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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
Sufjan Stevens @ Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Carrie & Lowell Fall Tour 2015 Setlist:
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Death With Dignity
Should Have Known Better
Drawn to the Blood
Stone
The Only Thing
Vesuvius
The Owl and the Tanager
Futile Devices
Fourth of July
All of Me Wants All of You
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Carrie & Lowell
Blue Bucket of Gold
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Encore:
Abraham
The Dress Looks Nice on You
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Hotline Bling (Drake cover)
Sufjan Stevens @ Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Carrie & Lowell Fall Tour 2015 Setlist:
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Death With Dignity
Should Have Known Better
Drawn to the Blood
Stone
The Only Thing
Vesuvius
The Owl and the Tanager
Futile Devices
Fourth of July
All of Me Wants All of You
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Carrie & Lowell
Blue Bucket of Gold
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Encore:
Abraham
The Dress Looks Nice on You
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Hotline Bling (Drake cover)
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
Whilst in Kyabram, we spent an afternoon walking around Horseshoe Bend and Moama Wharf. Living in Melbourne, I didn't realise how close this part of the NSW border was to me, and it's so beautiful.
You may notice in some of these images a dark mark on the tree trunks. This marks the level of the water as it rose up over the immensely tall river banks during the catastrophic floods last year. According to local authorities, the levels rose 94.94 metres (from sea level)! It is truly humbling to see.
One of the off-tracks led to a marsh that had hundreds of white cranes wading through the green plant beds - mesmerising!
On the way back I stopped to watch as dozens of lorikeets, galahs, and cockatoos flew overhead and filled the tree canopy high above.
Then I heard a toot and was flooded with emotion - was it a famous steamer?! A little known geeky fact about me is that I have had a long fascination with Murray River steamboats but have never seen one - this was my opportunity! In the cold evening air, with asthmatic lungs filled with bronchitis, I ran as fast as I could to get back to the Moama Wharf. From atop my perch there I took so many images of an actual steamer as it chugged along down the Murray River. Glorious!
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
This ride has something for everyone:
Smoke for the asthmatics, strobe lights for the epileptic and rusty old chains and bolts to kill even the relatively healthy.
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
Hanging Low
He scared me when he disappeared for more then two days. My imagination started to run wild, the fact that he had a fight and came away with a bald spot and bite marks on his tail did not help. Sure enough one kitty escaped from a basement that had been closed off that very morning. It took until 10 pm for our kitty to sneak back in and behave as if he was not sure of his welcome. With all that exposure to smoke from our wild fires he now started to exhibit asthmatic kinds of symptoms. Thankfully not full out attacks, but a wheezing and coughing that is worrisome. Sumo my little dog seemed to have picked up on my concern for the kitty and started to produce the same kinda sounds, lol. Gotta be so careful to not imprint undesirable behavior by what we give attention to. For now the kitty has been hanging low and easy, but seems mostly fine. I am so relieved.
Sufjan Stevens @ Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Carrie & Lowell Fall Tour 2015 Setlist:
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Death With Dignity
Should Have Known Better
Drawn to the Blood
Stone
The Only Thing
Vesuvius
The Owl and the Tanager
Futile Devices
Fourth of July
All of Me Wants All of You
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Carrie & Lowell
Blue Bucket of Gold
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Encore:
Abraham
The Dress Looks Nice on You
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Hotline Bling (Drake cover)
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
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When I returned from Chennai the first thing I did was upload the Ashura pictures shot in Chennai , but I jumped the gun as prior to Ashura I shot the 7 Moharam juloos of Chennai, I got messages from several brave hearts from Chennai as to when I would post them , but after my problem with Flickr management regarding the restriction of my Ashura set in Chennai to public viewing , I did not want to have back to back Moharam pictures , and the 7 Moharam is a long series .
And I follow Flickr terms and regulations my account is marked safe and all my blogs originate at Flickr including my archives of 157240 images .
Than while posting the Ag Ka Matam Jigedevi which I duly completed , I posted Dharmapuri this was the halting point it was from here I went to Jigedevi with my dear friend Dr Abbas Ali Meer , he had a medical camp to attend he left me here , I would have gone insane without my camera so I shot the streets of Dharmapuri .
I will soon complete this set and than upload the 7 Moharam Chennai pictures , in between the Dharmapuri photos I inserted the Xmas images and pictures I had shot in Mumbai on my return.
This year after my return from Chennai I have been unwell, I caught the flu, I am asthmatic too, and a diabetic, I did not take any medicine in Chennai for a week I left it on Moulah Hussain I walked barefeet most of the time I was in Chennai.
For the first time as a blogger who documents Mumbai fetes religious events I did not shoot the Urus of Maqdhoom Shah Baba Mahim the police sandal or the Rafaees , I was caught up with a lot of work on Friday that was the day of my dear friend Sakibs sandal, finished my work past midnight.I did not make it all .
Last night after work there was the Mehfil Juloos till the Shia Bandra Mosque I was in bad shape , I passed it on my way home , it had not started , but I rushed home after talking to a few Shia boys.
However once Marziya Shakir and her mom returned from a majlis I took Marziya with her Press Card round her neck and made her shoot the Bandra young boys doing the Zanjir matam.. this I had promised her and after a few shots I shot too, we both came home.
My wife is still at Ziyarat and Marziya is waiting for her return.
And such is life on a slow blog track in Mumbai.
Today is my day off I will rest.
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
Sufjan Stevens @ Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Carrie & Lowell Fall Tour 2015 Setlist:
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Death With Dignity
Should Have Known Better
Drawn to the Blood
Stone
The Only Thing
Vesuvius
The Owl and the Tanager
Futile Devices
Fourth of July
All of Me Wants All of You
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Carrie & Lowell
Blue Bucket of Gold
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Encore:
Abraham
The Dress Looks Nice on You
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Hotline Bling (Drake cover)
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
Khundum Pass, Himachal Pradesh, India--while I was out looking for a spot to pee, wheezing like an asthmatic in a hookah lounge, the Indian crew taking care of us stole my camera and took this group pic for me to find later. These people are all amazing... but here's a special shout-out to Hem, the little guy in the plaid pants out front, who was the awesome cook who kept us full of curry, naan, and chai the whole trip.
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
Whilst in Kyabram, we spent an afternoon walking around Horseshoe Bend and Moama Wharf. Living in Melbourne, I didn't realise how close this part of the NSW border was to me, and it's so beautiful.
You may notice in some of these images a dark mark on the tree trunks. This marks the level of the water as it rose up over the immensely tall river banks during the catastrophic floods last year. According to local authorities, the levels rose 94.94 metres (from sea level)! It is truly humbling to see.
One of the off-tracks led to a marsh that had hundreds of white cranes wading through the green plant beds - mesmerising!
