tag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:/blogs/news-from-brooke?p=2news from brooke2019-03-26T14:42:07-04:00Brooke Campbellfalsetag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/45960052017-02-17T22:50:07-05:002018-10-13T16:14:31-04:00Spirit Sky Sound <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/35fcb454afc29fec5501253ac3ac435456b6280d/original/img-2745.jpg?1487387543" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>I spent the day in the warm embrace of New York City. </p>
<p>Last week, the trio of celestial events (Snow Moon, eclipse & comet 45P) sent me <br>scrambling for a patch of dark sky that I could reach without renting a car.</p>
<p>Columbia offers stargazing for the public...</p>
<p>Grateful for this day: spirit, sky, sound.</p>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/43103812016-08-04T18:05:53-04:002018-10-13T16:16:41-04:00The Great Ms. Loroupe<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/58e94c94c1ad354d4f50927a0fd21cf2ffaae962/original/image.jpeg?1470349420" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><br>"Her father called her ‘Useless’; that was his name for her..."<br><br>and yet..<br><br>"in the running world, Loroupe is celebrated as the winner of the New York City Marathon in 1994 and 1995, the first black African woman to win a major marathon, and a former world-record holder at the distance of 26.2 miles.<br><br>She has mediated tribal disputes over grazing land, water and cattle raiding, persuaded 700 members of her tribe, the Pokot people, to surrender 38 guns as part of an anti-rustling campaign. <br>She has campaigned against female genital mutilation and fought for the broader rights of girls and women in patriarchal societies of East Africa. <br>She operates a school for nearly 400 children, trying to keep them from becoming child soldiers, providing shelter for those orphaned by AIDS or dislocated by war, offering the nourishment of food and education in the face of poverty, conflict and cultural skepticism. <br>In 2006, she was named a United Nations ambassador of sport. <br>She is the leader of a group of 10 displaced athletes, known as the <b>Refugee Olympic Team.</b> It will march Friday in the opening ceremony, carrying the Olympic flag, serenaded by the Olympic anthem."<br>-Jeré Longman, NYT</p>
<p>..and I love her from afar.</p>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/42262052016-06-12T14:53:02-04:002018-10-13T16:17:37-04:00Tender Shoulders<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/1b176ebc76b5563d250af4a6167f8ff23fd13566/original/screen-shot-2016-06-12-at-2-25-36-pm.jpg?1465756127" class="size_l justify_center border_" />On Friday, a few of us gathered to talk around a theme from a song of mine.<br>Susan Galvini- <a contents="sprucenyc.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.sprucenyc.com">sprucenyc.com</a>- spoke about how that idea applies to her beautiful designs. Christian Boutan, badass renaissance man, shared how this idea plays out in taking measurements in his research in dark matter. We spent the evening at <a contents="Robert Lange Studios" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.robertlangestudios.com">Robert Lange Studios</a>-which was such a treat-and the perfect setting to take the lids off of our heads and let it all fly.<br>I've never attempted anything like that before. It was so nice to take a risk and to do it with people I respect so much- also to let one idea float through very different minds-and to hear how differently it can express itself. Thanks to all who came out!</p>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/41846622016-05-17T13:48:30-04:002018-05-16T14:26:03-04:00Sweet Aiken<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/ab9d1820bc8819629d3dca1d06ba4d5f3eefecd0/original/img-0264.jpg?1463506874" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><p>Sound check at Hopelands Gardens Summer Concert Series yesterday. I met so many great people & was totally charmed by Aiken, SC. <br>John M., one of the gentlemen-soundmen, gave me a fascinating primer on South Carolina geology & geography and showed me to the healing (Coker) springs on the way out of town. They were flowing low, but I got my hands in there for good measure. I try not to leave healing on the table when it’s up for grabs.</p>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/41803812016-05-13T19:03:23-04:002020-01-11T13:34:07-05:00Marsh<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/d09df19e54498fd5055562988f195da08caafc27/original/image.jpeg?1463180017" class="size_l justify_center border_" />I wandered around the marsh last night-trying to remember. Pluff mud and salt-wind; themes: animism, wildness & utter restraint. <br>The sense-memories of this place I've carried in my travels don't compare and yet, they're outdated. They serve to strengthen nostalgia-the irresistible siren that has led me astray as often as she's led me home. This moment is all. May I know it and agree to drop in.<br> </p>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/41668342016-05-05T09:47:33-04:002018-05-16T14:26:38-04:00Wilczek<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/b1088155e4d075f435137bfc29cbaa1bb0003b92/original/screen-shot-2016-05-05-at-9-48-31-am.jpg?1462456271" class="size_l justify_center border_" />"All colors are one thing seen in different states of motion and that is science’s brilliantly poetic answer <br>to Keats’ complaint that <br>'Science unweaves a rainbow'” .<br>-Frank Wilczek-Nobel physicist<br><br>This guy dropped so many nourishing one-liners that I repeated the episode 3 times.<br>If you have it to spare, this interview is worth your precious time.