The Hills Are Alive ..with the sound of boom bop(Spearhead/ Michael Franti) and yellow mustard grass, lupin, oxalis and .. via worldOneradio mixology …
Orb + Lee Scratch Perry Tracy Bonham George Harrison Napalapalai Arto Lindsay The Orb w David Gilmour Augustus Pablo Cheevers Toppah Stevie Wonder AOMUSIC David Wax Museum Phil Ochs Bobby Womack So Pacific sntrk Francois Couture Byrne + Fatboy Slim Raquel Bitton Bill Evans (Bluegrass) Mocean Worker Los Lobos Hamsa El Din Shayna Dread Game Ghangers John Robinson Les Nubians Bob Marley Manuel Galban Ry Cooder Pimps of Joy Time Jennifer Hudson Tiempo Libre Dixie Chicks Melody Gardot Weather Report Nakai + Clipman John Mc Cord Snoop Lion Seasunz+Jay Bless Herman’s Hermits The Lucid Rays Quebe Sisters Sugarland to hear it all live press play over there, top right !
we love this time of the rolling year .. here on the Bay rim in Northern Cali, the oxalis popped a few weeks back, they stir up a color riot everywhere, now knee-high in our back yard, along with clovers that grow in poodle-sized puffs ..
magnolias and cherry blossoms, camellias, wisterias, now cue the poppies! … bam power flower boom !
color and texture are foods for the eyes .. everyone loves shapes …
everyone loves music( Finley Quaye) … shapes and colors for the ears, and thus the mind .. where we kre-ate, imaginate …. Imagine that !
Pan is my name .. I live outside your door, I have to keep the score of things around you / my love lives outside my window ( Secret Life of Plants / Stevie Wonder) ….
I am so glad that the seasons recur, changing, extending and retreating.. like we live again and again, every day, the tide of consciousness rolls out like the dawn and then retreats ….and we retract back back back into our unconscious mind .. dreaming .. integrating …. Higher and deeper and wider understandings of the gift .. our gift its all a GIFT … all that is appropriate is a gigantic daily THANK YOU from our hearts …
www.SnowCrystals.com was created by Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Caltech
sweet tomorrow morning burstin with the dawn ( Al Jarreau)
so why do we fzuk with IT … H E R, and confuse or abuse creation, ourselves, each other, so much ?
the strongest force in our human nature, is thought … so called bad, good, and everything in between ..
so .. we need proper education .. no, not factoried,institutionalized, blandished, partitioned, linear, analytical, rehash that passes for modern education …
we need to e d u c e .. drawing out the invisible to the visible … and connecting the embodied soul, whilst on the earthtop (desktop) to its source in deep inner-outer s p a c i o u s n e s s (ku) .. the imagination engine … through richly informative ex + insperiences ..
some things need to be believed to be seen ..
the “old gods” are as real as anything .. echoed and created … we are superorganic imagination engines, we are not gadgets .. we are not commodities, except in the eyes of crass commercialism ..
Law of Ma’at
God needs you in order to come into the world. Fulfilling God’s need is the highest act of love, and only through your love for God can you fulfill your love for others. Become the Love of God in the world for the protection of the world. http://www.aasorlando.org/11laws.htm drawing by Zac Rodgers/ www.kingspook.com
it’s your avatar … what will you do, give, learn, accomplish through it, this day ?
Don’t let them change you, or even rearrange you … Could you be love ( Bob Marley)
My Vision of Peace Photographer – Kimberly Edwards On Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans Big Chief Alfred Doucette debuted his “Peace Suit.” Words of peace were carefully sewed in the Chief’s new Indian Suit in response to the city’s high murder rate and even higher incarceration rate. Alfred Doucette has a true heart for the youth of New Orleans, striving to give them a sense of pride in their culture and in themselves, taking time to share the Mardi Gras Indian traditions with any child who asks or shows interest, and lives his life to make the world a better and more peaceful place. This suit is a tangible image of his soul.
