free | sweet fruit

New places explored, new people encountered. A good, long talk. And a few short and important ones. Misty, misty evening. And so it is to be the beginning and the end… Melt in Motherland makes it even more liberating. Pure. Good. Blend. Weaving words.

the music I’ve always wanted to see

The essence captured by Odili Donald Odita and Ilpo Jauhiainen.

“The idea for this composition arose from a desire to create a piece of music around Odita’s poem-like text about colour, the forward to his exhibition, and his voice of such particular cadence (...)
I had become better acquainted with his hard-edged, abstract colour paintings a few months back, thanks to a feature here on Another Africa, and had been instantly uplifted and inspired by them: besides offering new, exciting ways to feel and think about the world they seemed to suggest new forms of music to me; in a way, they were the music I’d always wanted to see." Please read more via Another Africa.



Color
should not be submissive
It cannot be subjugated
It will not obey
It should not play nice

Color is unruly
It is not for the faint of heart
It can be hard and strong
It can be bold
It can be clear and true
It can also lie
It can trick and deceive us all

Color does what it wants
It misbehaves

But most importantly,
Color can change our minds

Odili Donald Odita

free at last

Friday. Let freedom ring! One deserves good jazzy vibes: Denys Baptiste with Ben Okri.



For, after the gospels,
After the human and divine comedies,
After the one thousand and one nights,
After crime and punishment,
War and peace, pride and prejudice,
The sound and the fury,
Between good and evil,
Being and nothingness,
After the tempest, the trial,
And the wasteland,
After things have fallen apart,
After the hundred years of solitude,
And the remembrance of things past,
In the kingdom of this world,
We can still astonish the gods in humanity
And be the stuff of future legends,
If we but dare to be real,
And have the courage to see
That this is the time to dream
The best dream of them all.

Mental Fight - Ben Okri

broen | bridge

That's my bridge to the waking-up state and overcoming the dizziness of this foggy outside world. With Broen it's just so much easier. Read more about Broen here. And here we have a sniff of Norwegian vocab as well: broen | bridge. Strong and beautiful.

other visions of London

Back from London. Differently. Non-indifferently. Make sure to take this walk along The Thames. To see the whole project by The Space please click here.



(...) he stands gloriously still on the banks of The Thames knowing that he can't help but love this city that has effectively rejected him and his kind.

good words from Neil Gaiman

I'm going to say the alphabet and I will let you put the words together.
Good. Night. No song today.

An evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer is a result of a tour Amanda and Neil went on last autumn in North America (hmm... were there any problems with saints as the tour started on the Halloween night? ;)). Read more about the project here. Meet also the author of the cover Cynthia von Buhler. (via Amanda Palmer).

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