social notes while staying at home in blog mode

[Dian Donnell]

I did attend, though we left after an hour to go to our son's hip-hop
show on sixth street.  such a contrast....
anyhow, their music was indeed lovely.  it was full when we arrived, so
i stood in front of a back window, and the music and chanting, so
arabic, haunting, a mix of judaic and belly dancing and flamenco sounds,
and the fado sound of portugal....with joseph's hypnotic drums and
exotic strings...i was lucky to be able to move to the sounds, as most
were restricted to their chairs.  i think she appreciated my rhythmic
swaying, as i saw her focusing on me more than once (please don't say
i've delusions of grandeur again!) and felt she kind of connected, kind
of wanted us all to respond by dancing or anyway swaying in time.  they
do have a website, www.naturalchants.com, where you can order cd's and
read up on them.
dian

Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

> a Web log (blog in contemporary baby talk) is a poisonal
> on line diary
>
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>
> <blog mode> i for 1 have been thinking of a musical
> event I did NOT attend this past weekend: Joe Rowe and
> his wife French wife Catherine who have contrived their
> own genre of music, performed at a biomacrobio restaurant
> near the baseball fields just south of the Lamar Bridge
>
> you will know Joe personally or have read him when
> he was briefly a subscriber after 9-11. his motive for
> subscribing as it seems was to alert us that that French
> readers ALREADY knew that the CIA & Osama were in cahoots
> in 9-11 planning the summer before when Osama was undergoing
> high-tech kidney therapy at a modern hospital in Bahrain
> -- that the CIA had sneaked up the back stairs and
> cahooted with Osama in the dialysis unit
>
> Joe is married to a VERY attractive French woman. i
> and wife Madelon last saw Joe and met Catherine in
> Paris a few years ago. they were living in a very old large
> attic appartment where hung on the walls the drums and
> other traditional instruments they play on and sing to
>
> unfortunately the concert they were preparing which was
> to be held in a church was on the day after our scheduled
> return to US
>
> the time previous to that Joe was in Austin and he
> came over to our apartment and finished his very
> pleasant visit late in the night. he gave us a casette
> then of their music which is eery and original with
> North African elements in it (Joe lived in Morocco
> for some years)
>
> but the last time we were in Paris I called Joe up
> to broach socializing which we hoped might repeat the
> great time we had visiting his apartment and then
> going out for dinner the previous year
>
> surprise, Joe made it sufficiently clear that he and
> Catherine were not available for socializing
>
> so when Frances told me about Joe & Catherine
> performing this past weekend and we having both
> heard the casette and remembering the phone call that
> time in Paris, we blew it off as too embarrassing
>
> I would have loved to go and try out my recently
> improved French on Catherine though</blog mode>