Paradigms

Grupo Los Santos is getting ready to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the band!  Their new record is Santos 4, a lively collaboration between 4 good friends who know each other well enough to be playful and experimental in their music co-creations.

Pete Smith, David Ambrosio, Max Pollack, and William “Beaver” Bausch are always working on new music.  If you’re in the New York City area look out for live gigs.  Their energy in person is amazing!

Collaborative co-creation is one of the things humans can be really good at!  It shows up in all human endeavors, and is a skill we can cultivate in ourselves to make the world a better place for everyone.

Music by: Grupo Los Santos

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John Reed returns to Paradigms to share his new record Elevation, a group of songs which directly address the current state and activities of humanity.  John pulls no punches in his call for people to see and respond to the world around them. He is joined on this album by Matt Steady and Jo Beth Young, who bring their musicianship, brilliant and haunting.

John has chosen to make this album available only through his website, JohnReedMusic.com, where you can “pay what you can afford” the point being to reclaim the commerce aspect of the music from the streaming platforms.

John’s background in international trade has given him a broad perspective on humanity, which he shares.

• Film: Signs out of Time

Music by: John Reed

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Galeet Dardashti returns to Paradigms to share her new project Monajat wherein Galeet brings together her love of music, her work as an anthropologist, and her celebration of her grandfather Younes Dardashti who was a famous Persian Jewish singer.

In this time of polarization and conflict in the region called “The Middle East” with more horrific violence perpetrated by extremists, Jews and Arabs, let us keep in mind that most of those who have been killed since the October 7 attack by Hamas, have been Palestinian children, killed by the Israel Defense Forces.

There was a time, not so long ago, when Arabs and Jews lived side by side without conflict, in community.  What will it take to return to peaceful coexistence?

Music by: Galeet Dardashti

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Alice Howe grew up listening to the singer/songwriters of the 1960’s and 70’s. She started singing at an early age, learned to play the guitar, and now she’s got three records and tours the US and Europe playing her original songs about life, love, and presence.

Circumstance is a collection of songs that let us in on Alice’s inner life a bit, her relationships, and her sense of the world.  The songs are well crafted, and the musicianship is world class excellent.  On this record Alice shows us her chops, and invites us to keep listening.  The next record is already in process!

Alice is touring with her musical partner Freebo, currently in the US, Europe in spring of 2024!

Music by: Alice Howe

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Heather Luna Spence is a Marine Biologist-Musician-Composer.  Heather takes an holistic approach to her work, inspired by her love of sound and nature. Listening to the oceans from below the surface, Heather studies the impact of human-made sounds on aquatic life, to better understand what humans can do to protect marine life from the disruptive noises humans make with ships, construction, weapons, and more; and those sounds inspire musical compositions for humans to enjoy.

Heather blogs about her work, check it out. You can learn about Heather’s musical projects here.

Music by: Heather Luna Spence

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Alex Cornelissen is CEO and a ship Captain with Sea Shepherd Global having come up through the ranks, starting out as Chief Cook in 2002 on the good ship Farley Mowat.  Since then Alex has participated in many campaigns to stop illegal fishing and whaling from Europe to Africa to Antarctica.

The state of Earth’s oceans is dire. Extraction of fish and other life forms, and pollution, threaten the life of the oceans, which means that all life on Earth is threatened.  Life on Earth depends upon the oxygen provided by the oceans.  With oceanic dead zones increasing in number and area due to human activity, we are destroying that which gives us breath.

• Factory fishing in Antarctica for krill targets the cornerstone of a fragile ecosystem

Music by: Stanley Clarke, The Beatles, Joan Zen, Painted Caves, Paul Winter, and Tobias the Owl

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Malika Zarra was born in Morocco, raised in France, and got her musical training in Paris and New York. Malika’s new record is RWA (The Essence) a collection of original songs informed by ideas of belonging, community, owning one’s power.

Malika is inspired by  her life experiences as an immigrant, as a traveler, as a mother and artist. Malika’s voice is warm and personal and filled with feeling.  As a person, touring the world, sharing her art. Malika is a communicator.

Malika Zarra and her Jazz Trio will be performing a free show Saturday, November 4 at 9 PM at Lobby Stage at the Perelman Arts Center, 251 Fulton St in New York.

Malika Zarra is currently on tour in France and the US.  See her if you can!

Music by: Malika Zarra

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Many traditions have some form of “a year and a day” for trying a new practice, for breaking a pattern or establishing a new one. Diana Helmuth has written a book The Witching Year – a Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft wherein she describes her experience of exploring and practicing modern witchcraft for one year.

The book is one person’s account of their sincere journey of exploration, which includes skepticism, revelation, feeling challenged, embracing change, and more.  It’s a human’s journey of inquiry and learning.

Diana and Baruch discussed the book and what’s in it, as well as addressing the human propensity to search for meaning, and where that can lead.

The book is worth reading both as an interesting account of someone’s experience, and as an introduction to Earth based spirituality in a form that is easy to relate with.

Music by: Loreena Mckennitt, Lindie Lila, Steeleye Span, Gypsy, Rumors of the Big Wave, and Laura Nyro.

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Quinn Sternberg is a bass player and composer, originally from Indiana, now living in North Carolina after years in New Orleans. His life informs the music on his new record Walking on Eggshells.

The new record is 8 tracks, all pretty different from each other, a walk through Quinn’s recent life. Quinn is taking this record on the road, performing locally in North Carolina, and also doing some mini tours in the New Orleans area and in Indiana.

Like many musicians, Quinn talks about the role of listening in making music.  Baruch takes that into the rest of our lives, the value of listening both internally and externally.

Music by: Quinn Sternberg

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Naïssam Jalal has a new album Healing Rituals, 8 rituals that came through her.  Naïssam plays the flute like you have never heard it played before.  This record is an experience.  Seeing and hearing her in person must be sublime!

Raised in France, Naïssam has traveled to explore her Syrian ancestry and has just been in India studying North Indian Classical Music. Inspired by healing and music, Naïssam is ever deepening her connections.  In conversation with Baruch, Naïssam shares, very clearly, what this is all about.

Music by: Naïssam Jalal

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