Libra Radio dance in Psychiatric Hospital Prague

A few days ago i received this email:

Helou Libra Radio!

We are pleased to listen to your music in non profit club living in psychiatric hospital Prague.
Thanks for a great time with your music!
Keep It Going !!!

Jiri

The place is called Peta Kolona (fifth column) and it looks like this:





Evita with flowers dancing while listening to Libra Radio...















Another beautiful girl enjoying in music

I feel like being very flattered. Thank you for informing me!

Cannabis linked to Biblical healing

Jesus Christ and his apostles may have used a cannabis-based anointing oil to help cure people with crippling diseases, it has been claimed.

Researchers in the United States say the oil used in the early days of the Christian church contained a cannabis extract called kaneh-bosem.

They suggest the extract, which is absorbed into the body when placed on the skin, could have helped cure people with a variety of physical and mental problems.

The author of the article, published in the US drugs magazine High Times, says his findings are based on a study of scriptural texts.
Full article here.

Sand-sculpture photos

These remarkable sand structures are apparently made of nothing more than sand and water and are really stupendous.
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Miro Ilo (Ukraine)

The group was founded under the impact of the best examples of Romani musical heritage. The love to a true Romani folklore was brought to young actors by Vladimir Serdyuchenko - the professional musician, who is a virtuoso in Bayan and Accordion. His two sons, Vitaly and Oleg and also a singer Tatyana Dzigovsky have formed an initial staff of "Miro Ilo". It has been awarded in 2001 by Grand Prix of an International Romani festival-contest "Amala-2001" (city Kiev, Ukraine).
There is one more program in the plans of "Miro Ilo". And its' dedicated to creative works of famous Russian Romani composers: Appolon Grigoriev, Alexey Vasiliev, Teodor Polonsky, Nikolay Jemchuhniy and others.

The decisive role in the formation and professional development of "Miro Ilo" belongs to its' manager and producer: Maestro Ivan Shepelev, National Actor of Ukraine, and member of an International Union Of Variety Artists in Paris. His producer's skills, musical style, considerate attitude to a Romani folklore has helped this group to make serious steps toward the professional stage. Maestro Shepelev has included the dance group in to a vocal-instrumental structure of "Miro Ilo" and has developed a Romani show to the level of a perfect performance.

Dancers Yekaterina Derevyanko, Anatoly Yuzepchuk and Anna Stoyanovich have added "Miro Ilo" by so bright component that it has allowed this collective to get an exceptional integrity and bright Romani coloring.

The folk ensemble "Miro Ilo" has successfully showed its' creativity in the "Romani Courtyard" Festival in Moscow in 2002, and became the prizewinner of this event.

In May 2002 in Prague (Czech Republic) there was an International Romani Festival "Khamoro"("Little sun"). This Ukrainian ensemble turned out to be a bright pearl of this folk feast due to its' professionalism and the originality of Ukrainian Romani (servo group) traditions. Thus "Miro Ilo" again happened to be a Grand Prix holder of that Festival !

Natasha Atlas

Her father is a Sephardic Jew, her mother English, she was born in Brussels, raised in Morocco and now lives in New York.
Natacha Atlas released her first solo LP, Diaspora, in the summer of '95, and in time honoured fashion, the critics scrambled for superlatives. The LP saw Natacha combining the dubby, beat-driven global dance of her longtime associates Transglobal Underground, with the more traditional work of Arabic musicians like Tunisian singer- songwriter Walid Rouissi and Egyptian composer and Oud-master Essam Rashad.
The result was a colection of songs of love and yearning which genuinely fused West and East. Her second LP, Halim, sees Natacha exploring further her deeply felt affinity with Arabic musical heritage.

Natacha moved to England as a teenager, and since then has involved herself in a wide variety of musical projects. Dividing her time between the UK and Brussels, she sang in a variety of Arabic and Turkish nightclubs, and spent a brief stint in a Belgian salsa band called Mandanga. As she shuttled between Northampton and Brussels, however, she began to attract the attention of the Balearic beat crew iLoca! and Jah Wobble, then assembling his Invaders of the Heart.

In '91, both these projects bore fruit. Timbal by ¡Loca! started out as a track on Nation Records' Fuse Two compilation and became a massive club hit, while Wobble's Rising Above Bedlam - five tracks which Natasha co-wrote - attracted much critical acclaim and a Mercury award nomination.

The success of Timbal cemented Natacha's relationship with the ground-breaking Nation Label, who introduced her to Transglobal Underground, at that time enjoying Top 40 success with the anthemic Templehead. As chief collaborator, lead singer and belly dancer with TGU, Natacha has performed all over the world - playing Glastonbury, WOMAD, Reading, Phoenix and the Brixton Academy and many international festivals. At the same time, she has worked with an impressive variety of other musicians, including Apache Indian and Peter Gabriel, and has found the time to contribute to film soundtracks - including Stargate, with David Arnold.

Euro MayDay , 2.nd of May 2005 in Maribor, Slovenia

This great photo was made on the streets of Maribor, Slovenia which is also a hometown of Libra Radio. A group of a few Slovene non-formal organizations organized so called Euro MayDay meeting and parade within the sphere of EuroMayDay performances which took place in 19 European cities. It was first such an event in Slovenia so far and this is the main reason for low attendance. There were only some 50 protesters at the parade and among them we could hear also French, Portugese, Italian, German and English speaking people.
The basic idea of this movement is a demand for more human globalization and fight against precarity. As you can see police also played very important role in this should-be-peaceful procession trough the streets of Maribor. It is a shame what we can see on this photo.

Precarity is the most widespread condition of labour and life in Europe today. It affects everyone, everyday, in every part of life: whether chosen or imposed, precarity is a generalised condition experienced by the majority of people.

Precarious people are now the corner-stone of the wealth production process.
Notwithstanding this, we are invisible and count for nothing in the traditional forms of social and political representation or in the European agenda.

As precarious of Europe -- flex, temp and contortionist workers, migrants, students, researchers, unmotivated wage slaves, pissed off and happy part-timers, insecure temps, willingly or unwillingly unemployed -- we are acting so as to grasp the moment/our time and struggle for new collective rights and our individual and collective possibility to choose our future.

This is why we are building a public space on a European level to catalyse new forms of social cooperation, and maximize the sharing of skills, experiences and resources: to construct and bring to life a new social imagination