Valentino VieI love you.
I know.
I know that you know.
I love you.
I know that you love knowing that I love you.
I Love You.
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Or make it up...
Cisca Zarmansyah : ...♥
CieL- FreYa Ceastle
Sorry seems to be hardest word. What should I do...?
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Cisca Zarmansyah : ....Hold me.
CieL- FreYa Ceastle : Schat, zal ik werken aan een gedicht in Rotterdam. Later.
Valentino Vie : Beds of Love.
Valentino Vie : Periods. d-day.
Valentino Vie : the Virgin CZ.
Valentino Vie : Back to work.
Valentino Vie : Trade Fair.
Valentino Vie : Fogs.
Valentino Vie : Snow.
Cisca Zarmansyah : What's up, Nino?
Valentino Vie : Turkeys.
Valentino Vie : Beaujolais
Valentino Vie : Paris-Dakar Rally
Valentino Vie : Souls.
Valentino Vie : the Bastille.
Valentino Vie : Dog Days
Valentino Vie : Railway Stations
Valentino Vie : Hunting.
storm.
Valentino Vie : Strikes.
Valentino Vie : Brides with brooms
Valentino Vie : baby jesus.
Valentino Vie : I love you.
– Me too.
– I know.
– I know that you know.
Valentino Vie : you know that I know that you know that I know that you know that I love you...
Valentino Vie : – And do you love it that I know?
Cisca Zarmansyah : Yes, I love knowing that you know
Valentino Vie : I love knowing to love you.
Almira IzzatiDrie telefoons liggen op uw tafel. Tijdens het interview, zijn dit meestal genegeerd. Meestal, maar soms is er geen alternatief is.
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Cisca Zarmansyah : De tijd van de afspraak en het pak dat gedragen moet worden voor de gelegenheid: "Geen stropdas, slechts twee knoppen open."....
CieL- FreYa Ceastle : Dan is de acteur treedt in een kort gesprek...dat snel heen en weer geslingerd tussen professionaliteit en kunst.
Cisca Zarmansyah : Nee Jan, there was a "beeeP" when an email come, geen plek die niet dienen schriftelijk of verkondigde woord.
CieL- FreYa Ceastle : maar uw appartement is volgestouwd met boeken en honderden cd's van klassieke muziek.
Almira Izzati : Het is het decor voor een dual talent met haar unieke carrière dichter
CieL- FreYa Ceastle : Immers, wat heeft een officiële functie als dichter voor de helft van haar uitgeverij het leven in 2009 gehouden? De Nederlands-Palestijnse, hè?
Almira Izzati : Ja, beroepsethiek, persoonlijke beginsel of de burger van de eer, wat je ook wilt noemen. Ik doe dit niet om mijn bankrekening te vullen...! :) hehehe
Almira Izzati : in een tijd waarin ik geld kan gemakkelijk, mijn stem is minder waard als ik wil iets belangrijks kenbaar te maken.
CieL- FreYa Ceastle : Iedereen - en dat meen ik oprecht - behoort te doen wat hij of zij wil doen, maar ik ben niet zo graag. Ik gebruikte om te denken dat een acteur zijn geloofwaardigheid toen hij gehandeld in een soap of een advertentie verloren.
Almira Izzati : Bedoel je dat als een grap? Ik zie haar gedichten als ook een kwestie van maatschappelijke betrokkenheid, deels te wijten aan haar ervaringen in de afgelopen jaren.
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Gaza in Plain Language
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Esmail Tarek Elsherief idont know why israil doing this terrible destruction to palestinian people .........isnt that a modern holocaust!!!!
We must return to the historical Jerusalem. Many people mistakenly saying the Jews were forced out of their lands by the Romans after their second Temple (Synagogue) in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD. Then according to this misguided sense of history, 1800 years later, suddenly the Jews back into Palestine and reclaimed their homeland. The fact is the Jews maintaining their homeland for 3700 years. National languages and unique cultural Jews remained in the area.
