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Balarama Heller

Balarama Heller, is a NYC based photographer. Balarama has exhibited and published internationally. bala@balaramaheller.com / @balaramaheller

Ocean Vuong - Skinny Dipping

some boys
have ghosted
from this high

but I wanna
go down on you
anyway

to leap from
the bridge I’ve made
of my wrongs look

they lied to us
no one here
was ever ugly look

if you see
me then
I prayed

correctly I leapt
from the verb
taking off

my best shirt
this rag & rage
a tulip too late

in summer’s teeth
like the blade
in a guillotine I won’t

pick a side
my name a past
tense where I left

my hands
for good oh
it should be

enough
to live & die alone
with cum on

your tongue
to jump from
anywhere & make it

home
to be warm ...

Don't Judge Me

FKA twigs, Headie One, Fred again.. - Don't Judge Me

Vivaldi Sleep Project

Earlier this year we gave ten diverse musicians from the world of Jazz, folk and rock, a recording of the string parts of the second movement ‘Autumn’, from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.  The musicians were Jim Moray, Trish Clowes, Paul Sartin, Philip Sheppard, Susi Evans, Shahbaz Hussain, Eduardo Garcia, Aidan O’Rourke, Yumi Kurosawa and David Le Page.

Originally recorded by Orchestra of the Swan players, at the Birmingham Conservatoire, in January this year, all ten musicians used this recording as...

Ocean Vuong - Dear Peter

they treat me well
here they don’t
make me forget
the world like you
promised but oh well
I’m back
inside my head
again
where it’s safe
cause I’m not
there the xanax
dissolves & I’m
okay this bed
no longer stranded
the door coming closer
now & I’m gonna
dock some days
I make it to
the reading room
they have one flew over
the cuckoo’s nest can you
believe it but hey
I think I’m getting better
though I learned
in the courtyard yesterday
I’m still afraid
of butterflies
how they move so much
like a heart
on fire I know it doesn...

Max Richter: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Tom Huizenga | January 22, 2021
There's a distinct dissonance between the bucolic setting of this lovely Max Richter Tiny Desk (home) concert and the reality he references after his performance.

"Looking forward to the time when gig...

Dudamel Encore

Gustavo Dudamel leads the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in an encore performance of the finale from Alberto Ginastera's Four Dances from Estancia, Op. 8a, at the BBC Proms in 2007.

Estancia, (Argentine Spanish: “Ranch”) orchestral suite and one-act ballet by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera that, through its references to gaucho literature, rural folk dances, and urban concert music, evokes images of the diverse landscape of the composer’s homeland. The work premiered in 194...

Danse Macabre

Behzod Abduraimov - Danse Macabre

Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It is in the key of G minor. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition. In 1874, the composer expanded and reworked the piece into a tone poem, replacing the vocal line with a solo violin part.

Shortly after the premiere, the piece was transcribed into a piano...

Man alone (can’t stop the fadin’)

tindersticks - Man alone (can’t stop the fadin’) - taken from the new album ’Distractions’ released on Feb 19th 2021 on City Slang

Made by stuart A. staples

Colour grading by Paul Guilhaume

"In the back of a London cab driving through the city at night is a very special space for me. It has a particular kind of aloneness. This fascination grew over hundreds of nights leaving the the studio exhausted at 1 am - Ladbroke Grove or St Johns wood, through the city and over the river to South East Lon...

Amanda Gorman - The Miracle of Morning

I thought I’d awaken to a world in mourning.
Heavy clouds crowding, a society storming.
But there’s something different on this golden morning.
Something magical in the sunlight, wide and warming.

I see a dad with a stroller taking a jog.
Across the street, a bright-eyed girl chases her dog.
A grandma on a porch fingers her rosaries.
She grins as her young neighbor brings her groceries.

While we might feel small, separate, and all alone,
Our people have never been more closely tethered.
The question is...