</p>51:00Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/41519032016-04-24T22:01:32-04:002017-01-14T13:15:47-05:00Holy Lust<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/b3be27a6d29c8948329c894e4a3cad4444f8e367/original/prince.jpg?0" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><strong>"Sure, he deviated from that path when he wanted to, but for him there was no need to separate the things we do on Saturday night from the things we do on Sunday morning."<br>-Touré</strong><br><br>the NYT Picks for reader comments are particularly fertile for this one. Check Mr. Ned Hickey from Marlborough, CT:<br><br>The author's premise about Judeo-Christian spirituality and sexual love somewhat inaccurate or misleading. Th gist of St. Augustine's approach is consistent with the body/spirit dichotomy of Platonism, but not the integrated body/spirit/sexuality spirituality found in the Biblical Song of Songs [e.g., My lover is like a gazelle, a young stag ....] and the line of Jewish and Christian mystics for whom sexual love was a significant reflection of the divine love of God. prince would have found poetic sustenance for his vision in the writings of Kabbala and the Sephirot, or, St. Bernard of Clairvaux and St. Teresa of Avila.<br><br><strong>entire article:</strong><br><a contents="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/princes-holy-lust.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/princes-holy-lust.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/princes-holy-lust.html</a></p>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/40346592016-02-10T13:38:43-05:002016-02-10T13:38:43-05:00Bob Potts<iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="oiQzn8aHNt8" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/oiQzn8aHNt8/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oiQzn8aHNt8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="200" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Years ago, I came across the work of Arthur Ganson. His playful, brilliant sculptures struck me like a storm of glorious little lightning bolts.<br>Today I found Mr. Potts's work and it suits the season for me. Ethereal & romantic..fluid. Anyway, what a thing that minds like this exist. <br> Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/39948462016-01-18T16:30:24-05:002020-05-30T10:38:29-04:00Chastened by MLK<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/f9e06d50e9dba41c9322f9b7a8285656eccd806e/original/mlk.jpg?1453152433" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span class="font_large"><strong>Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. <br>-Martin Luther King Jr.</strong></span><br><br><br> </p>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/39680952015-12-28T10:54:49-05:002015-12-28T10:56:08-05:00Nick Lowe-softening the holiday blow<iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="rRBZvYWAuj4" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/rRBZvYWAuj4/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rRBZvYWAuj4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="200" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/39244972015-11-12T19:06:05-05:002017-01-14T13:15:47-05:00Old Dutch Church<br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/b35f9289bc96a79af28de93a2b3121c8cbf55945/original/w2.jpg?1447371728" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Following a noon concert, I stole a couple of hours in the sanctuary of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, NY. Soggy sun bled through these ambers, clear and warm. White ceiling, red carpet--ripe for ceremony without the heft. There was silence of the type that jogs the memory. I could hear my heartbeat which reminded me I have a heart-with blood pumping in and out every second. Air, blood, flesh, refraction. Design illuminating systems we didn't design or animate.Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/38364982015-08-30T09:04:21-04:002017-01-14T13:15:47-05:00Dr. Sacks, you dreamboat...<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/1d57fff57b3eacb42d83286504e67f5889cc8af9/original/oliver-sacks.png?1440939257" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Thank you, Mr. Sacks, for wandering in every way you did-through the world and the minds of your patients..and for sharing it with us.<br><br> 23:19Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/37773712015-07-14T14:59:16-04:002015-07-14T15:00:08-04:00At last..<iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="d5hetpVwyBk" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/d5hetpVwyBk/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d5hetpVwyBk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="200" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/35304292015-02-14T10:45:23-05:002018-05-10T02:07:42-04:00Happy Valentine's Day<iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="evZZiRbP_K8" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/evZZiRbP_K8/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/evZZiRbP_K8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="200" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/35160892015-02-09T02:28:26-05:002015-02-10T02:30:29-05:00HozierMerry Grammys....for me, pre 2:05 is best<br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="pobF8Jm85ZU" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/pobF8Jm85ZU/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pobF8Jm85ZU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="200" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/34619042015-01-12T00:04:12-05:002017-01-14T13:15:47-05:00Les Twins<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="UvGUzcn2WSE" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/UvGUzcn2WSE/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UvGUzcn2WSE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="200" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe> Hip-hop dance offs=instant happiness. Sometimes, I seek them out when I need some sunshine. Today, this led me to Les Twins (skip to 2:06). Brothers from Sarcelles, France...self-taught...Watching them anticipate each other, matrix out each moment, own, and create it has been exactly the fresh wind this stuffy room needed. So far, they are my most favorite finding of the year. I mean, I love them. They choreograph as well..for very, very real.