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Books, Music, and Film to Wake Up Your Muse and Help You Change the World, MaghrebLeave a comment

The Unbearable Beauty of a Fading Civilisation, the Unbearable Ugliness of its Oppressors

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“For lovers of roots music, the Tuareg have a profound significance. There is much evidence that early blues music descended from their music, having crossed the Atlantic in slave ships and somehow managing to blossom into a new but still mesmerising musical genre in America. Their music has also influenced African genres such as gnawa and rai.” Continue reading The Unbearable Beauty of a Fading Civilisation, the Unbearable Ugliness of its Oppressors

Books, Music, and Film to Wake Up Your Muse and Help You Change the World, MaghrebLeave a comment

Every Day We’ll See the Dust (Too much, the Sahara Bus)

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Film:The Piano in the Sands(Le Piano Des Sables) Director: Arnaud Petitet Genre: Documentary “I can assure you that there is a real beauty of the human being—there is sheer refinement. Man is really immeasurably big and beautiful, and he doesn’t always know it.” – Marc Vella Hey, let’s put a baby grand on the back of a bus and tour the Maghreb. What could possibly go wrong? Marc Vella, a piano virtuoso, has been doing this for more than two decades, visiting more than forty countries in the process. All in a mission to “celebrate humanity” as a participant in … Continue reading Every Day We’ll See the Dust (Too much, the Sahara Bus)