The Jews regarded Israel as their homeland based on four things:
1. God Himself promised this land to Abraham's legacy
2. Jews still live there and take care of that area
3. Provision of full sovereignty by the UN to the Jews in Palestine
4. Local authorities under martial war
The term "Palestine" was taken from the word Filistine, which referred to the Aegean people who in 12th century BC lived on the shores of the Mediterranean, that is now known as Israel and the Gaza Strip. Second century AD, after destroying the Jewish revolt, the Roman government for the first time gave the name of Palestine in the land of Judea (the southern part of Israel that is now known as the West Bank) in an attempt to reduce Jewish identity with the land of Israel. The Arabic word "Filastin" was taken from this Latin name.
U.S. leading Arab historian, Prof. Phillip Hitti of Princeton University, making a confession in front of the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, saying "There is never a Palestine in history, absolutely not."
Indeed, the Palestinians also had not been written explicitly in the Quran, it's just called as the "Holy Land" (al-Arad al-Muqaddash).
Before the advent of zoning, the Palestinian Arabs saw themselves didn't have a separate identity. But when the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following statement announced, "We feel that Palestine is part of Arab Syria, as this section is never separated from Syria. We are dealing with Syria as a state, religion, language, economic and regional ties. "
In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, the Peel Commission declared that in principle, demanding the Palestinians, "There is no country (Palestine)! The word "Palestine" was created by the Zionists! No word Palestine in the Bible. For centuries, our homeland is part of Syria. "
Vice Arab Higher Committee for the United Nations submitted a statement in the General Assembly in May 1947 stated that "Palestine" was part of the Province of Syria and therefore, in politically, the Palestinian Arab people could not separate from the Syrian and could not form a separate political entity from Syria.
Several years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, which then became the chairman of PLO, told to Security Council, "It's common knowledge that Palestina is part of South Syria."
Most Palestinian Arab nationalism emerged after World War I. But it didn't become a significant political movement until there was Six Day War (Six Day war) in 1967, and Israel controlled the West Bank.
Cisca ZarmansyahWe still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in the schoolbook of Palestinian's children.
For the Children of Gaza: Review Copy
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I never knew deathuntil I saw the bombing of a refugee campCraters filled with disfigured ankles and splattered torsosBut no sign of a face, the only impression a fading screamI never understood painUntil a seven-year-old girl clutched my handStared up at me with soft brown eyes, waiting for answersBut I didn't have anyI had muted breath and dry pens in my back pocketThat couldn't fill pages of understanding or resolution
In her other handshe held the key to her grandmother's houseBut I couldn't unlock the cell that caged her older brothersThey said, we slingshot dreams so the other side will feel our father's presenceA craftsmanBuilt homes in areas where no one was buildingAnd when he fell, he was silentA .50 caliber bullet tore through his neck shredding his vocal cords. Too close to the wallHis hammer must have been a weaponHe must have been a weaponEncroaching on settlement hills and demographics
So his daughter studies mathematicsSeven explosions times eight bodiesEquals four Congressional resolutionsSeven Apache helicopters times eight Palestinian villagesEquals silence and a second NakbaOur birthrate minus their birthrateEquals one sea and 400 villages re-erectedOne state plus two peoples…and she can't stop cryingNever knew revolution or the proper equationTears at the paper with her fingertipsSearching for answersBut only has teachersLooks up to the sky and see stars of David demolishing squalor with hellfire missiles
She thinks back words and memories of his last hug before he turned and fellNow she pumps dirty water from wells, while settlements divide and conquerAnd her father's killer sits beachfront with European vernacular.She thinks back words, while they think backwardsOf obscene notions and indigenous confusion
This our land!, she saidShe's seven years oldThis our land!, she saidAnd she doesn't need a history book or a schoolroom teacherShe has these walls, this sky, her refugee campShe doesn't know the proper equationBut she sees my dry pensNo longer waiting for my answersJust holding her grandmother's key…searching for ink.
