Gilad Atzmon's Blog, page 97
April 10, 2013
OHE's European Album Launch tour -Germany, Austria, France, Luxemburg, Switzerland
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We will be touring Europe from next week. Following the success of the Songs of the Metropolis in the UK we will be playing the music in the continent for two weeks. Please spread the message around..
Tuesday , 16 April, Brotfabrik, Frankfurt,, Grmany
Thursday, 18 April, Container Uster, Switzerland
Friday, April 19 - Porgy & Bess Vienna,. Austria
Saturday, 20 April, Hotel Sedartis Thalwil, Switzerland
Sunday, April 21 Wodan Halle , Freiburg i.Breisgau, Germany
Monday, April 2 Domicile, Pforzheim, Germany
Tuesday, April 23, L’inoi, Luxembourg
Wednesday & Thursday 24 - 25 April Sunset Sunside Jazzclub Paris, France
Friday, 26 April Rathaus, Saarwellingen, Germany
Saturday, 27 April Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg, Germany
Sunday, April 28, A Trane , Berlin, Germany
Songs Of The Metropolis – European Album Launch Tour
Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble
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Gilad's music facebook page
‘A formidable improvisational array...a jazz giant steadily drawing himself up to his full height...’ The Guardian.
‘The best musician living in the world today’ Robert Wyatt
"The Band has created perhaps their most enduring ensemble work yet" Andy Robson Jazzwise ****
"Whether he’s blowing up a storm of notes or gently caressing a ballad, there’s a luminous vitality at the heart of Atzmon’s playing that’s irresistible to the ear" Record Collector ****
"vibrant and beautiful" Bruce Lindsay All About Jazz
A hard-hitting but wide-ranging set from an admirably tight and robust band led by one of the most charismatic and focused reedsmen on the planet. Chris Parker LondonJazz
'Atzmon has produced his most mature, and in many ways his most diverse, work to date' Ian Mann Jazzmann *****
'Tensions, surprises, shocks and ambiguities' John Fordham, The Guardian
Atzmon and the excellent pianist Frank Harrison do to the old parsley-sage tune what John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner did to My Favourite Things Irish Time ****
Conjuring an atmosphere of evocative cinematic suggestion BBC Music Review
Peon to a recent past, when urban spaces belonged to the people who lived in them, and cities had distinct emotional characters Financial Times ****
'Fearless bebop player steeped in the work of Coltrane and Parker' Tony Benjamin This Is Bristol
"Brilliant cosmopolitan tunesmithing from Gilad Atzmon" Lucid Culture
'Conceptualist, composer and soloist' Jazz Journal
'A souvenir-collecting world traveller' Jack Massarik, The Evening Standard ****
"If you love jazz you will love this release of a superlative quality. If you love the music of the world in its individual uniqueness and diversity, and not the pasteurized kitsch of “multiculturalism,” you will love this even more and you will resonate to Atzmon’s worldview as a philosopher of culture" Ariadna Theokopoulos http://www.boldfacenews.com
"rhythmically-sophisticated 'Tel Aviv' demonstrates that Anmon's soprano sound is also one of the most satisfying since Bechet." `BBC Music Magazine April 2013 ****
"Atzmon opts for an altogether more impressionistic approach" R2 Magazine ****
"virtuoso, lyrical and straightahead all at once" Mike Butler, Dyverse music
Gilad Atzmon - clarinet, sax, Tim Thornton - bass, Eddie Hick - drums, Frank Harrison - piano.
Last events in Argentina this week:
Today, a talk about Being & Time and Being in Time - Faculty of Philosophy.
Book presentation and dialogue with teachers and students. Present: Cathedra for Palestine Studies. Edward W. Said.
Thursday 11With Luis D'Agostino Trio Thelonious, Buenos Aires
Friday 12 Gilad and All That Jazz (screening) EN EL CENTRO CULTURAL LA DIGNIDAD, CALLE AGUIRRE 29, Buenos Aires
April 9, 2013
All About Jazz- Album Review
BRUCE LINDSAY,
Published: April 8, 2013
The metropolis is central to the life of a jazz musician. It's where the work is, where the conservatories are, where the music emerged and developed. Gilad Atzmon, the saxophonist and composer who's been described as the hardest working man in UK jazz, writes that Songs Of The Metropolis is "A pursuit of the sound of the city." It's a pursuit that takes him to seven of the world's most famous cities, to a small English seaside town and to "Somewhere In Italy." It proves that there is no single sound of the city, but the plethora of sounds Atzmon discovers are vibrant and beautiful.
