Gilad Atzmon's Blog, page 55
March 14, 2014
Making Jazz Visual
I am in love with the work of Merlin Porter. This young artist attends my concert occasionally with a paper block and a set of brushes. Merlin really manages to capture the spirit of music. Bless him..
You can contact Merlin via face book: https://m.facebook.com/MerlinPorterArts
You can buy his art and support this emerging natural talent
These images were taken two days ago at a concert at Albion Beatnik Bookstore , Oxford (my faforite British book shop)
Luis D'Agostino - guitar
Yaron Stavi - bass
Gilad Atzmon - sax and Clarinet
When PC Is Gone, Truth Prevails And Shoa Panic Is Detected
By Gilad Atzmon
[image error]Below is a six minute segment from a Q&A session at the Washington Report's AIPAC Conference of March 2014. It begins the moment the Holocaust narrative is challenged and the panic on the stage becomes palpable.
In the clip, an anonymous but well-informed member of the audience asks the panel to address the question of the dominance of the Holocaust in American life. Rightly, she points out that the Holocaust is a state-imposed religious dogma and as such ‘violates constitutional rights’. However, it takes only a few minutes to see that as far as Justin Raimondo & Philip Weiss are concerned, all that really matters is the Jews and their suffering.
Jewish Voice for Whatever icon, Philip Weiss doesn’t think that we should ‘problematize the education of the Holocaust'. "a wonderful book!", he says of the Diary of Anne Frank. Well, I’d like to hear from Weiss or anyone else something about the literary qualities of this diary - because I've found none.
Meanwhile, ‘anti-war’ hero Justin Raimondo apparently doesn’t agree that the Holocaust, like other historical narrative, should allow a ‘range of opinion’.
The meaning of all this is all too simple: For America to liberate itself, it may first have to emancipate itself from its current tribal icons of dissent. For America to be once again the land of the Free, it must leave Jerusalem behind and find the true Athens in its heart.
The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity politics and Jewish Power in particular - available on Amazon.com & Amazon.co.uk
March 13, 2014
Laura And Berlin - The OHE @ The Pizza Express
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Carl Freeman wrote:
Apologies for the poor (shaky hand-held mobile phone in poor light) quality of this video, but having enjoyed a sublime performance by Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble at the Pizza Express Jazz Bar in Soho on Thursday 6th March 2014 and realising that the set was about to end, I decided to try and capture some of the magic. The set included all the numbers from the magnificent "Songs of the Metropolis" album (which includes Berlin which is reprised at the end of this clip) and this sweet version of Laura. This is not on the album, but a version of it can be found (with haunting vocals by Robert Wyatt) on the album, "For the Ghosts Within", a musical collaboration between Gilad Atzmon, Robert Wyatt and Ros Stephen.
March 12, 2014
Giant Steps & The Burning Bush - Gilad Atzmon and The OHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIqjGTq7Z4
@ The Pizza Express Jazz Club 6/3/14
We had 3 incredible nights at the London club. Seemingly, a few phon- camera videos started to appear on the net...I am very pleased with the sound and the energy of my 4tet...
March 10, 2014
On The Manner In Which Jewish intelligentsia destroyed the Working Class (by mistake)
This is my most important talk to date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDcoGoB71yM#t10m34s
The new Left, The Frankfurt School, ID politics, the collapse of Working Class politics, the end of production and the meltdown of dissent. An expose of the manner in which Jewish intelligentsia destroyed the Working Class (by mistake)...
The talk was given at Brave New Books, Austin, Texas, 23 Feb 2014
Videoed by Floyd Anderson.
March 9, 2014
Paul Eisen speaks with Gilad Atzmon
Paul Eisen speaks with Gilad Atzmon from Tali Atzmon on Vimeo.
An insightful conversation between Gilad Atzmon and Paul Eisen. It takes a deep look into their minds and the troublesome relationship they hold with 'Jewish identity politics', 'Jewish ideology','Jewish power' and Jewish history alongside their prolonged intellectual and political activism.
March 8, 2014
Alain Soral and Gilad Atzmon on Jewish Power and cultural narcissism
[image error]An Interview by
Alimuddin Usmani
Translated by Romain Redouin (http://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr)
Alain Soral and Gilad Atzmon have each faced (and perhaps welcomed) criticism and controversy as a result of their intellectual inquiries and honest reasoning. Neither man has shied away from politically incorrect observations including those on issues of Zionism, culture, Europe or freedom of speech.
How did you get to know each other?