Well .. you are reading this.. we apparently made it though the portended portal/synchronization of 2013 .. so far so good? .. I wouldn’t quiiite yet grab the remote, check-out, and zone-out again via Animal Reality Geographic’s sexi-broody-vampire-penguins (Wanderlust) as a daily junk-media diet … as perhaps the “fat lady” hasn’t yet sung? .. or GabriEL hasn’t yet held that note forever (Bruce Almighty) … or , perhaps they have, and we have undergone some kind of cosmic mitosis .. pa’ delante ..
in case you may be onedering what that LISTEN LIVE ! press play button has in store for you .. it is sets like these … hundreds of them .. all waiting patiently to worldOneradioXo your hEARtS .. and blow some domes ..
Max Richter+Hollywood Symphony ,Steve Shehan +Nabil Othmani, Ellington + Louis, Macklemore + Lewis, James Danderfer, Stockton Helbing, Nancy Stearns, Mariah Parker, Omar Sosa, Mary Ann Vorsky, America, Macklemore + Lewis, M Ward, Sugarland, Ronnie bowman, Erykah Badu, Pimps of Joy Time+ Captain Planet, Steve Shehan + Nabil Othmani, Orb + Scratchy, Louis + Ellington, Gotye, Kimbra, Macklemore + Lewis, Eliza gilkyson, Garret Sawyer, M. Ward, Sugarland, Brad Paisley, Cody Chestnut, Bang Data, Gillian Wells, Bart/baker+ Lada Red Star, Les Tiki .. more radio details under the keCg tab … WCCUSD Inner Bay Rim Public radio CalifUSA.
and I DO want to be in that number when “the saints go marching in” ..
Media .. including worldOneradio, is only, by definition, “in the middle” .. that noted .. highly recommending “Searching for Sugarman” for a number of reasons from music/lyricism to story to spirit . It features no cast of thousands, nary a car chase, nor gun-wielding-super-model agent, nor floozy .. for that matter .. no rock star hubris! and I suspect you may emerge …elated .. it’s an almost unbelievable real-life story, and its still unfolding…. Gentle WoW .. XO Sixto + Fam + Friends..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL5TffdOQ7g
Macklemore and Lewis .. insightful and gots slaps …WTTSMFa ( what-the-thrift-store-m—-f—ka!) .. thrifty hip-hope ( Thrift Store ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae9_RGZLZhI , busting out homophobia and amplfyin’ for mo’love ( Same Love ) … and telling Nike pretty much where to stuff their swooshisms (Wings) .. and that’s pretty much… where the sweat shop don’t shine!
Kendrick Lamar … we was hangin back,true … while a suite from the second half of Good Kid Bad City has been added to worldOneradio ad infinitum .. Respect!
Lately, worldOnelov mixology is broadcasting sets comprised of selections/ vibz like these Artists :
Anthony Wakeman + Mr. Soon / Points of Origen, Rose Moore / Spirit of Silence, Cheevers Topah/Harmonized Songs of Native American Church, Malcolm Cecil / Tonto’s Expanding Headband, Stevie Wonder / Songs in the Key of Life, Eliza Gilkyson / Redemption Road, Toumani Diabate+Ballake Sissoko/ New Ancient Strings, M.Ward / A Wasteland Companion, Cody Chestnut/ Landing on a Hundred, Asa / Eponymous, S.E. Rogie / Golden Voice of Sierra Leone, John McLaughlin/Now Hear This, Bob Marley/Songs of Freedom, Bellamy Bros., Ronnie Bowman/Starting Over, John Powell+Hollywood Symphony / Lorax, Mooquee / Mice Elf.
In February we collaborated in gathering with the Peace Project at Swarm Gallery in Oakland .. that openingtop image is from this collection..
In March… our inaugural Shake your Beauty Kultimulchural Dance, on campus, at El Cerrito HS with the fabulous creativity and energy of students of our Dance Production program and our keen Media/Academy /keCg Youth Crew ..
