The Past is the Future Inverted!
Yesterday night I saw an astonishing perfomance by the brasilian berlin based duo Distruktur (Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn). The occasion was Tudo É, a three days of live performances and exhibition curated by Andrea Lissoni and Alberto Salvadori in Florence. Maga Bo played after, thanks Bo for the good vibrations. For some reason it...
Casablanca ✈ Joujouka
(partly written on June 5th) — I’m on the flight back to Milan. I spent the latest 24 hours in Joujouka for the first night of MMOJ festival organized as usual by Frank Rynne (here the report of last year edition and a report from my days in Tangier – in italian). I won’t talk...
Casablanca Pt. 2
GeoTagged, [N33.59252, E7.61468] Tapes are on print. Fesmaatic (a printing company and record label which releases many moroccan contemporary music) is doing its best to try to give me 100 copies by this afternoon.I will leave for Joujouka tomorrow early morning and will stay there for the first night of the festival, looking forward to...
Casablanca
GeoTagged, [N33.59254, E7.61471] It’s raining in Casablanca. I’m in Morocco again, exactly one year later.I’m releasing a tape with some recordings of the Master Musicians of Joujouka I did last year during MMOJ festival.This is the first public announcement but in fact I’m working on it since last september.The project became even more interesting when...
Non piangere
Last week during the fourth episode of the workshop I’m running at Kaleidoscope Project Space I played Baako by Champion Dj. It’s been discussed already in the past over the net, especially at Dj Rupture’s Mudd Up program on wfmu and on Wayne Marshall’s blog.A couple of days ago I’ve finally bought my copy of...
We are the last generation
Funny video of Bachir Attar’s interview and performance at Amoeba music store in San Francisco, California.
Ira Cohen R.I.P.
Ira Cohen 1935 – 2011GNAOUA a magazine devoted to exorcism and Beat Generation poetry, introducing the work of Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Harold Norse. GNAOUA after Black African sect in Morocco known for ecstatic dancing and possession trances. Their patron saint is Sidi Bilal who was Mohammed’s muezzin. Each spirit which possesses the dancer...
War on Stereotypes (War Inna Babylon)
The celebrated American artist Richard Prince has been ordered to destroy works worth tens of millions of dollars after a court ruled that the paintings, which reworked a series of photographs by the French photographer Patrick Cariou, had breached copyright. A New York federal court has ruled that Prince and his gallery [Gagosian] infringed Cariou’s...
Black Spades in Chinatown
A short video and some shots of yesterday’s Beat Swap Meet in Chinatown, L.A. Back in the days. Apache Line – From Gangs to Hip Hop Remembering the Black Spades
