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By: Support earthquake relief for Balochistan | chailight productions

Support earthquake relief for Balochistan | chailight productions — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:18:29 +0000

[...] Grealy, lead singer of The Empty Quarter is currently in Quetta helping to coordinate relief for survivors of yesterday’s earthquake [...]

By: em:p

em:p — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:18:51 +0000

thanks for listening dean! the track is based on a poem by the 18th century North Indian poet, Ghalib. We’ve posted the full text of the poem here. i’d been reading the robert bly translation of ghalib at the time and shared that poem with the rest of the group – it seemed so relevant, even coming from a couple of centuries back – kate worked on adapting it and the song just evolved from there. have a read of the whole poem – there’s so much more in there than what we could fit into one song. I suppose a big part of the point of the empty quarter project is about finding a way to open the door for others into this kind of poetry, so let us know what you think!

By: Dean P

Dean P — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:05:22 +0000

Hi..
Heard you briefly on JJJ with Safran. Loved the track they played and was interested in more information on it.
Thanks for the appearance.
Dean.
Sydney AU.