This is one of the many parables or wisdom from the book “Reflections” by author and teacher Idries Shah entitled “Point of View“. Saadi of Shiraz, in Bostan, stated an important truth when he told this miniature tale: A man met another, who was handsome, intelligent and elegant. He asked him who he was. The [...]
June 22, 2010
Remember we ran a likkle article on the sister Zayna Daze way back when! Well, here is numero deux & trois in the “Cloudy Daze” series, a colloboration with the brother Cloudfistconceptz, both hailing from London Town. “Cloudy Daze Vol 2 & 3” is a laidback soulful, acoustic, funky to spoken word music journey” and [...]
June 11, 2010
We go back and reflect to this potent spoken word video piece about "The Male Ego".
June 7, 2010
This is one of the many parables or wisdom from the book "Reflections" by author and teacher Idries Shah entitled "Attention and Regards".
May 28, 2010
UJU, is a 7 piece South African music collective with Ntuthu Ndlovu as the lead vocalist, their sound a fusion of African rhythms, jazz, hip hop, folk, poetry inbetweens and soul. This music episode started via a status update by the sister Anddiswa regarding the said band, as we continue, had to dig deeper. Then [...]
May 20, 2010
A poem entitled "Alone" by the infamous poet, educator and activist Dr. Maya Angelou. Ladies and gentlemen, have a butcher's at the fine poem and let it be known.
May 12, 2010
Bit of a reflection/sitiuation here entitled “Difference” by the London sister poet Natalie Fiawoo alias S.O.A.P [Soul of A Poet]. Have a butcher’s and let it be known. Difference… Those that talk about change, stay talking, those that mean it act quietly. Don’t talk about it, BE about it. Yep… I’ve got a lot on [...]
May 6, 2010
A thought provoking and fine old poem by the brother poet and writer - Kojo Baffoe.
May 3, 2010
The business of a tune entitled “Beautiful Losers” featuring one of UK’s finest soul singers Alice Russell and emcee/beatboxer 20syl of the french hip hop collective Hocus Pocus, their music is on the conscious/goodness nu jazz to hip hop tip . Hocus Pocus have been on this fine soul, acoustic hip hop gig for quiet [...]
April 28, 2010
Man is some music tracks deep into this free session courtesy of the blog Lunchbox Theory in conjunction with DJ Underdog, a mixtape compilation entitled “Africa, Africa, Africa” [full album download] and so far “Oh my days” equivalent of “Oh my gosh” *smiles*. If you like Fela Kuti, Osibisa, Mariam Makeba, Sonny Ade, pidgin [broken [...]
April 27, 2010
This episode rolled into action with a little known free music compilation “Oscillations – Part 1” by Jus Like Music and Apple Juice Break with the track entitled “Paradise” by the collective Invisible Inc [Ghost, Verb T and Kashmere]. Invisible Inc recently released the fineness and value at £3.50 “true story” album “The Exit Strategy” [...]
April 26, 2010
Ahem, ahem! You good people know when I go on for miles about we do a bit of romance and all that jazz. Well this is one of those moments and this freshly of the press’ish with this video for the number entitled “Candy” of the free session “I’ll Be” [full album] by the brother [...]
April 23, 2010
This is the second guest post of many to come. A few satellite correspondents from around the way, a brother David Nguyen on Maxwell and now the aspiring sister Sanya Lerin hailing from London Town on, one of this shores finest Beverley Knight, take it away.. After recently going to see Beverley Knight at the [...]
April 20, 2010
We sure will make our tribute to the legendary and pioneer Guru of Gangstarr and authentic hip hop, Pharoahe Monch wrote this reflective piece on his blog and thought....
April 16, 2010
Noam Chomsky as Howard Zinn [RIP] is a veteran political activist and professor of MIT, here he talks bigthink about love. Excerpt [Transcript] Question: What is love? Noam Chomsky: I just know it’s—has an unbreakable grip, but I can’t tell you what it is. It’s just life’s empty without it. [Source: bigthink] Ladies and gentlemen, [...]
August 25, 2010