"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

'Total Eclipse of the Heart'

And I didn't even feel like sharing anything today... Too tired by everything. But messages come from whatever source they are hidden in :)

I post this article because if I say this, a lot of people might not listen because of my soft voice. I post it because if I write it, a lot of people might turn a blind eye at an unfamous name.

So here is The New Yorker writing it. Thanks to lady Amanda Petrusich.

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Culture Desk

“Total Eclipse of the Heart” Will Never Be Eclipsed

By Amanda Petrusich

August 17, 2017

 It feels like time-tested American wisdom to presume that, if some extraordinary event is underfoot, a cruise ship shall soon sail in its honor. The Oasis of the Seas departs Port Canaveral, near Orlando, on Sunday morning, for a seven-night “Total Eclipse Cruise.” Its operator, Royal Caribbean, has promised guests “extraordinary partial views” of the solar eclipse, and the chance to behold and admire, en masse, “the celestial phenomenon that is poised to become the most photographed, most shared and most Tweeted event in human history.” There will be “enrichment lectures”; bartenders will shake up a custom libation called the “Cosmic Cosmo” and ladle out little cups of “Planetary Punch.” And, in a true victory for literalism, the sixty-six-year-old Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler will perform “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” backed by the electro-pop band DNCE, while the moon briefly drifts between our planet and its sun.

Anyone who has flicked on an FM radio or stumbled into a karaoke parlor in the last thirty-four years surely knows at least a few bars of “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” a booming, volcanic pop song that topped the Billboard chart in 1983; at its peak, it sold around sixty thousand copies a day. The song was written and produced by Jim Steinman, the composer of Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell,” who later told People that he hadn’t anticipated its popularity, in part because of how he understood its scope: “It was an aria to me, a Wagnerian-like onslaught of sound and emotion.”

I don’t know that a person enjoys “Total Eclipse of the Heart” so much as submits to it. If you’re wondering what the song is about—the particular story it tells—I can’t help you. It communicates only great anguish over some unspecified loss: “Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there’s only love in the dark,” Tyler gasps. You might be thinking that love in the dark doesn’t sound so bad. Yet to hear Tyler sing it—and her voice is capacious, emotive, truly unwavering in its sincerity—is to recognize that something good has collapsed. Perhaps Steinman’s narrative is purposefully nonsensical, an homage to the ways in which we gabble and rant when deeply wounded. Tyler, like Meat Loaf, seems to instinctively understand that the best way to animate a Steinman song is to sing it like a crazy person—red-faced, flinging your arms every which way, single-handedly sucking each molecule of oxygen from the room. To perform it properly means that by the time a singer gets to the end—to that final, shredding “I really need you tonight!”—she should be in a state of complete psychic collapse. Her audience should understand on a cellular level that she is not fucking around. In this way, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” offers a gift of release.

Time reported that, following the last solar eclipse, in March, 2016, the streaming service Spotify clocked a seventy-five-per-cent increase in plays of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” The song’s video is appropriately terrifying—about three and a half minutes in, a choir emerges from the darkness, wearing white robes, with glowing green orbs where their eyeballs should be, and then, apropos of nothing, one of them shoots into the air (!). Vevo’s post of the music video on YouTube presently has over three hundred million views, a number that will almost certainly rise on Monday afternoon.

The astrologer Susan Miller, in an online manual titled “All About Eclipses: A Guide for Coping with Them,” suggests that an eclipse is one of the “most dramatic tools that the universe uses to get us to pay attention to areas in our life that need to change. They uproot us, surprise us, and get us moving.” It is hard to imagine a more germane soundtrack to emotional upheaval than “Total Eclipse of the Heart”—it’s the song we reach for when we have grown tired of exhibiting graceful restraint. Perhaps Tyler’s performance of it—at sea, under an obscured sun, encircled by well-fed cruisers in safety glasses—will unlock something in the heavens, and allow for a new day on Earth.

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Amanda Petrusich is a contributing writer for newyorker.com, and the author of “Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records.”

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The song, of course:

Bonnie Tyler - 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'

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Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/total-eclipse-of-the-heart-will-never-be-eclipsed

News and the USA

After years of trying to cover news in places like the USA, Haiti, East Africa and Europe, under the pressure of a lot of narrow-minded vision from my editors-in-chief, I had to share this.

Opinion published on the Washington Post's website:

Global Opinions

What if Western media covered Charlottesville the same way it covers other nations

By Karen Attiah August 16

If we talked about what happened in Charlottesville the same way we talk about events in a foreign country, here’s how Western media would cover it. Those quoted in the “story” below are fictional.

The international community is yet again sounding the alarm on ethnic violence in the United States under the new regime of President Trump. The latest flash point occurred this past weekend when the former Confederate stronghold of Charlottesville descended into chaos following rallies of white supremacist groups protesting the removal of statues celebrating leaders of the defeated Confederate states. The chaos turned deadly when Heather Heyer, a member of the white ethnic majority who attended the rally as a counterprotester, was killed when a man with neo-Nazi sympathies allegedly drove his car into a crowd.

Trump, a former reality television host, beauty pageant organizer and businessman, rose to political prominence by publicly questioning the citizenship of the United States’ first black president, Barack Obama. Since his election, Trump has targeted Muslims, refugees, Mexicans and the media. He has also advocated for police brutality. These tactics have appealed to and emboldened white ethno-nationalist groups and domestic terrorist organizations.

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Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/08/16/what-if-western-media-covered-americas-white-tribalism-the-same-way-it-covers-other-nations/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.9bf742987aa2