Greetings from Dalmatia Number 11 |
Zivili! and greetings from old country where the wine and olive oil are on the flow. It's scorching in Dalmatia right now but then again, it is July and Marilyn and I are the only ones crazy enough (l...
Posted by Tribecastan on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:14:00 PST |
Bou Jeloud's Blues - Musings on Master Musicians of Jajouka - Number Ten |
It's been quite some time since the Master Musicians of Jajouka have come to town. In fact they haven't been around much at all since W has laid seige to the White House. But this summer the...
Posted by Tribecastan on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:40:00 PST |
Steve Turres Sanctified Shells - Number 9 |
"People were playing shells before there was written language. It goes way back to ancient times. It's the roots of brass!" Steve Turre told me. "Nobody knows what it sounded like. There...
Posted by Tribecastan on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:27:00 PST |
The Mystery of Life, My Cat and Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Part 8 |
I've got this crazy cat that likes to sleep in the bathroom sink. She lies there for hours on end during warm summer afternoons with her head gently resting on the edge while her tail da...
Posted by Tribecastan on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:16:00 PST |
Around the World in Three Blocks or Honey, I Shrunk the World, Part 7 |
A few years ago my friend Joel Dorn put together a 4 CD box set of the great multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef's music called The Man With the Big Front Yard. l can relate, although here in Tribecast...
Posted by Tribecastan on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:36:00 PST |
No F Sharp - Part 6 |
Which reminds me of another dream I had recently...
The other night I dreamt George W. Bush made a special
televised emergency address regarding a message he
received from Osama Bi...
Posted by Tribecastan on Sat, 10 May 2008 07:53:00 PST |
The Mandolin: In Dreams and Wide Awake - Part 5 |
The other night I had a dream I was playing the mandolin
with oven mitts on when suddenly I realized it wasn't a normal
mandolin at all but a cast iron small pot-belly stove and inside
the so...
Posted by Tribecastan on Sat, 10 May 2008 07:26:00 PST |
The Mad Passion of Tango according to Astor Piazzolla and Gomez Addams - Part 4 |
The sun had moved into Scorpio and I couldn't listen to anything but tango. Astor Piazzolla to be exact. Last fall was the hottest October on record - 80 de...
Posted by Tribecastan on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:51:00 PST |
What Kind of American Cant Spell Tribecastan? Part 2 |
Life in this America sure has gotten strange lately. The other day a collegue of mine (I have been a visiting professor at Tribecastan Omniversity for the last semester) told me about a teacher s...
Posted by Tribecastan on Mon, 05 May 2008 07:40:00 PST |
Varahas Blues or That Note Is Not In Season! Part 3 |
Okay the truth of the matter is that neither of us can read music. But at least we can read! Inspired by the likes of John Lennon and Keith Richards, I went to art school in the early 70's to liv...
Posted by Tribecastan on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:33:00 PST |
