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Unreal City 5: Alexandria

She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.

Who are these hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal

Featuring the Palestinian DJ Sotusura, Unreal City 5: London will go back through the decades of the last 100 years from today’s music featuring staples such as Amy Winehouse to Blur, Gorillaz/Damian Albarn projects to the 90’s vibrant Jungle and drum and bass scene and further in time through the late 80’s alternative rock scene and 70’s music to 1922. This performance evokes the line in the poem, And puts a record on the gramophone, and is the second of five performances that feature music with leitmotifs of one of the five cities featured in The Waste Land. All the performances will take place in St Clement Eastcheap which is the home of the Amos Trust, a creative human rights organisation committed to justice worldwide, building hope and bringing about positive change, especially in Palestine.


artist

DJ Sotusura

DJ Sotusura

venue

St. Clement Eastcheap

info@thewasteland2022.com

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