On the way back I stopped to watch as dozens of lorikeets, galahs, and cockatoos flew overhead and filled the tree canopy high above.
Then I heard a toot and was flooded with emotion - was it a famous steamer?! A little known geeky fact about me is that I have had a long fascination with Murray River steamboats but have never seen one - this was my opportunity! In the cold evening air, with asthmatic lungs filled with bronchitis, I ran as fast as I could to get back to the Moama Wharf. From atop my perch there I took so many images of an actual steamer as it chugged along down the Murray River. Glorious!
Apple-trees are all under the dominion of Venus. In general they are cold and windy, and the best are to be avoided, before they are thoroughly ripe; then to be roasted or scalded, and a little spice or warm seeds thrown on them, and then should only be eaten after or between meals, or for supper. They are very proper for hot and bilious stomachs, but not to the cold, moist, and flatulent. The more ripe ones eaten raw, move the belly a little; and unripe ones have the contrary effect. A poultice of roasted sweet apples, with powder of frankincense, removes pains of the side: and a poultice of the same apples boiled in plantain water to a pulp, then mixed with milk, and applied, take away fresh marks of gunpowder out of the skin. Boiled or roasted apples eaten with rose water and sugar, or with a little butter, is a pleasant cooling diet for feverish complaints. An infusion of sliced apples with their skins in boiling water, a crust of bread, some barley, and a little mace or all-spice, is a very proper cooling diet drink in fevers. Roasted apples are good for the asthmatic; either raw, roasted or boiled, are good for the consumptive, in inflammations of the breasts or lungs. Their syrup is a good cordial in faintings, palpitations, and melancholy: The pulp of boiled or rotten apples in a poultice, is good for inflamed eyes, either applied alone or with milk,or rose or fennel-waters. The pulp of five or six roasted apples, beaten up with a quart of water to lamb's wool, and the whole drank at night in an hour's space, speedily cures such as slip their water by drops, attended with heat and pain. Gerard observes, if it does not effectually remove the complaint the first night, it never yet failed the second. The sour provokes urine most; but the rough strengthens most the stomach and bowels.
Culpeper
Sufjan Stevens @ Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Carrie & Lowell Fall Tour 2015 Setlist:
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Death With Dignity
Should Have Known Better
Drawn to the Blood
Stone
The Only Thing
Vesuvius
The Owl and the Tanager
Futile Devices
Fourth of July
All of Me Wants All of You
No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Carrie & Lowell
Blue Bucket of Gold
Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Encore:
Abraham
The Dress Looks Nice on You
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Chicago (Acoustic Version)
Hotline Bling (Drake cover)
Los Angeles Herald, Volume 31, Number 12, 14 October 1888
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Below the Sea—Nature's Pneumatic Cabinet.
[BT WALTIB LISDLKY, M. D., LOS ANQELES. | I I recently read that an American of wealth was establishing a sanatorium in > the valley of the river Jordan, near the Dead Sea. He ascertained that a bronchial affection was relieved where the barometric pressure was great, as it is in this valley of the Holy Land. This is the most marked depression on the face of the earth, being l,2oo.feet below sealevel. The gentleman makes the reasonable assertion that where atmospheric pressure is greatest, as in the depressions, respiration is easiest. In the eastern part of San Diego county, about one hundred miles from Los Angeles, is a depression traversed by the Southern Pacific railroad.known to geographers as the Sau Felipe Sink, but commonly called —on account of the innumerable shells spread over its surface —the Conchilla Valley. The unobserving transcontinental traveler over the Southern Pacific railroad would travel the 100 mileß west of Yuma —on the Colorado river—without giving a glance out of the car window, but he would think ho was in the Colorado Desert, and wish the train would go faster; yet this very spot is one of the most remarkable on the face of the irlobe. Dr. J. P. Widney, of Lus Angeles, while surgeon in the United States Army, crossed this region with troops twenty-one years ago. He then noticed surrounding this territory a well defined • line along the mountain sides, always at the same level. Above that line the rocks are sharp and jagged, showing that for ages the water had stood at that level. He says, "I found it to be the old beach of a sea." I find nothing else noted of this country until the surveying party of the Southern Pacific railroad, in running the line from Los Angelea to Yuma, found that sea level was at the point where Dr. Widney had noted the ancient beach. They then gradually descended to the south until they reached a depression of 268 feet below sea level, at a point near Salton. This basin is about 130 miles in length by thirty miles in average width. The deepest point is about 360 feet below sealevel. Along the northern margin of this basin, right up against the mountains, are great numbers of date-palms. These tropical trees are indigenous to this valley, and many of them reach a height of eighty feet. When ripe, a single bunch of fruit weighs one hundred pounds. It has a taste very similar to the date-palm of commerce. The tree has large fan leaves, and is the same as can be seen in almost every park and yard in the towns of Southern California. The passenger on the Southern Pacific railroad, by glancing out of the north side of the car at Indio, can see these giant sentinels keeping silent vigil over the plains beheath them. At Salton, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the surface of the earth for nearly ten miles square is covered with a crust of salt four inches to a foot thick. I stopped there in midsummer and went out on this great white field about noon. The mercury indicated 105 degrees F. in the house, but out in tho sunshine, with the dazzling reflection from the glistening surface that extended for miles on each side, the temperature was probably 105 degrees F. The workmen out in this peculiar harvest field were as cheerful as any set of men I ever saw, and there was far less exhibition of suffering from heat than is to be seen, ordinarily, in .luly, in the wheat fields of the Mississippi Valley. The low relative humidity explains the total absence of sunstroke here. The atmosphere in this region, adulterated by the chlorine gases emanating from the salt-beds, must be nearly aseptic. There are extensive mills here for grinding the salt. It is not put through any system of purification, but, after grinding, proves to be excellent for table use. Several hundred tons are thus prepared every month and shipped away. A few miles east of here are the famous mud volcanoes, which are equal in wonder to the geysers of this State. Owing to the treacherous character of the ground around them they have never been thoroughly examined. Professor flanks, the State Mineralogist, undertook it, but breaking through the crust he was so severely burned that he was compelled to abandon his investigations. Here is an extensive, almost unexplored field for some adventurous scientist. Indio is the place to stop and make headquarters for tours through this interesting country. It is the principal station in the valley, and ia near the northern rim of the basin, being only twenty feet below sea-level. The sandy plains around Indio were formerly considered a hopeless barren waste, but the advent of the railroad has made great changes. Good water is supplied by surface wells; but in order to have water for irrigation, artesian wells have been bored. There is one, two and threefourths miles east of Indio that is now no wing 1,000 gallons per hour. This flowing water was reached at a depth of only 115 feet, after boring through layers of sand, clay, sand, tough blue clay, clay, coarse gravel, clay and sand. Oranges and various other kinds of fruit are being grown here, and melons, tomatoes and berries ripen several weeks earlier than at Los Angeles and other places near the coast. There are in this vicinity about forty thousand acres of excellent land. The visitor here, on witnessing the water flowing from the artesian wells, the grass growing, the melons ripening, and the peach trees blooming, can fitly say With Isaiah: ''The Lord shall comfort all the waste places. He will make the desert like the garden, and the desert shall rejoice, and bloom as tbe rose. For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground Bhall become a ' pool, and the thirsty land springs of water."
