Did I say again that Saturday is music day? All days are for music, but Saturdays are especially good to indulge into it and disappear :) Don't you think?

This beautiful and peaceful song reappeared today when I was offering myself a gift to cheer me up after this long, repetitive and sunless month... And it brightened the day. Gratitude.

Young Fathers - "I Heard"

Published on 24 Apr 2013

Lyrics

SCIENCE IS EERIE WHEN YOU'RE STILL AROUND
KILLING YA BODY COS THEY FOUND YOU OUT. 

CALLING THE SHOTS AND I'M FALLING DOWN. 

LOOK AT THE DUST EXPLODE ON THE GROUND.

I'M THERE, I'M THERE, I'M THERE, I'M THERE, I'M THERE, I'M THERE, UNDER, I'M THERE,
I'M THERE, I'M THERE, UNDER, I'VE HEARD
I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD,
I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD,

INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
IT'S ONLY COS I'M HURTING.

TELEPHONE THE FATHER SAT ON THE ARM CHAIR WITH A PINT AND A SMOKE
SURE, NO MORE BACK HANDED COMPLIMENTS BUT THE DISHES ARE STILL IN THE SINK
WALK TOWARDS THE DOOR THERE'S AN EMPTY DRESSER, TIME TO BRING OUT THE DUSTER
LEFT WITH A BONE AND A SMILE TO LAST YOU A WHILE
REST A SHORE CAPTAIN FROM YOUR SEA OF TRAVAILS.

INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
IT'S ONLY COS I'M HURTING.

SCIENCE IS EERIE WHEN YOU'RE STILL AROUND KILLING YA BODY COS THEY FOUND YOU OUT. CALLING THE SHOTS AND I'M FALLING DOWN. LOOK AT THE DUST EXPLODE ON THE GROUND

I'M THERE, I'M THERE, I'M THERE, I'M THERE, I'M THERE, UNDER, I'M THERE, I'M THERE,
I'M THERE, UNDER, I'VE HEARD
I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD,
I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD,

INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
INSIDE I'M FEELING DIRTY,
IT'S ONLY COS I'M HURTING.



from the EP, TAPE TWO. produced by young fathers.
limited vinyl EP / limited cassette / CD / download now available for pre-order:
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..."destroy all that is keeping you down"... 'Come To Me'

Feel like I just entered the school of life... And the soundtrack tolls like this:

Björk - 'Come to me'

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Why, why, why did I not listen to my teenage instinct?

Music is life. That's all there is.

Music is poetry, rhythm, vibration, energy, meaning, emotions...
Music is the tree of life.

I was a song in another life. I'll be an instrument in my next if I lucky.

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Lyrics:


"Come To Me"

come to me
i'll take care of you
protect you
calm, calm down
you're exhausted
come lie down
you don't have to explain
i understand

you know
that i adore you
you know
that i love you
so don't make me say it
it would burst the bubble
break the charm

jump off
your building's on fire
i'll catch you
i'll catch you
destroy all that is keeping you down
and then i'll nurse you
i'll nurse you

come to me
i'll take care of you
you don't have to explain
i understand

"My heart is sick of being in chains"

I Am Here:

Tori Amos - 'Crucify' - Live

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Lyrics:

"Crucify"

Every finger in the room
Is pointing at me
I wanna spit in their faces
Then I get afraid of what that could bring
I got a bowling ball in my stomach
I got a desert in my mouth
Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Just what God needs
One more victim

Why do we
Crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
I crucify myself
My heart is sick of being, I said, my heart is sick of being in chains, oh, oh, chains

Got a kick for a dog
Beggin' for love
I gotta have my suffering
So that I can have my cross
I know a cat named Easter
He says, "Will you ever learn?
You're just an empty cage, girl,
If you kill the bird."

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Got enough guilt to start my own religion

Why do we
Crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
I crucify myself
My heart is sick of being, I said, my heart is sick of being in chains, oh, oh, chains

Please believe
Save me
I cry

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Where are those angels when you need them?

Why do we crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
I crucify myself
My heart is sick of being, I said, my heart is sick of being in chains, oh, oh, chains

[Repeat:]
Why do we
Chains
Crucify myself

Never going back again to crucify myself again
You know never going back again to crucify myself everyday

"Wapi Yo Melissa"

Ce jeune homme originaire de Kinshasa est passionné de musique et comme on le comprend!!

Nous ne nous sommes jamais rencontrés mais il a entendu ma voix sur RFI et TV5 Monde, et a entendu parlé de moi par le musicien accompli Jupiter, également originaire de Kinshasa.

