Since we are nearing the end of the year, I wanted to share with you the music of a very talented jazz group from Philadelphia, PA: Nation of Five. This is good music, filled with joy and creative vitality. Enjoy!
The Saker
Since we are nearing the end of the year, I wanted to share with you the music of a very talented jazz group from Philadelphia, PA: Nation of Five. This is good music, filled with joy and creative vitality. Enjoy!
The Saker
Thanks Saker for pleasant @ relaxive music.
Thanks a lot Saker!
Also, for you:
“Arab flamenco” by Abderrahim Abdelmoumen & Sergio Gomez Delgado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpajdVFtDio
Música Andalusí “La fuente del amor secreto” by Omar Metioui & Mohamed Mehdi Temsamani:
*Fragment with beautiful ancient miniatures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHOCIhIlB9U
“Cese en su aflicción y se regocije aquel que conozca las penas de mi corazón, pues mi sufrimiento ha llegado a su fin.Ya no hay sitio en mi corazón para la tristeza. He alcanzado la Unión que era mi objetivo. Alabo al Señor del Cielo, me prosterno hacia la quibla y digo: !Hoy he sido aceptado!. Estaba sepultado en el sueño de la distracción, pero he aquí que he despertado a la Alegría.¿Quién temera las palabras del envidioso o del espía?”
*Full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mMgeICevUY
Hugs!
Thanks — but I tend to prefer the more traditional for Christmas music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQ2oTYp5Z8
Corelli Christmas Concerto; Op.68 — Freiburger Barockorchester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdO-7_NRa-g
Christmas Music of the 15th and 16th Centuries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb9lIMxq2yE
Praetorius – Lutheran Mass For Christmas Morning
Not too bad.
You might also enjoy this stuff:
Snarky Puppy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhHU_BZXSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc
Avishai Cohen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3g2xhJqx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaJTbhYTw4k
The real deal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdl0m1v5el8
Enjoy.
Thanks for this. Never heard of these guys. Awesome. I especially liked their interpretations of the Christmas songs.
Maybe it has to do with the Season.
Merry Christmas!
The drummer is the truly extraordinary on, IMHO.
The drummer is the truly extraordinarly one, IMHO.
I can’t seem to type today..
The drummer is the truly extraordinary one, IMHO.
A far better selection for the end of year Holidays (not a depressing contrived expression of U.S. barbarism) is some happy music, straight from people’s heart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtLuaYwg-7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB1scKselg4
I do not think anything is far better than other, but we can all give the best of ourselves to live together in peace. Maybe once in a time……
Ana Alcaide: “LUNA SEFARDITA en Samarkanda”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSM8K0yC_Lw
ANA ALCAIDE: “PASACALLES SEFARDÍ”- Sinagoga del Tránsito de Toledo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXn7zgLlJ28
That music is beautiful. True hi culture from bygone times… Thank you Elsi.
American Fred Durst ‘banned from Ukraine for five years’ following his Russian-loving plea to move to his wife’s native Crimea.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/22/17/2F9269C900000578-3370744-image-m-44_1450805577694.jpg
good day saker,
nice to get some jazz of your mind these days, but would it be more at hand to write some about the mess all around us. your loosing your readers en mass. we can access reposts everywhere else.
take care of yourself and have a nice christmas
While we drink Chablis,make merry and listen to good music lets remember the past decade.. How too much good living and no care in the world created the situation we live in..
Back then, I routinely saw and participated in obscenities. Of course, the wickedness of the war was never properly recognized in the West.
As we patrolled the vast region of Iraq’s Al-Anbar Province, throwing MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) trash out of our vehicles, I never contemplated how we would be remembered in history books; I simply wanted to make some extra room in my HUMVEE. Years later, sitting in a Western Civilization history course at university, listening to my professor talk about the cradle of civilization, I thought of MRE garbage on the floor of the Mesopotamian desert.
Examining recent events in Syria and Iraq, I can’t help but think of the small kids my fellow marines would pelt with Skittles from those MRE packages. Candies weren’t the only objects thrown at the children: water bottles filled with urine, rocks, debris, and various other items were thrown as well. I often wonder how many members of ISIS and various other terrorist organizations recall such events?
I vividly remember the marines telling me about punching, slapping, kicking, elbowing, kneeing and head-butting Iraqis. I remember the tales of sexual torture: forcing Iraqi men to perform sexual acts on each other while marines held knives against their testicles, sometimes sodomizing them with batons.
Most of the time they wouldn’t resist. Some of them would hold hands while marines would butt-stroke the prisoners in the face. Once they arrived at the detention facility, they would be held for days, weeks, and even months at a time. Their families were never notified. And when they were released, we would drive them from the FOB (Forward Operating Base) to the middle of the desert and release them several miles from their homes.