A Poem for Gaza
(by REMI KANAZI)
Cisca Zarmansyah"Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it. We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs." ( DAVID BEN GURION - written statement: June 1919, as quoted in Time magazine - 24 July 2006)
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David Ben Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel. After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben Gurion helped build the state institutions and oversaw the absorption of vast numbers of Jews from all over the world. Upon retiring from political life in 1970, he moved to Sde Boker, a kibbutz in the Negev desert, where he lived until his death. Posthumously, Ben Gurion was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century.
Ben Gurion was born in Płońsk, Congress Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Avigdor Grün, was a lawyer and a leader in the Hovevei Zion movement. His mother, Scheindel, died when he was 11 years old.
Ben Gurion grew up to be an ardent Zionist. As a student at the University of Warsaw, he joined the Marxist Poale Zion movement in 1904. He was arrested twice during the Russian Revolution of 1905. He immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1906, shocked by the pogroms and anti-Semitism of life in Eastern Europe, and became a major leader of Poale Zion with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
In Palestine, he first worked in agriculture, picking oranges. In 1909 he volunteered with HaShomer, a force of volunteers who helped guard isolated Jewish agricultural communities. On November 7, 1911, Ben Gurion arrived in Thessaloniki in order to learn Turkish for his law studies. The city, which had a large Jewish community, impressed Ben Gurion who called it "a Jewish city that has no equal in the world." He also realized there that "the Jews were capable of all types of work," from rich businessmen and professors, to merchants, craftsmen and porters.
In 1912, he moved to Constantinople (now Istanbul), the then Ottoman capital, to study law at Istanbul University together with Ben-Zvi, and adopted the Hebrew name Ben-Gurion, after the medieval historian Yosef ben Gurion. He also worked as a journalist. In 1915, Ben-Gurion and Ben-Zvi were expelled from Palestine, still under Ottoman rule, for their political activities.
Settling in New York City in 1915, he met Russian-born Paula Munweis. They were married in 1917, and had three children. He joined the British army in 1918 as part of the 38th Battalion of the Jewish Legion (following the Balfour Declaration in November 1917). He and his family returned to Palestine after World War I following its capture by the British from the Ottoman Empire.
ZIONIST LEADERSHIP
After the death of theorist Ber Borochov, the left-wing and right-wing of Poale Zion split in 1919 with Ben-Gurion and his friend Berl Katznelson leading the right faction of the Labor Zionist movement. The Right Poale Zion formed Ahdut HaAvoda with Ben-Gurion as leader in 1919. In 1920 he assisted in the formation and subsequently became general secretary of the Histadrut, the Zionist Labor Federation in Palestine.
In 1930, Hapoel Hatzair (founded by A. D. Gordon in 1905) and Ahdut HaAvoda joined forces to create Mapai, the more right-wing Zionist labor party (it was still a left-wing organization, but not as far left as other factions) under Ben-Gurion's leadership. The left-wing of Labour Zionism was represented by Mapam. Labor Zionism became the dominant tendency in the World Zionist Organization and in 1935 Ben-Gurion became chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, a role he kept until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Ben Gurion instigated a policy of restraint ("Havlagah") in which the Haganah and other Jewish groups did not retaliate for Arab attacks against Jewish civilians, concentrating only on self-defense. In 1937, the Peel Commission recommended partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab areas and Ben-Gurion supported this policy.[citation needed] This led to conflict with Ze'ev Jabotinsky who opposed partition and as a result Jabotinsky's supporters split with the Haganah and abandoned Havlagah.
The Ben Gurion House, where he lived from 1931 on, and for part of each year after 1953, is now an museum in Tel Aviv.
PALESTINIAN ARABS
Ben-Gurion recognized the strong attachment of Palestinian Arabs to the land but hoped that this would be overcome in time. Nahum Goldman, president of the World Jewish Congress, wrote that in a conversation about "the Arab problem" in 1956, Ben-Gurion stated: "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget in one or two generations' time, but for the moment there is no chance. So it is simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army." Goldman criticized Ben-Gurion for what he viewed as Ben-Gurion's confrontational approach to the Arab world. Goldman wrote that "Ben-Gurion is the man principally responsible for the anti-Arab policy, because it was he who moulded the thinking of generations of Israelis."