In this valley live about 400 of the Cohuilia Indians. This is an interesting tribe. Dr. Stephen Bowers, in a paper read before the Ventura County Society of Natural History, March 5, 1888, said be believed them to be of Aztec origin. They are sun and fire worshipers and believe in tbe transmigration of souls and tbat their departed friends sometimes enter into coyotes and thus linger about their former habitation. They practice cremation. Their principal article of food is the mesquit bean, which they triturate in mortars of wood or stone, after which the meal is sifted and the coarser portion is used as food for their horses and cattle, and the finer is made into cakes for family use. The agave, or century plant, which is indigenous here, is also much used for food. The roots, roasted, taste like ■tewed turnips, while the stem, roasted, is said to taste like baked sweet potatoes. From this plant they also make the Mexican beverage pulque, which has about the same alcoholic strength as beer. The ethnologist can, by gaining their confidence, get much interesting information from these very peaceable Indiana. I found at Salton and Indio asthmatics, rheumatics and consumptives, all of whom reported wonderful recoveries. Some of these stories I accepted cum ftano »alit, which phrase is, by the way,
THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1888.
especially applicable to the salt-fields. These asthmatics and consumptives claim that the farther they get below sea-level and the dryer the atmosphere, the easier they breathe. The rheumatics claim that the heat and dryness improves the circulation. My stay was not long enough to make any trustworthy observations, but it occurred to me that, aside from dryness— mean aunual,relative humidity certainly not over twenty-five—and equability, there was considerable atmospheric pressure at a point 350 feot below sealevel, and that we had here moderately compressed air on a large scale. In a recent paper on the use of the pneumatic cabinet, tho author, from many cases in practice, shows that compressed air relieves asthmatics and cases of phthisis. He says the compressed air will gradually force its way into every part of the lung, in order that the pressure may be the same on the inside as on the out. While the proportion of oxygen is, of course, not increased, yet there is an increased quantity in a given space, and we really have the oxygen treatment on an extensive scale. The physician may say that at from 200 to 360 feet below sea-level the pressure would not be as much as in the cabinet. That is true, but fie patient goes into the cabinet for, say half an hour, three or four times a week, while if he .is at a point like Salton he is breathing this moderately compressed air all the time, day and night. This is simply on the principle of the pneumttic chamber of Tabarie, tha firat one ever employed. This is the method recommended by Dr. A. H. Smith. He refers to the therapeutic value of the increased amount of oxygen inhaled. He says compressed air is useful in catarrh of the mucus membrane, in acute and subacute inflammation of the respiratory mucus membrane, in restoring the permeability of airtubes occluded by* exudation or otherwise, in asthma, in pulmonary hemorrhage, in pleuretic effusion, in simple anu'tnia, in inveterate cases of psoriasis and ichthyosis and in the various forms and stages of phthisis. He does not recommend it in pulmonary emphysema. Dr. Smith says compressed air should be used promptly and perseveringly on the earliest recognizable signs i of apical catarrh iv those predisposed to , chest disease. He also especially recommends it as an alterative. Of course my deductions are tentative, but I hope by calling attention to this uuiiue region to gain the assistance of intelligent observers. If a phthisical or asthmatic patient of considerable vigor intends coming to Southern California, his physician might be justified in suggesting that —except during the summer months —he stop at Indio, and froai there test the climate of this basin. If not suited or benefited, it is but two hours' ride by rail to Beaument, a delightful resort, with excellent accommodations, two thousand five hundred feet above sea-level; but two hours more to the pine forests in the San Jacinto mountains, from six thousand to ten thousand feet above tea level, or to Riverside, Monrovia, Pomona, or Whittier, ail about 1,000 feet above the sea; or to Los Angeles, 350 feet above sea level; or to Santa Monica, Long Beach, Santa Barbara,or San Diego, directly on the coast, and but nine hours ride by rail and boat to Catalina Islands, twentyfive miles out at sea, where a typical ocean atmosphere can be enjo-ed. Thus an error in location can be quickly corrected. Note. Other places below sea-level —Sink of tbe Araorgoga (Arroyo del Muerto), in Eastern California, 225 feet below sea-level. The Caspian Sea, eighty-five feet below Bea-level. Lake Assal. east of Abyssinia iv tho Afar country, eight miles long and fonr miles wide, is about TtiO feet below sea-level, ft fboies are covered with a crust of salt about a foot thick. This salt is » source of revenue to the A fare, as tbey carry it by tbe caravans to Abyssinia, whey they lino a ready market. There are several other depressions about six hundred feet, below sealevel in this vicinity. Tho noted oasis Siwah. in the Libyan desert, three hundred miles west of Cairo, is one hundred and twenty feot below sea-level. Here are beautiful date-palm groves, and h re aiso the apricot, the olive, tbe pomegranate and (he vine are extensively cultivated, in in the Borne desert is tbe oasis Araj, iwo hundred and sixty-six feet below aea-level There are also numerous other depressions In the th sort portion of Algeria aud at various points on the Sahara Desert. —[from the Southern California Practitioner for October.
Sat on a low loader in the staff car-park of Walbottle Campus High School, this Locomotive was on a visit from Beamish History Museum, the original locomotive was built in 1813 by an Engineer named William Hedley, in Wylam, The nick name 'Puffing Billy' came from William himself, His nickname was 'Billy' and he was Asthmatic, so every time he had an asthma attack he would puff breath. Hedley built this and three other kinds of locomotive to replace the horses that were carrying mined coal from Wylam to Lemington Staiths. This £500,000 remake was built in 2005 and unfortunately while on show at York National Railway Museum it had a run-in with a larger locomotive resulting in a little damage but it is still driveable, During September to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the line, this locomotive will be traveling along the Wylam - Lemington Line once again.
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La talentuosa compositrice americana Shara Worden, alias My Brightest Diamond, arriva in Italia per un’unica data a febbraio per presentare il nuovo album This is My Hand, uscito a settembre sempre per la label Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Non molte artiste possono vantare di avere un gruppo rock, essere in grado di cantare la Terza Sinfonia di Górecki, condurre una marching band per le strade del prestigioso festival Sundance, eseguire un'opera barocca di propria composizione, e tutto in un mese. Shara Worden può.
