JOY & SUNSHINE
It was the music of Joy
by the AKA Trio,
three men from Senegal, Italy
and Brazil whose lilting play
was the gracious gift, through
kora, guitar and the softest
percussion, of the exhilarating
sound of sunshine
“Does it sound like springtime?”
she asked, “No way”, I said
“Like summer?” she asked, looking
at me with a face that suggested a
simple inquiry, speaking in a voice
sounding like a morning that would
last all day
I sat for a moment listening to the
music and looking at her and then:
“Honey”, I said, “It sounds more like
the way that I feel every day that I’m
living with you, not simply like the
spring or the summer or any season,
but like the enchanted, elusive essence
of grace that even sunshine, given a
chance to decide, would love
to become!
The AKA Trio is Antonio Forcione (guitar),
Seckou Keita (22-string kora) and
Adriano Adewale (percussion). Joy is their
debut album.
Those two submarines are playing cards on their lunch break,
Suddenly a boiled egg passes and say:
-Hi five what you guys doing?
-We are playing cards
-Can I play?!
-This is only for members.
-That's OK
-I was going to the barbershop anyway,
- Ask Hydra for a Beer egg
- I have been going to AA man are you crazy!,
The egg vomits
The submarines laugh
Hydra juggles
Dedicated to Professor Adriano Moreira
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