While we prepare for Spring-Summer .. its riotous clover + occali season here .. poppies poppin’ soon, and by the time the sunflowers are 6’ tall ..
and …
YYYYiiiiiii .. and you are invited to all of the above !
Hey !! .. globally minded dj’s, r u feelin’ us? … if you enjoy the flows, let us know !
if you have sets you’d like to send in for consideration .. please do use our regular email to communicate .. we’ll love to hear from you …
and BTW take us with you via smart phone app tune in .. search “worldOneradio”
Philanthropists.. there is always need for donations from inks + squeegees to decks, between our daily classrooms and special events .. all 501C-3 .. feel moved? don’t be shy .. LIVEALOHALIVE! = ; ) ~
Blessed rainy day here in El Cerrito, Cali, as I write .. slept in.. hanging with my beloved wife Debra Sue .. sipping tea and xocolatl … cozy … Sergio Mendes+ Black Eyes Peas on the radio .. niiiice..
I can’t exactly apologize for not writing, though I do certainly beg your understanding. I have been utterly taken up in an academic-institutional vortex these past nearly three months, not slackin. Perhaps if you have an urban public school teacher in your life, you have some idea of what the daily challenges can be. By invitation/ conscription, I took on all kinds of new quasi-admin-program managerial responsibilities along with added piles of hours to stay abreast of an daily avalanche of either starry-eyed-and-or-fractious students + mountains of program paperwork and coordination. And for different reasons this was the toughest Fall semester in my teaching career … wilting fatigue and almost unbearable stress/oppression, which made me physically symptomatic, unwell. Got it all done, though not a particularly happy time. Added arrgh.. the national squabble about how to reform public education and the general defamation of the profession, http://www.nea.org/home/53524.htm?utm_source=nea_today_express&utm_medium=email&utm_content=blameteachers&utm_campaign=121114neatodayexpress
This teacher sought solace and some non-linear relief.. the drawing-dreaming pad was swirling and pulsing …
Huli Ola
and worldOnelove music/radio sessions were flowing, in some healing/soothing response to the daily grind/carborundum …
Little BIG Sound .. 88.1 keCg 97.7
We are always adding all kinds of gorgeous, stirring, soulful, and insightful music to our worldOneradio flow+broadcast;Native musics and tone poems from Louie Gonnie, Cheevers Topah, Bear Creek, Anthony Wakeman + Mr.Soon … soaring classical interpretations by Hulschoff and Eichhorn, intimate jazversations by Kenny Barron, Rose Murphy, Blossom Dearie, Sarah+Louis and spinning the globe with Flying Lotus, Asa, Olivia Ruiz, Guy Forsyth, Tchiya Amet, Chuck Prophet, Santana, Jolly Boys, Mark O’Conner, New Mutitudes, Jackson Browne, The Pyramids, Paul Simon, Groundation, Liane La Havas, Gudina, Lulu Dikana, Les Tiki , Le Vent du Nord, Roxanne Olivia, El Gusto Orchestra of Tangiers, Les Surf, hip shakers by Allenko Brotherhood, Poolside, Janis Martin, film excerpts from George Harrison/ Living in the Material World … and to help us unwind the mind .. Robert Rich, Erik Wollo, Steve Roach … been doin it and doin it since ’95 .. e como mai oh my ..
Through late summer and autumn, we joined Saturday morning dancers at our beloved Ashkenaz, to banghra dance with Dhol Rhythms (with whom we will be joyously collaborating in both an El Cerrito HS school dance event and in our 15th annual July 4 worldOnefestival). The following Dhol mandala image is by Fletcher Oakeswww.fletcho.com/ .
I want to especially hail UP and acknowledge the San Francisco World Music Festival, in its 13th iteration, successfully assembling musicians form all over the globe in an impossible, and finally glorious and exuberant collaboration in the presentation of a blended operatic cycle www.sfworldmusicfestival.org/. Again demonstrating that the most stirring music, emerges from deeper spaces, requires devotion, discipline and surrender, achieves connection, and reaffirms L I F E … .. from a super-title to a featured Azerbijani folk song .. “with these chains we shall make music which will shame the drums of the monarchs” ..
