NEWS FROM MY HANDS AND MY LUNGS
some news in disorder:
1- handwork:
the warblog finally found a publisher for the french version. the publisher is l'association and the book should be out in january or february 2007.
i should look for publishers in other languages, but with my legendary lazyness, i am waiting for the publishers to find it themselves.
the video-animation project (passing time / a family tree) is in editing phase. i will try to record the music during my residency at STEIM in amsterdam. ideally, it should finnish around november. i am not sure where it will be showed/published yet.
the blog is continuing (as you can see!) with the drawings of my notebooks. it is updated more or less regularely (let's say 3 times a week). the good news is that we are finally alone. i went on the statistic site lately and it shows that the visits dropped to 200 per day (v/s 5000 during the war).
i think i still can do better.
2- lungwork:
there is two concerts in the upcoming weeks in beirut
first one is a trio with charbel haber and raed yassin, and the second is the grendizer trio playing the july's war project.
and 2 concerts in europe
first in duo with sharif sehnaoui in paris
second in STEIM amsterdam, in solo and with guests (sehnaoui, michel waisvisz and MTBA)
more infos about the concerts
3- and the rest
2 links (1, 2) to some photos from our gigs in stockholm
a link to a nice article about the blog
1- handwork:
the warblog finally found a publisher for the french version. the publisher is l'association and the book should be out in january or february 2007.
i should look for publishers in other languages, but with my legendary lazyness, i am waiting for the publishers to find it themselves.
the video-animation project (passing time / a family tree) is in editing phase. i will try to record the music during my residency at STEIM in amsterdam. ideally, it should finnish around november. i am not sure where it will be showed/published yet.
the blog is continuing (as you can see!) with the drawings of my notebooks. it is updated more or less regularely (let's say 3 times a week). the good news is that we are finally alone. i went on the statistic site lately and it shows that the visits dropped to 200 per day (v/s 5000 during the war).
i think i still can do better.
2- lungwork:
there is two concerts in the upcoming weeks in beirut
first one is a trio with charbel haber and raed yassin, and the second is the grendizer trio playing the july's war project.
and 2 concerts in europe
first in duo with sharif sehnaoui in paris
second in STEIM amsterdam, in solo and with guests (sehnaoui, michel waisvisz and MTBA)
more infos about the concerts
3- and the rest
2 links (1, 2) to some photos from our gigs in stockholm
a link to a nice article about the blog
posted by mazen (old profile) at 23:43
4 Comments:
chou hayda?
ces misesz au point étaient nécéssaires,même avec mon anglais trébuchant j'ai compris le message.
je crois que ce billie te dit veut que tu tournes la page comme si cette période de guerre était définitivement terminée.de toute manière,tu le dis dans ton texte quand l'intêtet a baissé de 5000 à 200.
oeut-on couper avec un passé récent aussi éprouvant sans transition?je me le demande.quand arrivera le temps de la réconcilition avec soi et la paix intérieure,alors là c'est le déclic qui instaure la coupure définitive,sauf que ça reste,à jamais,dans la mémoire collective.
j'ai fait plusieurs guerres,je ne les ai pas oubliées mais elles ne font plus mal comme si elles coupaient la chair sur lr vif.
naharaq saïd mazen
laure
Congratulations on being found by a publisher Mazen. I hope more stumble across your brilliance. As for the drop in visitor numbers, there's always a crisis or 3 to divert our very short attention spans, at least temporarily. Blow them away at your concerts (bad luck for me that I can't be at any of them...). maha
hello friends,
i am actually working very hard to arrive to the symbolic number of 1 (one) visitor per day.
i actually was freaking out to have so many "friends" at some point. pretty hardcore. i passed the second half of my short life to get rid of the friends i made in the first half.
udo you're a lucky fuck! i am trying badly to get a new trumpet. i wanted to buy one druing my cancelled usa tour of this summer. i suspect ehud olmert to have done it on purpose so i cannot have a better sound than his airplanes. my trumpet is still holding on thanks to half a roll of adhesive tape (it's a trick that showed me matt davis - do you know this great english trumpet player?)
michael you should pass again in the upcoming days. there is some drawings made while listening to our duo session. there is also a (bad) drawing of the (good) idea for the cover of the cd. i hope you'll like it. it's the only way to avoid the title to sound cheesy in beirut.
last, a personnal message for bill: i am also totally new to "blogging" (aaaah how much ican hate this word). i actually never visited a blog before the war. i am probably like you: a paper freak! i am very glad that the drawings found a publisher in france. in a book, they'll finally be able to rest in peace. they feel bad on the blog i think. nobody can touch them!
i should one day find some time to talk about this good-bad experience of having done this blog.
War is hell, but if it weren't for the war and the links...I never would have seen your stuff. My computer plays music only fitfully, so I haven't listened to your music.
I suppose I shouldn't say this, but you Beirutis do remind me of the Sarajevans, back in the day and now...
Thanks to that war, I got to hear Dino Merlin (Evdin Dervishalidivic) blow the world away with his music, his poetry, and his soul for several hours in Club Blis, Long Island City, New York, NY.
Ah Bosnia! O Lebanon! Quite frankly, Mazen, if you don't want to see your multi-cultural Lebanese universe collapse, get yourselves an
army-better yet, an air force.
A couple of barely used Syrian Migs...
Think about it.
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