The Orient House Ensemble formed in 2000: this lineup has been in existence since 2009, when drummer Eddie Hick replaced Asaf Sirkis. Atzmon has previously looked to the cities of the world for inspiration—Baghdad, London and New York have all found their way into his song titles—but never before have they been so central to one of his albums. Each tune reflects a particular quality of the place, as envisaged by the composer and described briefly in his sleeve notes.
RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO, last event in Buenos Aires, this Friday
RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO , la EDITORIAL CANAÁN, el MOVIMIENTO POPULAR LA DIGNIDAD y la TABERNA INTERNACIONALISTA VASCA
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INVITAN A UNA ACTIVIDAD IMPERDIBLE:
VIERNES 12 DE ABRIL, 19 HORAS
EN EL CENTRO CULTURAL LA DIGNIDAD, CALLE AGUIRRE 29 ( a pocos metros de Avenida Corrientes y Angel Gallardo,
subte linea A, estación "Angel Gallardo")
Uno de los más activos denunciadores del Sionismo, el escritor GILAD ATZMON presenta su libro "LA IDENTIDAD ERRANTE", publicado en Argentina por Editorial Canaán.
PROYECTAREMOS , GRACIAS A LA GENTILEZA DE CINE FÉRTIL, LA PELÍCULA:
GILAD: AND ALL THAT JAZZ
dirigida por Golriz Kolahi
Al finalizar la película, el Director de Editorial Canaán, Saad Chedid presentará a GILAD ATZMON, quien dialogará con el público
Y finalmente, en el habitual espacio de la Cena Popular de la Taberna Internacionalista Vasca, tendremos la oportunidad de escuchar a GILAD ATZMON como saxofonista, otra de las facetas en las que brilla con luz propia.
BREVE BIOGRAFÍA DE GILAD ATZMON:
UN VALIENTE LUCHADOR ANTI SIONISTA
Gilad Atzmon es escritor, filósofo, saxofonista de jazz, y activista político, nacido en Israel, nacionalidad a la que ha renunciado en protesta contra el sionismo.
En 1994 emigró al Reino Unido, para estudiar una maestria en Filosofia, y allí adquirió la nacionalidad britanica en 2002.
Es un gran crítico del gobierno de Israel, lo cual manifiesta en sus escritos contra el sionismo, el judaísmo, la ocupación del territorio palestino.
Se marchó a Londres mediada la década de los 90, cansado de la radicalidad sionista y después de haber cumplido el servicio militar en la guerra que Israel declaró al Líbano a comienzos de los 80. Su participación en aquel conflicto acabó por despejar todas sus dudas sobre la 'identidad judía'. "Veía a palestinos por todas partes, hasta que me dije, 'diablos, si es que estoy viviendo en territorio palestino!'. Fue entonces cuando decidí marcharme, eso sí, con cierto sentimiento de culpa".
Hoy, Gilad Atzmon ya no se siente judío: "He dejado atrás la idea de pueblo elegido" y plantea preguntas a sus paisanos:
“¿Cómo es que un pueblo que ha sufrido tanto y durante tanto tiempo puede infligirle tanto dolor al otro?
¿Cómo pueden los sionistas, que están motivados por un genuino deseo de regreso, estar tan ciegos cuando se enfrentan a un deseo similar por parte del pueblo palestino?”
Empecé a comprender que en Israel nunca ha dejado de haber limpieza étnica, sino que, simplemente, ésta ha adoptado otras formas, y empecé a admitir el hecho de que el sistema legal israelí no era imparcial, sino racista."
"En el verano de 1984, justo tres semanas antes de librarme del uniforme militar, nos enviaron al Líbano para una gira de conciertos. Al final de un sucio y polvoriento camino en un día de calor espantoso, a primeros de julio, llegamos al infierno en la tierra. El inmenso centro de detención estaba rodeado por una alambrada. El lugar era un campo de concentración. Los presos eran los judíos, y yo, un nazi".
April 8, 2013
BDS movement and the Palestinian Principles
http://www.paltelegraph.com/opinions/editorials/10737-bds-movement-and-the-palestinian-principles.html
Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) - The inalienable rights of the Palestinian people are the basic pillars for constructing a legitimate movement seeking justice, peace and reconciliation. Any departure from them or attempts to jettison any part of it is certainly a shameful u turn and an insult against the entire Palestinian people. It insults Palestinians who sacrificed their lives, the many hundreds of thousands that are imprisoned, the millions that live in squalor and degradation as refugees and indeed the entire Palestinian cause.
As the last two decades have shown, concession of fundamental rights is not the road to peace and reconciliation. Under Oslo Palestinian Authority compromised their inalienable rights to no avail.
