COMPOSING TEMPLE SUNRISE

This is a memoir by musician Hassan ElTayyab 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 singersongwriter 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 Hassan ElTayyab is an awardwinning singersongwriter author teacher and cultural activist currently residing in San Francisco California His criticallyacclaimed 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