Holy Qur’an Recitation of Sura Al Mulk by Abdur Rahman Al Sudais and Sura Kahf.
Archive for December, 2009
KIRK KELLY’s Go Man Go ANTIFEST at Webster Hall – ALL FOLKED UP with NOWHERE TO GO?
with
John S. Hall, John Kruth, Jeff Lewis, Jason Trachtenberg, Lach, Roger Manning,
Mike Rimbaud and Jason Trachtenberg, play
KIRK KELLY’s ANTIFEST
John Kruth’s #9 album – all of the songs were either inspired by or written during his many travels to Croatia since 2003.
Elliott Carter – 101st birthday of the most miraculous of composers and still active!!!!
Text by the editor
Today I read following news by Frank J Oteri in Facebook: “Frank J Oteri celebrated the 101st birthday of the most miraculous of composers–the still actively composing Elliott Carter–by completing the revisions on his wind quintet, EC apparently just wrote a new one, and by writing a completely new piece of music.”
“Wow”, I thought “this sounds interesting”! Let’s check this composer out whose birthday was yesterday.
So I searched in YouTube for him and found two videos celebrating his 100th birthday last year, such as Frank J. Oteri interviewing Mr. Carter…..
DVD box set – 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa !!!
On the centenary of Akira Kurosawa’s birth, Criterion pays tribute to the 
Japanese cinema great with a monumental box set, AK 100.
The 25 films gathered in this treasury include Kurosawa’s ultimate whodunit and international breakthrough Rashomon; his ever-epiphanic masterpiece Seven Samurai; the princess-and-peasants caper that inspired Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress; and colorful, late-career opuses like Ran and Kagemusha.
Spanish fan calls police over saxophone band who were just not jazzy enough?!
Text by guardian.co.uk
On July 7, 2007, The Boredoms performed a once in a lifetime concert at Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
I, Sohrab, moved to NY 7/7/2008. Exactly one year before I came, an old young Japanese friend of mine Yamatsuka Eye of THE BOREDOMS got seventy seven NY drummers together to perform at Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 7th, 2007. 
Before the show he explained to reporters how the number 7 historically is associated with the Milky Way and a romantic myth about how Japanese ancestors came from a river of stars in heaven. These ancestors called themselves messengers of the sun, or sun goddess Amaterasu, and so the number 7 is associated with the sun. “You are the 78th member! This is because the sound will spiral outwards, from left to right, like DNA, from deep inside of us right out to you. The 77 drum group is one giant instrument, one living creature. The 77 boa-drum will coil like a snake and transform to become a great dragon! “- Yamatsuka EYE.
A Japanese documentary about the examination of the 8th Dan in Kendo.
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Sato Hironobu sensei (Kendo 8th Dan hanshi) and me at the BUDOKAN in Tokyo. Photo by Peter Ryan.
As you might know I have been a long time in Japan studying Japanese martial arts, such as Judo and Kendo. For a while I studied both martial arts, but later I decided to focus only on Kendo.
I am now the holder of the 6th Dan (or rank) and have the license to teach Kendo. Maybe I am the only non-Japanese getting all my Dan grades in Japan. If I am wrong, please let me know.
Mohamed Badawi – a Sudanese doctor of linguistics playing the oud!!!
Mohamed Badawi is a doctor of linguistics and founder, composer, and singer of the groups Diwan and El Nour. The oud, or Middle-East lute, plays a central role in his musical renditions. In addition to the oud, he also plays a Sudanese variation of the Bongos, which consists of three drums.
This is a promo-Video of Mohamed Badawi’s CD “Nosybe”. He is a Sudanese vocalist and oud player. The members are Roman Bunka (Guitar, Oud), Mohamed Abdelwahab Kununu (Accordeon), Shirley Anne Hofmann (Tuba, Trombone, Trumpet, Euphonium), Hatim Mileegi (Percussion), Daniel Sphani (Drums), Norbert Dömling (Bass), Mohamed Atif Abdel Hamid (Nay), Amro Sawwaf (Qanun), Tahir Mahmoud (Geige), Amro Subhi (Cello), Iman Aliy Ad-din (Chor, Kairo), Marwa Hasan (Chor, Kairo), Wala Mohamed (Chor, Kairo), Iman Mohamed Wadi (Chor, Kairo) Iglal Hashim (Chor, Sudan) Safa Osman (Chor, Sudan) Magdi Shaban Sukkar (Tablah, Bandir), Video by Oliver Wuerffell 2008, Produced by Hubl Greiner 2007.