Voici sa première chanson : "Wapi Yo Melissa"...

Sa présentation :

BlackMan Aka Patrick Buluku est originaire de la République du Congo de la
ville Kinshasa. Du haut de son jeune âge , il est passionné de musique dont il
deviendra par la force des choses et de travail guitariste et interprète de ses
propres compositions.

Il se fera remarquer tout d'abord en tant que guitariste et il deviendra par la suite Leader du groupe Astra Sound qui jouera sur différentes scènes locale et régionale.

En 2012 , Patrick Buluku accompagnera le groupe Ba Nkosi Music en tant que
Guitariste Choriste et Soliste, où il deviendra avec le temps leur arrangeur et
compositeur.

Entre 2013 et 2015 il se fera remarquer par la très grande artiste de la Rumba
Congolaise : Koffi Olomide** avec qui il collaborera sur scène.
En 2016, il décide de créer son propre projet "L'homme Noir" avec des
sonorités diverses et variés pour revenir à l'essence même de ses origines
africaines.

En 2017 il rencontre celui qui deviendra son pygmalion et Manager Producteur Cyril Sentino pour TGM Productions et Artistic plus [France]
qui le rebaptisera plus tard BlackMan. Il gardera son nom Buluku pour agrémenter la couleur de son projet.

Son Manager lui permettra de faire diverses rencontres enrichissantes auprès
de chanteurs , chanteuses, auteurs, compositeurs...
Il prépare avec son équipe son 1er EP de cinq titres (5) "Kinshasha Buluku" aux multiples sonorités : Electronique, Pop, World Music interpréter en Français et
en Congolais.

MANAGEMENT / PRODUCTION BOOKING : tgmprods@gmail.com

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Patrick Buluku

Sa page Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/BlackManBuluku/


Ecouter sur Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/blackmanbuluku/wapi-yo-melissa-tgm-prods-preview

BlackMan - Wapi Yo Melissa - TGM Prods [Preview].
Auteur / Compositeur : Patrick Buluku
Arrangement : Rémi Jeancoux [Toulouse]
Production : TGM Prods [Toulouse]
Label : HP Music [Toulouse]
Tous droits réservés Copyright 2017

Vers la fin d'août

Résumé de la semaine, en image :

Un lieu magique pour un festival littéraire hors norme, dans cette belle campagne de l'Hérault, au Moulin de Faugères :

Présentation vidéo :

Published on 21 Jul 2017

Franck-Olivier Laferrère et la Communauté de Communes des Avant-Monts présentent l'édition 2017 des Transversales.

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Merci pour l'invitation !

Transversales‏ @TransMoulins

Mercredi 19h aux Moulins de Faugères, dernier stop du tour d'Europe : Bristol ! Avec @melissachemam

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Dans le train du retour, la suite du boulot... sur le texte en anglais, chapitre 13 à 15!

"...gonna get you back to you"... 'Reindeer King'

What an amazingly divine and profound song. A deeply needed, timely message. Tori Amis is a true shaman! 

Has she ever been so on point? And what a voice, still... Amazing carrier, reaching an incredible high. 
I'm in awe.


Live version:

'Reindeer King' - Tori Amos (Live-Radio Trojska Player)

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More on the songwriting:



Tori Amos's Spiritual and Political Reckoning in "Reindeer King" 

W Magazine

by 

Katherine Cusumano

August 24, 2017 8:00 am

Last summer, on the advice of her physician sister Marie, Tori Amos set out for North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains. Her mother Mary Ellen's family hailed from the area, and Amos hoped to absorb the music of the region to inform her next record. But in November, Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States, and in January, Mary Ellen suffered a debilitating stroke—and the 54-year-old musician found herself writing an entirely different record, one she has described as “a record of pain, blood, and bone.”

“It wasn’t going to be a record of division,” she wrote in a statement accompanying the release. But political and personal circumstances dictated otherwise: “I listened and watched the conflicts that were traumatizing the nation.” The result was Native Invader, Amos’s politically-charged 15th studio album out September 8. It opens with the seven-minute opus, “Reindeer King,” which premieres with an accompanying lyric video exclusively here on W.

If Native Invader is, as Amos describes it, “a record of division and conflict,” “Reindeer King” is a metaphysical introduction to those ideas. It opens with a pounding swirl of piano (and, in the video, images of a frosted landscape, quartz crystals, and prowling wolves) before Amos’s voice comes through: “Crystal core, your mind has been divided from your soul,” she sings. “Crystal core, you are the still point of the turning world, the divide, fearing death, desiring life.” The titular Reindeer King, a mythic figure, bridges this divide, urging Amos’s narrator again and again, “Gotta get you back to you.”

