Pale Shelter Album: The Hurting Date: 1983 Genre: Alternative/Indie Artist: Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears were formed in Bath, England, in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith after the dissolution of their first band, Graduate. Tears for Fears were associated with new-wave electronic bands of the early 1980s and achieved international success. Their debut album “The Hurting” reached the top of the UK Album Chart. In 2021, Orzabal and Smith, received the Ivor Novello Award for “Outstanding Song Collection” in recognition of era-defining albums and innovative hit singles.
I come from there and I have memories Born as mortals are, I have a mother And a house with many windows, I have brothers, friends, And a prison cell with a cold window. Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls, I have my own view, And an extra blade of grass. Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words, And the bounty of birds, And the immortal olive tree. I walked this land before the swords Turned its living body into a laden table.
I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother When the sky weeps for her mother. And I weep to make myself known To a returning cloud. I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule. I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland…..
Mahmoud Darwish 1941-2008
Mahmoud Darwish Born: 13 March 1941, Al-Birwa, Palestine Nationality: Palestinian Died: 9 August 2008, Texas, USA
Darwish was a poet and author, regarded as the Palestinian National poet. Darwish won numerous awards for his works. He used Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of his dispossession and exile. Darwish has been described as the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry
Alexander Litvinovsky Jazz Born: 1 May 1962, Minsk, Belorussia Nationality: Belarusian
Alexander Litvinovsky
Litvinovsky is a composer of contemporary music. He works in a variety of genres including chamber music, stage production music, choral music, and electroacoustic art
Less ornate than his earlier work, Alberti’s design for the façade for the church San Sebastiano displays many of the characteristics of his style such as decorative columns, a structural symmetry, and rounded arches above the doorways that are repeated at the structure’s pediment. While the façade of the church is its most striking feature Alberti’s remaining plans were never implemented. Work on the project slowed over the course of several years and Alberti died before it was finished.
Leon Battista Alberti 1404-1472
Leon Battista Alberti Early Renaissance Born: 14 February 1404, Genoa, Italy Nationality: Italian Died: 25 April 1472, Rome, Italy
Alberti was a humanist author, architect, artist, poet, linguist, philosopher, priest, and cryptographer. He exemplified the nature of the polymath and is considered the founder of Western cryptography
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Northern Cardinals have a range that includes most of the eastern half of the United States and extendinginto the southwestern desert. These birds are a relatively common sight in southern Arizona. I’ll see one of them fairly […]
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