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Four Minutes, Fifty-One Seconds

“…instead of having piracy from strangers you had what is essentially piracy from three big companies—Apple, Google, and Sp*tify—which created a system that has no business feasibility…it survives only because now there is a class of music slaves, which is the artists themselves.”

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Mash-ups

Correlation, Causality, Four Chords, and the Truth

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Decolonization

The Politics of Maqam Scales and the Decolonization of Music Studies - Lecture by Sami Abu Shumays

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Chilling With Perry Yung…

“Working on old shakuhachi is an honor beyond words. They are ancestors who are available to talk anytime you're ready to listen. I imagine them like a grandparent society may have forgotten; but if we sit with them, their sage spirit opens new insight to life in the present moment, and can guide us to what is ultimately important.”

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Lady Swordfighter

In which I tell you about a new album featuring your intrepid Kinko-ryū shakuhachi player!

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Erasure

Erasure, rediscovery, and repair…

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Words

Sometimes the words just aren’t there. And the ones that are aren’t enough.

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