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Enlightened musician who chose the road not taken
Eleven years ago while browsing in the wonderful bookshop Librairie La Friche in Paris' 11th arrondissement I chanced upon a CD by a musician I had never heard of. It was Titi Robin's collaboration with Pakistani qawwali singer Faiz Ali Faizi Jaadu (Magic), which celebrates the universal message of Sufism. Since then that discovery has taken me down an overgrown path to further explore mystical Islam and to hear Titi and Faiz Ali Faizi perform in concerts, which led to an online friendship with Titi, an enlightened being who has chosen the musical road not taken Born in the Loire region of France in 1957, Titi Robin cites the Iraqi oud player Munir Bachir and flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla as early influences. But he chose to follow his own road, rather than following that prescribed by corporate world music. He explains 'I have never felt comfortable […]
2018-11-12 06:02:00
A Certain Slant of Light (SACD review)
Songs on poems by Emily Dickinson. Lisa Delan, soprano; Lawrence Foster, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille. Pentatone PTC 5186 634."I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know! How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell one's name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!" American poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886) was among the country's most unusual artists in that she was almost unknown as a poet in her lifetime. She was withdrawn and reclusive, never married, and allowed the publication of only a handful of her poems while she was alive. After her death, her relatives found a veritable treasure trove of her poems and published many of them. Then, she became quite famous, yet, remarkably, her complete and largely unedited works would not see […]
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