25 years of the Jewish Music Festival , right here in San Francisco. The silver anniversary of the event has been going on since March, and is now ready to wrap up with a show featuring Watcha Clan and Charming Hostess : Watcha Clan, with the Bay Area's own Charming Hostess, the finale of the 25th Jewish Music Festival and part of New Frequencies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sunday, July 18. Watcha Clan is a nomadic, genre-bending band fronted by the charismatic Sistah K, showcasing Berber, Algerian, Sephardi, Ashkenazi and French [...]
I love Jewlia Eisenberg and Charming Hostess. They make some of the most thrilling, avant-garde and complete music around. It's a treat emotionally, intellectually and physically. Where I'm more uncomfortable is when they try to extend their sphere into the spiritual. I'm a little dubious about the cultural provenance of Seven Spirits , a recording from their ongoing Bowls Project . The music claims inspiration from 1,500 year old Babylonian incantation bowls, ritual talismans inscribed with wishes and buried under the foundations of households. What's the significance of raising [...]
Part of the job of a war photographer involves standing around, waiting for people to start dying. Think about it from the perspective of those who live in war zones. Photos of them dead are worth more than photos of them alive. Hell, in some parts of the world, photos of them dead can be worth more than they could earn in a lifetime. Never mind what that does for the self-image, just consider the hatred in can engender. It's almost perverse the way that Death is a Job has such a [...]
It is hard to believe that there is a tribute album to The Residents that does not suck, but it exists: Eyesore: A Stab At The Residents was released in 1996 on Vaccination Records, and I think it is better than about 90% of the original Residents releases. (I never thought I'd say that about an album that has Primus on it.) Like so many great albums, it seems to be out of print, so here it is for your listening pleasure in digital form. MP3s: Only a Mother / [...]
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