At the core of Palestinian cause is justice for Palestinian refugees including the Right of Return of all refugees who were forcibly expelled from their homes. Many shameful attempts were made by Israel and America to suppress the just cause of the refugees by settling them in their Diaspora or proposing to allow not more than 150,000 to return not to their original homes but the future Palestinian state in Gaza and West Bank. Previous attempts to dissolve the right of return were proposed by Mark Etheridge, at Lausanne Conference, Gordon R. Clapp and many others. But all failed and Palestinian refugees in the camps remain resolute in their desire to return.
Bluntly speaking, Palestinian Authority –through its officials- implicitly affirmed a fair and just solution to the refugee issue without any reference to the rights of the refugees as stated under international law, and without any frame of reference to suggest what justice for refugees constitutes. This misconceived position leaves an inalienable right of the Palestinian people subject to a process of unequal and unfair negotiations.
BDS Movement and Mission Statement Change
Contrastingly, civil organisations and solidarity movements are closer to Palestinian rights. However few have adopted the PA track of two-state solution based on 1967 borders, which in my view has damaged the – one state solution, is the most appropriate way out for peace– cause of peace and justice in Palestine. It should be clear to any movement or active organisations that their struggle should be built only on the basic rights of Palestinian people. There should be no wavering of rights of the Palestinian people by organizations claiming to stand up for justice for the Palestinians.
It is noticeable that the BDS movement is achieving a resounding success in isolating Israeli apartheid. The movement is drawing assimilation between Israeli apartheid and the South Africa which is totally valid.
Looking at the BDS website, the movement seems to have compromised the most fundamental of Palestinian rights: In an entirely underhanded way the BDS National Committee had changed the wording of its mission statement from
demanding that Israel ends Its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands
to
Its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967.
The interpretation of the change is very essential. Without doubt, the un-amended version seeks to end occupation and colonization of all Arab lands, which explicitly include the 1948 lands and by extension includes the plight of Palestinians refugees expelled from their lands in 1948. However this dramatic change positions the BDS movement closer to Israel without bridging the gap between current reality and future peace. The change is also contradicting facts on the ground. Limiting the struggle to 1967 aims to achieving a two-state solution which is already lifeless! The BDS struggle should be based on the principals of inalienable rights of the Palestinians without compromising them through an imagined political end.
The movement also stated it is founded on, “Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.”
UN Resolution 194 which appears encouraging and favorable to many is, as interpreted by Israel, vague on the issue of return other. The resolution states, in article 11, “Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date”
Resolution 194 and the Right of Return
The mechanism of the return of refugees here seems to be very broad. Stating, “should be permitted to do so” can be interpreted in various way. There is no clear indication to which party belongs the power of permitting them back. Is it Israel? Israelis interpret the resolution as non-binding and that it doesn’t oblige them to allow refugees to return. Here you can read more on how Israel blank read the resolution
Resolution 194 cannot be read in isolation as Israel does but must be taken in consideration with all other related declarations and the whole body of International law which includes Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A popular resistance like the BDS should not be advocating such ambiguity but instead should be absolutely clear about justice and human rights and at the least position itself closer to the Palestinian people. The BDS movement should match the aspirations of us, the Palestinians and not cower to outside pressure. As a Palestinian, I think Palestinian refugees will only be satisfied with BDS if it repositions itself to the inalienable rights of Palestinians instead of wilting under pressure.
A better formulation of the BDS movement’s position stated unambiguously would be to change from “Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties” as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
To
Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in article 13(b) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which states: "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."
There should be a clear position from those who are leading the BDS movement. They should be explicit and unequivocal in their position regarding Palestinian refugees. On what basis has this change been made? More shockingly, the Arabic and Palestinian public are not aware of this dramatic shift. The change had been made on the English language and for Western audiences only. This raises a number of questions, why? Why now? Under what pressure has this change been made? And what mandate you have to do so?
This article is meant to clarify the misunderstanding around this topic. BDS should be clear about its mission statement. It is not meant as an attack against BDS, as I’m a firm believer of its actions and performance. It’s the only way to expose Israel and show its real apartheid nature.
April 7, 2013
April 6, 2013
Thinking Left may be Possible
[image error]Yesterday I gave a seminar in a Marxist university here in Buenos Aires. The topic was History, Being & Time. The audience were history professors. I argued that Revisionism is the true meaning of historical thinking- it is the attempt to think ethically while thinking of the past in a transcendental manner. I must admit that I had a great time.