La sua carriera poliedrica con la sua creatura My Brightest Diamond, che ha avuto inizio con l’acclamato debutto Bring Me the Workhorse nel 2006, rispecchia il suo viaggio nel mondo dell’arte. This is my hand, il suo quarto album, segna un deciso ritorno alla musica rock, con incredibile padronanza della composizione e una nuova esplorazione nell’universo elettronico.
Nata in Arkansas e poi allevata in giro per gli States, la talentuosa polistrumentista Shara Worden proviene da una famiglia di viaggiatori musicisti evangelici.
In seguito si è trasferita a NY dove ha continuato a studiare canto lirico e composizione classica.
Dopo un periodo nella band AwRY e dopo aver suonato con Sufjan Stevens, Shara ha esordito col nome di My Brightest Diamond nel 2006 con Bring Me The Workhorse, a cui è seguito A Thousand Sharks’ Teeth nel 2008, e nel 2011 All Things Will Unwind.
Negli anni di attività come MBD, Shara ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti e preso parte a diversi progetti. Nel 2008 ha lavorato con Laurie Anderson, nel 2009 è stata ospite nell’album dei Decemberists Hazards of Love e successivamente in tour con la band, per poi partecipare al progetto multimediale The Long Count di Bryce e Aaron Dessner dei The National. E’ stata poi al fianco di David Byrne nel concept Here Lies Love ed ha collaborato con Fat Boy Slim, Bon Iver, e The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Un’altra recente collaborazione l’ha vista al fianco di Matthew Barney e Jonathan Bepler nella cine-opera di 6 ore River of Fundament, girata nelle fabbriche di automobili di di Detroit, e fonte di ispirazione fondamentale per il nuovo album This is my hand. Prodotto dalla stessa Shara e dal tastierista Zac Rae, l'album è un capitolo fondamentale nella storia artistica di MBD. Quello che Shara porterà in tour è un vortice di fiati, vibrafono e synth, che rispecchia un’idea di musica capace di unire le persone, una musica per grandi spazi, non solo sale musicali e piste da ballo, ma caminetti e chiese, e prima di tutto una musica da marching band capace di coinvolgere e sollevare.
“Diamonds,” Shara sings, “so wild I cannot tame them / so shiny I cannot name them.”
The Importance of Home Indoor Air Quality Testing in Los Angeles, CA
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From mold to pollen to tobacco and smoke, there are numerous unseen air-borne contaminates that can have adverse health impacts on individuals within a Los Angeles household. When serious contaminants lurk within your house, air quality testing is an critical safeguard to offer protection to homeowners from the potential issues they present. Your household home should really be an area of haven, consequently what ought for your requirements do in cases where you think your household home has dangerous substances which are hurting you and your nearest and dearest?
What is Residential Air Quality Testing?
Home indoor air quality screening, is the method in which the environmental surroundings in a home is tested for particulates, contaminates, and many airborne substances that could have an effect on all around health and safety. Oftentimes, air quality testing isn't carried from a repeat basis but alternatively performed when homeowners think something is present in the household home. For instance, property owners who find a unpleasant smell may have their house assessed for mold so household members don't become unwell.
Common Environmental Toxic contamination Encountered in the Home
Usually airborne pollutants fit within just three predominant categories:
- Biological Impurities: contaminates can include dust mites, pollen, and mildew.
- Chemical Impurities: contaminates include VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and formaldehyde.
- Combustion Contaminants: contaminates can contain wildfire smoke and cigarette smoke.
These kind of contaminants may easily have dangerous negative influences on wellbeing and should really be remediated in cases where they are within sizeable levels within the property.
Why Do You Need an Interior Air Quality Inspection?
Indoor air quality testing for domestic homes is invaluable to home owners since there's different substances that may adversely make a splash on the healthiness of household members, above all children, elders, and household members with weakened immune systems. Nonetheless, predicated on on which pollutant exists, there could be a risk to any or all individuals of the home.
When mold is present in a family group home, it may subscribe to respiratory problems, allergies, sinus infections, and other overall health conditions that specifically affect individuals of the property with allergies or weak immune systems. Dust mites and pollen can additionally cause allergy symptoms and other asthmatic problems in people that are prone to them.
Several contaminates can bring about increasing problems to the body the longer they're neglected, so if the occurrence of a pollutant is observed, it's crucial that you secure air quality assessment implemented straight away before any members of the home suffer longterm problems. Touch base to a Los Angeles indoor air quality testing consultant if you imagine your house may be in danger for air pollution.
Los Angeles Herald, Volume 31, Number 12, 14 October 1888
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Below the Sea—Nature's Pneumatic Cabinet.
[BT WALTIB LISDLKY, M. D., LOS ANQELES. | I I recently read that an American of wealth was establishing a sanatorium in > the valley of the river Jordan, near the Dead Sea. He ascertained that a bronchial affection was relieved where the barometric pressure was great, as it is in this valley of the Holy Land. This is the most marked depression on the face of the earth, being l,2oo.feet below sealevel. The gentleman makes the reasonable assertion that where atmospheric pressure is greatest, as in the depressions, respiration is easiest. In the eastern part of San Diego county, about one hundred miles from Los Angeles, is a depression traversed by the Southern Pacific railroad.known to geographers as the Sau Felipe Sink, but commonly called —on account of the innumerable shells spread over its surface —the Conchilla Valley. The unobserving transcontinental traveler over the Southern Pacific railroad would travel the 100 mileß west of Yuma —on the Colorado river—without giving a glance out of the car window, but he would think ho was in the Colorado Desert, and wish the train would go faster; yet this very spot is one of the most remarkable on the face of the irlobe. Dr. J. P. Widney, of Lus Angeles, while surgeon in the United States Army, crossed this region with troops twenty-one years ago. He then noticed surrounding this territory a well defined • line along the mountain sides, always at the same level. Above that line the rocks are sharp and jagged, showing that for ages the water had stood at that level. He says, "I found it to be the old beach of a sea." I find nothing else noted of this country until the surveying party of the Southern Pacific railroad, in running the line from Los Angelea to Yuma, found that sea level was at the point where Dr. Widney had noted the ancient beach. They then gradually descended to the south until they reached a depression of 268 feet below sea level, at a point near Salton. This basin is about 130 miles in length by thirty miles in average width. The deepest point is about 360 feet below sealevel. Along the northern margin of this basin, right up against the mountains, are great numbers of date-palms. These tropical trees are indigenous to this valley, and many of them reach a height of eighty feet. When ripe, a single bunch of fruit weighs one hundred pounds. It has a taste very similar to the date-palm of commerce. The tree has large fan leaves, and is the same as can be seen in almost every park and yard in the towns of Southern California. The passenger on the Southern Pacific railroad, by glancing out of the north side of the car at Indio, can see these giant sentinels keeping silent vigil over the plains beheath them. At Salton, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the surface of the earth for nearly ten miles square is covered with a crust of salt four inches to a foot thick. I stopped there in midsummer and went out on this great white field about noon. The mercury indicated 105 degrees F. in the house, but out in tho sunshine, with the dazzling reflection from the glistening