COMPOSING TEMPLE SUNRISE: Overcoming Writer's block at Burning Man
by Hassan El-Tayyab
205 pages, price $18.25
ISBN 978-0-9860600-6-9
The Book
This is a memoir by musician Hassan and recounts his trip across the US looking for that elusive muse. He arrives in Berkeley and hooks up with a group creating a metal sculpture called Fishbug. They go to Burning Man in the Nevada dessert and here he writes the musical piece Temple Sunrise. Hassan is a musician singer/songwriter with his group America Nomad. This is a book of travel, personal exploration, community, and that elusive finding of the creative source. A beautiful song comes of this journey as well as a beautiful, insightful book.
The Author
Hassan El-Tayyab is an award-winning singer/songwriter, author, teacher, and cultural activist currently residing in San Francisco, California. His critically-acclaimed Americana act American Nomad performs regularly at festivals and venues up and down the West Coast and beyond. In addition to performing Hassan is also a music educator, having taught songwriting and guitar classes for the Freight and Salvage and The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. Hassan has also been a guest lecturer on song writing at the University of California, Berkeley. You can follow Hassan and his music at American Nomad. Receive a FREE download of the Temple Sunrise song and more at Composing Temple Sunrise.
Reviews from Hassan's 2016 blog tour:
- 11/3 - Everything distils into reading https://readbookswritepoetry.blogspot.com/2016/11/hassan-el-tayyabs-composing-temple.html
- 10/30 - Rainy Day Reviews https://bookjunkiemom.blogspot.com/2016/10/composing-temple-sunrise-overcoming.html
- 10/26 - Peeking Between the Pages https://www.peekingbetweenthepages.com/2016/10/composing-temple-sunrise-by-hassan-el-tayyab-guest-post.html
- 10/20 - Diary of an Eccentric https://diaryofaneccentric.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/guest-post-hassan-el-tayyab-author-of-composing-temple-sunrise-overcoming-writers-block-at-burning-man/
- 10/17 - Margaret Reviews Books 10/17/2016 https://margaretreviewsbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/book-review-hassan-el-tayyab-composing.html
- 10/11 - Interview at Eva Lucia's blog: https://evaluciamusicandliterature.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/not-done-author-interview-hassan-el-tayyab