The view that Ben-Gurion's assessment of Arab feelings led him to emphasize the need to build up Jewish military strength is supported by Simha Flapan, who quoted Ben-Gurion as stating in 1938: "I believe in our power, in our power which will grow, and if it will grow agreement will come.
BRITISH
The British 1939 White paper stipulated that Jewish immigration to Palestine was to be limited to 15,000 a year for the first five years, and would subsequently be contingent on Arab consent. Restrictions were also placed on the rights of Jews to buy land from Arabs. After this Ben-Gurion changed his policy towards the British, stating: "Peace in Palestine is not the best situation for thwarting the policy of the White Paper". Ben-Gurion believed a peaceful solution with the Arabs had no chance and soon began preparing the Yishuv for war. According to Teveth 'through his campaign to mobilize the Yishuv in support of the British war effort, he strove to build the nucleus of a "Hebrew army", and his success in this endeavor later brought victory to Zionism in the struggle to establish a Jewish state.'
During the Second World War, Ben-Gurion encouraged the Jews of Palestine to volunteer for the British army. He famously told Jews to "support the British as if there is no White Paper and oppose the White Paper as if there is no war". About 10% of the Jewish population of Palestine volunteered for the British army, including many women. At the same time Ben-Gurion helped the illegal immigration of thousands of European Jewish refugees to Palestine during a period when the British placed heavy restrictions on Jewish immigration.
In 1946 Ben-Gurion agreed that the Haganah could cooperate with Menachem Begin's Irgun in fighting the British. Ben-Gurion initially agreed to Begin's plan to carry out the 1946 King David Hotel bombing, with the intent of embarrassing (rather than killing) the British military stationed there. However, when the risks of mass killing became apparent, Ben-Gurion told Begin to call the operation off; Begin refused.
Illegal Jewish migration led to pressure on the British to either allow Jewish migration (as required by the League of Nations Mandate) or quit - they did the latter in 1948, not changing their restrictions, on the heels of a United Nations resolution partitioning the territory between the Jews and Arabs.
RELIGIOUS PARTIES AND THE STATUS QUO
In September 1947 Ben-Gurion reached a status quo agreement with the Orthodox Agudat Yisrael party. He sent a letter to Agudat Yisrael stating that while he is committed to establishing a non-theocratic state with freedom of religion he is promising that the Shabbat would be Israel's official day of rest, that in State provided kitchens there will be access to Kosher food, that every effort will be made to provide a single jurisdiction for Jewish family affairs, and that each sector would be granted autonomy in the sphere of education, provided minimum standards regarding the curriculum are observed.
To a large extent this letter (or agreement) provided a framework for religious affairs in Israel (e.g. no civil marriages, just as in Mandate times) and is often a benchmark to which the status is compared.
MILITARY LEADERSHIP and 1948 PALESTINIAN EXODUS
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Ben-Gurion oversaw the nascent state's military operations. During the first weeks of Israel's independence, he ordered all militias to be replaced by one national army, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). To that end, Ben-Gurion used a firm hand during the Altalena Affair, a ship carrying arms purchased by the Irgun. He insisted that all weapons be handed over to the IDF. When fighting broke out on the Tel Aviv beach he ordered to take it by force and shell the ship. Sixteen Irgun fighters and three IDF soldiers were killed in this battle. Following the policy of a unified military force, he also ordered that the Palmach headquarters be disbanded and its units be integrated with the rest of the IDF, to the chagrin of many of its members.
As head of the Jewish Agency, Ben-Gurion was de-facto leader of Palestine's Jews even before the state was declared. In this position, Ben-Gurion played a major role in the 1948 War and the resulting Palestinian exodus. When the IDF archives and others were opened in the late 1980s, scholars started to reconsider the events and the role of Ben Gurion.
FOUNDING OF ISRAEL
On 14 May, on the last day the British Mandate, Ben-Gurion declared the independence of the state of Israel. In the Israeli declaration of independence, he stated that the new nation would "uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex."