</div></div>Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/30420452014-06-26T13:59:42-04:002014-06-26T14:07:29-04:00the Road to Manhattan...is green and long and filled with baby animals at this time of year.<br>I swear I'm in a cartoon. I've seen baby foxes, woodchucks, deer-cavorting around with their folks in the woods of the Upstate.<br>This weekend, I'll head toward that land of fortification where we braced ourselves against everyone else bracing themselves.<br>In the process, it all softened.<br><br>While pining for the past, we made such good friends.<br>I miss you, New York City, though we're probably better long-distance pals.Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/30312802014-06-21T15:16:27-04:002014-06-21T15:18:52-04:00CherriesFor no good reason, I have cherries and Autumn on the brain.<br>On the crystal-clearest of days in the summeriest month?<br><br>Idealizing the future even when the present couldn't be more delicious.<br>Whatever to do?<br>Exercises to be present.<br>Prayer.<br>Active noticing.<br><br>These help-but consummation with this magnificent moment-<br>Why the resistance?Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/30269412014-06-19T15:00:52-04:002014-06-21T13:38:34-04:00Let's Have a Party!Release Party!<br><br>With help from several friends, there's a new batch of music<br>Food, drink, friends, music from the new EP, <span style="color:#0000CD;"><em>Rule.</em></span><br><br>Entwine<br>765 Washington St. NYC<br>Sunday June 29th<br>8pm<br><br>Come one, come all!Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/4164362013-03-26T19:21:12-04:002013-03-26T19:21:12-04:00"Women of Substance"..um...I've been added to the rotation on <br><i>Women of Substance Radio. <br></i><br>
If you're a streamer, you can stream online at womenofsubstanceradio.com<br>
and hear more folks like me.<br><br>
love to all.<br>
brooke<br type="_moz" style="font-style: italic; ">Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/3614262013-03-11T20:35:00-04:002013-03-11T20:35:00-04:00Radio Constellation! (my dear Little Dipper)KWUR-St. Louis, MO<br>
KMUD-Redway, CA<br>
WORT-Madison, WI<br>
WRRW-Williamsburg, VA<br>
WERU-Bangor, MEBrooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/3122232013-02-14T16:50:00-05:002013-02-14T16:50:00-05:00Radio StarsI'm super-honored to be getting radio play on the stations below. I've been listening and they all spin really synapse-tickling, non-commercial radio.<br>
It feels good to be curated into the mixes of these programmers:<br><b>WUMD</b>-North Dartmouth, MA<br><b>KSER</b>-Seattle-Tacoma<br><b>KRVS</b>-Lafayette, LA<br><b>WUSM</b>-Hattiesburgh, MS<br><b>WFHC</b>-Belair, MD<br><b>KVNF</b>-Paonia, CO<br><b>KRCB</b>-Rohnert Park, CA<br><br>
THANK YOU!<br><br><br type="_moz">Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/2915242013-01-28T12:10:00-05:002013-01-28T12:10:00-05:00Review from Montreal<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; ">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">New York Singer/songwriter, <i><b>Brooke Campbell </b></i>released<i><b> "The Escapist"</b></i> EP last May, her third studio recording. This four song EP highlights <b><i>Campbell's</i></b> talent for storytelling. Within the first 20 seconds of hearing <b><i>"Ice covers the North"</i></b>, I knew that this was going to be something special. Throughout all the songs you can hear a quite impressive string section weaving fluttering violins and trickling piano riffs, a real 'movie like' experience and a good compliment to <i><b>Campbell's</b></i> soft whispering vocals.<i><b> </b></i>The second track<i><b> "Sparkle" </b></i>is a humble confession about what it means <b><i>"To be small enough for you to love"</i></b>About whether one should dim their own light to fit into someone else's life<b><i>. 'Invalid'</i></b> is a heart warming <b><i>'Carol King</i></b> like' torch song that speaks about the theme of the album; escapism, which <i><b>Campbell</b></i> has also dedicated a page to on her website with famous quote's on the subject. The last track on the record <i><b>"Sugar Spoon"</b></i> is an upbeat one, about a quick high of happiness and a crash into a dark place <i><b>"That how I like it, when that sweet despair is what I know"</b></i>. <i><b>The Escapist'</b></i> EP is an imaginative and well written storybook.<i><b> </b></i>It's no doubt that these are personal stories, but also easy to translate into anyone's own experiences, so what will you find through the looking glass?</span>
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Thanks to them and to all who listen.Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/778652012-12-21T17:50:00-05:002017-01-14T13:15:47-05:00Break Soft<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/62184/6ffbbc943cc09d7bb00b856c2a1ffba071e42a05/medium/photo1.JPG?1380641730" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="225" width="300" /><br><br>
A song about the moments just before and after the birth of the Christ Child..<br>
(recorded with Fred Gillen, Jr. on a quiet night in Peekskill, NY)<br>4:15Brooke Campbelltag:brookecampbellmusic.com,2005:Post/1601042012-04-23T09:14:59-04:002012-04-23T09:14:59-04:00from the ranks of the freaks...This winter, I played a residency at the Mondrian Soho every Saturday with Colin McGrath (electric guitar) and Ward Williams (cello).<br>
This is a cover of Aimee Mann's brilliant song, "Save Me". <br>
Hope you like it.Brooke Campbell