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LUKAS LIGETI: NOTEBOOK
Dan Blake, sax; Ricardo Gallo, synth; Tom McNalley, guitar; Eyal Maoz, guitar; Adrianna Mateo, violin; Rick Parker, trombone; Lukas Ligeti, drums, glockenspiel, pre-recorded piano, whistling, conductor
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani says that New York City is offering an illustration of “the change that democratic socialism can deliver.”
As other cities follow NYC’s example by taxing the rich and funding social programs, Mamdani argues that it will become clear that socialism “can flourish anywhere.”
Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.
Playing TODAY at Roulette @roulettenyc.bsky.social with Lukas Ligeti and his project and new album "notebook" with a great group of musicians.
I like what Lukas says about this project, "it shows that music can be innovative, demanding, and fun, all at the same time"
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Look at the women at NASA.
They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.
And they are doing it all with joy.👇
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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This year is the 100th anniversary of other jazz greats like Miles and Coltrane. Randy was their age, even some weeks older!
And as great and relevant as them all.
Fly high Randy!
(...) as evidenced in his autobiography which I highly recommend.
I have a few of his albums and keep listening to other ones elsewhere, while also keep on the hunt for some other obscure ones… Let’s celebrate his life listening to his beautiful and powerful body of work.
Not many Americans can name different Colombian rhythms, unless if involved with the music, much less something so specific as bullerengue! Of course his father was Panamanian-Jamaican, but that lineage was nurtured through a life long fascination with the roots of music, (...)
Thanks to Pheeroan, I got to meet him backstage, it was a blessing to shake his firm and strong hand, and when he heard I am from Colombia he replied immediately “I love the music of Colombia, cumbia, bullerengue, currulao”. His lucidity and curiosity for the African diaspora was that deep!
In that last concert he expressed himself so beautifully about the spiritual value of music, how it belongs to nature, and how it helps to bring people together, how it helped him to develop brotherhood with musicians around the world particularly in Africa, and of course he played so magically.
I got to hear Randy Weston live a few times and was lucky enough to meet him just a couple of months before he passed at a concert in Jamaica Queens organized by Pheeroan akLaff. What was striking to me was how Randy projected so much energy, lucidity curiosity and youth at his then 92.
Seven LPs by Randy Weston and a copy if his autobiography
Happy celestial centennial birthday Randy Weston!
I’ve been an admirer of his work which has been an inspiration and an influence to my music.
With Dilemastronauta playing at @wfmu.bsky.social some weeks ago.
BTW the album Sleepwalk now available online in most platforms except spotif*
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"I started to think what magical process happened when the African came in contact with a European instrument. For us to go ahead, we have to way back, and find out how our ancestors created all this music. They were greater than us. It’s an amazing story."
Happy Birthday Randy Weston
April 6, 1926
Maya Angelou recites her poem 'Still I Rise"
I’m anthropomorphising here but birds sound happy. Are birds happy? I want birds to be happy.
Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:
Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now.
Tonight - 3 solo piano sets - sharing the keys with Eva Novoa, and Holman Álvarez who curated this evening.
See you at Francis Kite Clup, East Village NYC!
Reminder that the estimated $1 billion per day Trump is spending on war in Iran is enough to pay for:
- Medicaid for all 16 million people losing it due to Republican budget cuts
- AND daily food stamps for all 41 million people who rely on them
This is a PRIORITIES problem.
"Lukas Ligeti‘s Notebook discards any previous book on composition and writes its own; the ensemble prefers to blaze its own path" -- a closer listen
www.newworldrecords.org/products/luk...
“You have to focus on the thrill of making something that is like nothing that existed before.”
Arihuna joins Colombian musicians Alejandro Flórez and Ricardo Gallo with longtime collaborators Satoshi Takeishi and Dan Blake exploring freely original and traditional melodies.
Alejandro Flórez: guitar
Ricardo Gallo: piano
Dan Blake: saxophone
Satoshi Takeishi: percussion
youtu.be/NQM4J0iUdlE?...
Even the conservative Wall Street Journal understands the havoc wealth inequality is wreaking on our economy and society.
It’s far past time to unrig the system. www.wsj.com/finance/billionaires-low...
MAGA
They gained the knowledge that they're the punchline.
Ex hale
Pollen is the exhalation of the flower.
The poem is the exhalation of the author.
Death is the life of the flower deer.
Cecilia Vicuña tr. Daniel Borzutzky
Cualquiera que no quiera de presidente a Abelardo De la Espriella tiene que dejar de usar el remoquete felino que se ha autoadjudicado. Al mencionarlo le están posicionando la marca gratis.
No es un animal, no es una bestia, es un tinterillo ruin, zafio, abyecto y ramplón.
