"Eyes on the road and hands up on the wheel"
Songs in the Key of Life, after Stevie Wonder’s 1976 album of the same name There are albums that make you feel like you are coming home. Justin Sullivan’s ‘Surrounded’ is one of them. And admittedly, it helps to be about the same age as the New Model Army frontman. At the same time, Justin…
Naná Vasconcelos (Foto © Einar Bangsund) Audiophile vinyl reissue of Saudades by cosmopolitan percussionist Naná Vasconcelos (1944-2016) The 1979 album Saudades by Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos presented the berimbau in an orchestral context for the first time, a long-held dream of the musician. The concert was recorded with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mladen Gutesha…
“Paradoxically, it is by rediscovering our roots that we can find our way out of the dead ends of history and onto the roads of the future” (Maltese composer Charles Camilleri to C. Cornell Evers) The mini-album Mokuy by the Australian band Hand To Earth contains just three songs and clocks in at 23 minutes. Despite its…
Can wise but vulnerable misfits survive as the modern world collapses around them? This question is at the heart of director Jim Jarmusch’s 2013 film ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’. The story of a vampire-slash-underground musician depressed by the antics of the human species (Hear, Hear) and his enigmatic lover unfolds in the desolation of Detroit…
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“First I thought I was fighting for the rubber tappers, then I thought I was fighting for the Amazon, then I realized I was fighting for HUMANITY” (Chico Mendes) Part one of a series of encounters with Amazon travelers from past and present. They each tell the story of the Amazon from their own perspectives,…
