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  1. Flawless rhythms but lacking soul

    His new album, Arturo Sandoval and the Latin Train, is a very nice listen. Technically it is ... robust and spectacular. The album features homages to legendary Cuban trumpeter Felix Chappotin, mambo ... where this music was born. The stated purpose of this album is sharply at odds with Sandoval's ...

  2. The militant and the mystic

    allied streams of black radicalism in jazz in the late '60s β€” the political and the spiritual. As US ... 'no confidence' in Western civilisation and the American Dream". Politically, black youth ... turbulence, impatience, excitement and determination to create a better society. Shepp embraced political ...

  3. Ice-T, Public Enemy on tour

    By Zanny Begg SYDNEY β€” Ice-T and Public Enemy are both known for their uncompromising political ... "nigger" music. Approximately 60% of Ice-T's albums sell to white young people, which illustrates the ... Ice-T's politics were revealed when ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ of the audience began chanting "faggot" at a young ...

  4. Who said what?

    this week's politically-relevant celebrity news... Rebel Diaz Arts Collective finds new home ... early release from prison: http://gu.com/p/3fedq/tf Hear the new Neon Neon concept album about Italian ... Ekberg Speaks Out About Alleged Past Nazi Ties http://eonli.ne/11FcDB2 Brand new vid about political ...

  5. New Blue King Brown track highlights West Papua's struggle

    talents to expose the political fraud and brutal genocide that the Indonesian government has committed ... second single off the band's new highly anticipated third album, Born Free, to be released on ...

  6. Tinariwen β€” resistance of the Sahara

    pain of exile, the longing for lost homes and families, and the struggle for political and cultural ... through its albums, Radio Tisdas, Amassakoul and Aman Iman: Water is Life, we now have the chance to hear ...

  7. Luka Bloom

    built his reputation on two acclaimed albums, Riverside and Acoustic Motorbike and his appearance in the ... While his songs mainly reflect personal experiences and are not overtly political, he is not shy to ...

  8. Roger Waters ― still bashing at the system's wall

    semi-autobiographical Pink Floyd album The Wall (almost entirely written by Waters). It consists of two discs and, like ... everything Waters has worked on since Pink Floyd's 1973 Dark Side of the Moon, it is a concept album ... audiences. Finally, he faces his fears and himself and tears down the wall. The original content of the album ...

  9. Beyond 'exotic' ambience

    The Journey Maryam Mursal Real World through Festival Review by Norm Dixon With this album, Maryam ... dance album, its story goes much deeper. It is the culmination of Mursal's remarkable escape from ... political arena. As the brutal Siad Barre dictatorship increased its repression, Mursal responded. ...

  10. Welfare Poets: Power to the huerfanos!

    DIXON In the mid-1990s, Hector Luis Rivera and Ray Ramirez β€” musicians, poets and political activists ... just graduated from Cornell University in New York City β€” renamed their "political, poetic" ... in support of campaigns to release political prisoners in the US, in support of community struggles ...

  11. AFL player Nathan Lovett-Murray seeks payback through hip hop

    release an album on Lovett-Murray’s own Indigenous hip hop label, Payback Records. β€œIt’s an honour to be ... schoolfriend, Tjimba. β€œI asked him what he was doing and he said he’d just finished a rap album,” says ... to come down the studio and I was pretty impressed, so I said: β€˜Let’s do an album.’ β€œHalf way through ...

  12. Rainforest roots rappers have nothing to lose

    stoner poetry for clear-eyed political consciousness. But whereas the Chilis have only one Australian ... mainstream, as illustrated by the title of Zennith's new album, Nothin' To Lose. β€œIn this day and ... on one of the album's catchiest tracks, β€œPoison”. The song's lyrics declare: β€œYou sail in ...