U.S.A.llawe navigated the fearsome realities/vestiges of Halloween/Samhain … Soul Cakes? anyone ? Mayan prophetic accuracies +/- distortions .. the election of a U.S. President .. no, not by a landslide .. but via inundation … of American angst, media, money, and finally, waters (# 2) … lately .. post-election vitriol and backlash, bitterness, and contrariness, more amped divisiveness .. the oldest trick in the book of life …. a house/nation divided cannot stand …. and how can we be ( seek to be) the “greatest nation on earth”, with a hobbled economy, 14 trillion in debt, millions jailed, and policies/practices that undermine ecology, EDUCATION and simultaneously aspire to world-wide military dominance..
that said .. I felt a palpable bolt of QI when GOBAMA! uttered .. LOVE + CHARITY .. which we remixed.
Especially NOW, we need to work for, and hope for deliverance (McCartney) … wash our spirit clean (Walela)… we need an absolution (The Pyramids) .. and to seek higher ground (Stevie Wonder) .. re-imagine U.S.All .. dreaming red, white, blue, red, gold, and green and all the colors and creatures in between .. seen ? (another Fletcher Oakes image):
And reserving the right to respectfully, unthanks .. unthanksgiving .. it is Native American Heritage Month .. and it’s a particular irony that about the only national holiday that hazily includes some kind of cooperative Native iconography, also includes revisionism of the arc of official hostilities, policies and machinations, between “manifest destiny” and Native Americans. Destiny itself seems to have other ideas, much more consistent with modern ecological science, and the deep cultural wisdoms and spirituality of Native America (what is otherwise commonly called “religion”) and all genuine wisdom/spiritual traditions. Our youth broadcasters generated a series of Native American cultural featurettes, and these are pronounced daily via PA and on-air. We note how virtually whole-scale absent is any substantive Native cultural curriculum in our public schools. In 2012 we seem determined to keep the same idea-factory humming? along (noting the recent tussle in Arizona and elsewhere regarding Chicano studies).
Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds And whose breath gives life to everyone, Hear me.
I come to you as one of your many children; I am weak …. I am small … I need your wisdom and your strength.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunsets Make my hands respect the things you have made. And make my ears sharp so I may hear your voice.
Make me wise, so that I may understand what you have taught my people and The lessons you have hidden in each leaf and each rock.
I ask for wisdom and strength Not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself. Make me ever ready to come before you with clean hands and a straight eye. So as life fades away as a fading sunset. My spirit may come to you without shame
~ (translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark @1887)~
Carlos Santana included the prayer above, in the liner notes to Shape Shifter. We simply cannot keep doing, thinking, feeling the material-commodity-transactional-buy-take-day-mares that have become the grist of the daily bs-statusquo-go-round-mill. We’ve got to learn and accept daily, higher, and sacred ground to vibrate at higher frequencies (Blackalicious) … and yes,we can still keeps it fonki .. and real .. the BIG question is .. compared to what?
On worldOneradio at this moment .. John Arnold music > We’re all beautiful .. dig that to the bone .. mind spirit body soul .. Rise UP Everybody !
Join us for a magicalmysterylisten, won’t you ?
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Winter Soulstice approaching, northern hemispherical season to collect, store, slow down, retreat, rewind, remember, and hope/wait = esperar / spero .. for the return of the light, so to speak .. the crisp clarity of wintry days and snowy scapes .. ‘tis the season .. to Rest and be Blest .. wishing you bright blessed days and dark sacred nights .. p e a c e … = ; ) ~
We received a letter recently which… bust the meter, and shake the tweeter (Erykah B.) .. in excerpt ..
Meanwhile, I’ve been privileged to encounter maybe a little less than half a dozen genuinely great radio stations in life, all across the world, and now I hear what you’re doing. So now I’ve got one more to add to that list.
I’ve just moved from Paris back to the East Bay, and you’re blowing my mind day after day. It’s astonishing. I’m wildly intrigued to learn what it will sound like when the kids are back at school.
