We need to jam with a fumey meeheh (sax, trumpet, trombone, flute – it doesn’t really matter), the only condition being that she or he must be in possession or can easily get hold of an instrument (fumey echcheh), simply because we haven’t got one ourselves. We play, or try to play, music of all [...]
I’m intrigued as to why, more often than not, the worst guitar player or drummer gets to fill the bassist’s role in a band. Is the bass considered to be a less ‘fancy’ instrument whose role in the overall sound is largely nominal? Any one who’s listened to either Led Zeppelin or the Dave Mathews [...]
Maldivian audiences aren’t that vocal with their support at performances. You do get the customary round of applause, a lacklustre ripple rather, but it is hardly enough to create an atmosphere. A crowd sing along is rarer still. This is of course changing but there still is a long way to go. So what does [...]
There are strong voices within contemporary social theory and philosophy that advocate the view that aesthetics facts (matters of personal taste in formulating a necessarily subjective conception of beauty) are equally relevant in understanding human societies as are scientific and social facts. Aesthetic facts relate to fields as diverse as music, fine art, and literature. [...]
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