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Let's drop some names here:
In no particular order of importance:
First off, should you really care to know, I’d like to meet Roberto Benigni and his lovely wife Nicoletta Braschi.
That would be a really fun & interesting evening of conversation.
Oh, and Jackie Chan/.
Music:
I listen to & explore a wide range of musical styles. I really like what has become ubiquitiously known as "world music" which, by my definition of it, generally means non-western forms of composition. Favorites include third stream, klezmer, gypsy, Indian, Middle Eastern, soukous, forro, conjunto, fado, qawwali, ghazals, opera, jazz, bebop, fusion, experimental composition, ambient, film scores, theatre music & a creative hybrid of them all.
I prefer complicated polyrhythms, syncopation, odd time signatures, unfamiliar scales & structural motifs that are eclectic and unpredictable. Not too big into your generic 4/4 shopping mall beat but I do like a good utilitarian waltz rhythm now & then.
Lately I’ve been exploring the wonderful world of undiscovered independent artists across MySpace, Facebook, MusicForte, TagWorld (now gone defunct), ReverbNation, etc. as well as the incredible publication of Songlines Magazine, which you really should check out & subscribe to: breaking news on world music & musicians, events & 2 CDs included with each issue!
At any given time you may find me listening to the following artists:
Mozart, Rossini, David Byrne, King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Todd Rundgren, Frank Zappa, Carla Bley, Charles Mingus, Bob Dylan, Ornette Coleman, Thomas Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Harry Partch, Silvestre Revueltas, Benoit Jutras, Violaine Corradi, Brian Eno, Nicola Piovani, Ennio Morricone, Stephen Sondheim, Eric Satie, Edgard Varese, Thelonious Monk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Charlie Haden, Polyrock, Vic Mizzy, Material, John Cage, Carl Stalling, Steve Reich, Arvid Franzen, Bill Frisell, Alan Sherman, Yat-Kha, Bill Laswell, Glen Branca, Don Pullen, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Quincy Jones, Aaron Copland, Warren Senders, Arvo Part, Hildegard Von Bingen, Dobet Gnahoré, Arther Brown, Stan Freiberg, John Prine, Charlie Parker, Kurt Weill, Tom Waits, Raymond Scott, Sonny Rollins, George Clinton, Bill Nelson, Café Tecuba, Leonard Bernstein, Crack the Sky, Pierre Boulez, Anatolia, Camper Van Beethoven, Mickey Katz, Rimsky-Korsakov, Oliver Messiaen, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Phil Ochs, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Frip, Miles Davis, Henry Cowell, Elliott Sharp, Spike Jones, Bauhaus, Shostokovich, Rabindranath Tagore, XTC, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Fariña, Dizzy Gillespie, Tom Lehrer, Gilbert & Sullivan, Evan Ziporyn, Habib Koité, Jazz Butcher, Yann Tierson, The Residents, DJ Sybear, Eugene Chadbourne, Leonard Cohen, Ian & Sylvia, The Ruttles, Conlan Nancarrow, Don Byron, Can, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Roxy Music, Shooglenifty, In the Nursery, Arnold Schoenberg, Marc Ribot, Nicky Skopelitis, Nicolas Slonimsky, James Brown, John Zorn, Kurt Pahlen, Paco Peña, Ali Akhbar Khan, Natraj, Ute Lemper, Gretje Bimcha, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Bjork, War, Art Blakey, Tangerine Dream, Suburban Lawns, Don Cherry, Erkin Koray, Sam and Dave, Bang on a Can
Theatre:
Peter Brook, Franco Dragone, Julie Taymor, Robert Wilson, George Bernard Shaw, Mummenschanz, Willy boy Shakes, Groucho Marx, Dario Fo, Beckett, Paddy Swanson, Commedia dell’arte, Cirque du Soleil, Tom Stoppard, essayons theatre company, Brecht, John Langstaff, Revels Inc., Naqshineh theatre group of Iran, Robert Wilson, dood paard theatre company, wire monkey dance, Augusto Boal, Peking Opera, Le Ballet National du Senegal, Roberto Benigni, Indonesian & Turkish Shadow Puppets, Storahtelling
Writers & Books:
The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross, Ilf & Petrov, George Bernard Shaw, The Guide - R. K. Narayan, The Saddlebag - Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon, Rabindranath Tagore, The Empty Space - Peter Brook, dj Sybear, Jorge Luis Borges, James Weldon Johnson, Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow, World Tales - Idries Shah, Willy boy Shakes, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth & Arts - Lewis Hyde, The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah, Children of the Alley - Naguib Mahfouz, The Tradition of Constructivism - Steven Bann, Durov’s Pig: Clowns, Politics and Theatre - Joel Schechter, Impro for Storytellers - Keith Johnstone, Richard Fariña, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property - Lewis Hyde, Rabindranath Tagore, Most of the Most of S.J. Perelman, Color: A Natural History of the Palette - Victoria Finlay, Donald Barthelme
Artists & arts:
Cheryl Burke (my wife), Kinetic Sculptures by George Rhoads, Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagal, Dada, Diego Rivera, Nathan Orie, Soviet & American Cold War Propaganda Posters, Banksy, Remedios Varos, Kasimir Malevich, Zaumnia, Surrealism, Federal Writer’s & Theatre Project Posters, Constructivism, The City Museum, St. Louis, MO., Dali, Claes Oldenburg
the list grows & continues forever
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Ishah 'El theatre arts.
Self produced & promoted but that could change. All of the samples heard here are copywritten & titled through ASCAP and the U.S. Copyrights Office under Elliott M. Burke/ Ishah 'El theatre arts collaborative. Please feel free to listen & share with others.
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My interests run the gamut from coffee (fair trade) to Commedia del 'Arte (free association) and are mostly centered around music, literature, theatre and art buoying them all.
Some pet preferences are literature forms of the Middle East, world music (whatever that is), cultural diversity, traditional arts of other countries and cultures, experimental theatre, folktales, religious rituals and the spiritual motifs in art and community.
If you would like a better example of this please go to:
Revels, Inc., a company I've had the pleasure of working with over the past 10 years.
I have recently begun selling my own spice blends on line. Please come and have a look at them at emburke.etsy.com
Thanks! -Elliott
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World music of most types but in particular from Mali & South Africa Gypsy & Klezmer, Brazilian Forro, Portuguese Fado, Conjunto, Bebop, and any jazz or soundtrack scores which tap into & explore other forms and styles from different cultures.
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About Ishah 'El theatre arts
Ishah 'El theatre arts is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit performing arts & education theatre company focused on development education, support and promotion of traditional arts of other cultures and developing new original works for public performance in our community. Our vision is to develop new & original works of theatre with an emphasis on spiritual & social themes and to share entertaining & uplifting stories of other cultures through live drama music, art, dance and improvisation.
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The Green Mile, Sullivan's Travels, The Shawshank Redemption, The Tiger and the Snow The Dead, Amelie, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory The Station Agent, Life is Beautiful, A Very Long Engagement Saint Ralph, Lagaan, Charade, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
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to meet & network with others. |
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always disoriented. Oh, you mean that... |
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Pioneer Valley |
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standard flesh & bones with few replacements |
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English, Irish, undetermined Native American Indian & a smidge of French |
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Christian |
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Slow Children Playing |
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On social occasions |
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Two home grown pure bred 'merican stock |
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Self taught, some college for fun |
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