EchoDitto

Check out our conversation with Collect All Five, a quintet with funk origins that fuses jazz, latin, electronic, and world grooves to create a genre-splicing new sound. Hailing from Austin Texas, Collect All Five is brining their fantastic live shows to fans on the East Coast this summer. The band was kind enough to stop by EchoDitto to chat and share some of their music.

Soundtrack: Doormouse, Jazzanova, George Clinton, Collect All Five, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, US3, Henry Collins, Prefuse 73

A late tribute to National Poetry Month. Hear Nicco reading a number of his favourite poems. Emily read "This Happened" by C.K. Williams. David read two poems. The first was a love poem written by President George W. Bush to Laura in Oct. of 2003 while she was on a trip to Europe. The second is a W.H. Auden poem titled September 1, 1939. The poem speaks about the ills of political man; democratic leaders and dictators alike spend there lives speaking rubbish about building great and selfish societies. Auden praises the wisdom of simple humanism for it is all that we have to combat the fierce forces of political man. September 1, 1939 is not a happy poem, but it is one filled with hope.

Links: National Poetry Month Raises Awareness Of Poetry Prevention

Soundtrack: Proem, Primus

Photo via goodbyepisces on flickr

David K. Cohen talks with Bill Garrett of Cleanpeace about record high oil prices, the global peak oil crisis, and the opportunity to use current, undepleteable hydrogen technologies to stave off major global shifts in diplomatic, military, political, and cultural power.

Soundtrack: The Herbaliser, Boards of Canada

Photo via vectormonkey on flickr.