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Abdullah Ibrahim: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Bob Boilen | March 9, 2022
It’s less a concert and more witnessing a master thoughtfully creating an atmosphere, a vibe. And for 13 short minutes, I feel seated in Abdullah Ibrahim’s home in Chiemgau, Germany, witnessing seven decades of experience slowly dripping from his fingers and touching my soul.

Abdullah Ibrahim, now 87, has witnessed the horrors of apartheid. He grew up in South Africa and composed what would become known as the “anti-apartheid anthem,” “Mannenberg.” Nelson Mandela called...

The Power of Womxn

Marisa Mu has been a practicing artist, designer and maker since graduating from her Bachelor of Design at The College of Fine Arts in 2014. The following year, she launched her own leather goods studio that combined her love and passion for colour and artisan leatherwork. The design studio of Mu has evolved over the years to now encompass a stronger focus on her personal mission statement for life.

Marisa’s purpose is to spark happiness and positive change within people through her art. Pa...

Open Channels

Taken from the BadBadNotGood album, Talk Memory. Out now on XL Recordings and Innovative Leisure.

Danez Smith - Tonight, in Oakland

I did not come here to sing a blues.
Lately, I open my mouth
 
& out comes marigolds, yellow plums.
I came to make the sky a garden.
 
Give me rain or give me honey, dear lord.
The sky has given us no water this year.
 
I ride my bike to a boy, when I get there
what we make will not be beautiful
 
or love at all, but it will be deserved.
I’ve started seeking men to wet the harvest.
 
Come, tonight I declare we must move
instead of pray. Tonight, east of here,
two boys, one dressed in what could be blood
 
& one dr...

O Quarto de Fernando Pessoa

Esta série de 3 pinturas feitas por Manuel Amado em 1993 foi exposta no ano seguinte na Casa Fernando Pessoa.

Nela mostra-se um canto de uma divisão, que evoca tanto o quarto de Fernando Pessoa como outros quartos, reais ou imaginados. A referência ao poeta é dada pelos objectos colocados no interior do quarto e pela janela aberta que mostra a casa em frente em diferentes momentos do dia. Esta representação de uma janela aberta remete para os versos do poema Tabacaria, do heterónimo Álvaro de...

Muriel Rukeyser - Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)

I lived in the first century of world wars.
Most mornings I would be more or less insane,
The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories,
The news would pour out of various devices
Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen.
I would call my friends on other devices;
They would be more or less mad for similar reasons.
Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.
In the day I would be reminded of those men and women,
Brave, setting up signals across v...

Stille Amare

London, February 1719: the birth of the Royal Academy of Music. George Frideric Handel was appointed musical director. German-born Handel, having spent four years in Italy, wanted to make London the new capital of opera. The only language to be sung on the stage of the King’s Theatre was to be Italian, and two other composers, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Battista Bononcini, were imported from the Italian peninsula. Both men were string players and contributed a new instrumental sweep to the co...

Personal Message

Un message s'envoie
Dans la voile blanche et sale
D'une barque usée par le sel et l'âge
Je m'en vais et la mer
Aussi belle que mon enfer
L'odeur des pins de mon île m'apaise et j'espère...
 
If it suddenly feels that low
Don't be scared I was there before 
I promise you're going to find 
Other reasons to dance along
 
Une image, une étoile
Une terre rouge s'étale
Tout autour d'un mur un cœur se dévoile 
Tu reviens et la mer
Aussi douce que mon éternelle 
Innocence d'enfant disparaÎt, décevant... ...

Langston Hughes - I look at the world

I look at the world
From awakening eyes in a black face—
And this is what I see:
This fenced-off narrow space  
Assigned to me.

I look then at the silly walls
Through dark eyes in a dark face—
And this is what I know:
That all these walls oppression builds
Will have to go!

I look at my own body  
With eyes no longer blind—
And I see that my own hands can make
The world that's in my mind.
Then let us hurry, comrades,
The road to find.

Freedom

Directed by Annie Bielski, Jenny Berger Myhre and Jenny Hval. // Edited by Jenny Berger Myhre. // Art, animations and footage by Annie Bielski.