Archive for February 2012
Niyaz – Ishq (Love and the Veil)!
February 29, 2012 | 
Author The Track “Ishq (Love and the Veil)” is taken from Niyaz second Album (Disc 1) “Nine Heavens” (2008). On their sophomore release, Niyaz continues to bridge the gap between traditional and modern world music. This double CD reveals a complex body of work. Nine Heavens features intricately carved new arrangements of traditional folk songs as well as original compositions utilizing mystical Sufi poems from Iran, the Indian sub-continent and Turkey. Listen and enjoy it. LYRICS “Ishq (Love and the Veil” – Urdu poetry by Khwaja Mir Dard (18th century). “If here we do not see thee imminent in they grace Then it is fair to say we have seen nothing of this world My heart is like crumpled bud That none have yet seen bloom What all haven’t I seen within your love What all haven’t I seen within your love Your indifference has wrought my ruin Yet you never even glanced this way The scars within have set me ablaze Alas, you never came to see this sight What all haven’t seen within your love I was the veil that hid the face of my beloved Once awakened there was no longer a veil Day and night it is him whom I seek Him whom none have ever known or witnessed.” Urdu: (from Internet) “Tujhi ko jo yaan jalwa farma na dekha Baraabar hai duniya ko dekha na dekha Mera ghuncha-e-dil hai woh dil-grifta Ke jis ko kaso ne kabhi wa na dekha Tere ishq mein ham ne Tere ishq mein ham ne kya kya na dekha. Taghaful ne tere yeh kuchh din dikhae Idhar tu ne lekin na dekha Kiya mujh ko daghon ne sarv-e …
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Veterans Day 2010 Presentation; President Reagan & Stryper
The collage/montage was produced by sceneologist Ruben Avila, commissioned by Pastor Israel Soto to commemorate the sacrifice made by our brave Men and Women and celebrate Veteran’s Day. The artist utilized video clips and music that were assembled in order to communicate the message of accepting the call to risk it all for Freedom. Avila states; “I wanted to make the viewer recall the dark side of war and the real peril experienced by its participants. The decision to focus the footage on the Korean War was because it tends to be the forgotten war, yet in retrospect proved to be the start of the war we still fight for today on the battlefield of idealism.” The decision to use the music of STRYPER further iconizes the imagery in a sense that war and conflict are both ancient and modern manifestation of man. Excerpts from President Ronald Reagan’s famous speech “These are the boys of Point du Hoc” further add to the sentiment of what it is to be a soldier. The speech is used because of the universality and themology that all soldiers cleave first onto the belief in God, and then their weapons while on the battlefiled. The key rhetorical phrase of the speech, “Yet you risked everything here, why, why did you do it?” Semper Fi.