August 25, 2021

Marie Bortolotto 2021


 El Agua Y Los Arabes (Water & Arabs) - Eduardo Pagiagua

August 24, 2021

Poemas De La Alhambra (Ibn Zamrak) 1333 - 1393 AD
- Eduardo Paniagua, El Arabi Serghini

Flamenco Roots - Munir Bashir

 

READING

My eye frees what the page imprisons:
the white the white and the black the black.

~ Ibn ‘Ammar (died 1086 AD) (Silves)

August 23, 2021

"All Is Full of Love" - Music by Bjork


URBAN JUNGLE

Wild-mouthed, a dog whines in swelling octaves.

A garbage truck crouches over its prey.

Squabbling children, a sullen breeze hovers,

then swoops. Round and round, 

a red and white bicycle wheel whirls.

All is full of love.

~ Marie Bortolotto © 2021

August 22, 2021


Marie Bortolotto Artist 2021

 

 

 
 Magic Songs - R. Murray Schafer, Canadian Composer
1933 - 2021


Seventeen Haiku - R. Murray Schafer, Canadian Composer
1933 - 2021

August 18, 2021


 ...let this music move your soul - Yaron Pe'er

...intoxicating Afghani Rubab music...

 
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 Classical Ghazal Music...poetry of the heart...


...enchanting bhajans, devotional songs...


DREAMING IN THE PARK

Ruffled feathers, a raucous jury of crows deliberate.

A sacrificial cabbage, purples.

A children's storybook takes flight. 

The intoxicating scent of fresh cut grass,

a red tractor swirls upon a green ocean dream.

- Marie Bortolotto ©  2021

August 16, 2021


LISTEN: A Portal into the deep + eternal longing of the heart...

Soundscapes: Music of the desert by Zakir Hussain

August 15, 2021


4 Centuries of Spanish and Sephardic Songs

...sweetened liquid sounds for the poetic heart



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SPRINGTIME

Ah, what flashing and fragrance!

Ah, how the meadows laugh!

Ah, what aubades are heard!

FOLK BALAD


In my morning half-asleep, I am put out of sorts by a devilish squalling of little children. Finally, unable to sleep anymore, I jump out of bed in despair. Then, when I gaze at the countryside from my open window, I realize that the noisemakers were the birds.

I go out to the vegetable garden and I sing my thanks to the God of the blue day. A free concert of beaks, fresh and endless! Capriciously the swallow utters her ripply twittering in the well; the black bird whistles on the fallen orange, the fiery oriole chatters from one ilex to another; the greenfinch gives its long, frequent laughs at the top of the eucalyptus; and on the big pine the sparrows argue furiously.

What a morning! The sun poses its silver-and-gold cheerfulness on the earth; butterflies of a hundred colors play everywhere, among the flowers, through the house (now inside, now out), on the fountain. All over, the countryside opens up into crackings and creakings, into a boiling of healthy new life.

It's as if we were inside a huge honeycomb of light which was also the interior of and immense, flaming-hot rose.

Juan Ramon Jimenez, (from Platero y yo)