (14), Mohammed Saed Nofal (12), and Amir Saed Nofal (6);

Mohammed Hisham Ratib (38) and his brother Ahmed Hisham Ratib (35);

Hanan Ahmed Salim (35);

Maryam Mohammed Youssef (34), her husband, Moatasem Amin Muhammad, and their children, Ahmed Moatasem Amin (14), Ali Moatasem Amin (11), Fatima Moatasem Amin (1), and Amna Moatasem Amin (6);

Nabila Nasr Mohammed (33) and her children, Tamam Mustafa Amin (4), Mohammed Mustafa Amin (14), Amr Mustafa Amin (12), and Ali Mustafa Amin (less than a year old);

Moamen Amin Mohammed (32), his wife Inas, and their sons, Islam Moamen Amin (6) and Mahmoud Moamen Amin (4);

Maysarah Amin Mohammed (29), his wife Shaima, and their child Amin Maysarah Amin; and Ibrahim Hisham Ratib (29);

Amin Mohammed Amin (16) and his siblings, Hamza Mohammed Amin (11) and Ahmed Mohammed Amin (less than a year old);

Mahmoud Mustafa Amin (8);

Mayas Moaz Amin (1);

Ghayth Yasir Nabil (less than a year old) and his brother Nabil Yasir Nabil (2);

Randa Nabil Ahmed (8);

Husayn Nidal;

Iman Iyad Nimr;

Hinda Ibrahim Mohammed (23);

Lamis Marwan Suleiman (26);

Rizq Abdullah Mohammed (50);

and Ahmed Nayef (23), who was martyred in Ramallah.

You can read more about the human lives lost in Palestine on the Martyrs of Gaza Twitter account and on my blog.

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Soul Fever- Maya Youssef & Friends at the British Museum

Buenas noches

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THE RETRO BIG MIX - JUANUARY 2018

THE RETRO BIG MIX – JUANUARY 2018

THE RETRO BIG MIX – JUANUARY 2018 TRACKLIST 01 – Abelardo Carbonó (feat. Quantic) – La Piña Madura02 – Wayna – Echo03 – The Marion Gaines Singers – You Can’t Stop Me Now04 – Marsha Hunt – Baby John05 – Morgan Heritage – Want Some More feat. Mr. Talkbox06 – Islandman – Agit07 – Maya Youssef and Sebastian Flaig – Hi-Jazz08 – Juicy Lucy – Just One Time09 – Co.fee – Everything Must Go – Panfilo10 –…

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BEST OF 2022...English

BEST OF 2022…English

tracklist: Ubuntu by Sona Jobarteh Ta’u Tama by Small Island Big Song ( Vaiteani ) Soul Fever by Maya Youssef Por Que Ou Ka Fe Sa by Fabrice Henri ( GUTS ) Djolof Blues by Alune Wade Llora El Viento by Juan Carmona Phantom Threshold by Steve Dawson Reggae Y Son by Havana Meets Kingston Road To Know by Black Jesus Experience Mbilo by Celine Banza Julu Kuta by Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita Tria…

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Dan Levy, Maya Rudolph, & More Discuss Being Multi-Nominated Emmy Contenders | Entertainment Weekly

Dan Levy, Maya Rudolph, & More Discuss Being Multi-Nominated Emmy Contenders | Entertainment Weekly

Angela Bassett, Wanda Sykes, Dan Levy, Maya Rudolph, Giancarlo Esposito, and Ramy Youssef discuss being multi-nominated Emmy contenders. Subscribe to EW ►► http://bit.ly/EWSubscribe Watch interviews with your favorite celebrities from the world of entertainment. What was it like for Brad Pitt to work with Leonardo DiCaprio, what does Scarlett Johansson have to say about Black Widow, and much…

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Listed: Elkhorn

Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner joined forces as Elkhorn in 2013, Sheppard on 12-string and Gardner on 6-string. Together they’ve made a string of gorgeous duet albums on Feeding Tube and now Beyond Beyond Is Beyond records, while supporting the growth and scholarship around American Primitive guitar playing in a variety of ways. Sheppard, in particular, has been active in organizing the 1000 Incarnations of the Rose festival and documenting players including Glenn Jones, Nathan Bowles, Chris Forsyth, Ryley Walker and others in video. Their latest album, The Storm Sessions, comes from a snowed-in session in Brooklyn when a cancelled concert turned into a prolonged and graceful meditation on the possibilities of guitars and guitar-like instruments.  In her review, Jennifer Kelly wrote, “… a tribute to filling in the quiet spaces that have arisen unexpectedly out of chaos and disappointment, but which are, themselves, very peaceful and beautiful.” Drew Gardner contributed this list.

I put this list together with the thought of talking about some music that overlaps with elements of The Storm Sessions. There are several shared elements at play in these records: songs using longer durations that unfold in suites, improvisation, the blending of several genres-sounds-traditions, gradual development, the use of calm/blissful moods, and players who tend toward letting the music guide the playing.