While in the Zionised West, the Left is , pretty much, a Jewish controlled territory, here in Argentina, I managed to elaborate on history in an essentialist manner. I presented a harsh criticism of the Lefty PC 'inoffensive historical account', I explored the transformation of the Guardian from being 'The Guardian of the truth' into 'The Guardian of the discourse'. The discussion was open and enlightening, clever questions guided by openness, tolerance and dialectical thinking. One Jewish professor was intrigued by my approach, we discussed the topic and looked at the case of Israel in the context Jewish identity.
My verdict is simple, The West better liberate itself, so we can have a similar discussion in London and Columbia universities.. Liberation entails identifying the enemy within...the tyranny of our controlled opposition that is there to vet the most precious liberty to think freely.
Tonight at midnight I will be performing at Jazz & Pop
April 5, 2013
Deir Yassin Remembered - PLEASE CIRCULATE
Introduction by GA: Once again Zionist join forces with their ideological twins, the Anti Zionist Zionists (AZZ). I have learned today that due to pressure, Deir Yassin Remembered's (DYR) commemoration in Glasgow was cancelled. In spite of the difficulties Mr Abdallah Eid, a survivor of the Deir Yassin, will still commemorate Deir Yassin as planned and I urge you to join him at the event.
PLEASE CIRCULATE
As you will see, the event in Glasgow (see below) to mark the 25th anniversary of the consecration of the first ever Deir Yassin memorial outside Palestine has been cancelled.
Of course, this is a pity but Mr Abdallah Eid a survivor of the Deir Yassin massacre will still commemorate Deir Yassin as planned at the Deir Yassin memorial as below.
Anyone who wishes to join him will be most welcome.
12 noon Sunday 7 April 2013
@ the Commemorative Plaque,
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Glasgow
Dear Friend
The event to mark the anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre on Sunday 7 April 2013 has been cancelled.
We apologise for this and for any inconvenience it may cause.
Yours sincerely
Brian Filling
Dear Friend
25th anniversary of the laying of the Commemorative Plaque and 65th anniversary of the massacre
Deir Yassin Remembered
12 noon Sunday 7 April 2013
@ the Commemorative Plaque,
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Glasgow
Speakers include:
Abdallah Eid, Deir Yassin survivor
Lord Provost of Glasgow Cllr Sadie Docherty
Wael Shawish (Scottish Friends of Palestine)
Mike Kirby (Scottish Secretary UNISON)
Followed by a Reception at 1pm at the STUC, 333 Woodlands Rd., Glasgow.
You are invited to join the Memorial Gathering at the plaque at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (west side) to commemorate the massacre of Palestinians which took place at Deir Yassin, Jerusalem, on 9 April 1948.
The murder of over 100 Palestinians by the Urgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and Stern gangs with the assistance of an elite unit from the Haganah, led to the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, an event known as al-Nakba, "the Catastrophe". The aim of the "Deir Yassin Remembered" campaign is to erect a memorial on the site of the massacre and at the same time raise the plight of the Palestinian people. For more information about the campaign visit http://www.deiryassinremembered.org/
April 3, 2013
Roland Rance and the Red Synagogue Need You
Must read,
an amusing exemplary case of tribal progressive tantrum. This time it is because the outspoken George Galloway referred to me as 'one of the world's greatest' (along side Julian Assange). Apparently Wiki's vandal Roland Rance , Tribal commissar Haim Bresheeth and, Sabbath Goy Ben White are all there amongst other notorious AZZs, and they are in a state of panic. For some reason, their anti Atzmon capaign is leading nowhere.. my work has been endorsed by every person in this movement with IQ over 110.
[image error]Look at Ronbald Rance's FB's call for action (PDF)
Watch tribal operator Roland Rance lobbies (PDF), AIPAC can learn a lot..
and this:
http://www.facebook.com/kevin.ovenden/posts/10152701197110468?comment_id=39374590
April 2, 2013
Gilad in Argentina
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Wed 3 12:30 to 14:30 Library of Congress. Presentation of The Wandering Who Book by Telma Luzzani, Visión Internacional reporter. Channel 7 - press conference.
21.30 With Luis D'Agostino Trio, Notorious, Buenos Aires
Thursday 4 18:30 screening of Gilad and all That Jazz at the
Library of Congress. Followed by Q&A.
22:00 Dinner-Show. HOTEL Abasto - (tbc).
Saturday 6 with Juampy Juarez Trio Jazz & Pop
Monday 8 from 19:00. Borges Center. 3rd Floor.
meeting with "3 de Febrero University" teachers and students.
Wed 10 17:00 Faculty of Philosophy.
Book presentation and dialogue with teachers and students. Present: Cathedra for Palestine Studies. Edward W. Said.
Thursday 11With Luis D'Agostino Trio Thelonious, Buenos Aires