surface that extended for miles on each side, the temperature was probably 105 degrees F. The workmen out in this peculiar harvest field were as cheerful as any set of men I ever saw, and there was far less exhibition of suffering from heat than is to be seen, ordinarily, in .luly, in the wheat fields of the Mississippi Valley. The low relative humidity explains the total absence of sunstroke here. The atmosphere in this region, adulterated by the chlorine gases emanating from the salt-beds, must be nearly aseptic. There are extensive mills here for grinding the salt. It is not put through any system of purification, but, after grinding, proves to be excellent for table use. Several hundred tons are thus prepared every month and shipped away. A few miles east of here are the famous mud volcanoes, which are equal in wonder to the geysers of this State. Owing to the treacherous character of the ground around them they have never been thoroughly examined. Professor flanks, the State Mineralogist, undertook it, but breaking through the crust he was so severely burned that he was compelled to abandon his investigations. Here is an extensive, almost unexplored field for some adventurous scientist. Indio is the place to stop and make headquarters for tours through this interesting country. It is the principal station in the valley, and ia near the northern rim of the basin, being only twenty feet below sea-level. The sandy plains around Indio were formerly considered a hopeless barren waste, but the advent of the railroad has made great changes. Good water is supplied by surface wells; but in order to have water for irrigation, artesian wells have been bored. There is one, two and threefourths miles east of Indio that is now no wing 1,000 gallons per hour. This flowing water was reached at a depth of only 115 feet, after boring through layers of sand, clay, sand, tough blue clay, clay, coarse gravel, clay and sand. Oranges and various other kinds of fruit are being grown here, and melons, tomatoes and berries ripen several weeks earlier than at Los Angeles and other places near the coast. There are in this vicinity about forty thousand acres of excellent land. The visitor here, on witnessing the water flowing from the artesian wells, the grass growing, the melons ripening, and the peach trees blooming, can fitly say With Isaiah: ''The Lord shall comfort all the waste places. He will make the desert like the garden, and the desert shall rejoice, and bloom as tbe rose. For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground Bhall become a ' pool, and the thirsty land springs of water."
In this valley live about 400 of the Cohuilia Indians. This is an interesting tribe. Dr. Stephen Bowers, in a paper read before the Ventura County Society of Natural History, March 5, 1888, said be believed them to be of Aztec origin. They are sun and fire worshipers and believe in tbe transmigration of souls and tbat their departed friends sometimes enter into coyotes and thus linger about their former habitation. They practice cremation. Their principal article of food is the mesquit bean, which they triturate in mortars of wood or stone, after which the meal is sifted and the coarser portion is used as food for their horses and cattle, and the finer is made into cakes for family use. The agave, or century plant, which is indigenous here, is also much used for food. The roots, roasted, taste like ■tewed turnips, while the stem, roasted, is said to taste like baked sweet potatoes. From this plant they also make the Mexican beverage pulque, which has about the same alcoholic strength as beer. The ethnologist can, by gaining their confidence, get much interesting information from these very peaceable Indiana. I found at Salton and Indio asthmatics, rheumatics and consumptives, all of whom reported wonderful recoveries. Some of these stories I accepted cum ftano »alit, which phrase is, by the way,
THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1888.
especially applicable to the salt-fields. These asthmatics and consumptives claim that the farther they get below sea-level and the dryer the atmosphere, the easier they breathe. The rheumatics claim that the heat and dryness improves the circulation. My stay was not long enough to make any trustworthy observations, but it occurred to me that, aside from dryness— mean aunual,relative humidity certainly not over twenty-five—and equability, there was considerable atmospheric pressure at a point 350 feot below sealevel, and that we had here moderately compressed air on a large scale. In a recent paper on the use of the pneumatic cabinet, tho author, from many cases in practice, shows that compressed air relieves asthmatics and cases of phthisis. He says the compressed air will gradually force its way into every part of the lung, in order that the pressure may be the same on the inside as on the out. While the proportion of oxygen is, of course, not increased, yet there is an increased quantity in a given space, and we really have the oxygen treatment on an extensive scale. The physician may say that at from 200 to 360 feet below sea-level the pressure would not be as much as in the cabinet. That is true, but fie patient goes into the cabinet for, say half an hour, three or four times a week, while if he .is at a point like Salton he is breathing this moderately compressed air all the time, day and night. This is simply on the principle of the pneumttic chamber of Tabarie, tha firat one ever employed. This is the method recommended by Dr. A. H. Smith. He refers to the therapeutic value of the increased amount of oxygen inhaled. He says compressed air is useful in catarrh of the mucus membrane, in acute and subacute inflammation of the respiratory mucus membrane, in restoring the permeability of airtubes occluded by* exudation or otherwise, in asthma, in pulmonary hemorrhage, in pleuretic effusion, in simple anu'tnia, in inveterate cases of psoriasis and ichthyosis and in the various forms and stages of phthisis. He does not recommend it in pulmonary emphysema. Dr. Smith says compressed air should be used promptly and perseveringly on the earliest recognizable signs i of apical catarrh iv those predisposed to , chest disease. He also especially recommends it as an alterative. Of course my deductions are tentative, but I hope by calling attention to this uuiiue region to gain the assistance of intelligent observers. If a phthisical or asthmatic patient of considerable vigor intends coming to Southern California, his physician might be justified in suggesting that —except during the summer months —he stop at Indio, and froai there test the climate of this basin. If not suited or benefited, it is but two hours' ride by rail to Beaument, a delightful resort, with excellent accommodations, two thousand five hundred feet above sea-level; but two hours more to the pine forests in the San Jacinto mountains, from six thousand to ten thousand feet above tea level, or to Riverside, Monrovia, Pomona, or Whittier, ail about 1,000 feet above the sea; or to Los Angeles, 350 feet above sea level; or to Santa Monica, Long Beach, Santa Barbara,or San Diego, directly on the coast, and but nine hours ride by rail and boat to Catalina Islands, twentyfive miles out at sea, where a typical ocean atmosphere can be enjo-ed. Thus an error in location can be quickly corrected. Note. Other places below sea-level —Sink of tbe Araorgoga (Arroyo del Muerto), in Eastern California, 225 feet below sea-level. The Caspian Sea, eighty-five feet below Bea-level. Lake Assal. east of Abyssinia iv tho Afar country, eight miles long and fonr miles wide, is about TtiO feet below sea-level, ft fboies are covered with a crust of salt about a foot thick. This salt is » source of revenue to the A fare, as tbey carry it by tbe caravans to Abyssinia, whey they lino a ready market. There are several other depressions about six hundred feet, below sealevel in this vicinity. Tho noted oasis Siwah. in the Libyan desert, three hundred miles west of Cairo, is one hundred and twenty feot below sea-level. Here are beautiful date-palm groves, and h re aiso the apricot, the olive, tbe pomegranate and (he vine are extensively cultivated, in in the Borne desert is tbe oasis Araj, iwo hundred and sixty-six feet below aea-level There are also numerous other depressions In the th sort portion of Algeria aud at various points on the Sahara Desert. —[from the Southern California Practitioner for October.
