Add to My Profile | More VideosA lyrical dance performance choreographed by Cindi Fields of Fields Dance Studio in Hampton VA to the song 'Promise' from Mascodagama's album 'Everything'. Please watch it through to the credits. The dancers deserve their props!
I don't believe that an artist should be categorized (limited) by his chosen medium or by any perceived "genre" within that medium. Labels are cages for cowards.
C'est notre responsabilité de créer la beauté oubliée par Dieu.
"Thus the rapture young Mascodagama derived from overcoming gravity was akin to that of artistic revelation in the sense utterly and naturally unknown to the innocents of critical appraisal, the social-scene commentators, the moralists, the idea-mongers and so forth."
- Vladimir Nabokov
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
"We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "
- Marianne Williamson
"Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome."
- George Harrison
In 2007 & 2008 Mascodagama participated in a worldwide challenge put on by www.rpmchallenge.com to write and record an entire album of completely original material during the month of February. In 2007 he wrote and recorded the album "Quite The Ride" and in 2008 the concept album "Inexpugnable", a 42 minute arc of human life.
For 2009, not only did Mascodagama yet again compose and record an album of new material during the month of February, but has additionally challenged himself to write and record a brand new song every Sunday throughout the year. When 2009 draws to a close the best of these songs will comprise a "Sunday Songs" album. Because Mascodagama is a purist (and a bit of a masochist), he recorded ten songs for his album during the month of February in addition to the four "Sunday Songs". That brought the sum total of songs that Mascodagama composed and recorded to fourteen for that month.
Hi, and thanks for the friendship! The Danish composer Per Nørgård's music has been much on my mind the past few years. Arguably the most important now living Scandinavian composer also has a remarkable output for the guitar. I spent a couple of years working with the composer on this repertoire, spanning from 1973 to 2000, in order to embrace the emerging performance practice associated with his work.
I have just uploaded 10 new tracks, all taken from "Tales From the North", my double CD box with the complete guitar works of Danish composer Per Nørgård. Also, in my latest blog you will find recent reviews of this release.
For further reading about the composer, this is an excellent website, with articles by a series of scholars and performers that have dedicated much study to his work:
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
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