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as a middle eastern
fuck the british museum true 🙁🙁🙁
wait oh my god - i just checked the 'Pakistan' section of the british museum after you mentioned the Greek artefacts (bc i'm british but pakistani ethnically) and under the items it says 'found/acquired'
are they joking???
like obviously they're not going to write 'stolen' but come ON. they make it seem like they salvaged it from a junkyard and gave it new life rather than stealing it
I love you guys for allowing me to screech about this but LISTEN- it gets worse.
First of all, they used to block people on Twitter when they would make jokes about the theft. The only thing they don't know how to take is jokes, apparently.
in 2017, they tweeted AND I QUOTE "We aim to be understandable by 16year olds. Sometimes Asian names can be confusing so we have to be careful about using too many in our displays." Be SO fucking for real, you won't even write down what we are looking at?????????
THEY HAVE AN ENTIRE SECTION HOSTING OVER 6K HUMAN REMAINS. FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
They have millions of objects (approximately 13 million to be exact, 8 of which are foreign), and they can only showcase a handful at the time, so the rest just ROTS in storage. The largest amount of objects they have obtained from Iraq. Greece is in the top 7.
by Michele F. on Flickr.The unique architecture of the Unesco World Heritage City of Sanaa at sunset - Yemen.
by Michele F. on Flickr.The unique architecture of the Unesco World Heritage City of Sanaa at sunset - Yemen.
Love those veins like a road map to his pit where you know when he sweats pheremones and musk are just pouring out.
Album Review: Dybbuk Tse!
By: Yoni Mayraz
Album Details:
Genre: Jazz
Released: June 2, 2023
From The Artist: Yoni Mayraz states that the "Dybbuk, known from Jewish folklore, is a malevolent wandering spirit that enters and possesses the body of a living person. It’s a cursed soul of a dead one that wanders tirelessly for sins committed during their life. The most vulnerable victims are the young and the sinful. Possession can be taken literally or as an analogy to the burden that young people carry generations back, which they have no influence on, and which they have to accept. Dybbuk can only be removed by exorcism. The titular ‘Dybbuk Tse!’ is a command to remove the spirit from the possessed body. The album is a story about possession but also about exorcism through music."
Album Review:
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars [⭐⭐⭐⭐.5]
Favorite Track: As We Entered Jericho
Authors thoughts: Wow, wow, wow! What an album! Mayraz has a truly unique sound and artistic voice that comes through here beautifully. A fusion of jazz, 90's NYC hip-hop, and Middle Eastern music, this album harbors a vibe like no other and a rooted story within. These three genres are blended beautifully together through structure, rhythm, melody and star-striking solos from each member of the band. The solos flow from instrument to instrument perfectly and the group seems to be in that state of "musician communication harmony" together. In particular, I enjoyed the groovy and flowing bass lines which Eli Orr rips out on bass guitar with a nice, rich, but synth-like tone. Somewhat dark yet light at the same time, Mayraz delivers his usual style of production while simultaneously experimenting with tinges of murkiness and gloom, resulting in the aforementioned dark/light contrast. I, personally, could not help but get up and dance to some of the tracks on here. My only real critique here is that the titular track (Track 5: Dybbuk Tse!) falls kind of flat in comparison to the rest of the album and the opening vocal sample on it feels out-of-place. Finally, I think the album art is surreally beautiful and worthy of mentioning here because it is just so cool. Very much worthy of it's high rating, I would recommend this album to anyone interested in or looking to get into fusion/contemporary jazz.
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