PRIME MINISTER of ISRAEL
After leading Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister of Israel when his Mapai (Labour) party won the largest number of seats in the first national election, held on February 14, 1949. He would remain in that post until 1963, except for a period of nearly two years between 1954 and 1955. As Premier, he oversaw the establishment of the state's institutions. He presided over various national projects aimed at the rapid development of the country and its population: Operation Magic Carpet, the airlift of Jews from Arab countries, the construction of the National Water Carrier, rural development projects and the establishment of new towns and cities. In particular, he called for pioneering settlement in outlying areas, especially in the Negev.
Ben-Gurion had a major role in the military operations that led to the Qibya massacre in October, 1953. Later in 1953 he announced his intention to withdraw from government and was replaced by Moshe Sharett, who was elected the second Prime Minister of Israel in January, 1954.
Ben-Gurion returned to office in 1955 assuming the post of Defense Minister and was soon re-elected prime minister. When Ben-Gurion returned to government, Israeli forces responded more aggressively to Palestinian guerilla attacks from Gaza—still under Egyptian rule. The growing cycle of violence led Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser to build up his arms with the help of the Soviet Union. The Israelis responded by arming themselves with help from France. Nasser blocked the passage of Israeli ships through the Red Sea and Suez Canal. In July 1956, America and Britain withdrew their offer to fund the Aswan High Dam project on the Nile and a week later Nasser ordered the nationalization of the French and British controlled Suez Canal. Ben-Gurion collaborated with the British and French to plan the 1956 Sinai War in which Israel stormed the Sinai Peninsula thus giving British and French forces a pretext to intervene in order to secure the Suez Canal. Intervention by the United States and the United Nations forced the British and French to back down and Israel to withdraw from Sinai in return for promises of free navigation through the Red Sea and Suez Canal. A UN force was stationed between Egypt and Israel.
Ben-Gurion stepped down as prime minister for what he described as personal reasons in 1963, and chose Levi Eshkol as his successor. A year later a rivalry developed between the two on the issue of the Lavon Affair. Ben-Gurion broke with the party in June 1965 over Eshkol's handling of the Lavon affair and formed a new party, Rafi which won ten seats in the Knesset. After the Six-Day War, Ben-Gurion was in favour of returning all the occupied territories apart from Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Mount Hebron.
In 1968, when Rafi merged with Mapai to form the Alignment, Ben-Gurion refused to reconcile with his old party. He favoured electoral reforms in which a constituency-based system would replace what he saw as a chaotic proportional representation method. He formed another new party, the National List, which won four seats in the 1969 election. Ben-Gurion retired from politics in 1970 and spent his last years living in a modest home on the kibbutz.
BEN GURION and THE NEGEV
Ben-Gurion believed that the sparsely populated and barren Negev desert offered a great opportunity for the Jews to settle in Palestine with minimal obstruction of the Arab population. He set a personal example by choosing to settle in kibbutz Sde Boker at the centre of the Negev and established the National Water Carrier to bring water to the area. He saw the struggle to make the desert bloom as an area where the Jewish people could make a major contribution to humanity as a whole.
Ben-Gurion died on 1 December 1973, and is buried alongside his wife Paula at a site in Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the Negev desert.
AWARDS
* In both 1951 and 1971, Ben-Gurion was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought.
COMMEMORATION
Sculpture of David Ben-Gurion at Ben Gurion International Airport, named in his honor
* Israel's largest airport, Ben-Gurion International Airport is named in his honor.
* One of Israel's major universities, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, located in Beersheva, is named after him.
* Numerous streets throughout Israel have been named after him.
* An Israeli modification of the British Centurion Tank was named after Ben-Gurion
* A desert research center, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, near his "hut" in Kibbutz Sde Boker has been named in his honor. Ben-Gurion's grave is in the research center.
* Is also a chapter in the Pacific Coast Region of The B'nai Brith Youth Organization in Pomona, California.
