Anyway, a week or so ago, a thick layer of snow covered the ground like icing on a cake. I took some pictures, this being one of them… and a short poem.

A cold winters walk

Charcoal edges of black leafless tree’s cut through misty voids.
The silence is thick with foreboding, but everything is still.
A clump of melting snow falls and explodes effortlessly in to the stone cobbled ground – it’s bits finding nice warm corners, among the stone engraved cement valleys, or the cobbled edges of what once was a curb – before the snow came.
Birds fly from tree’s, alarmed at this minor sound, amongst the mass of quiet.

The woodland is like a criss-crossed-maze of sticks standing upright falling orderly into the unknown whiteness of the mass of morning dew, laying stagnant here in this valley – it will stay in to the day.

Ghost of the Gully in the Studio

Last year, before I started my solo material… I used to be in a band. I sung / spoke and played guitar… here’s our e.p. Free Download for everyone!

http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fusers%2F2434243&show_artwork=true

How long will Assad’s bloody reign continue…

Below I am copying an old post from my travels in Syria… the Syria that should be remembered, the Syria that I remember.

Aleppo

The Great Bazaar by night

Aleppo, (Halep) is an ancient city in the north of Sryia. Traders and merchants have travelled through this city for over a thousand years. And during Ramadan, as I wondered through the Great Bazaar. Men haggle over cuts of meat, women find new hijabs for their daugters, boys sell coffee and pistacio cake, donkey ridden by beduins carry exotic birds and cases of burgul wheat to sell – he see’s his frend selling saffron by the street.

“Asalem alakum keef halcum habiby!”

“Alhumdulilah, lesh, Ramadan!”

All comes to life at night here in this maze that is the Great Bazaar!

The Dead Cities

The Dead Cities of Aleppo

Ruins of the Byzantine Empire lay scattered on this heat scortched earth, like ghosts of the past, where Crusaders came, and Arabs, and now Tourists.  The land is vast and flat here. The people who inhabited these lands must have been enduring people with dark skin and heavy wrinkles like the rocks they built their houses on.

The Persian Mosque

The Persian Mosque of Aleppo

Outside the ancient Old City of Aleppo, among the towering apartments that look as if they have risen out of the very desert itself there is a grand monument. A massive new mosque built in the enchanting Persian style of Iran. We exlpore it’s vast rooms and are able to walk on top of the roof, witnessing the obscure skyline of Aleppo.

Aleppo’s Skyline

The Skyline of Aleppo

Aleppo looks as if it has risen out of the desert iteslf. This dry land echoes with calls to prayer and the clatter of mule’s hooves on dusty cobbled floors.

The Souq

The Souq of Aleppo

The charming souq of Aleppo is situated next to the cities central citadel. Aromas of perfume from the Gulf enchant the nostrils, and rugs from Iran fill tiny shops with an array of warm colours. Shop keepers great me and invite me in for tea. They expect nothing in return except for a good shake of the hands and an honest smile.

The New Town

The Jigsaw building

The new town roads choke with traffic all moving at an easy un rushed pace. People barter and sell on just about every street corner, tiny shops are packed into every nooke and crany of the city, coffee stalls,news agents, ciggeratte vendors, and falfel stands. It’s a bombardment to the senses, you have to keeon your toes.

Barren Lands

Olive Trees

I leave Aleppo, bound for Hama. And I pass through barren lands where olive trees grown through tumbling ruins and the ground is red and dry. A few birds circle above, hoping to find some morsel of food. Dust blows around, small tornadoes form far off on the horizon, this land is alien to me, but great.

]]> http://mosesjunkyard.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/to-every-syrian-man-and-woman/feed/ 5 intervoxfilm The http://mosesjunkyard.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/moses-melkonian-beirut-lights/ http://mosesjunkyard.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/moses-melkonian-beirut-lights/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:51:30 +0000 Moses Melkonian http://mosesjunkyard.wordpress.com/?p=306 ]]> I’m back in the UK after a great trip with my family to the French Alps (more later…)

For now I wanted to give you guys the back story to the folk song ‘Beirut Lights.’

I wrote it in a little hostel in Beirut, the melody kept creeping into my mind throughout my trip…

All these photo’s were taken with my canon 300D in 2010

Road tripping is a casual thing in Lebanon. The sun sets on a long drive east, to the mountains…

We  stop off for a coffee. A Bedouin and Beiruti exam out attire, we get talking and drink together… A cultural crossroad, A place of many secrets.

Epic ruins of a by gone age stand tall in empty plateau’s among mountains carved out by great storms many ages ago… Lebanon is a land of great history.

We navigate our way back to Beirut, through narrow mountain passes, and across open plains.

We picked up some soon-to-be buddies and hit the famous Beirut rooftop bars for a night I will never forget.

The next morning was hazy. I wondered Hama and admired the elegant Parisian / Maronite architecture… only in Beirut.

Lebanese families greet the morning, very casually, very Lebanese, no rush, just sunshine and smiles

The sun set’s in our palms. The night is ours, we were mighty were young…

Reblogged from The Alternative Nation Podcast:

Photo Courtesy of: Interscope Records Don’t let her failed “Saturday Night Live” performances fool you; Lana Del Rey is one to watch in 2012. The singer has been the center of controversy with people questioning her plump lips to her “manufactured” image and history. The hype over Lana Del Rey was overwhelming. Media outlets like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum and many more pimped her for months only to frantically type hypocritical reviews that tore the album apart. But Lana Del Rey’s …

She’s made a massive amount of noise on the Internet… I liked this review and wanted to know your thoughts on her as an artist and her music. Big love guys x

So after much procrastinating, I went over with a few empty boxes to collect all my old books, and how good I felt for it. Among the heaps of penguin classics I found, amongst other things, an old journal that i had written in daily during my travels in the middle east. There are some memorable stories in there.

So, having made this important discovery (no really, very important!) I’m going to write out these disjointed entries and rambling into something of a Novella… Just for you guys. I will also include some photo’s I took with my Canon 300D in the relevant entries.

It starts in Istanbul and ends in Byblos, Lebanon…. Good times x

I don’t know if you guys have heard of triberr.com …. It’s a tool where bloggers can team up into tribers and automatically retweet each other, so everyone’s posts get to a larger audience. Here’s an article about it in more detail:

http://livingthebalancedlife.com/2011/what-is-triberr-and-how-does-it-work/

I’ve set up tribe called Fresh Tunes dedicated to sharing good music. If any curious bloggers would like to try this out with me sign up to triberr.com and join Fresh Tunes.

Big Moses Love to you guys….as always x

Thanks to all you guys for showing your support, it really is very humbling… maybe one day we can all have a party in the woods some place…

Here’s a round up of everything I’ve released since December. Big shout out to A.Leaman on this for making all my videos and being a lovely dude…

You can show your support by downloading my singles from below.

DOWNLOADS

We are Mighty, We are Young // From the forthcoming album

DOWNLOAD

Like Gods //From the forthcoming album

DOWNLOAD

Like Gods (live)

Foolish Words

Fire//From the forthcoming album

Big Moses Love to everyone x

It was windy in the Sahara