Late with this post! Busy organising a trip to Spain next month, exciting and distracting. So, late but still always relevant, here are the links to the great artists featured in May’s La Danza Poetica. Music and poetry – creative acts of resistance. Voices from…
My session for the SBS Chill digital radio station earlier this April is now downloadable on Soundcloud. A minimal, spacious Franco/Latin electronica mix, woven through with poetics ranging from Français, Español, Québécois, to Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika and US pioneer Laurie Anderson…
So I was dubbed “dj chill littéraire” by the proprietor of au Chat Noir – not to be in any way faux-chic, you understand – just in explaining to someone what it is that I do.If Paris is anything, it is a place that looks you square in the eye and tells you plainly what it is that you do.
I’m late for a date with my blog! Someone flicked the winter switch while I wasn’t watching, and meanwhile March and April slipped the selections by. Better late than never … There are albums to talk about, as well as strolls through Soundcloud. I’m wandering…
Words fall Like feathers on the sand I did not plan the poem I only obeyed its rhythm (from The Dice Player, Mahmoud Darwish) A live set, recorded in a secret cave at Melbourne’s Half Moon Bay, which faces West across Port Phillip Bay…
December, Melbourne, the end of a crazy year. Fairly typical yo-yo weather, with the added bonus of more intense tropical-style lightning storms (do we give thanks yet to climate change?) Total eclipse of the Gemini moon, so it’s not only me going crazy with the urge to…
Insomnia took my patience. Rain washed away my intellect. The Lover made me lose my profession. What good is my work anyway? Catching up with myself (chasing my tail?) A Lapkat mix from autumn … Let’s begin with Rumi:
Further to my last post….. I wanted to share this little set from last southern autumn / northern spring. A short live set inspired by the poets of revolution, the poets of freedom.
This week on Dialectic, a dreamy and melodious two hours in the hands of two dexterous music manipulators. In the first hour 555 brings us a fantastical Asian mix from “trans-continental groove maniac” (and Burning Man regular) GlobalRuckus - who is about to hit our shores at the…