Mary Lattimore —The Withdrawing Room, “You’ll Be Fiiinnne”

The Withdrawing Room, harpist Mary Lattimore’s debut album, unfolds beautifully with delay-soaked harp mixed with bubbly psychedelic electronic textures courtesy of Jeff Zeigler. Lattimore knows how to use patience to build a feeling of calm tranquility and often walks her harp figures beside a stream of contrasting ambient sound. She glides though different sound areas without trying to push the songs around, letting the music be. The results are lovely and dreamy.

Maya Youssef —Syrian Dreams, “Queen of the Night”

Maya Youssef is an expert player of the maqan, a traditional Middle Eastern plucked instrument in the zither family. She grew up in Damascus and now lives in England. Defying the tradition that only men could play it, she has innovated the maqan as a solo instrument beyond its conventional use in larger ensembles. The instrumentation on Syrian Dreams is maqan, percussion, cello and oud, the textures of which blend into sets of suites that seem to tell many stories. This is a record of original compositions of Middle Eastern music that seamlessly incorporate the sounds of flamenco and jazz. Somehow Youssef’s group also reads like a freak folk chamber band. She’s unafraid of the healing power of music, and she connects her compositions with both the ancient and the difficult recent history of Syria.

Sunburned Hand of the Man—Headdress, “Shitless”

Gloriously lo-fi collage-ist space jams, cohesive in their disjointedness. Like GBV, the low fidelity makes it more intimate. As with most of their catalogue this is a head-trip and also a lot of fun. This record puts all the myriad things they’re capable of into perfect balance: uniquely fried “Massachusetts dub,” comical Dadaist prank-chants, slow loose funk grooves with all kind of friendly space debris orbiting around. Each song has at least three different genres melting in and out of it, and it all sounds like a party. They don’t order the tunes around, they let what’s happening happen. There’s plenty of improvisation here, but without a big demand for the guitars to need to get anywhere—what a relief. They’re happy being where they are, floating over the rhythm section and soaking in the cascades of color, relaxed and weird-blissful.

NNCK—Qvaris, “The Doon”

NNCK went to great lengths to secure certain freedoms, especially freedom from fame and freedom from commerce. Those freedoms are put to great use here and the result is a floaty ego-differed collective texture and with a groove and a vibe. It feels like all the players are steering the boat. Everyone is thinking about the total sound and the overall flow. Everyone’s in charge and no one is. They improvise and move from zone to zone, sound world to sound world. There are trippy drones, ritual percussion, and calm, bizarre and soothing textures. The songs sound like they’re improvised in a way that allows them to be self-assembling/self-disassembling ensemble music. It sounds like life forms are evolving. The various combinations of different elements create a lot of variety as the landscape scrolls by. Need some dilating texture-walls shifting into a bonus of damp squishiness? You got it. Need some mescaline-fueled post-rock? You got it. Rustically glowing biomechanical insects morphing into autumnal haze? Yup. Malfunctioning alternate-dimension windchimes into Dada kabuki Muppet theater? Cannabinoidosaurus Rex chill out wedding music into Martian organ grinder swing winding up at third-pot-brownie-surf-rock? You get the idea. There’s something for everyone. All the song/soundscapes flow through these ecosystems with a “how did we get here?” effect. The players find different windows in the soundscape. It never feels crowed. Sonically occupying the space they’re in, they let the music become itself rather than trying to control it.

Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society—Mandatory Reality, “Finite”

I first heard this record last year in the Elkhorn tour vehicle while Jesse and I we were driving from the Milwaukee Psych fest to Chicago. It turns out that being stuck in a car for several hours moving at twenty miles an hour in a white-out is the perfect context for experiencing this music. There was something about the slow speed, the need for concentrated attention, and the monochromatically unfolding landscape that really enhanced the experience of the music. Abrams’ use of slow tempos, repetition, long durations, gradually shifting textures and cycles of chords and melodic figures was perfectly mirrored in the snowy drive. He allows the music to repeat and unfold without needing to rush in contrasting sections or motifs. It’s patient and languid and mesmerizing. Done in real time with no overdubs, it blends several sounds beautifully: minimalism, Gnawa music and modern Chicago free jazz. At times it feels like a radically becalmed Braxton Ghost Trance piece transmuted into something like the spacious Tabla Tarang playing of Pandit Kamalesh Maitra or the straight 8ths of Gamelan music with John Luther Adams-style long tones stretched over it. When we arrived in Chicago the snowstorm had abated after the long drive, and as I stepped out of the car into the slush I felt refreshed rather than exhausted.