Los Angeles Herald, Volume 31, Number 12, 14 October 1888
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Below the Sea—Nature's Pneumatic Cabinet.
[BT WALTIB LISDLKY, M. D., LOS ANQELES. | I I recently read that an American of wealth was establishing a sanatorium in > the valley of the river Jordan, near the Dead Sea. He ascertained that a bronchial affection was relieved where the barometric pressure was great, as it is in this valley of the Holy Land. This is the most marked depression on the face of the earth, being l,2oo.feet below sealevel. The gentleman makes the reasonable assertion that where atmospheric pressure is greatest, as in the depressions, respiration is easiest. In the eastern part of San Diego county, about one hundred miles from Los Angeles, is a depression traversed by the Southern Pacific railroad.known to geographers as the Sau Felipe Sink, but commonly called —on account of the innumerable shells spread over its surface —the Conchilla Valley. The unobserving transcontinental traveler over the Southern Pacific railroad would travel the 100 mileß west of Yuma —on the Colorado river—without giving a glance out of the car window, but he would think ho was in the Colorado Desert, and wish the train would go faster; yet this very spot is one of the most remarkable on the face of the irlobe. Dr. J. P. Widney, of Lus Angeles, while surgeon in the United States Army, crossed this region with troops twenty-one years ago. He then noticed surrounding this territory a well defined • line along the mountain sides, always at the same level. Above that line the rocks are sharp and jagged, showing that for ages the water had stood at that level. He says, "I found it to be the old beach of a sea." I find nothing else noted of this country until the surveying party of the Southern Pacific railroad, in running the line from Los Angelea to Yuma, found that sea level was at the point where Dr. Widney had noted the ancient beach. They then gradually descended to the south until they reached a depression of 268 feet below sea level, at a point near Salton. This basin is about 130 miles in length by thirty miles in average width. The deepest point is about 360 feet below sealevel. Along the northern margin of this basin, right up against the mountains, are great numbers of date-palms. These tropical trees are indigenous to this valley, and many of them reach a height of eighty feet. When ripe, a single bunch of fruit weighs one hundred pounds. It has a taste very similar to the date-palm of commerce. The tree has large fan leaves, and is the same as can be seen in almost every park and yard in the towns of Southern California. The passenger on the Southern Pacific railroad, by glancing out of the north side of the car at Indio, can see these giant sentinels keeping silent vigil over the plains beheath them. At Salton, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the surface of the earth for nearly ten miles square is covered with a crust of salt four inches to a foot thick. I stopped there in midsummer and went out on this great white field about noon. The mercury indicated 105 degrees F. in the house, but out in tho sunshine, with the dazzling reflection from the glistening surface that extended for miles on each side, the temperature was probably 105 degrees F. The workmen out in this peculiar harvest field were as cheerful as any set of men I ever saw, and there was far less exhibition of suffering from heat than is to be seen, ordinarily, in .luly, in the wheat fields of the Mississippi Valley. The low relative humidity explains the total absence of sunstroke here. The atmosphere in this region, adulterated by the chlorine gases emanating from the salt-beds, must be nearly aseptic. There are extensive mills here for grinding the salt. It is not put through any system of purification, but, after grinding, proves to be excellent for table use. Several hundred tons are thus prepared every month and shipped away. A few miles east of here are the famous mud volcanoes, which are equal in wonder to the geysers of this State. Owing to the treacherous character of the ground around them they have never been thoroughly examined. Professor flanks, the State Mineralogist, undertook it, but breaking through the crust he was so severely burned that he was compelled to abandon his investigations. Here is an extensive, almost unexplored field for some adventurous scientist. Indio is the place to stop and make headquarters for tours through this interesting country. It is the principal station in the valley, and ia near the northern rim of the basin, being only twenty feet below sea-level. The sandy plains around Indio were formerly considered a hopeless barren waste, but the advent of the railroad has made great changes. Good water is supplied by surface wells; but in order to have water for irrigation, artesian wells have been bored. There is one, two and threefourths miles east of Indio that is now no wing 1,000 gallons per hour. This flowing water was reached at a depth of only 115 feet, after boring through layers of sand, clay, sand, tough blue clay, clay, coarse gravel, clay and sand. Oranges and various other kinds of fruit are being grown here, and melons, tomatoes and berries ripen several weeks earlier than at Los Angeles and other places near the coast. There are in this vicinity about forty thousand acres of excellent land. The visitor here, on witnessing the water flowing from the artesian wells, the grass growing, the melons ripening, and the peach trees blooming, can fitly say With Isaiah: ''The Lord shall comfort all the waste places. He will make the desert like the garden, and the desert shall rejoice, and bloom as tbe rose. For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground Bhall become a ' pool, and the thirsty land springs of water."
In this valley live about 400 of the Cohuilia Indians. This is an interesting tribe. Dr. Stephen Bowers, in a paper read before the Ventura County Society of Natural History, March 5, 1888, said be believed them to be of Aztec origin. They are sun and fire worshipers and believe in tbe transmigration of souls and tbat their departed friends sometimes enter into coyotes and thus linger about their former habitation. They practice cremation. Their principal article of food is the mesquit bean, which they triturate in mortars of wood or stone, after which the meal is sifted and the coarser portion is used as food for their horses and cattle, and the finer is made into cakes for family use. The agave, or century plant, which is indigenous here, is also much used for food. The roots, roasted, taste like ■tewed turnips, while the stem, roasted, is said to taste like baked sweet potatoes. From this plant they also make the Mexican beverage pulque, which has about the same alcoholic strength as beer. The ethnologist can, by gaining their confidence, get much interesting information from these very peaceable Indiana. I found at Salton and Indio asthmatics, rheumatics and consumptives, all of whom reported wonderful recoveries. Some of these stories I accepted cum ftano »alit, which phrase is, by the way,
THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1888.