( source: WIKIPEDIA )
LINKS:
► http://www.crethiplethi.com/tag/14-mei-1948/
► http://www.knesset.gov.il/holidays/eng/jerusalem_day.htm
► http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/BIOS/bg.html
► http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people%2FBen+Gurion%2C+David
► http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story638.html
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Bobby Whittenberg - "Oh Palestine" - No Gods! No Master Sergeants!
www.youtube.comBobby Whittenberg plays his song "Oh Palestine" from his "No Gods! No Master Sergeants!" album released in 2010. Music and lyrics written by Bobby Whittenberg.
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Inauguration de l’Esplanade David Ben Gourion | René Naba | Actualité et Flashback
www.renenaba.com« Si j’étais un leader arabe, je ne signerais jamais un accord avec Israël. C’est normal ; nous avons pris leur pays. Il est vrai que Dieu nous l’a promise, mais comment cela pourrait-il les concerner ? Notre dieu n’est pas le leur.
Cisca ZarmansyahArise, ye workers from your slumber,
Arise, ye prisoners of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders,
and at last ends the age of cant!
Away with all your superstitions,
Servile masses, arise, arise!
We'll change henceforth the old tradition,
And spurn the dust to win the prize!
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face.
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face.
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction,
On tyrants only we'll make war!
The soldiers too will take strike action,
They'll break ranks and fight no more!
And if those cannibals keep trying,
To sacrifice us to their pride,
They soon shall hear the bullets flying,
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face.
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face.
The Internationale unites the human race.
No saviour from on high delivers,
No faith have we in prince or peer.
Our own right hand the chains must shiver,
Chains of hatred, greed and fear.
E'er the thieves will out with their booty,
And to all give a happier lot.
Each at his forge must do their duty,
And we'll strike the iron while it's hot.
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face.
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face.
The Internationale unites the human race.
(THE INTERNATIONALE - sung by Alistair Hulett)
English Internationale (with lyrics)
The British/Irish version of the Internationale sung by Alistair Hulett. Enjoy! **LYRICS** Arise, ye workers from your slumber, Arise, ye prisoners of want. For reason in revolt now thunders, and at last ends the age of cant! ...
CieL- FreYa Ceastle : It's so hard to defend yourself. I see the butterfly, already bigger by a hand, I see the flowers plowing soil, the worm as snake.
Valentino Vie : Ils vont tête baissée sur leur entente ils échangent leurs gestes,... en secret se pressent les pieds et dorment l'un pour l'autre...
Cisca ZarmansyahThose who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.(Abraham Lincoln : 1809-1865 / Politician. President of the United States)
Freely, freely meu coracao ... I'd like to live that way... (DEVENDRA BANHART)
devendra banhart "freely" (studio version)
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Banhart was born May 30, 1981 in Houston, Texas to a Venezuelan mother and an American father. His given name is a synonym for Indra, the Hindu god of rain and thunder, which was suggested by Prem Rawat, an Indian religious leader whom Banhart's parents followed. Banhart's middle name Obi was modeled after the Star Wars character. Banhart's parents divorced two years after his birth and he moved with his mother to Caracas, Venezuela. His mother later remarried and Banhart's stepfather moved the family to Los Angeles, California, when Banhart was 14 years old.
In 1998, Banhart began studying at the San Francisco Art Institute on a scholarship while living in The Castro, San Francisco's gay neighborhood. He began to busk instead of attending classes and played his first show in a church at a gay wedding. Banhart dropped out of art school in 2000 and left San Francisco after the dot-com bust worsened the city's economy. He moved to Paris, France, over the summer and opened shows for indie rock bands. Banhart returned to the United States in the fall of 2000 and played music in San Francisco and Los Angeles, until he was discovered by Michael Gira, owner of Young God Records, after Siobhan Duffy, Gira's wife, bought a copy of Banhart's demo CD The Charles C. Leary and gave it to Gira.
