sounds of all over
Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023, published 1/24/23
Ukraine: Dakh Daughters (“Viyna,” “Fellini,” “Umry”)
Morocco, Algeria, United States: Khadija El Warzazia’s Bnat el Houariyat & Esraa Warda (“Dyaf Allah Rjal el Bled,” “Mra Sabra,” “Li Guer imout”)
China: Cui Jian (“Fake Monk,” “Go On,” “Wild in the Snow”)
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Nigeria and Chile
Newen Afrobeat feat. Seun Kuti (vocals) and Cheick Tidiane Seck (keyboards), “Opposite People” (F. Kuti), live (studio), Chile (Santiago), 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
Should we have stayed at home, / wherever that may be?
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “Questions of Travel”
How could one not be hopeful knowing this clip’s been viewed, as of today, over 700 million times?
PSY (AKA Park Jae-sang), “Gangnam Style,” 7/12
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Here’s another take.
Ai Weiwei (Chinese artist and dissident), 10/12
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lagniappe
found words
Caution—the moving walkway is ending.
—yesterday, Midway Airport (Chicago), returning from an aunt’s memorial service
music clip of the day 