We are grateful .. and indeed, we will consider that an on-the-DL “RAMMY” …. and we will invite you to hear wassup at the worldOneradio corral.. daily you can hear Undercurrents, Doug Wendt’s All World Beat/Native Son Rising, Midnight Dread, dj worldOnelove diurnal or contemplative sets, and the rolling cinematic musicscapes of Radio Edsoft Films. We have welcomed a sparkly-eyed and keen minded crop of high-school-aged public radio initiates, and they will be on air within several weeks now .. ready to worldOnerumba ! via via 88.1 Kickin Evolving Conscious Grooves 97.7 !
Along with@ 1O years of archived mixes in daily worldOne broadcast, some lately recent worldOneradio mixology you will hear via our local fm’s, worldOneradio.org. (press play) . or via tune in on your smart phone ..
CeeversTopah/ True Melodies, Ua(Sun) , Pura Fe, Te Vaka, Rhythmus Tanscendentium, Flaming Lips(Rocket Man / Heart is a Drum Machine), Chuchito Valdez and Eddie Navia, Star Benda Bilili, Buffy, Trudell, Easy Star All Stars (First Light and yes, Thrilla) John Robinson (Rapsploitation) Mos Def, Andre Desplat (MoonRise Kingdom).. and on and on til the break o’ dawn ..
BTW .. We can recommend a viewing from doc, “Heart is Drum Machine”..we have snipped several sweeps/scenes and mixed our faves for sharing in our radio mixes http://www.youtube.com and, we enjoyed a splendid night on the town at Peña Pachamama in North Beach http://pachamamacenter.org/ .. Quentin and Eddie have managed, despite the odds, to create and maintain a genuine, intimate, charming, musiculture and love-filled boite, with fabulous organic fare, and bar.. in the Middle of North Beach , for these last 11 years. BRAVO! Please do plan to visit, dine, listen, dance with them when you visit SF.
Back to school season has always been a heavy “compression” for me. perhaps too, an expansion? in that we are re-shaping and extending our QI .. anyway, it’s an energetic and psychic wallop, largely for institutional reasons and how we actually implement same locally and as a society… plenty of room for improvement, eh? Our youth deserve and need so much better and more.. comprehensive education…enriched learning opportunities .. nutrition … arts-music education, genuine cultural connections and early exposure to all kinds of work-in-the-world. The system is shuddering right about now, less funding for a status quo that was already not entirely functional .. it’s all connected .. tight turns and rewiring just ahead .. hang onto your halo ..
What’s life without a merman or a mermaid in your life? ( Discovery Channel’s mocshokdoc excepted) .. blending a few varied inspirations (an octopus, an embrace, and a 50’s aquatic siren postcard) to wit :
Soplando Burbujas de Amor (JL Guerra) …
and .. a mediation for support the intentions and purposes of the Peace Project, above ..
worldOnelov radioabrazos musicalartist WolfHawkJaguar (gotta a pocket fulla cowry shells) and visual artist Michael Roman (gotta tee-shirt fulla cowries!)… Ii need to introduce them !
Simply press the button … Press Peace > Press Play > RePeace ..
If you live nearby .. perhaps we’ll see you at the Solano Stoll this week … and otherwise ..have a beautiful day in the Unihood .. = : ) ~
Q:Like our writer in the excerpt above, I too have had favorite radio stations in my life. You? What makes music important to you ? What is important about music ? Do you have a favorite few radio stations in you life, currently locally or on-line? What makes them “great” ?
