Louder Than Words – Tick, Tick…Boom! Jonathan Larson (1960-1996) Why do we play with fire? Why do we run our finger through the flame?Why do we leave our hand on the stoveAlthough we know we’re in for some pain? Oh, why do we refuse to hang a lightWhen the streets are dangerous?Why does it take an accidentBefore… Read More Cages or wings? What does it take to wake up a generation?
Brian Eno: Spinning Away Up on a hill, as the day dissolvesWith my pencil turning moments into lineHigh above in the violet skyA silent silver plane – it draws a golden chain One by one, all the stars appearAs the great winds of the planet spiral inSpinning away, like the night sky at ArlesIn the… Read More Brian Eno: Spinning Away / Gulzar: आहिस्ता चल ज़िन्दगी / Eliza Shaddad: Waters
The bhajan had a very familiar tune but the words and the off-key singing made it difficult to recognise at first. Then it came like a flash — the tune was that of “Allah, yeh ada kaisi hai in haseenon mein, roothe pal men na mane mahinon men,” a song from the forgettable 1968 Dharmendra-Sharmila… Read More Shobhit Mahajan: The ties that bind religion, popular culture
Santo Tanti is an Adivasi – but you can’t pin him down to a specific tribe within that category. For perhaps a century and a half, Assam’s tea garden areas have seen Adivasis from Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh arrive here as migrant labourers. Many descendants of these… Read More Santo Tanti’s songs of sadness, work and hope
Ibtada-e-Ishq hai rota hai kya / Aage Aaage dekhiye hota hai kya Man Kunto Maula Abi Sampa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyZZBpxcLMw Cafe De Anatolia – Most Beautiful Songs V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9w7cDeCguo African Relaxing Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njj4CX4OAMU Isle of Skye Drone Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RTMLn7rDRw&t=554s Kamlee: Hadiqa Kiani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oGSq6iGSjQ Vangelis – Theme from Antarctica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwuniIgYXM Oxygene – The Ocean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI3yNckfSvU Nawang Khechog – Tibet – Cry… Read More Haroon: Ibtada-e-Ishq hai rota hai kya / Aage Aaage dekhiye hota hai kya
We went down to the edge of the water You were afraid to go in You said, There might be sharks out there in the oceanAnd I said, I’m only going for a swim I was swimming around in a circleI wasn’t always in viewYou said, We might get into red flag dangerAnd I am… Read More SINEAD LOHAN – No Mermaid
Noor Mohammad Shah had always happily lived a life of obscurity. Born in a small village in the conflict-ridden state of Kashmir in India, Shah had been introduced to the mystical world of Sufi music as a child and for decades since had made a meagre but fulfilling living singing traditional songs and performing on… Read More ‘It feels good’: Kashmir folk singer’s rise from dusty street to music star
Brian Eno & David Byrne – Home Album: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06jFQMxPtxw The dimming of the light makes the picture clearer It’s just an old photograph There’s nothing to hide When the world was just beginning I memorized a face so it’s not forgotten I hear the wind whistlin’ Come back anytime… Read More Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Watch – hear this brilliant protest song by Citizens United, in Bangla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_aCNzis8E তাসের দেশ’ হেঁকে বলছে ‘চলো নিয়ম মতে’ দূরে তাকিয়ো নাকো ঘাড় বাঁকিয়ো নাকো চলো সমান পথে চলো নিয়ম মতে কাদের তৈরী নিয়ম? কারা বলছে না তাকাতে… ঘাড় বাঁকাতে নিষেধ করছে কারা? যারা আমাদের দেশটাকে সুচতুরভাবে নিয়ে চলেছে ধ্বংসের দিকে..তাদের তৈরী করা অমানবিক,… Read More নিজেদের মতে , নিজেদের গান l Citizens United!
World’s Largest Virtual #Hallelujah Chorus O Holy Night – André Rieu André Rieu – Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Little Drummer Boy (African Tribal Version) Ave Maria – André Rieu & Mirusia Christmas in Vienna 2008 (HD)
After the truth-shower 