Pasta Mon
A griotized mellowed out live version of Pasta Mon, w/ Karamo Susso on kora. Filmed at Dagny Corcoran’s Catalog Store at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Pasta Mon Performance
Tak, as the Danes say, to Kirsten Kiser for posting this drawing room version of “Pasta Mon” performed last week in Dagny Corcoran’s marvelous store “Art Catalogues” at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Karamo Susso on kora. Wanda Coleman, Rich Ferguson, Robb Storr, and Director David Govan were among those who dropped by…. Click for video!
Endangered Languages at LACMA
IN THREE DAYS! I’ll be doing a talking perf on Endangered Languages at LACMA on Thurs 2/23 at 5:30. If you are in the area, hope you can make it. http://www.lacma.org/event/bob-holman
Looky! I'm Doing It In LA!
I’ll be doing a talking perf on Endangered Languages at LACMA on Thurs 2/23 at 5:30.
Hope to see y’all…
Always On The Road
Folks, we’re now done with the reposting of my 08-09 trip to West Africa, the trip that resulted in the first two episodes of “On the Road with Bob Holman.” Shout outs first to Producer Ram Devineni of Rattapallax who believed in the idea, was the sounding board for adventure, and kept in daily touch for our months on the road. Back in the States, he found the throughlines and edited 90 hours of tape into coherence. He’s a genius and a friend and his new film, The Human Tower (www.thehumantower.com), is destined for greatness.
If only Orson Welles were a Brazilian beauty he could be Beatriz Seigner, who produced and shot “On the Road” all the while writing/prepping for her own film “Bollywood Dream,” (http://rattapallax.com/blog/bollywoodiano/) Bea is a fearless artist and a great companion on the road, not to mention having one of the great eyes for human interaction, landscape, and yes, crocodiles! Lamont Steptoe, poet/photographer/cinematographer and subject of two of Ram’s films, (www.rattapallax.com/blog/steptoe/) is a multi-talented wizard — a LITERAL wizard!
Karamo Susso, who collaborated on so much of the poetry and music while recording sound, has since moved to the United States. In fact, he and I will be performing at LACMA in LA on Thursday, Feb. 23, 5:30. Please come! His father, Papa Susso, is my teacher and a wonderful presence in the first episode — Papa will be performing at the On the Road party on Feb. 29 at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, 7pm. And thanks to Sandra Paugam, who really directed our movements from her apartment in Paris! Merci, Mamselle! And Tom Paul at Gigantic, who whacked the sound till it spoke dreams! Avi Dabach, our guide in Tel Aviv, great director, toda!
And all the wonderful poets, language mavens, everyday joes and josies who told their stories, sang their poems, let us sleep on their floors, and fed us spiritually and physically whilst OTR shokran!
Coming up next — the Bonus Tracks! Editor Renata Maria has put together about ten short films that open up and add to the stories we began in On the Road — meet Chana Amichai as she speaks about her late husband, the great poet Yehuda, come dance the Groundnut Dance in Gambia, and hear David Broza, Israeli pop star/poet, sing Elizabeth Bishop! and more
Why, we’re still — and always! — On the Road!
