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Rahim AlHaj explores the relationship between his oud and a string quartet. A meeting of East and West. A mingling of cultures.
Rahim’s album Second Baghdad will become available within a few days.
I am very happy and proud to announce that Rahim’s album Friendship: Oud & Sadaqa Quartet is now available from our ListeningLounge. In that the album contains only 8 songs, but some of those songs are over 10 minutes long,gucci purses, we decided to offer individual tracks for $1.25 and the whole album for $10. It is wonderful music – go check it out!
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So, How Does It Work on the Bus
David Byrne on touring. We tour in a similar fashion, minus the hotel rooms. We get a hotel room every once in a while, usually on a travel day or day off, and sleep in the bunks. David Byrne may be a smaller fish than U2, but he is a much bigger fish than OL + LN.
David Byrne Journal: 08.08.09: Edinburgh — So, How Does It Work on the Bus?
I went for a walk in a sheep pasture this afternoon and wondered to myself why it is that friends and acquaintances ALWAYS, without fail, marvel at how we get around by bus, while journalists NEVER ask about such pragmatic or mundane matters.
Then again, maybe we (((speaking of most touring bands))) trimmed some fat off of touring. While the musicians and crew may hear the difference between carrying sound equipment of a certain quality to every venue, the audiences do not generally hear that difference.
Here is a point I haven’t seen anybody make: from the Sixties to the late Nineties, buying CDs (or cassettes or LPs) was not unlike supporting a museum or funding the military with taxes, like building roads from gasoline taxes, in that the many people buying albums funded what the concert-going audience exerienced. Many people bought albums, which enabled bands to tour at a loss or barely breaking even. Concerts were seen as advertising and most acts did not expect to make money touring. In fact,hermes belts, as David Byrne mentioned, touring was often supported by advances from the record labels (((which had to be paid back by the artist, of course!))).
We saw a lot of other tourbusses on the road this Summer. Many of them were pulling trailers with gear. Bands might have used an 18-wheeler to carry band-gear, lights and sound equipment ten years ago, but now many use the venues’ lights and sound and only carry what fits into a trailer, pulled by the bus.
On touring to sell albums:
In the past, live shows were viewed as loss leaders to sell albums, but I doubt that too many folks believe that anymore… though shows do make people a teeny bit aware of a new record. Record companies who espoused the loss leader approach used to advance money to up and coming acts to cover tour losses — but I don’t know anyone who does that now.
My point is that because bands sold a lot more albums in the Nineties, they could afford to carry their own lights and sound, a number of roadies and roll down the highway in two or more busses. One might say they could put on a better show then, since they had funding in form of album-sales. Take away the album sales in the 21st Century and suddenly most bands have to tighten the belt. So, while people save 15 bucks on buying an album that they can find for free on the interwebs, it also means they reduce the money a touring act can spend on their show. Like with taxes, many paid for the concert-going enjoyment of some. I am guessing that the people who used to experience a tour represented maybe 10% of the people who bought the album.
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Monday SFe-NYC
In the evening I walked 20 blocks to dinner in lovely Fall weather, much warmer than one would expect. Music from an event outside Lincoln Center wafted across the street, which was packed with people. Nice to be in Manhattan.
Left Santa Fe on Sunday evening to stay at a hotel near the Albuquerque airport, because our flight left at 6:30AM on Monday morning. Apparently La Quinta is Spanish for bad customer service as we had made a reservation for first floor rooms – so we would not have to carry luggage up and down at 4:30AM – but that had either not been communicated to the franchise or they did not care. In any case we ended up with rooms on the second floor and since the elevator was a mile away we ended up carrying cases up and down the stairs…
Woke up at 4AM on Monday morning and at 4:30AM started hauling the cases down. The flights to New York were uneventful, but it was interesting to note that Continental Airlines boards their planes much earlier than,hermes belts, say, United or American. I mostly fly United or American and they seem to board around 20-30 minutes prior to departure. Continental started boarding 50 minutes prior to departure. In fact the plane was already full before the food and drink carts were even delivered.
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OL + Luna Negra in Japan
Ottmar Liebert – Tour Schedule: Fall 2009 –,Replica Chanel; Luna Negra
Nov 14 – Yokohama, Japan – Motion Blue – Tickets / Info
Nov 16 – Tokyo, Japan – Blue Note – Tickets / Info
Nov 17 – Tokyo, Japan – Blue Note – Tickets / Info
Nov 18 – Tokyo, Japan – Blue Note – Tickets / Info
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Round 2
We have to deal with greenhouse gases….the debate is over. When 98 percent of scientists agree, who [can] say, ‘Let’s debate the science’?
Bonus question. Who said this:
I would not have guessed that.
If we had our druthers, we’d already have carbon legislation passed. Our viewpoint is that it’s going to happen. There’s scientific evidence of climate change.
Get ready for round 2
Pop quiz. Who said the following:
If you guessed John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., and John L. Stowell, Duke Energy’s vice president for environmental policy,Replica Purses, give yourself a big pat on the back. While certain politicians and confused segments of the public continue to fight a rearguard action against the consensus on climate change, the attitude in the energy industry is quietly coming around to one of cooperation and discussion.
(Via TerraBlog from TerraPass)
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Aeolus Airship
Aeolus Airship: Human-Powered Blimp: TreeHugger
Setting the bar pretty high for airship design is this one from Christopher Ottersbach: Called the Aeolus Airship (named after Aeolus, the Greek wind god) it is designed to be aerodynamic than conventional airship designs, and stay aloft for up to two weeks on a supply of helium and,Replica Handbags, furthermore, is pedal-powered by the crew of 2-4 people.
Beautiful. Like something out of a Japanese Anime. More on Inhabitat.
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Next Green Revolution
Wired 14.05: The Next Green Revolution
Americans trash the planet not because we’re evil, but because the industrial systems we’,hermes belts;ve devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works. They’re primitive inventions designed by people who didn’t fully grasp the consequences of their actions.
Great article from Wired Mag.
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Monday
While I was washing dishes this morning I thought that there is no way we will use water for this in 20 years time. We won’t be able to afford it. Maybe we will have microbes that will clean dishes? Got the idea from this: maggots clean human wounds…,Replica Handbags;
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Replica Wallets O’DonnellWeb – Merriment and Amus
However, Miracle Whip is more water than anything else after a recent recipe change, and it’s all Walmart’s fault.
As any Good Eats fan knows, the whole point of slathering a fat like Miracle Whip, Mayo, or butter on a sammich is to protect the bread from the liquid content of your sammich fixins. Spreading water on your bread doesn’t really help.
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Mulberry Handbags O’DonnellWeb – Merriment and Am
If this were the Columbian team the goalie would have been gunned down,Mulberry Handbags, maybe during the game. As it’s just England, they’ll probably all get drunk and forget about it.
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