But as much as “Reindeer King” establishes the introspective tone of the record, it also finds inspiration in a larger perspective. Amos observed images coming in from NASA’s Cassini probe, which began darting between Saturn’s rings earlier this year and has sent home images of the rings and moons of Jupiter and Saturn since it began broadcasting more than a decade ago. These, synthesized with images of a frozen landscape, produced “Reindeer King”: “For years, people had told me about the magical atmosphere that happens when bodies of water freeze over and hundreds of people ice skate for miles and miles and miles,” she wrote via email, pointing to the track’s romantic final verse.

“You know that I would skate, skate all the way, just to hold your hand, to take away your pain,” she sings. “You know that I would skate from Scandinavia all the way to the moons of Jupiter with you ... I’ve just come from the Reindeer King.”

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Link:https://www.wmagazine.com/story/tori-amos-song-reindeer-king-new-album
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Much love...

'Afropean: Documenting Black Europe' by Afropean co-founder Johny Pitts

This is great news...

Afropean Culture

August 15 at 6:51pm · 

Early next year Penguin Books will publish 'Afropean: Documenting Black Europe' by Afropean co-founder Johny Pitts. 

One of the reasons Johny wrote the book (and set up Afropean with Nat Illumine and Yomi Bazuaye) was to create a network of like minded people across the continent. At the end of the book, Johny would like to create a list of Afro-European-related organisations to increase exposure of the work they are doing. Please list any community organisations, online networks or initiatives from your country for consideration. 

And if you'd like updates about the book please remember to subscribe to our mailing list: (at the bottom left of this page): http://afropean.com/contact/

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ABØUT

The Afropean is an online multimedia, multidisciplinary journal exploring the social, cultural and aesthetic interplay of black and European cultures, and the synergy of styles and ideas brought about because of this union. In 2014 Afropean was invited to be part of The Guardian Newpaper’s Africa Network.

We hope to fill the void left by Erik Kambel’s Afro-Europe blog, which closed down in 2013, and, under Erik’s guidance we will continue to shed light on art, music, literature, news and events from the Afro-European diaspora, as well as produce and commission original essays and projects.

WHY THE Ø ?

We aren’t suggesting you attempt to pronounce our ‘Ø’ in Afropean as they do in Scandinavia. Ø is also a symbol used in mathematics to denote ‘diameter’, often shortened to ‘dia’, from the Greek, meaning ‘between, through, across’. Dia is also the root word of ‘diaspora’. Spora means ‘to scatter’. We sometimes feel between cultures, we certainly travel through them, and we aim to be across all the diaspora news. But we hope we aren’t scattered. On the contrary, Afropean is all about bringing everything and everyone together.

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Link: http://afropean.com

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Still mesmerized by this exhibition:

David Hockney | Exposition | Centre Pompidou

Du 21 juin 2017 au 23 octobre 2017 : David Hockney


Le Centre Pompidou en collaboration avec la Tate Britain de Londres et le Metropolitan Museum de New York présente la plus complète exposition rétrospective consacrée à l’œuvre de David Hockney.


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Taking pictures was forbidden, unfortunately.

Just these ones then:

PJ. In her own words.

The ideal songwriter.

The ideal radio programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092k508

PJ Harvey: In Her Own Words

Hailed as the world's best songwriter by Rolling Stone on the release of her first album, Dry, in 1992, PJ Harvey is the only artist to have won the Mercury Music prize twice and released her ninth album The Hope Six Demolition Project last year, having been awarded an MBE for her services to music in 2013.

But the Dorset based musician has long maintained an aura of mystery around her work and comparatively little is known about her personal life, preferring to let her music and art do the talking.

Ahead of her headline set at Green Man festival, 6music offers an intimate portrayal of the enigmatic artist through her own words from interviews recorded across her career.

From her formative years growing up on a farm listening to Blues, meeting her life long friend and collaborator John Parish, sharing her love of Captain Beefheart with John Peel, to the songwriting processes and inspirations behind her music, 6music offers a rare glimpse into the artist's world.

Jake Chapman: about art, books and wasting time

And wondering if a nice, green, posh new house will affect the edginess of his creations.

There are so many contractions in art.
But it is part of why it is so violently indispensable.

My Place: Jake Chapman

Published on 15 Aug 2017

British artist Jake Chapman, known for his provocative, grotesque and macabre artworks, invites Barbara Anastacio to his countryside home in the Cotswolds, England. 

Read more on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/2uKIcgm