LiveAlohaLive.. just back from deep R+R .. Kauai … steeped in Hawaiiana, Tahitian + Polynesian vibz, the aina …
ka malama lekio inna Hawaiian Style
Limahuli winds, rains, scapes.. full mahina, radiant kahikole, cloud-speak, flora-powa, birdsong, … with deep mahalos to Tepairu+Jo, Pat, Ray, Jessee, Jimmy et al@ Heiva i Kauai 2012, Tiki Carvers Sefu + Richi, Shell +bone Crafters Ritchie and Fas, Leticia, Sue, Damon, and Carol @ 7Artists, Dawn and Michelle in Hanapepe, Brian in Wainiha, Linda and , Hawaiian Music Store, KKCR Community Radio http://www.kkcr.org/for magnificent dreamy musical Hawaiian musical mornings (weekdays 7-9 PST) and Ron Wiley @ KONG radio.So, Awapuhi was a particular theme throughout this journey .. pictured above… along with the rhythmic pulse of the rainforest …and, of course, the Heiva itself … woooooow … Debra Sue and I volunteered for a few days ..and loved every minute of it … a few images follow … http://www.heivaikauai.com/
Back in El Cerrito, we are swelling and swooning to, among others, Cody Pueo Pata, Amy Hanaialii, NaPalapalai, and an collection of as yet unidentifiable South Pacific ditties compiled by Havaiki Tribal Art Gallery http://www.havaikiart.com/… working on some positive track id’s … you’ll hear all shortly via worldOneradio … 88.1 keCg 97.7 … Do you have worldOne on TuneIn on your smart phone ? Have you otherwise found us via Shoutcast? Listen for loops of Beethoven, Mcferrin’s Circle Songs, WolfHawkJaguar, Tree House Orchestra, Les Nubian, and musics we sent up with Voyager (“Send more Chuck Berry !”) .. along with deeply musical and thoughtful curations by Gregg McVicar/Undercurrents , Doug Wendt/AllWorldBeat , and Ed Vincent/ Radio Edsoft. The youth crew will e back in the daily mid-morning saddle, weekdays as we get into later September.
Big Up and Double XXL XO’s to Sefu and Richi … who sent us home with some handcrafted Tongan/Hawaiian vibz ..
… Quite enough to make sure we are suffering from a palpable loooonging for all the revitalized tendrils to the aina, Hawaiia cultures and peoples … thankfully, upon arrival, as we plunge back into glocal domesticity, routines, and practices … we were taken up in a Dhol Rhythm workouts at Ashkenez with Vicki and Nina .. and the Indian wedding crashers event last night in SF .. with clamorous mock-wedding-crasher procession down Mission Street .. and the hipheartcharging dancefloorthrillers from DJ JimmyLove … http://nonstopbhangra.ning.com/
Thank you … Gracias a La Vida .. que nos ha dado tanto .. sparkling waters, sparkling cosmos, and sparkling eyes technique for realzies ..all Artists, Volunteers, City, Sponsors, beloved CoPro Debra Sue, Dj Doug Wendt in His International Hut of LOVDuB, Creatrixes Maria-Tina and Cordelia… we wrung ourselves out and shook our beauty …
Please enjoy a seeing cruise reprise through the sparkling eyes of Fletcher Oakes ..
Thanks ALL … City of El Cerrito, Honda of El Cerrito, the Natural Grocery Company and like-minded sponsors …foodies, artisans and musical and dance artists Calafia, PC Munoz, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Elijah Rock, Earth Amplified, Tito y su son de Cuba, and Dhol Rhythms .. Feelin it ? Support it ! What the heck .. write a check! worldOnelove’s in need of love today … send your love in right way …please help us maintain and grow … don’tchaknow … it takes a village…
donations welcomed at keCg 540 ashbury avenue el cerrito cali 94530
we’ll send you a receipt for our tax deductible donation to support this cornucopia of sound … and make sure it keeps spinning round and round .. .
right, right, baby round, round … like a prayer wheel … it is not too early or late to volunteer, ya hear ?
get inna mix with the crew true blue … and we will welcome you …
there’s plenty to plan and doowakkasakkalakka do ! your hands and hearts are welcomed … for specific and general skillz & willingness .. . front of house, back stage, all year log … so we stay strong ..
live long! Ola loa … Maka Kiliokilo , say watt?! Check in via the volunteer tab on worldonerdio.org
Thank you for the favor of your listening and active support of 88.1 keCg 97.7 public radio … for people of peaceopowerunity … that’s you … that’s me .. free like we want to be ..