After we cut their zip-ties and took the black bags off their heads, several of our more deranged marines would fire rounds from their AR-15s into their air or ground, scaring the recently released captives. Always for laughs. Most Iraqis would run, still crying from their long ordeal at the detention facility, hoping some level of freedom awaited them on the outside. Who knows how long they survived. After all, no one cared. We do know of one former U.S. prisoner who survived: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.
Unfortunately, I could recall countless horrific anecdotes from my time in Iraq. Innocent people were not only routinely rounded-up, tortured and imprisoned, they were also incinerated by the hundreds of thousands, some studies suggest by the millions.
Only the Iraqis understand the pure evil that’s been waged on their nation. They remember the West’s role in the eight year war between Iraq and Iran; they remember Clinton’s sanctions in the 1990s, policies which resulted in the deaths of well over 500,000 people, largely women and children. Then, 2003 came and the West finished the job. Today, Iraq is an utterly devastated nation. The people are poisoned and maimed, and the natural environment is toxic from bombs laced with depleted uranium. After fourteen years of the War on Terror, one thing is clear: the West is great at fomenting barbarism and creating failed states.
Again, the scale of destruction the West has inflicted in the Middle East is absolutely unimaginable to the vast majority of people living in the developed world. This point can never be overstated as Westerners consistently and naively ask, “Why do they hate us?”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/i-helped-create-isis-testimony-of-iraq-war-veteran/5496841
The thing is, hubris and arrogance means they never learn.. will never learn..
Horrific.
I just read this to my wife in full.
She didn’t want to hear it.
It must always be remembered.
Thanks.
Yeah, you basically waged war on the sunni triangle & killed 1 out of the 5 crore there.
They’re Persians, ultimately it will be up to US to restore them & destroy the 2 semitic abominations plus both Issac & Ishmael themselves.
Your time in history ended, it only came because Chakrvart Prithviraj Chauhan showed mercy to Ghori in the 12/1300s Bikrami.
Iraq,Syria,Iran,and actually almost all the MENA states,”should” be beautiful developed nations. With the resources located in those states there is no “natural” reason their peoples should be poor and downtrodden. I blame three factors for that. The West (mainly the US and Britain),Israel,and the greedy stooge elites in those countries. Left alone ,free from the Western and Israeli malice. Those nations might have been able to free themselves from greedy elite rulers. And acquired leaders that wanted to serve their peoples instead of them being “served” by their peoples.
Thanks for reminding me of what’s really going on.
I did not find the Nation of Five relaxing or inspiring. More like Nero fiddling while Rome was burning.
I’m becoming a self-credentialed meta-war analyst. Why do we have wars? What is their origin and likely outcome? As noted above, the ME should be a garden of paradise. Why isn’t it? And how can that garden be restored?
I’m finding blogging to be a kind of war. I have to retreat periodically to lick my wounds. I get hit and get pounded all within my own mind. I swear off this blogging war but seem to have no control over it. It demands that I stay engaged.
The saker is a bird of prey, killing weaker birds and rodents. I like to think of the vineyard in romantic terms but posts such as yours reveal the falsity of romance.
I smashed my femur neck last April. Four guys put me on a board into the back of a pickup to the local hospital. I got fixed up but it was painful for awhile. What if I was in a real war and got my whole leg blown apart? What if I got left in the desert to bleed to death? What kind of music would I hear at the gates of wherever? You see, romance does have a sedating effect.
Even as I type, hundreds are having their bodies violated by war, car accidents, domestic violence and the collateral damage of civilization. A meta-war analyst asks why and what can be done about it?
Thanks for sharing, Saker. You have one refined taste. Спасибо, много хорошего вспомнил, пока слушал. Успехов, товарищ.
Very nice….I rather like combo jazz also being an aficionado of Methany and off course Brubeck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo-3t-1CAek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B879cagn_w
Very reminisent of Chick Correa / Al diMeola. Hope Everyone is having a good festive season. . . .’cept those fuckers in DC, London,Paris,Ankara, etc. who cause all the worlds death & destruction. Hope they choke on their turkey legs
“Jewish organizations of Crimea firmly state that these allegations are false and are a clumsy and hopeless attempt to distort the true picture of the existing inter-ethnic peace and harmony in the Russian Crimea,” community leaders from cities such as Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol asserted in a joint statement on Friday.
Speaking before the Knesset during a state visit here last week, Poroshenko said Jews living in the Ukrainian territory, which Russia occupied and annexed early in 2014, may find themselves in danger “as the conquerors have started to cultivate the anti-Semitism issue, as well.”
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Crimean-Jews-angry-after-Poroshenko-says-Russia-instigating-anti-Semitism-438513
Whoa Fitzy on the electric violin is one amazing polymath musician.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXJ5afYtJ3w
Kim Moon, another attendee, shared a story with HuffPost about her 15-year-old grandson in Atlanta, who was walking to the store with a friend when, Moon said, he was assaulted by a police officer.