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The Sweet Triangle On one level, John Eliot Gardiner's "Bach" is a biography of the most sublime composer J.S. Bach. But it is so much more than a parade of facts. It is endlessly informative and illuminative.  Most of Bach's music was done as part of his work for the Lutheran Church, and according to its liturgical cycle. It is not surprising then that Gardiner deeply explores Bach's spiritualistic bearing. The works are directed to or from heaven, as indicated in the book's subtitle: "Music in the Castle of Heaven." Worth noting it is that Gardiner is penetratingly aware of the abyss between the trusting cantata writer Bach and today's world, mistrustful of such. We may never see another so strong in "imaginative gift, cratsmanship and human empathy." Gardiner is a leader of the original instrument movement that arose in the 1970s He was a driver of a movement that sought a path to re-inhabit music that was becoming something of a lif...

Al compas del mundo – programa #38, 7-29-22  Bluegrass Country (USA) Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .  And check out the runlist for the latest show... Bluegrass Country (USA) 01 Ralph Stanley - Little Maggie 02 Fruit Jar Drinkers - Sail Away Ladies 03 Levon Helm - Anna Lee 04 Kathy Mattea - Calling Me Home 05 The Sons of the Mountaineers - I Won't Be Worried 06 The Boggs - How Long 07 Jerry Garcia and David Grisman - Shady Grove 08 Iris Dement - Pretty Saro 09 Sarah Jarosz - Fischer Store Road 10 Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys - When I Lay My Burden Down 11 Stanley Brothers with Roscoe Holcomb - Village Churchyard 12 Clarence Ashley with Doc Watson - Little Sadie 13 The Reel Time Travelers - Like a Songbird That Has Fallen 14 Bill Carlisle's Kentucky Home Boys - Big at the Little, Bottom at the Top 15 Gillian Welch - SIx White H...

As part of their public debates on physics in the 1920s Einstein and Bohrs did thought experiments. Thre was not the apparatus to separate, observe and manipulate atomic and sub atomic particles, so they used their minds. Bohrs won the debate. But Einstein got his licks in. The underlying bits of the world are both particles and waves, and that has important ramifications. About 100 years later lab researchers can do what Bohrs and Einstein thought of. They are able to manipulate photons, atoms and ions. Some of this work has become part of technologies commonly available. The manipulation of atoms and electrons in electronic engineering and photonics systems are most prominent. These techs moved ahead with meagre understanding of the implicit physics, which didn’t matter as a new world was dramatically forged. Tunable lasers and superconducting circuits are among the important sub-technologies that have made continual, if subtle, progress in recent years. Even today, moving these ...

Al compas del mundo – programa #37, 7-21-22  Music in French  Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .   Tonight - in French! - Voulez vous coucher avec moi? Excusez-moi! C’est la vie. It’s a big world out there and an awful lot of French gets tossed around. Not all of it easily understood by French speakers. Why, I can imagine the Parisians rolling their eyes trying to make heads or tails of Clifton Chenier’s patois. And don’t get me started on the Canadians! Idir, from Algeria, and his French cohort use Tamazight (“Berber”), Macron’s French, and finally a little English for On the Road Again. Wasn’t Kerouac French-American? The Green Negresses win this week’s award for the best name and what better taste of schmaltz for a Mexican radio program than “Besame mucho” sung in French? Adieu! -J.H. 01 Amadou et Mariam - Beaux dimanches (Mali)...

The Memphis Jug Band was first recorded by Victor Records scout Ralph Peer at a temporary studio on the fourth floor of the McCall Building just off Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, on February 24, 1927. The band employed instruments made out of household objects like washboards and a jug which when blown provided a heavy rhythmic bass tone. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Epic:_The_Best_of_the_Memphis_Jug_Band

 Al compas del mundo - programa #36 , 7-7-22 String Theory Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .   Tonight, String Theory has got thee on the run. All of this music is playing right now, simultaneously, in your head, on the airwaves, taking quantum leaps through the ether, balanced on a pin head. Can you hear it? Much restful music here. Don’t fall asleep or you may dream you’re tasting melodies, smelling notes, savoring harmony. Electromagnetism runs deep – quiver strings, quiver! Here’s my theory of everything: if it feels good, quark it. Without looking out your window you can know the ways of heaven. 01 Bassekou Kouyate y Ngoni Ba – Bassekouni (Mali) 02 Conjunto Alma Jarocha - El Cascabel (Mexico) 03 D.R. Parvatikar – Svarǎmandalǎ (India) 04 Duo del Mar - Danza de la Vida Breve (Spain) 05 Turkish folk music group - Horon (Turkey) 06 Ju...

Excited to introduce the writing of Cecelia Estrada Vaughan to these pages! - J.V. About Luigi Russolo - 1885 – 1947 Machines that scream: inventing Futurist Music … “Ancient life was all silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibilities of men.” Luigi Russolo writes, “Each sound carries with it a nucleus of foreknown and foregone sensations predisposing the auditor to boredom, in spite of all the efforts of innovating composers.  All of us have liked and enjoyed the harmonies of the great masters. For years, Beethoven and Wagner have deliciously shaken our hearts. Now we are fed up with them. This is why we get infinitely more pleasure imagining combinations of the sounds of trolleys, autos and other vehicles, and loud crowds, than listening once more, for instance, to the heroic or pastoral symphonies.” This futurist manifesto, “The Art of Noises,” became, perhaps frustratingly, t...

  Al compas del mundo - programa #35, 7-7-22  Brazil Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .   Tonight, Brazil - An aside: so why is the Brazilian libido so notoriously rambunctious? Blame it on the caipirinha – a perfect hot weather drink of cachaça (a potent cane liquor), fresh lime juice and sugar, on the rocks. Maybe it’s one of the reasons such a mountain of musical creativity prevails from the Northeastern cowboy tradition, to  Amazonas, Bahia, the Southern plains, and the urban centers melting pots. A country where the population appears in every shade of brown. Where Africa and her descendants have come to intermarry with Europeans and indigenous peoples, thereby putting an end to racism (actually not, but it sounds good). Music and romanticism are the stuff of life here. Also, they throw a mardi gras like none other on the plan...

  Al compas del mundo - programa #34, 6-30-22 Moon Traveller is honored to host the archival list of old buddy Jim Haas's Mexican Radio Show. Get right with Instant Karma and Learn more about AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO .   Tonight: Potpourri 01 The Son of P.M. - Luk Tung Klong Yao (Thailand) 02 Celestine Ukwu and his Philosophers National - Okwukwe Na Nchekwube (Ghana) 03 Antibalas - Him Belly No Go Sweet (USA and Nigeria) 04 Radio Citizen - The Hop (feat. Bajka) (Germany) 05 Midnight Groovers - Burning In Fire (Dominica) 06 The Mods - Spring Dance (Pakistan) 07 The Soul Clan - That's How I Feel (USA) 08 King Solomon Hill - The Gone Dead Train (USA) 09 Maga Bo - No Balanco de Canoa (Nova's Edit) (Brazil) 10 Jimmy Sabater - Yroco (Puerto Rico) 11 Aster Aweke - Emiye (Ethiopia) 12 Mohammed al-Nasry - untitled (Sudan) 13 Nass Marakech -Torkalila (Marocco) 14 Ravi Shankar - Jai Jagadish Haré (India) Musical citizens of the world, unite! Pursue the uncorrupted, the firmly rooted, the...