Rhythm of Life
Zulu man playing Musical Bow, South Africa 1930 Rhythm of Life Coursing through the human soul, music has always been a part of the human experience from our earliest recorded history. While we created the sound it was Read More …
Tag: Greece
Greek Party Girls, 1910
Three nude women smoke a waterpipe while dancing and playing music, Greek postcard, around 1910
Garson, 1890
A Turkish coffee-boy with hookah in Selanik/Saloniki (nothern Greece). Postcard from the 1890’s
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled, 1904
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled “An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward Read More …
Rembetiko: The Music of Hashish
“to revoke, carried away, the love a woman, to stave off the suffering, to weep in secret for the injustices of society. They were people that had to live out of the boundaries of society; because they wanted to live Read More …
The Dope Olympic Games, 776BC
“The virtues of hemp, it is said, are so great, that an infusion of it in water will cause it to coagulate: hence it is, that if taken in water, it will arrest looseness in beasts of burden. A decoction Read More …
The Plant that was fucked from existence, 1st Century
“Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.” ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 Cyrenian coins with Silphium seed and plant The Plant that was fucked from existence Much like the old saying “take that frown and Read More …