isis and osiris

monday was the anniversary of the day alice coltrane recorded isis and osiris live at the village gate. wednesday the anniversary of the death of maupassant (whose the horla anticipates it follows).

horsemouth found an appreciation of alice coltrane (including an interview with the oud player on this track - detroit bassist vishnu wood) online.

 
of tulsi (the tamboura player on the first four tracks on journey in satchindananda)horsemouth can only  find the following;
Tulsi Sen Gupta is an American player of the tambura. She played on a number of albums by Alice Coltrane in the early 1970s (credited simply as "Tulsi"). She also appeared as part of the Alice Coltrane Group at Carnegie Hall (21 February 1971).

Coltrane wrote of Tulsi, in the liner notes of the 1970 album "Journey in Satchidananda": Tulsi's tamboura [...] is played with as high a degree of sensitivity as any I have heard from any instrumentalist native to the East."

Tulsi now lives in Jersey City, New Jersey with her husband Ashish, is involved in running the Cultural Association of Bengal, New York, and with the performance and recording of Indian classical music. She also translates booklet notes and other material for concerts and recordings from Bengali into English.

majid shabazz who plays bells and tambourine on tracks 1-4 of journey in satchindananda also plays on pharoah sanders thembi (bailophone dance) and his izipho zam (which features prince of peace). he now seems to be working as a drummer in tampa in an italian restaurant.

yesterday evening horsemouth wandered out to the duke in wood street (walthamstralia) to meet up with johnny and denise (and dave and claudia) (and children various) to pick up keys and chat. there was much evidence of prosperity (within 100 yards of a classic tower block estate) - girls in halter tops danced to disco and house, people supped craft beers. horsemouth and dave stayed on after to finish up.

there was discussion of the knock on effect on ireland of brexit. horsemouth should get back into the habit of listening to the news (but it’s just too depressing).

ranciere quotes leo strauss (or at least mentions him). while he was away horsemouth had a really good chat about education (one of ranciere’s concerns) - the panglossian enthusiasm for the social (as horsemouth would put it) is rendered by ranciere thus;

 ‘the utopia of a rationality immanent in the social which heralds the eventual common end of philosophy and of politics.’