especially applicable to the salt-fields. These asthmatics and consumptives claim that the farther they get below sea-level and the dryer the atmosphere, the easier they breathe. The rheumatics claim that the heat and dryness improves the circulation. My stay was not long enough to make any trustworthy observations, but it occurred to me that, aside from dryness— mean aunual,relative humidity certainly not over twenty-five—and equability, there was considerable atmospheric pressure at a point 350 feot below sealevel, and that we had here moderately compressed air on a large scale. In a recent paper on the use of the pneumatic cabinet, tho author, from many cases in practice, shows that compressed air relieves asthmatics and cases of phthisis. He says the compressed air will gradually force its way into every part of the lung, in order that the pressure may be the same on the inside as on the out. While the proportion of oxygen is, of course, not increased, yet there is an increased quantity in a given space, and we really have the oxygen treatment on an extensive scale. The physician may say that at from 200 to 360 feet below sea-level the pressure would not be as much as in the cabinet. That is true, but fie patient goes into the cabinet for, say half an hour, three or four times a week, while if he .is at a point like Salton he is breathing this moderately compressed air all the time, day and night. This is simply on the principle of the pneumttic chamber of Tabarie, tha firat one ever employed. This is the method recommended by Dr. A. H. Smith. He refers to the therapeutic value of the increased amount of oxygen inhaled. He says compressed air is useful in catarrh of the mucus membrane, in acute and subacute inflammation of the respiratory mucus membrane, in restoring the permeability of airtubes occluded by* exudation or otherwise, in asthma, in pulmonary hemorrhage, in pleuretic effusion, in simple anu'tnia, in inveterate cases of psoriasis and ichthyosis and in the various forms and stages of phthisis. He does not recommend it in pulmonary emphysema. Dr. Smith says compressed air should be used promptly and perseveringly on the earliest recognizable signs i of apical catarrh iv those predisposed to , chest disease. He also especially recommends it as an alterative. Of course my deductions are tentative, but I hope by calling attention to this uuiiue region to gain the assistance of intelligent observers. If a phthisical or asthmatic patient of considerable vigor intends coming to Southern California, his physician might be justified in suggesting that —except during the summer months —he stop at Indio, and froai there test the climate of this basin. If not suited or benefited, it is but two hours' ride by rail to Beaument, a delightful resort, with excellent accommodations, two thousand five hundred feet above sea-level; but two hours more to the pine forests in the San Jacinto mountains, from six thousand to ten thousand feet above tea level, or to Riverside, Monrovia, Pomona, or Whittier, ail about 1,000 feet above the sea; or to Los Angeles, 350 feet above sea level; or to Santa Monica, Long Beach, Santa Barbara,or San Diego, directly on the coast, and but nine hours ride by rail and boat to Catalina Islands, twentyfive miles out at sea, where a typical ocean atmosphere can be enjo-ed. Thus an error in location can be quickly corrected. Note. Other places below sea-level —Sink of tbe Araorgoga (Arroyo del Muerto), in Eastern California, 225 feet below sea-level. The Caspian Sea, eighty-five feet below Bea-level. Lake Assal. east of Abyssinia iv tho Afar country, eight miles long and fonr miles wide, is about TtiO feet below sea-level, ft fboies are covered with a crust of salt about a foot thick. This salt is » source of revenue to the A fare, as tbey carry it by tbe caravans to Abyssinia, whey they lino a ready market. There are several other depressions about six hundred feet, below sealevel in this vicinity. Tho noted oasis Siwah. in the Libyan desert, three hundred miles west of Cairo, is one hundred and twenty feot below sea-level. Here are beautiful date-palm groves, and h re aiso the apricot, the olive, tbe pomegranate and (he vine are extensively cultivated, in in the Borne desert is tbe oasis Araj, iwo hundred and sixty-six feet below aea-level There are also numerous other depressions In the th sort portion of Algeria aud at various points on the Sahara Desert. —[from the Southern California Practitioner for October.
Los Angeles Herald, Volume 31, Number 12, 14 October 1888
Below the Sea—Nature's Pneumatic Cabinet.
[BT WALTIB LISDLKY, M. D., LOS ANQELES. | I I recently read that an American of wealth was establishing a sanatorium in > the valley of the river Jordan, near the Dead Sea. He ascertained that a bronchial affection was relieved where the barometric pressure was great, as it is in this valley of the Holy Land. This is the most marked depression on the face of the earth, being l,2oo.feet below sealevel. The gentleman makes the reasonable assertion that where atmospheric pressure is greatest, as in the depressions, respiration is easiest. In the eastern part of San Diego county, about one hundred miles from Los Angeles, is a depression traversed by the Southern Pacific railroad.known to geographers as the Sau Felipe Sink, but commonly called —on account of the innumerable shells spread over its surface —the Conchilla Valley. The unobserving transcontinental traveler over the Southern Pacific railroad would travel the 100 mileß west of Yuma —on the Colorado river—without giving a glance out of the car window, but he would think ho was in the Colorado Desert, and wish the train would go faster; yet this very spot is one of the most remarkable on the face of the irlobe. Dr. J. P. Widney, of Lus Angeles, while surgeon in the United States Army, crossed this region with troops twenty-one years ago. He then noticed surrounding this territory a well defined • line along the mountain sides, always at the same level. Above that line the rocks are sharp and jagged, showing that for ages the water had stood at that level. He says, "I found it to be the old beach of a sea." I find nothing else noted of this country until the surveying party of the Southern Pacific railroad, in running the line from Los Angelea to Yuma, found that sea level was at the point where Dr. Widney had noted the ancient beach. They then gradually descended to the south until they reached a depression of 268 feet below sea level, at a point near Salton. This basin is about 130 miles in length by thirty miles in average width. The deepest point is about 360 feet below sealevel. Along the northern margin of this basin, right up against the mountains, are great numbers of date-palms. These tropical trees are indigenous to this valley, and many of them reach a height of eighty feet. When ripe, a single bunch of fruit weighs one hundred pounds. It has a taste very similar to the date-palm of commerce. The tree has large fan leaves, and is the same as can be seen in almost every park and yard in the towns of Southern California. The passenger on the Southern Pacific railroad, by glancing out of the north side of the car at Indio, can see these giant sentinels keeping silent vigil over the plains beheath them. At Salton, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the surface of the earth for nearly ten miles square is covered with a crust of salt four inches to a foot thick. I stopped there in midsummer and went out on this great white field about noon. The mercury indicated 105 degrees F. in the house, but out in tho sunshine, with the dazzling reflection from the glistening surface that extended for miles on each side, the temperature was probably 105 degrees F. The workmen out in this peculiar harvest field were as cheerful as any set of men I ever saw, and there was far less exhibition of suffering from heat than is to be seen, ordinarily, in .luly, in the wheat fields of the Mississippi Valley. The low relative humidity explains the total absence of sunstroke here. The atmosphere in this region, adulterated by the chlorine gases emanating from the salt-beds, must be nearly aseptic. There are extensive mills here for grinding the salt. It is not put through any system of purification, but, after grinding, proves to be excellent for table use. Several hundred tons are thus prepared every month and shipped away. A few miles east of here are the famous mud volcanoes, which are equal in wonder to the geysers of this State. Owing to the treacherous character of the ground around them they have never been thoroughly examined. Professor flanks, the State Mineralogist, undertook it, but breaking through the crust he was so severely burned that he was compelled to abandon his investigations. Here is an extensive, almost unexplored field for some adventurous scientist. Indio is the place to stop and make headquarters for tours through this interesting country. It is the principal station in the valley, and ia near the northern rim of the basin, being only twenty feet below sea-level. The sandy plains around Indio were formerly considered a hopeless barren waste, but the advent of the railroad has made great changes. Good water is supplied by surface wells; but in order to have water for irrigation, artesian wells have been bored. There is one, two and threefourths miles east of Indio that is now no wing 1,000 gallons per hour. This flowing water was reached at a depth of only 115 feet, after boring through layers of sand, clay, sand, tough blue clay, clay, coarse gravel, clay and sand. Oranges and various other kinds of fruit are being grown here, and melons, tomatoes and berries ripen several weeks earlier than at Los Angeles and other places near the coast. There are in this vicinity about forty thousand acres of excellent land. The visitor here, on witnessing the water flowing from the artesian wells, the grass growing, the melons ripening, and the peach trees blooming, can fitly say With Isaiah: ''The Lord shall comfort all the waste places. He will make the desert like the garden, and the desert shall rejoice, and bloom as tbe rose. For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground Bhall become a ' pool, and the thirsty land springs of water."