Cause you could be – we could be we should be L- O- V- E …
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festival season in full swing in Northern CaLi .. we were recently at Far West Fest were we mingled with Nicki / Orgone and Les Nubiennes .. gracious good vibz ..
Celia ( Les Nubiennes) + Corey @ FWF 2012
Scintillating Man @ Temescal/Oak 2012
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Dj DiVynil in worldOneHeartQuarters
following weeks of repairs, packing , sewing, recapping, planning .. and some r e s t .. we are heading for deep R+R retreat … West + North + Yemaja + Ochun + Laka … more worldOne musical jambalaya is simmering, always …
wishing you the fullness and joy of summer, happy trails, more soon … = : ) ~
It is mos definitely exhiliarating to anticipate what is coming ….. AsheEl dropped in today …. to see what condition our condition was in … and you coulda heard the drop of a pin … quinceanyeros enthralled …..while he was sippin his wheat grass .. and not eeeeven considerin the impossibility of bustin’ any cap uppa —- .. axe AshEL … what the heavens … and nothin keeps you revvin like JAHJAH .. mo’ peace in ouwa areah FARI … = : ) ~
May Spring Refill and rejuvenate you, here in the Northern Hemisphere … our nearby hills are awash in sweet sweeping rains and rolling waves of wild flowers ..
Listening to ” Heavenly Adagios” this am .. WOW .. a gorgeously compiled double cd …heart and home are swelling .. including the drawing pad … after stasis for a few months … BTW … those musical panels ( Lov for Sale ) now life in our ECHS Main Office, by popular demand. Including “Sea of (Turtle) Love” .. no one has figured out/commented on the aquatic-erotic wink in that panel .. LoL .. a recent muse here.. ” Bam BuuM” ..
My nervous system has been on tilt ( See March Forward) … as soon as the academic pressure is off… all kinds of symptoms of exhaustion come up .. 11 and 12 hour bed rests, wierd and revealing dreamings … gronkiness .. and then .. I spring back into creative will and action .. although I am getting older and more sensitive .. seems to take longer to recover …
Good news on the worldOneradio streaming front, we are back up, and testing a low fi signal this week
Musically, we got our jaz on lately along with all the global vibz .. we could not be more thrilled to revisit, recommend and share : Pahroah Sanders, Pat Metheney Group, Ceu ( neuw! Carnaval), Esperanza Spaulding ( Radio Music/Junjo) , Terry Lynn ( Kingston Logic 2.0), and Terri Lyne Carrington ( Mosaic), Musical Art QTT, Chicha Libre ( Canibalismo) , Puppini Sisters, Andrews Sisters , Deelite, Box Candy, Take 6 ( One), Chick Corea ( Forever, Chaka is BHAACK!) Ed Reed, John Roninson ( Whos Is? ), King Sunny Ade remixology, Pipestone Tribute /drum), Spoken word artist/actioneeer Dante Clark .. and some MOJOCAJON …
that last recommendation is a start-up workshop making some remarkable cajones .. Percussionists! take a peek and a listen ! I contacted MojoCajonero William Bell .. and asked permission to employ their You Tube audio for station segue-ways and flava .. he agreed ! I think you will also .. get a feva fo tha flava ..
Spending a good part of this Spring break prepping our 14th annual worldOnefestival .. you can find fest details on our reconstructing website www.worldoneradio.org .. and you are invited .. to tune in, wherever you may be .. and maybe plan to shake your beauty with us in July ! Best and BlessUP ! = : ) ~
VIPS : please DO share links to beautiful + uplifting events, artists, sites, You Tubes .. like the clouds of starlings-in-Scotland , or favorite flash mobs, anything that is not mobwives-zombies-10,0oo way to die … life and genuinely social media can certainly provide us with 10 zillion ways to LIVE !
www.SnowCrystals.com was created by Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Caltech
drawing by Zac Rodgers/ www.kingspook.com
