More For The Night People

Looks like I am on a roll. Music fills my life you see.

Danny Mulhern - Desnuda Waltz 2

Daníel Bjarnason - Bow to String: Air To Breath

From the album Epicycle II by Gyda Valtysdottir
Gyda on cello.

Tiny Leaves - A Stillness

Ljudvägg - Skeppsrå

Wau Wau Collectif - Salamaleikoum

Avant-garde cosmic sounds from Senegal, “Yaral Sa Doom” is a groundbreaking album spanning borders and musical scenes. Inspired from West African tradition, Sufi praise songs, spiritual jazz, and dub rhythms, the effect is a genre defying entry in outernational sound. Hypnotic percussion loops across sweeping pads, call and response chants echoes layer over electronic beats, and children’s voices sing out to recordings of crashing waves.

In 2018, Swedish music archeologist and leftfield musician Karl Jonas Winqvist traveled to Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, a small fishing village turned hub of Senegal’s bohemian art scene. Over the next weeks, local musicians, percussionists, poets, and beat makers came together, sketching out ideas and recording free improvisation. Winqvist returned to Sweden, trading recordings back and forth over WhatsApp with Senegal based collaborator and studio engineer Arouna Kane.

“Yaral Sa Doom” is a Wolof phrase that means “educate the young.” Central to the album is this theme of education, with songs that directly address social issues facing contemporary Senegal, education, and immigration. "Today you must educate children with an instrument and art, when you teach them an instrument you teach them to use their spirit," says Djiby Ly.

With over 20 contributing performers from Senegal and Sweden, the resulting album is layered and complex, yet maintains a central vision. “It’s like diving into the sea,” explains Kane. “There are all different species of fish swimming around, but together they make the ocean.” Nonetheless, it's also a geographic anomaly, made possible only by exchange of the internet age. An exceptional recording on its own, "Yaral Sa Doom" is a visionary entry in the future of transglobal collaboration.


ENJOY

Good Morning

Sunday Slouching

A lovely sunny winter morning so far. Hope it stays that way now. Morning so far has been spent reading Simone de Beauvoir's "The Mandarins".



At 609 pages this book will take a bit longer to read.

Yesterday Kate came by to deliver some books I noticed in her shop window. She is now taking deliveries whilst her shop remains closed due to this virus shit and of course, socially distanced and masked. These were -





Meanwhile, I am listening to middle eastern sounds such as oud player Mahmoud Turkmani from Lebanon.

Soudfa

A version of Soudfa from the Fayka CD live -

Mahmoud Turkmani- Soudfa

Enjoy

The internet Should Be Free

Where the internet is being curtailed -

https://thefreeinternetproject.org/

What is being suppressed -

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/12/vietnam-let-us-breathe/


Poland targets major social media firms with anti-censorship law

The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which has a conservative Catholic social agenda, argues that big tech companies exercise a dangerous level of control over public debate, censoring opinions out of line with their own liberal world view.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/digital/2021/01/15/Poland-targets-major-social-media-firms-with-anti-censorship-law

And why should be pay a fee for YouTube without ads. Fuck them. Evil Google behind it.


IT IS TIME WE GET THE INTERNET FROM CORPORATE CONTROL¬