In this valley live about 400 of the Cohuilia Indians. This is an interesting tribe. Dr. Stephen Bowers, in a paper read before the Ventura County Society of Natural History, March 5, 1888, said be believed them to be of Aztec origin. They are sun and fire worshipers and believe in tbe transmigration of souls and tbat their departed friends sometimes enter into coyotes and thus linger about their former habitation. They practice cremation. Their principal article of food is the mesquit bean, which they triturate in mortars of wood or stone, after which the meal is sifted and the coarser portion is used as food for their horses and cattle, and the finer is made into cakes for family use. The agave, or century plant, which is indigenous here, is also much used for food. The roots, roasted, taste like ■tewed turnips, while the stem, roasted, is said to taste like baked sweet potatoes. From this plant they also make the Mexican beverage pulque, which has about the same alcoholic strength as beer. The ethnologist can, by gaining their confidence, get much interesting information from these very peaceable Indiana. I found at Salton and Indio asthmatics, rheumatics and consumptives, all of whom reported wonderful recoveries. Some of these stories I accepted cum ftano »alit, which phrase is, by the way,
THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1888.
especially applicable to the salt-fields. These asthmatics and consumptives claim that the farther they get below sea-level and the dryer the atmosphere, the easier they breathe. The rheumatics claim that the heat and dryness improves the circulation. My stay was not long enough to make any trustworthy observations, but it occurred to me that, aside from dryness— mean aunual,relative humidity certainly not over twenty-five—and equability, there was considerable atmospheric pressure at a point 350 feot below sealevel, and that we had here moderately compressed air on a large scale. In a recent paper on the use of the pneumatic cabinet, tho author, from many cases in practice, shows that compressed air relieves asthmatics and cases of phthisis. He says the compressed air will gradually force its way into every part of the lung, in order that the pressure may be the same on the inside as on the out. While the proportion of oxygen is, of course, not increased, yet there is an increased quantity in a given space, and we really have the oxygen treatment on an extensive scale. The physician may say that at from 200 to 360 feet below sea-level the pressure would not be as much as in the cabinet. That is true, but fie patient goes into the cabinet for, say half an hour, three or four times a week, while if he .is at a point like Salton he is breathing this moderately compressed air all the time, day and night. This is simply on the principle of the pneumttic chamber of Tabarie, tha firat one ever employed. This is the method recommended by Dr. A. H. Smith. He refers to the therapeutic value of the increased amount of oxygen inhaled. He says compressed air is useful in catarrh of the mucus membrane, in acute and subacute inflammation of the respiratory mucus membrane, in restoring the permeability of airtubes occluded by* exudation or otherwise, in asthma, in pulmonary hemorrhage, in pleuretic effusion, in simple anu'tnia, in inveterate cases of psoriasis and ichthyosis and in the various forms and stages of phthisis. He does not recommend it in pulmonary emphysema. Dr. Smith says compressed air should be used promptly and perseveringly on the earliest recognizable signs i of apical catarrh iv those predisposed to , chest disease. He also especially recommends it as an alterative. Of course my deductions are tentative, but I hope by calling attention to this uuiiue region to gain the assistance of intelligent observers. If a phthisical or asthmatic patient of considerable vigor intends coming to Southern California, his physician might be justified in suggesting that —except during the summer months —he stop at Indio, and froai there test the climate of this basin. If not suited or benefited, it is but two hours' ride by rail to Beaument, a delightful resort, with excellent accommodations, two thousand five hundred feet above sea-level; but two hours more to the pine forests in the San Jacinto mountains, from six thousand to ten thousand feet above tea level, or to Riverside, Monrovia, Pomona, or Whittier, ail about 1,000 feet above the sea; or to Los Angeles, 350 feet above sea level; or to Santa Monica, Long Beach, Santa Barbara,or San Diego, directly on the coast, and but nine hours ride by rail and boat to Catalina Islands, twentyfive miles out at sea, where a typical ocean atmosphere can be enjo-ed. Thus an error in location can be quickly corrected. Note. Other places below sea-level —Sink of tbe Araorgoga (Arroyo del Muerto), in Eastern California, 225 feet below sea-level. The Caspian Sea, eighty-five feet below Bea-level. Lake Assal. east of Abyssinia iv tho Afar country, eight miles long and fonr miles wide, is about TtiO feet below sea-level, ft fboies are covered with a crust of salt about a foot thick. This salt is » source of revenue to the A fare, as tbey carry it by tbe caravans to Abyssinia, whey they lino a ready market. There are several other depressions about six hundred feet, below sealevel in this vicinity. Tho noted oasis Siwah. in the Libyan desert, three hundred miles west of Cairo, is one hundred and twenty feot below sea-level. Here are beautiful date-palm groves, and h re aiso the apricot, the olive, tbe pomegranate and (he vine are extensively cultivated, in in the Borne desert is tbe oasis Araj, iwo hundred and sixty-six feet below aea-level There are also numerous other depressions In the th sort portion of Algeria aud at various points on the Sahara Desert. —[from the Southern California Practitioner for October.