  13. Jarvis Cocker versus Sir Bono

    rich in "I Spy", a song from Pulp's 1995 album Different Class, was: "Take your ... overtly political, Cocker's lyrics focus on the lives of ordinary people, drawing directly on his own ... a "secret track" at the end Cocker's first solo album, called Jarvis. Released in April, the album ...

  14. 'Poet lorikeet' folds his wings

    Aborigines, Irish political prisoners, workers, environmental causes, republicanism and the anti-war movement. ... launched an album of Kevan's poems set to music entitled City of Green: Green Ban Songs and Beyond. ... nuclear incident in 1979) as the lead-in track on their Red Sails in the Sunset album. His most recent ...

  15. Songs of solidarity for the new century

    LandΒ” and Β“Union MaidΒ”. The social movements of the '60s brought with them a plethora of political ... it's fitting that the competition winner (and album opener) comes from local MC Swarmy G, who comes ... electronica of the Eye's Β“Workers United (Will Overcome)Β”. The album ends with the Zoltan Brothers' ...

  16. Black 47: Our day will come!

    rebellion: a "terrible beauty" was born. Trouble in the Land, the latest album by New York ... the rake, and other fictionalised souls wandering the night. Over successive albums, fans can follow ... a resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He writes on Irish politics and cultural topics for a number of ...

  17. Radical rhymer raps for revolution

    his latest album, I Believe In Revolution. "This whole album was largely inspired by Big Luke’s ... album Message From A Black Man," the Victorian emcee tells ΒιΆΉΣ³»­. Just as Big Luke took ... a no-holds barred approach on that album, so Darah has come out with both guns blazing on his latest effort. ...

  18. Deep in the forest, is it equa-table?

    put such doubts behind you, Equa is quite an engaging, if a little predictable, album. It weaves ... of the unacknowledged African performers give the album a lift it would not otherwise have. Zawose is ... people sing about politics, people sing about the environment, people sing about nature. The record was ...

  19. 'Bury down apartheid!'

    enough to make you wilt. On top of that, his politically charged blend of the reggae beat, mbaqanga soul ... the world." This message permeates his shows and his excellent new album, his first to be ... released in this country, Prisoner. The album showcases Dube's soul/reggae and thoughtful lyrics. The ...

  20. A jazz revolutionary: Celebrating John Coltrane's 80th birthday

    Song and album titles began to reflect a growing sense of Black pride and celebration of urban Black ... two albums that transformed jazz. With Davis, he recorded Kind of Blue, regarded as one of the great ... for jazz players. Beginning in 1960, Coltrane recorded seven albums over a year, including My Favorite ...

  21. Tom Morello: "You start with a spark"

    Keith Rosenthal Kris Jenson Tom Morello is an outspoken musician and political activist who has ... Jenson and Keith Rosenthal about The Nightwatchman and his album One Man Revolution. You've ... described your album One Man Revolution as a "Bob Dylan in reverse" moment, and you can hear some ...

  22. Radio highlights

    Wednesday: Christy Moore Live β€” The authentic voice of contemporary Ireland. On his 21 albums, Christy's ... featuring the renowned MIT professor of linguistics, and political activist, Noam Chomsky. In Middle East: ...

  23. Joelistics makes Australian hip-hop more realistic

    www.joelistics.com The flawless music on Joelistics ' second solo album is more than matched by the depth of his ... album deals with this despair, "the frustration of an outcast bewildered by a deteriorating ... political and social landscape", as your website puts it. Tell us about it. The older I get, the more ...

  24. LA explained in music

    Norm Dixon Rarely does a day go by lately that this album doesn't end up blasting out from my ... stereo. Musically, lyrically and politically, it is one of the most infectious records I've had the ... culture and politics of the Klan thrive and untold damage is done to people's lives. Buckwheat ...

  25. Iron Sheik rapper

    Left Hook co-editor M. Junaid Alam recently discussed the political and the personal with the ... Bush's administration. Did you develop your politics and then find music as an avenue of expressing them, ... or did you first get into rapping and then develop radical politics? My first musical influence, ...

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