Banhart and Gira compiled an album from Banhart's recordings, and in 2002, Oh Me Oh My, which was made up of short fragments, was published by Young God Records and received favorable reviews. He recorded two other albums and an EP for the label: Rejoicing in the Hands, Niño Rojo, and The Black Babies; the releases had a simple acoustic sound. Banhart changed to XL Recordings in 2005 and released Cripple Crow, which was recorded in Bearsville Studios, New York and had a more elaborate sound. He recorded his second album for XL Records, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, at his home studio in Topanga, California. The album charted on the Billboard 200 at number 115. The album's song "Lover" was featured in the soundtrack of the movie Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which included a cameo appearance by Banhart.
Banhart performs at the 2009 Coachella Festival
Banhart performs with the band Vetiver and has performed in Carnegie Hall and Hollywood Bowl opening for Gilberto Gil, as well as at Bonnaroo and Coachella music festivals. He founded a record label, Gnomonsong, with Andy Cabic of Vetiver, in 2005. In 2007, he signed with Neil Young's manager Elliot Roberts, who also contributed vocals to Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. In 2008, Banhart released the album Surfing in a collaborative project with multi-instrumentalist Greg Rogove named Megapuss, and dated actress Natalie Portman for a few months. In 2009, he signed to Warner/Reprise and plans to release a new album, What Will We Be. He has, at the band's request, produced a remix of Oasis' "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady". Along with "Neighbors", Devendra remixed the Phoenix song "Rome" from their 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
Drawings by Banhart were featured in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. He is a collector of music artifacts. Banhart wrote the foreword and appears in his friend Lauren Dukoff's book Family: Photographs by Lauren Dukoff.
On September 4, 2009, Beck announced his second Record Club covers album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. Banhart will contribute, alongside MGMT, Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother and Binki Shapiro of Little Joy.
On October 27, 2009, Banhart released What Will We Be, his first record on Warner/Reprise. Spin Magazine gave the album a favorable review with 3.5 out of 5 possible stars.
STYLE
Banhart is associated with the New Weird America genre and his music was called "free associative work". His style has been described as psych folk, avant-folk, freak folk, Lo-Fi, and alternative folk. "Banhart's albums offer ashram-appropriate guitar strums, trippy-hippie tone poetry and, if you're lucky, at least one tune where he sings from the perspective of a rodent."
Discography
Albums
* The Charles C. Leary (2002)
* Oh Me Oh My (2002)
* Rejoicing in the Hands (2004)
* Niño Rojo (2004)
* Cripple Crow (2005)
* Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (2007)
* What Will We Be (2009)
Singles and EPs
* The Black Babies (2003)
* Sight To Behold/Be Kind (2004)
* Little Yellow Spider (2004)
* At The Hop (2004)
* I Feel Just Like A Child (2005)
* Heard Somebody Say (2005)
* Carmensita (2007)
* Lover (2007)
* Baby (2009)
* Foolin' (2010)
Collaborations and compilations
* The Golden Apples of the Sun (2004)
* Jana Hunter / Devendra Banhart (with Jana Hunter, 2005)
* Love Above All (2007)
* Surfing (as Megapuss with Gregory Rogove, 2008)
* Lover
* Songs of Leonard Cohen - Beck's Record Club (2009)
External links:
► http://www.devendrabanhart.com/
► http://younggodrecords.com/Artists/?C=16
► http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&ref=hinah010
► http://lorseau.hinah.com/gallery.php?c=pzic&s=concert&g=devendrabanhartgp
► http://lorseau.hinah.com/gallery.php?c=pzic&s=concert&g=devendrabanhart&im=1
► http://www.myspace.com/devendrabanhart
► http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11%3Agzfwxqe0ldke%7ET1
► http://www.alwaysontherun.net/>devendra.htm
(Source: WIKIPEDIA)
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Devendra Banhart Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs
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Joss Stone & Jeff Beck - I Put a Spell On You [HQ]
With a surprise appearance from Jeff Beck, Joss Stone delivers a mindblowing version of my favourite song in the world - "I Put a Spell on You" Shepherd's Bush Empire London 11 March 2010.
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