Thursday, August 4th
sounds of Egypt and Lebanon
Maryam Saleh (Egypt) & Zeid Hamdan (Lebanon), “Eslahat” (or “Esla7at”), live, Beirut, 2014
sounds of Egypt and Lebanon
Maryam Saleh (Egypt) & Zeid Hamdan (Lebanon), “Eslahat” (or “Esla7at”), live, Beirut, 2014
sounds from all over
Russia
Anton Maskeliade, “Crown,” Moscow, 2014
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Japan
Perfume, “Sweet Refrain,” 2013
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Egypt
Cellar Door, “Blind,” 2013
sounds of Egypt
Some singers once you begin listening to them you cannot stop.
Umm Kulthum (spelled variously in English; c. 1904-1975), “Enta Omri” (You Are My Life), live, Paris (Olympia Theater), 1967
Listening to this one night at 2:30 a.m., after waking up and getting a glass of milk, I couldn’t make up my mind: Is YouTube a good thing, or a bad thing, for insomniacs?
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lagniappe
found words
Scores Are Killed as Forces Storm Camps of Morsi Backers
—Headline, New York Times website, today
