| Subcribe via RSS
The Wayfarer recently featured on New Zealand TV. See an excerpt and the television feature below:
“A Kiwi film-maker has been travelling the globe making a documentary about one of the world’s newest religions.
Jess Firth, a self-confessed religious sceptic, heard about Ba-Hai an obscure yet growing religion founded a century and a half ago and found it so enthralling he travelled to Israel to make a film about it.”
Read the rest of the story online at 3 News
![[Facebook]](http://www.changing-times.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/facebook.png)
![[Email]](http://www.changing-times.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/email.png)
Son of widely acclaimed, Grammy-nominated children’s singer, Red Grammer, Andy has been around music his whole life and got his itch for songwriting listening to his father hammering away chords in the next room.
Andy Grammer brings a fresh uplifting approach to the singer songwriter scene. Navigating with a sharp wit and honesty through the perils of dating, sex, materialism and love, Andy looks to Baha’i teachings for a search for truth.
http://www.vimeo.com/2340103
Our Hungarian Friends are up with a new clip on ‘Going to Frankfurt’, Part 2 to the legendary ‘Masses are Waiting’ clip.
http://www.vimeo.com/2516235
Tara Ellis, a high voltage singer will release her new EP, Live & Die In LA, produced by Benny Cassette,(Crimson World) on Tuesday, December 16, 2008. Ellis has been setting a new standard for the Los Angeles music scene for the last year, and her album Live & Die In LA has emerged as a tribute to some of the greatest hip-hop artists of this generation.
“One day I’m sitting in my living room and Biggie Smalls video comes on Big Poppa. I remember saying out loud “I miss this guy, and I miss when lyric writing was an art. What’s happened to the life that words use to have?” So I began some research on some of my favorite old school Hip-Hop songs and read through the lyrics. Inspired through melody, I sat down with my guitar and wrote my own version of these songs. This is my way of reminding the world of how great some of these artists are, and on the flip side how much the art has gone down hill, backwards and completely out of touch. You decide which one is which.” - Tara Ellis
http://www.vimeo.com/2370900Listen to the rest of her brand-new album at http://taraellis.bandcamp.mu
(af) The sensational Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Tara Ellis certainly knows how to draw in a crowd, with her ability to produce heartfelt music in the form of musical Devotion while also making tracks which leave her own mark on the popular music scene. Many people may recognise Tara’s alternative soul sound from her contribution to the Dawnbreaker Collective but what you might not know is that she has collaborated with; Will I Am, Eve, Ghostface Killah and The Procussions just to name a few.
With a full length pop rock album on the way and a variety of mixtapes to her name, I’m sure Tara will be someone to keep an eye out for. The ‘country girl’ meets ‘the city’ charm in her personality shows her versatility as a vocalist and her latest project, a self produced Mixtape titled ‘Live and Die in LA’ is a fine example, it blends old school Hip Hop classics to acoustic guitar, 808 hard snares and pop melodies. It doesn’t matter if you know Dr.Dre is a rapper and not a real physician, Tara’s unique take on the tracks are a bold rendition which still reflect her own style leaving you reminiscing or discovering the days when Tupac and Biggie were living legends and Gangsta Rap dominated LA.
This ‘chick’ is certainly true to herself, and that personal insight can be heard in her lyric’s quest for universal fellowship, which relate to her love of life and the Baha’i Faith. When a fresh angle on commercial music is hard to come across, this artist is a gem who has her own light to shine and it all began while rocking out on the guitar at the age of 15.
Listen to the new EP ‘Live and Die in LA’ now (bookmark both…you must)
http://taraellis.bandcamp.mu or find Tara at http://www.myspace.com/taraellis
A behind the scenes look at Tara Ellis and the making of her new album:
http://www.vimeo.com/2350510
Rainn and Selma Blair in a hilarious new GAP commercial and with a short note on chastity.
To what extent can the ‘blogs’ of sympathisers and representatives of the Baha’i Faith be seen as interactive channels of communication that report on the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran?
Afshin Rohani (UK) is beginning his dissertation for his undergraduate study in Communication and Media Studies and it will be researching just that. The effectiveness of blogging in the context of new media and communication, by analysing key blogs which have reported on the issue of the persecution of the Baha’i Community in Iran.
He will be using a multi method approach with some online surveys to supplement his main documentary research approach. Be sure that the CT Blog will stay on it!
Afshin will be sharing his research progress regularly at:
http://afshinsresearch.wordpress.com/
An excellent initiative Afshin! We hope to see more of it soon!
Common Market is serious business. Seriously challenging and seriously honest vocals—many inspired by the teachings of the Baha’i Faith—delivered by Ra Scion, along with seriously refreshing and uplifting beats from Blue Scholars‘ DJ Sabzi, make this combo into a mix between revolution and revelation.
Producer Zia Mohajerjasbi has given their lyrical bliss a fantastic video.
How they connected?
You could say the duo connected through a higher power. “We’re both Baha’i; that’s how I heard of Sabzi in the first place,” explains Scion. “So being involved with the Baha’i community and doing music, people kept asking me, ‘Do you know Saba?’”
“Yeah, people would just be like, there’s another Baha’i in town that ‘does hiphop,’” Sabzi laughs. Once connected, Sabzi spun records at the release party for RA’s debut EP Apostrophe—and the pair found that musically, they were on the same page.
http://www.vimeo.com/1854449Thanks to Dan Jones for parts of this post…