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11.19.2006

Babel

One of the privileges we have as traveling musicians is the chance to not only be observed by groups of people all over the world, but to observe those people in return and over the length of a long tour, to get a sense of the pulse of the feeling of the shared culture at large – and to discover just how closely we are all connected even as geography separates us.

As the third in director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s trilogy (Amores Perros and 21 Grams being the first and second films), we are witnessing the emergence of a new and inspirational narrative form.