Fundraiser for the Farmworker's Center (Dec. 8th 2012)

The EP Poetry Project was amazing last night! More on that later, but for now, I want to promote another event that needs support this evening in El Paso.

Fundraiser for the Farmworker's Center - Saturday Dec. 8th @ Glasbox (1500 Texas Ave) ~ 7 pm
$5 at the door, and the benefit will be also be accepting clothing and blankets to be used by the farmworkers. Presented by Movimiento Hunab Ku.

The event is written up, in "What's Up" Magazine, and that's what's up.

I'll be sharing some of my poetry alongside some talented musicians that I have worked with before with the experimental hip-hop group, Endangered Language.

Here is what the organizers have to say:


Movimiento Hunab Ku is inviting you the fundraising event for the Farmworker Center Saturday December 8th 630pm for a night of music, poetry and live painting. $5 at the door. All proceeds from the door will be given to the Farmworker Center.

Everyday we consume produce that was harvested by men, women and children who make a living as migrant farmworkers. Centro Sin Fronteras is a non-profit organization that assists farmworkers and their families.

During the cold season, farm workers from our region don’t have much work. In fact, many of them find themselves unemployed and without anything to send back home to their families for the holidays. Therefore, please consider making a donation to the Border Farm Workers Center: we accept monetary contributions, clothes, jackets, blankets, shoes, toys, food (canned or not), toiletries, etc.… If you would like more information please contact Centro Sin Fronteras at 201 East Ninth Avenue (esquina con calle Oregon), El Paso, Texas 79901. Tel. (915) 532-0921. O escribe a:
marentes@farmworkers.org Thank you! ☺
¡AYUDA A SIN FRONTERAS PARA AYUDAR A LAS Y A LOS TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS!

Ya que entró la temporada fría y el trabajo en los campos agrícolas escasea, Sin Fronteras necesita el apoyo de todas y de todos.

El tiempo de frío es el tiempo en que Sin Fronteras proporciona ayuda de emergencia a las y a los trabajadores agrícolas y sus familias, para que no padezcan hambre y frío. Pero para llevar a cabo esta misión, necesitamos la solidaridad de todas las personas de buena voluntad.

Estamos solicitando que nos ayuden con:

- Frijol
- Arroz
- Azúcar
- Papas
- Pastas de fideo
- Salsa de tomate
- Sal
- Harina

Y todo tipo de comida no perecedera.

Además, estamos recabando ropa invernal, sobre todo chamarras para adultos, hombres y mujeres, cobijas, etc.

Y por supuesto, nos urgen voluntarios que puedan colaborar en estos tiempos tan difíciles para la comunidad de trabajadores agrícolas.

Todo el año, ellas y ellos laboran arduamente para producir la comida que nos alimenta.

¡Ayudemos en este tiempo en que ellas y ellos necesitan de nosotras y nosotros!

Para saber cómo ayudar, visita el Centro de los Trabajadores Agrícolas Sin Fronteras, 201 East Ninth Avenue (esquina con calle Oregon), El Paso, Texas 79901. Tel. (915) 532-0921. O escribe a:
marentes@farmworkers.org

Music and Art Show @ The Percolator (2.18.12)

Gotye feat. Metafisix and Kimbra - "Somebody I Used to Know" (DJ Kue Remix)

I've realized that my philosophy to music listening/enjoyment isn't exactly the same as others (which is totally acceptable, by the way. I wouldn't accept anything less). While I have my favorite artists and genres, I simply have to be exploring for new music constantly.  I have several websites where I'm always taking music suggestions, but mostly I really love to see how artists approach, create, and sometimes re-create material. When it comes to music, I really love it when people can get together and collaborate. I'm talking about original content, avant garde-genre defining, enigmatic, "mashups," remixes (see my "Rainy Dayz" post, for example), "bootlegs," homages, and so on.

My buddy Ray, a.k.a. Metafisix worked with DJ Kue to make a very enjoyable remix of Gotye's "Somebody I used to Know" feat. Kimbra. You can listen to the original here: Somebody I Used to Know. I had first heard this track during one of my very own "musical safaris," and happened to really enjoy both the song and video very much. I was amazed to first hear of my friend working on a remix project with this awesome teaser video released last week on facebook:

                                         

Make sure to support both artists, Dj Kue, who you can find on his website, and Metafisix, who is a member of Fuyaradio.

Now, presenting:

GOTYE feat. Metafisix - Somebody I Used To Know (It's The DJ Kue Remix!)

Also, be on the lookout for Fuyaradio and Faceless Ent this March on Tour. 

P.S. I highly recommend "Mother Superior" from Metafisix, check it out on bandcamp and download today! 

Download at Bandcamp: Metafisix "Mother Superior"

Please support Local Arts

- Rich

The Unique Verse of the Universe: Time Lapse of the Cosmos Dancing Around Us

"'Beauty is truth, truth is beauty' wrote Keats. But nothing quite beats
that feeling when you get out of your seats
and explore the universe, its people, and the songs in the streets"
- (R Marrufo, freewriting exploration, 2/13/2012)

I admit that several of my main influences when I "create" fall under the subject broadly described as "The Universe." I'm talking about stars, planets, cosmic debris, science, astronomy, the music of the spheres, the poetry of the cosmos, etc.

As technology continues to become more advanced, we are able to slowly and gradually open just a bit more of what Blake called "the doors of perception."

Of my favorite free-time activities, one of the most profound and exhilarating (to me) is spending time in nature - whether it be camping, fishing, or hiking. Aside from just being able to "unwind" and ideally spend time away from the pressures of society, these activities allow me to observe and truly study nature in its many manifestations. I can become deeply contemplative,  meditative, and most interestingly, wildly creative. I feel a fire within me to share my feelings of exhilaration as I experience the Sublime. (Of course, I'm speaking in a Burkean sense, rather than referring to the popular band form Long Beach, CA).

Thanks to time-lapse video technology, I can view and experience in a unique way the movement of the cosmos as observed from earth. Photographer, Randy Halverson, has created a brillant and spectacular montage of footage he has collected over the past year. Halverson's work has even attracted the attention of Bear McCreary, who has written the scores for television series such as The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, and others.  McCreary has ended up contributing an original score for this video, "just for fun."

Please take the time to view this beautiful footage:


Temporal Distortion from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

You can view an extended HD cut of the video on the project's website: Dakotalapse

Muze(sic) - work in progress (poem)

Woke up this morning and to my surprise...was a song as soft as the morning sunrise.

whirlwind of mnemonic harmonics
and sweet saxophonics

of carefully crafted
cerebral constructions
and...percussive placidity.

See, it's the sprit of the beat that transcends concrete, that flows from within the people and into the street.

And we sing songs in rhymes of do-re-mi
and in those moments we are free.

..as softly as in a morning sunrise.

Art Show! - Sunday, December 18th 2011

Refractive Elements presents an Art Show feat. the talents of many artists and entrepreneurs including live music from EndoMuekanisms, Emily Davis, VDO, Tony Vein, Angelz Ride U.F.O.’z, and the Hypocrite Orchestra. 

El Paso, TX - The Lowbrow Palace (111 Robinson), December 18th, 8 pm

SUPPORT LOCAL ART

Open House, Winter Jam

Echoes in the Park played a nice set this past weekend for Marie Otero's Open House.


Don't forget to "Like" us on Facebook if you are a fan of other-worldly rhythmic vibrations: Echoes in the Park


- Rich