February 2012
12 posts
Happy Birthday Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 –...
In 2002, I drove up solo from Southern California to San Francisco to watch one of Nina Simone’s last performances. I will never forget it, sitting there by myself crying on a tit of a beautiful Afrikan Amerikan big mama seated next to me. “Oh, honeychild…it’s gonna be okay” she assured me as she handed me her handkerchief.
Nina’s fingers on the piano were...
Extinct Human Ancestors Survive in our Genes
For years, anthropologists suspected that Homo sapiens cross-bred with Neanderthals before our closest ancestor went extinct. That hypothesis proved officially true in 2010, with the first hard genetic evidence of Neanderthal DNA surviving in living humans, and in July further tests found even more evidence of cross-breeding. Moreover, it’s not just Neanderthals that live on in us, but...
A Possibly Habitable, Earth-Like Planet
Using NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers spotted the closest planet yet to being considered a home away from home. The exoplanet, named Kepler 22-b, has a mass just 2.4 times greater than Earth’s and orbits its parent star within the so-called ‘habitable zone,’ potentially giving it a temperate climate and the right conditions for life.
WatchThe Entrance Band
3rd track from Southern Record Latitude series out March 19th.
Track Listing:
New Orleans
Requiem For Juicy
Last Kind Words
Pre-order album now.
The Entrance Band On Southern Records
The Entrance Band
We’re delighted to announce the release of a Latitudes session by The Entrance Band, on 19th March.
Track Listing:
New Orleans
Requiem For Juicy
Last Kind Words
Total Running Time: 27:34
Pre-order The Entrance Band now.
This session was recorded just after the band’s appearance at All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by Animal Collective, and the three tracks laid...
Letter from an Armenian Silûetler
Paz,
I noticed you discovered ‘Siluetler’ (see post bellow) while looking for Armenian psych music. One of the songs is an Armenian and Kurdish song (Lorke Lorke), I dunno how good your Armenians is (I heard somewhere you’re part Armenian), but if you were curious about the lyrics to the traditional form (I know the Siluetler version doesn’t have lyrics), here they are. It...
Salvador Dali, 1904-1989
Spanish painter, graphic artist, filmmaker, writer.
A modern master of the surreal arts, Salvador Dali’s works continually challenged convention by questioning the antithesis of surrealism: our normal sense of the “real.” Surrealism’s objective was to make accessible to art the realms of the unconscious, irrational and imaginary. An expansive movement that extended beyond the canvas,...
Guembri
The sintir also known as the Guembri is a three stringed skin-covered bass played by the Gnawa Africans.
