Guitar Apprentice: Recent Episodes
Zahra Mansoor
Tessa who is the Guitar Expert, teaches the guitar to Zahra who is the Guitar Apprentice. Lots of spicy gossip and good relaxing sounds in this podcast... not much guitar playing
Zahra, Saem, and Minah listen to Tessa telling a story about taking ourselves less seriously last evening at the office.
Sia describes an acidic evening of watching clouds on the rooftop and then she goes on about some random shit while I sit on her couch after an exhausting day of skipping class and braving some exceptionally shitty weather
Sitting on Tessa's living room floor, Tessa first flexes her expert guitar playing and then I practice the song she taught me at the end of the first guitar usage lesson. Juicy means cringe btw (my playing, not Tessa's)
Tessa and I finally have a guitar learning session yesterday morning. Lots of technical bullshit and boring ABCD stuff. But it was fun for me, its just boring to listen to
Me and Tessa squander our studio class time reading poetry we've written to one another from our delicious archives.
Tessa practices her Urdu with the master in preparation for her career as an obituarist for a new feminist newspaper that we will publish in Karachi.
Mine and tessa's audiobook created by reading Sultana's Dream to each other at a coffeeshop for our proj together! The background noise is INTENTIONAL ;)
Sultana's Dream is a 1905 Bengali feminist utopian story written by Begum Rokeya, also known as Rokeya Sahkawat Hossain, a Muslim feminist, writer and social reformer from Bengal. (Src: Goodreads)
Tessa explains some piano shit to me. I learnt a lot of new stuff! I have to admit, I am a bit dead-sounding in this episode because I was hungover on sugar... next episode, I will be my normal self!