LAPKAT
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Posts from the ‘Poetry’ category
This month’s Groovalizacion dance takes us into the heart of mother Africa. Voices beating the skin of the drum, calling it jazz, hip hop and afrobeat rhythms, poets calling from the heart of the heart … Poets, hip hop artists and musicians from South Africa, Cape Town, Senegal, Burundi, Cameroon, Uganda, Nigeria, The Congo, via Canada, the US and the UK…
Please take some moments to watch this. This is more than spoken word ‘artistry’ – though there is such artistry in this, such command of the art of storytelling by this Canadian poet and such incredible animated emotion by many different artists. But this is more than art. This is the best example of why storytelling is one of our most necessary crafts, as well as one of our most powerful healers…
The February podcast of La Danza Poetica focuses on Brazil, em Português. New spoken word from the Ponte Aérea Elétrica project (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), Rio hip hop, São Paulo poetas, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, the folk/song traditions of the Nordeste, and the avant-pop-mangue-folk Tropicália of now!
Via Poejazzi – This video piece has such a beautiful mood, shaping in sound and voice and image the deep pain of longing – the longing that bubbles over with new love, and the longing that stews with love lost. Raymond Antrobus can speak from the most painful of shared memories and from there, shine the poet’s light onto the joys of existence. That is more than a skill or a talent – it’s a sense – it’s what makes this stuff magic.
Turned onto this today in a somewhat random-discovery-kind-of-way, via Yas (of the Lightmotiv) - L’Afrique from Cameroon poet Faithfull Baana Enono Arnaud, with Samy Labrute. I just wanted to share this brilliant track, great video. More about Faithfull (“le Chirurgien“) … bientôt! http://youtu.be/wICUt2yOrTM
Out of Vancouver, Tanya Evanson brings her third ‘spoken wor.l.d’ music album exploring concepts of family, mythology, dialect, silence & technology… Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Vocalist, Whirling Dervish Dancer, Arts Educator and Director of Mother Tongue Media, Director of Banff Centre of Spoken Word .. Tanya…
Happy to announce a new monthly podcast for Groovalizacion Radio!
Groovalizacion has been my web radio of choice for a while now. With a refreshing diverse global playlist and generous attitude Groovalizacion is “a music lab, a meeting place and one of cultural exchange.” Groovalizacion’s doors “are wide open to the curious…” – the perfect place for a curious Lapkat!
