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Happy New Year!

Posted in Music, Oman, tagged , , , , , , on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »

While 2011 draws to a close, New Year’s pledges are hard to formulate. Generally, predictions are unreliable, and what has happened this year hardly anybody had envisaged one year ago. So, there might be some hope for 2012. The year started promising, millions of North Africans eventually lost patience after realizing that nothing had to [...]

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The War is Over

Posted in Music, Terrorism, USA, tagged , , , , , , on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared today that the new Administration in Washington will no longer use the term ‘War on Terrorism’.   I have Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988) in mind using the disbelieving voice of an American Jew for his masterpiece in modern music.   So, the war is over.    

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Shimon Peres

Posted in Iran, Israel, Music, Palestine, USA, tagged , , , , , , on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Israeli President [1] has joint the felicitators around Barack Obama sending the people of Iran New Year greetings. In an audio message, the 1994 Nobel laureate (with PLO leader Yasser Arafat) doesn’t conceal, however, his deep antipathy for the current administration. He urges the Iranian people to shake off the rule of “an oppressive [...]

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Kind of Blue

Posted in Music, tagged , , , , on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

When did I eventually buy this recording (on CD, of course)? It must have been in the late 1980s. When I became interested in Jazz, 1977 or 1978, it was that of Miles’ epigones: Chick Corea, whatever he did; John McLaughlin’s Shakti; Joe Zawinul’s Weather Report. Believe it or not, I was a blood donor during [...]

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