Pauline Oliveros with Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis—Deep Listening, “Lear”

Deep Listening was improvised with no overdubs using just-intonation accordion, trombone, didgeridoo and voice in a cistern in Washington State that once held two million gallons of water. This space featured a natural forty-five-second reverb. As dolphins know, reverb is a kind of image—information about space in sound form. On this record the players, the environment and the instruments all combine to become intertwined into one system. I’ll let Oliveros say it: “The Universe is improvising and we have evolution, so improvisation is always happening.”

Cul De Sac—Immortality Lessons, “Blues in E”

Cul De Sac featured Glenn Jones on electric twelve-string guitar before he turned to solo acoustic music. The band played improvised instrumental rock that crossed over several genres: Krautrock, psych-rock, surf-rock and American Primitive. This record was recorded live at a college radio station in one take under less than ideal circumstances and it’s a great example of turning lemons into psychedelic lemonade. This music flows and develops in suites, using various groove/dissolve/solo patterns than unfold with an expansive vibe. Everyone in the band is thinking about the whole arrangement, not just the parts. It’s genre blending, full-band texturing and rewards repeated listening. One can only hope for a reunion one day.

Marisa Anderson—The Golden Hour, “In the Valley of the Sun”

The Golden Hour is a record of solo fingerstyle electric guitar improvisations recorded straight to tape. It sounds like she’s doing variations on open themes and the results feel modern/spontaneous and composed/traditional at the same time. She has a warm, woody guitar tone, often tastefully overdriving the amp in a lush manner, using a nimble rhythmic gait. This works as psychedelic guitar music and at the same time resonates with the old American music traditions she’s connecting with. Her blend of genres is country blues, country and western, and folk, put together in concise songs that always have a coherent flow of ideas with sometimes subtle hints of deconstruction. She’s not afraid of the pleasures of meandering. This is music that sounds like it’s dreaming through guitar history as a kind of meditation.

Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain—Rag Madhuvanti, Rag Misra Tilang, “Rag Misra Tilang”

Shivkumar Sharma plays the Santur, an Indian box zither, not unlike a western hammer dulcimer. Sharma is credited with bringing this folk instrument, normally associated with the Sufi music of Kashmir, into Indian classical music. Indian music involves several of the elements I’ve been discussing in this list: long duration, improvisation, and drone. There’s something about the cascading overtones of Sharma’s Santur playing that reads as especially psychedelic, unfolding in undulating patterns using his knowledge of tabla rhythms. He wasn’t afraid to risk innovation and prove that a folk instrument could be used for high art. This album is mesmerizing, beautiful, and rejuvenating.

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A Conversation With Patrick O’Neil

A Conversation With Patrick O’Neil

Gifted writer, Patrick O’Neil makes a well-deserved return to Life Elsewhere to talk about the latest volume of his memoir, Anarchy At The Circle K. An in your face gut-wrenching, and at times humorous, tale of Patrick’s stint as a roadie, road manager, and drug addict during punk’s heyday of the 1980s. Crisscrossing the highways of America, on tour with such influential punk bands as Dead…

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BEST TRACKS OF 2017-ARTISTS LIST #106

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London based electro-choral soundscaper Anil Sebastian shares a list of songs that made an impact for him this year!

01. Moses Sumney - Doomed

02. Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding (in Eb Major)

03. Nakhane - Clairvoyant

04. Sebastian Plano - Living

05. Maya Youssef - Bombs Turn into Roses

06. Björk- Blissing Me

07. Orlando Weeks - Seasonal Hero

08. James McAlister, Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly - Neptune (from Planetarium)

09. Novo Amor & Ed Tullett - Terraform

10. Susanne Sundfør ft John Grant - Mountaineers

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I’m 30 movies into the 2018 Film-A-Week Challenge! (Here’s the original prompt, here is my lineup!) I previously posted my top ten favorites after I passed 21 movies, but seeing as how that was months ago and the list is already super different after only nine new movies, I figured I’d do an update. 

01. Harlan County, USA (dir. Barbara Kopple, 1976 / USA) 02. Manila in the Claws of Light (dir. Lino Brocka, 1975 / Philippines) 03. Cairo Station (dir. Youssef Chahine, 1958 / Egypt) 04. L’Homme Atlantique (dir. Marguerite Duras, 1981 / France) 05. City of Pirates (dir. Raúl Ruiz, 1983 / France) 06. Meshes of the Afternoon (dir. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943 / USA) 07. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (dir. Paul Schrader, 1985 / USA) 08. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (dir. Elio Petri, 1970 / Italy) 09. The Crucified Lovers (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954 / Japan) 10. My Brilliant Career (dir. Gillian Armstrong, 1979 / Australia)

These are all terrific movies and are all well worth watching! I’m clearly very, very behind on this project (and have been since, like, the second week), but I’m glad I’m doing it. There are so many of the 30 I’ve seen so far that I probably wouldn’t have gotten around to this year if I hadn’t set these super specific and arbitrary assignments for myself. 

Now only 22 left! Can I watch them before 2019? Who can say. I’ll keep you posted.