Fela Kuti - Opposite People - 1976

Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Piano, Vocals - Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Bass Guitar – Nweke Atifoh
Chorus – Bimbo Adelanwa, Bola Olaniyi, Emaruagheru Osawe, Fehintola Kayode, Folake Oladeinde, Kewe Oghomienor, Ronke Edason, Shade Komolafe, Tejumade Adebiyi, Yemi Abegunde
Claves - Ayoola Abayomi
Congas [1st] - Oladeinde Koffi
Congas [2nd] - Addo Nettey
Congas [3rd] - Shina Abiodun
Drums, Leader – Ladi (Tony) Alabi*
Guitar [1st] – Leke Benson
Guitar [3rd] – Okalue Ojeah
Guitar [Tenor] – Oghene Kologbo
Rhythm Guitar – Clifford Itoje
Trumpet [1st] – Tunde Williams
Trumpet [2nd] – Nwokoma Ukem
Maracas – Babajide Olaleye

Track list (both composed by Fela Kuti)
00:00 Opposite People
16:39 Equalisation Of Trouser & Pant

I do not own the rights to this album, nor do I claim to. All rights go to whomever they belong to.

from "Ptah, The El Daoud" (1970), Impulse Records.

Alice Coltrane - piano, harp ;
Pharoah Sanders - tenor saxophone, alto flute, bells (right channel) ;
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone, alto flute (left channel) ;
Ron Carter - bass ;
Ben Riley - drums.

Written by Alice Coltrane.
Recorded at the Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York on January 26, 1970.
Original sessions produced by Ed Michel.
Reissue produced by Michael Cuscuna.

Nina Simone ~ Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

The videoclip Ponto de Luz, of Sara Tavares, was created using the Stop Motion technique, which means taking pictures to objects, persons or situations, frame by frame, putting then everything together in a video sequence which creates the illusion of movement. From here, comes also the Timelapse technique, which means taking pictures with a regular constant break, for example, minute by minute, during a long period of time which creates the illusion of time passing by (shadows, clouds, sea, cars, people, etc)

For this vídeo it were taken 4500 photos, and used in the final edition 3000.

This vídeo was made and directed by Mercês Gomes e Ricardo Oliveira Alves.

Sara Tavares - Eu Sei

From the CD: Black Ivory Soul

"Open your eyes, ears and hearts and surrender to the sights and sounds of Africa."

Great song from a great African woman, set to the pictures of a great African civilization - The people of the Surma and Mursi tribes.

Tribal Decoration of the Omo Valley - Pictures by: Hans Silvester (Africa on Lens)

The people of the Surma and Mursi tribes live in the Omo Valley of Southern Ethiopia are body painters: they paint their bodies with pigments made from the earth as an immemorial and quotidian practice mothers paint babies, children and adults paint themselves and each other in a tradition that seems unchanged for thousands of years. Their paintings range from abstract designs of circles, lines, dots and swirls, sometimes focused on specific body parts, to all-over patterns of flowers, zig-zags and fingerprints that form a dazzling array on the entire body. White, yellow, orange and ochre; the natural pigments that they use are derived from the soil and rocks of their surroundings. The tribes daily paintings are an essential expression of their lives more elemental to them than music or dance. Fascinated by the Surma and Mursi tribes painting practices and astounded by the beauty of their ephemeral art.

Silvester captures the diverse and extraordinary effects that they achieve through their ancient tradition.

Source Malborough Gallery

⁣Hauwa yarfulani Basavca

Morning Meditation

Blacknotes Libation: In Praise of Oshun