Tanya Tagaq, moers festival 2012, photo by michael hoefner Tanya Tagaq CM (born Tanya Tagaq Gillis, May 5, 1975), also credited as Tagaq, is a Canadian Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. Tagaq was a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on…
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Women Music March 2022 — Day 1 — Vanessa Collier
Vanessa Collier photo by TrinidadSteve There’s a young lady came onstage with me, I forget where I was, but she’s playing an alto saxophone, and man, she was amazing. –Buddy Guy from Vanessa’s website: Those are the words of Buddy Guy in a recent issue of American Blues Scene, describing an impromptu performance with Vanessa…
The Brit Box, Disc 2, Track 2, “Sight of You,” by Pale Saints
Pale Saints Pale Saints were an English alternative rock/shoegazing band formed in 1987 in Leeds by singer-bassist Ian Masters, guitarist Graeme Naysmith and drummer Chris Cooper. The group began as a jangly indie pop band influenced by Primal Scream’s early sound. By the time they recorded their first EP, Barging Into the Presence of God,…
haiku — blue sky in winter with ELO and Steppenwolf
blue is battery charged from the sun that gets my motor running
#TSM 199 — Diamond T
American Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk Before his Time’s man of his own hour tick…tock ticks his jazz notes deep down cool fly by unsquare beats in arrhythmic meditative notes. Nirvana floats. from youtube comment: Just to put it all together: Thelonious Monk – piano Charlie Rouse – tenor Ben Riley – drums Larry…
The Second British Invasion Music Series — The Brit Box, Disc 2, Track 1, “Vapour Trail,” by Ride
Ride Tidbits: Ride are an English band formed in Oxford in 1988. The band consists of Andy Bell (vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica,) Mark Gardener (vocals, guitar,) Laurence “Loz” Colbert (drums,) and Steve Queralt (bass.) The band were initially part of the “shoegazing*” scene that emerged in England during the early 1990s. Nowhere is Ride’s debut…
dVerse — MTB — Cheating Shadows
Shadow’s long fingers move with sun’s shadow I parse your warm tanned lines with languid eye Shallow thoughts wander in summer shallows Why’s not a question I’m asking. Not why. Not where, as here. Not when, as now. No knot. Questions: how; how long. No other questions. Taut thrust’s dilection; practiced lessons taught Suggestions exhausted;…
Tao Talk 