Music & art: Lucky Dube, Interpol, & Mona Lisa
Oct 19th, 2007 by Brad
Connections? many, few, or just things I’ve heard about today or doing today. First the very sad news… South African reggae star, Lucky Dube, has been shot dead. This happened when car thieves attacked his car when he was dropping his teenage son and daughter off in a Johannesburg suburb.
I started hearing about Lucky Dube before my first trip to Africa, but when I was in Zimbabwe I really fell in love with his music. Although surprisingly taxi and bus drivers would often put on country music when they saw “western” me. After I asked if they have any “Dube” they would smile and say “you know Dube? great!” and put it on. Fantastic
Very sad to hear about his murder. He was an outspoken critic of apartheid and often used his music for political messages and to use music to try to tell people things to improve all of our lives. Rest in Peace Lucky. I hope we all remember your wisdom in “Teach the World”, and all of the great and vibrant songs of all kinds. Keep believing!
Interpol
Interpol is playing tonight in Portland. I’m looking forward to seeing them play again, they used to play a lot in Portland. Though I wish it wasn’t at Portland Memorial Coliseum, not the best venue for experiencing music …this bit sounds really stupid and hollow after what I wrote above. It will be good to hear music tonight.
Mona Lisa
A company called Lumiere has used a high-resolution 13-specra camera and a lot of well-founded scientific techniques to closely examine the Mona Lisa. They have a video on their website which is interesting to watch. In it you can take a look at the Mona Lisa without the aged varnish and compensating for the aging of the pigments. Along with a reasonable explanation of how they did it.
[…] Jana Tomeckova wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptHe was an outspoken critic of apartheid and often used his music for political messages and to use music to try to tell people things to improve all of our lives. Rest in Peace Lucky. I hope we all remember your wisdom in “Teach the … […]
I was really shocked to learn the death of my #1 reggae star Lucky Dube this mourning at work. I am really sad and mad for the way some humans carry out unthinkable acts. He fought for freedom in his country through his music, and now betrayed by his own. Seem like his message all these years fell on deaf ears of these criminals.
“Not every black man is my brother, not every white man is my enemy” (Lucky Dube)
May his SOUL rest in PEACE
Yes, Peace brother!