Carla Seidl

Article in Perceptive Travel

Find “Ride of a Lifetime,” about Carla’s experience biking in Bolivia, in the December issue: http://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1209/bolivia.html.

Review by Midwest Book Review

The Sophisticated Savage was reviewed in Midwest Book Review’s Small Press Bookwatch for September ‘09: “…Carla Seidl presents fascinating insights about the simplicity of life and happiness. “The Sophisticated Savage” is an intriguing read, highly recommended.”

Carla Seidl at Book Revue Sept. 9th

Carla will be doing a book and CD signing at Book Revue in early September, playing songs from her debut album and reading from her anthropological memoir, The Sophisticated Savage.

Details: Wednesday, September 9th at 7pm at Book Revue, 313 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY.

Audio Postcard on WNPR

Carla’s audio postcard from Azerbaijan was recently featured as part of WNPR’s first “Radio Adventure Theater.” Thanks to Where We Live Senior Producer Catie Talarski!

Guitar Making: The Human Element

New audio documentary posted about luthier Scott MacDonald of Huntington, NY. See the Radio section of this site.

“Cannibal Theme Park” on WILL-AM

The radio documentary “Cannibal Theme Park,” related to Carla’s Ecuador experiences compiled in The Sophisticated Savage, was featured this week on Sidetrack with Jason Croft on Illinois Public Media’s WILL-AM. To listen, click here; the piece starts about 27 minutes into the broadcast.

The Sophisticated Savage on Amazon.com

The Sophisticated Savage, my memoir on my experiences in Ecuador, is now available from Amazon.com. Check it out here and if you enjoy the book, please don’t hesitate to post reviews of it on the Amazon.com site.

Azerbaijani-Western Music Synthesis

This is from my time in Azerbaijan. For Republic Day last year, I collaborated with two local musicians and music teachers, twins Sevindik and Sarvan, to create a medley of Western and Azerbaijani songs. (The “Oh Susanna” bit was their idea — the melody was familiar to them, but they’d never heard the words.) The distinctive stringed instrument you hear is called the tar, played by Sevindik muallim (”tar” means string in Persian, and you can note the importance of this root in the words “guitar” and “sitar,” among others). The pictures in this slideshow are a mixture of shots from my time in Azerbaijan; the first and last shots are of us performing this!

The Sophisticated Savage now available

The Sophisticated Savage, Carla’s book about her experiences in Ecuador, is now available for purchase from Lulu.com.



To read more about the book, click here. Or, to listen to a related audio documentary with real audio footage of Carla and Fredy on the Galapagos Islands (and accompanying pictures), take a look at the following video:

New YouTube channel

There’s a new channel for videos from Carla Seidl on YouTube. If you are a YouTube user, you can subscribe to be updated when I upload any new videos. Slideshow to accompany the audio piece “Cannibal Theme Park” coming soon! Please also visit to rate or comment on “Azerbaijani Housewife.”