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Philip Glass Ensemble: The Live Score Of Godfrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi

Philip Glass Ensemble: The Live Score Of Godfrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi

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Godrey Reggio discusses Powaqqatsi Powaqqatsi is the second of the Trilogy and its about the conflict of northern and southern hemispheres. We are eating the southern hemisphere consuming it. If example is needed in America the state of California is the greenest and cleanest of all the states with the best environmental laws in the nation yet California alone pollutes more than the continent of Africa altogether. Powaqqatsi exposes the price we are paying for our happiness with consumption of resources the incessant consumption of what should belong to others. Our language no longer describes our world. We cant move forward in language or even image because these have been corrupted. We need to reboot restart reinvent. Go back to the absolute basics there are facial expressions there are the moon and stars in the sky. Like the shamans who thought of sky earth and the roots below they thought of what grows below which is why so many medicines used to be roots. I work from there