AS: I first got to know Gilad through his music. I am a jazz lover and have long appreciated Gilad who is an internationally known and admired musician. Gilad also played with Robert Wyatt who has been my favorite musician since I was 16. Gilad and I met in person two years ago at the Paris Book Fair. He was there to finalize the contract of his latest book, "The Wandering Who?" which is co-published by my publishing company, Kontre Kulture.
I am blown away by Gilad’s courage and lucidity. By culture and experience I have seen that those Jews who are able to tear the veil of tribalism to reach the authentic universal are very rare, although they are always the best!
GA: Soral published one of the two French editions of my latest book, "The Wandering Who." I met him at the Paris book fair 2 years ago and in spite of the language barrier between us, I have managed to learn a lot from him. Soral is one of the last European intellectuals. And it is far from surprising that the Left is outraged by his profound political and ideological insights.
For quite a while those who oppose, satirize or criticize the domination of the Zionist lobby within French politics and media, seem to be subject to political abuse and judicial persecution. Why do you think the Zionist elite choose to target France in particular?
AS: It should be noted first that France has, or suffers from - depending on your point of view – what is by far the largest Jewish community in Europe, with nearly 700,000 members, while Italy or Spain, for example, have about 40,000. The pressure and the influence of this very organized community on French power and policy are inevitably proportional to its size. There are also some historical components that are particular to France: France prides itself on being the country of human rights, it was the first nation to emancipate the Jews of Europe, it had the Dreyfus affair, the maintained guilt of Petainism, the Zionism of the Fourth Republic, the dominance of the Grand Orient masonry on the supposedly French socialist left ... These are some of the many factors that give our "organized Jewish community" as it defines itself, its effective and overwhelming position of moral watchdog.
GA: I think that the Jewish Lobby is particularly forceful in France as a result of the impact of the '68 student revolution. French society has been broken into a multitude of identity groups, and the more broken a society is, the more it tends to subscribe to Jewish politics. The reason is simple. After 3000 years of tribal exilic operation, the Jewish intelligencia is the most advanced in identity sectarian politics and cultural manipulation.
The gist of identity politics is an attempt to transform the cohesive host nation into a myriad of godless synagogues. To some extent, Soral and Dieudonné have managed to unite what is left of the French working class; which includes Muslims, Arabs, Blacks and Whites. And as we have seen, the Jews and the Socialists see this development as an imminent danger.
March 7, 2014
Press TV: US signaling to Israel by denying visas
The United States is sending signals to Israel that “it is far from being at the Israeli conduct” by denying visa requests from hundreds of Israeli military and intelligence officials, an activist says.
“I think the American administration realized by now that they were gambling and for more than a while on the wrong horse,” Gilad Atzmon told Press TV in a phone interview on Thursday.
He made the remarks after a report said Washington refused to grant visas to Israeli officials over the past year.
According to the report published in the Hebrew-language daily Maariv, Washington is also giving short-term visas to Israeli army officials who are already in the US or making some of them leave for Canada to get their visas renewed after weeks.
On Monday - 'The Life of Bessie Smith'
Sarah Gillespie Quartet feat Gilad Atzmon
'The Life of Bessie Smith'
March 10th 2014, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho
8pm £15.00 To buy tickets go *here*
British-American singer-songwriter Sarah Gillespie isn't just a powerful amalgam of influences including Bob Dylan and Tom Waits (with an occasional diversion into sounding like Edith Piaf in a bluegrass band), she's a socially sensitive performer who writes pungently telling lyrics and has the rare knack of making politics and music sound as if they belong together. She's the diametric opposite of the 21st-century hypercool jazz singer and she doesn't keep her emotions on the back burner.
In this respect, she has plenty in common with the founding heroine of blues and folk-rooted vocals over the past century, "Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith. Smith was one of Sarah Gillespie's earliest models, and she's the subject of Gillespie's tribute show in the Jazz Interpretations series at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club on 10 March, with a specially-assembled quartet including pianist Kit Downes and surprise guests yet to be announced. Gillespie's realism, passionate energy, wry wit and insight into the personal and social challenges Smith faced in the 1920s and 30s make her an appropriate torch-bearer for the legendary singer's legacy.
"(Gillespie) mixes urban folk, jazz and vivid intimate lyrics you can imagine scrawled in lipstick on Beat Hotel bed linen." The Independent. ★★★★
Sarah Gillespie - guitar and vocals
Gilad Atzmon - accordion, clarinet and sax.
Kit Downes - piano
Ben Bastin - bass
Enzo Zirilli - drums
Emma Devine - vocals
Sarah Gillespie London Jazz Podcast Interview
