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Music across cultures
popularly known through the soundtracks of Bandit Queen and Dead Man Walking, Nusrat died as this album was ... being completed. Nusrat not only brought Indian classical music to a broad audience, but this album ... other instruments and voices building to an exploding climax. The most striking thing about this album ...
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The 'People's Poet' strikes again
politically, is the beautiful jazz-soaked "Stalwarts", which pays homage to the many leaders of South ... recorded his first album, Change Is Pain, in which his remarkable blend of freedom verse and township jive ... which is where he composed his second album, The Unbroken Spirit. "I have still not fully recovered ...
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Rory McLeod: 'unorthodox and brilliant'
from working peoples point of view. Politics to me is people; it covers everything from the way you ... to Mouth is McLeod's sixth album and a generous offering at that. A double CD containing 28 ... even sandpaper. The album contains a lot of love songs. This isn't a criticism. Unlike the ...
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One of reggae's living greats
is one of reggae's most underrated exponents. He is also one of its most politically conscious. ... injustice, and Rastafarianism, the black Caribbean's "liberation theology". In album after ... album for the past quarter century, Rodney has made it his mission to tell the real history of the ...
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Kev Carmody is back
<http://www.thelastrecordstore.com/independents.html#kevcarmody>. REVIEW BY IGGY KIM Kev Carmody has been much missed since his last original album release, ... the 2000 release of his compilation album Messages. Like a retrospective exhibition, compilation ... albums usually herald an artist's passing into revered — but retired — status. Kev was especially ...
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Freedom’s song: Solidarity with the Grup Yorum musicians in Turkey’s prisons
members describe as the "dark period" following the military coup of 1980. Their politics are ... socialist politics, if not necessarily for their particular form of socialism. For their 25th anniversary ... joining such a band expects an easy life. Concerts have been banned, albums seized and group members have ...
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Black music through the decades
African American music on this album, the message comes across as a clear as a cymbal crash: modern ... creators. Just as African Americans have been disenfranchised politically, so they have culturally. ... Paradoxically, this lack of cultural and political power has been an incentive for the African American ...
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91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ fighting fund needs your urgent help
I was looking back through my political photo albums for this year and noticed I have 137 albums, three ... times as many as last year. That's a probably the number of demonstrations and other political ... revealing my happy-snappy nature, it does show that even in a rich and relatively politically passive ...
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Swedish rockers take a stand
well known for its strong political stance on many progressive issues. The band will be touring ... tour, T(I)NC is supporting Rise Against, both bands being strong supporters of political causes. Rise ... Against is a "big fan of Fat Mike's [Michael Moore's] politics" and although not as ...
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'Bring on your wrecking ball' — Springsteen back and angry as hell
comfortably familiar, but an album uniquely relevant in a way that few other artists of his level can muster. ... famously told Ronald Reagan to shove it, and who has lent the content of countless songs and albums to ... say this is some kind of political retreat for the Boss. On the contrary, one of the common criticisms ...
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MC's keeping it real
impact on the direction of hip hop with the release of the second album from his group, Boogie Down ... Productions, entitled By Any Means Necessary. In 1988, Public Enemy also released their second album, and the ... combined effect of Kris Parker and Chuck D's militant lyrics fuelled a surge in political hip hop that ...
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Mouse Eat Mouse: Scottish musos on independence and working class liberation
satisfying to hear any new works. Last year’s Toxic Tails  is an album of beauty, anger and passion, traits ... act’s support for Scottish independence, which was expressed eloquently on the album, Shade put it as ... politics. Anything that will help to break up the decaying post-imperialist UK state is fine by me. “An ...
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Revolutionary music from Mexico
university students who began playing at political events and parties because they were sick of the ... underdogs. As a political band of the street, they have generated an engaging style and intersperse political ... messages throughout the performances. Their current album, Cybertropic Chilango Power, has a wild and ...
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Urthboy gives slacktivists a bad rap
"slacktivists"? It's just one of the questions posed on Smokey’s Haunt, the new album by the persistently ... reconcile lightness and darkness," he says. "And that manifests in politics, that manifests in ... the video for his album's lead single, "Naive Bravado". The monochrome mini-movie, ...
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Primal Scream are back hollering for the left
most musically accomplished long-player, it is also their most politically potent. The album ... British indie rockers Primal Scream are best known for Screamadelica, the breakout dance-crossover album ... resurrected Screamadelica for its 20th anniversary in 2011, playing the album in its hedonistic whole on ...
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Speech's arrested development
In the early 1990s, an unpretentious and very political hip hop band briefly achieved worldwide ... revolutionary funk poets of the 1960s and '70s, Arrested Development's two albums — their 1992 hit ... was summed up in "Give a Man a Fish": "Got to get political/ Political I gotta get/ ...
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Jimmy Cliff: 'No peace without justice'
bearer of politically conscious Jamaican reggae. He came to fame as part of the classic generation of ... themes." Cliff's latest album Breakout — and his more than 20 previous albums — demands justice for ... causing these wars in Bosnia, South Africa, Somalia and other places all over the world is the political ...
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Two decades of Rage
the Machine's self-titled debut album. For two decades, the US band has helped activists all over ... the wrongly convicted Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier. The inside sleave of the ... band’s second album, Evil Empire, promotes books about Marx and Engels, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, the ...
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Impossible Odds place a strong bet on sovereignty
hear from a radical, politically-savvy Indigenous rapper. But Truth, of militant Murri hip-hop group ... album, Against All Odds, she raps: I no longer need my fists to fight I just write whenever those ... from its righteous roots that that Leone has rapped: "First release I went political and freaked ...
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Johnny Cash: a 'musical outlaw'
— and maybe even a little politics. His collaborations with Bob Dylan, U2 and Strummer, and the delight ... starkly brilliant albums. When people wondered why a country singer was on his label, Rubin said, "A ... not known as an expressly political artist, Cash waded into the controversies of his times with ...
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Larry Kirwan: Not all happy riots and righteous parties
tub-thumping bravado of this most political, yet most thoughtful, of all Irish-diaspora bands. Indeed, ... matter — have gravitated to Black 47's stirring albums and jammed their frequent live shows. Red ... Kirwan chews on in Kilroy Was Here, his first solo album, just released on Gadfly Records. It is a great ...
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Melanie Shanahan: Talented 'world citizen'
singer/songwriter, but an accomplished pianist and guitarist. She was influenced greatly by political ... about the issues that affected her, but was also an amusing storyteller. Arramaieda's first album ... , More Ways Than One, went on to become the highest selling a capella album in Australia's history. ...
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Fela finally silenced
By Norm Dixon Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, one of Africa's most popular, courageous and politically ... outspoken musicians, has finally been silenced, much to the relief of Nigeria's corrupt political and ... political views, his enormous popularity among Nigeria's poor and youth and his unconventional ...
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Who said what?
glitchy, political track 'Bring The Noize', listen below. Full album preview here: ... royalty A selection of this week's politically-relevant entertainment news. * * * Gurrumul, Archie ... Tim Lambesis ' Austrian Death Machine Album To Go Ahead Despite Murder-For-Hire Trial ...
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Ozomatli: activism with a Latin groove
Ozomatli's new album, Embrace the Chaos, has a different feel to the Los Angeles-based band's ... self-titled debut album. But it is still full of the joy of life and continues to utilise music as a tool for ... we also have different levels of political commitment and activity." Tachero said that in the US ...