Lhasa de Sela - Con Toda Palabra

Adiós, querida!

Toots & the Maytals - Famine

October 15, 2008

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

Miró - The World in Maps

A video for Miró by Chris Draper. It was made in 1990-91? at the time of the 1st Iraq conflict and was released as a 7" single and film... (More info here)

Grocery Store Wars (Free Range Studios)

Just in case you missed it so far... Enjoy!

Learn more:

http://www.freerangestudios.com/

Eugenio Finardi - La Radio (Parco Lambro 1976)

Gulf War Montage: The Aftermath

Footage from the documentary Lektionen in Finsternis (Lessons of Darkness) by Werner Herzog showing some of the destruction and enviromental issues that followed after Desert Storm in 1991.
The destruction seen is mainly caused by the heavy air and artillery bombardment from allied forces. The enviromental issues "Oil spill/fires" were caused by the burning oil wells sat on fire by the retreating Iraqi troops in the desert of Kuwait.
Music: Rob Dougan - Born Yesterday

Posted in YouTube by LoFFeN1987

Ali Farka Touré and Boubacar Traoré: Diarabi

A love song of sparkling beauty...

Awadi Video

Le rappeur sénégalais Awadi se fait, dans sa chanson « Sunugaal », la voix des immigrés clandestins qui tentent, au péril de leur vie, d’atteindre les côtes des îles Canaries. Pour la première fois, son titre est mis à la disposition des auditeurs sur son site Internet. Une première pleine de succès pour le chanteur.

Listen to the song/Watch the video (use IE browser) : http://www.studiosankara.com/sunugaal.html

Learn more: Afrik

Recommended by Francesco (thanx)

Tinariwen Documentary Part 1

Tinariwen Documentary Part 2

SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS documentary movie trailer

Just to remember that there are lots of persons and peoples in this world who are still fighting for their freedom and dignity, unfortunately with no happy endings guaranteed.
So, in wishing you all a happy new year, I do hope 2008 may be a year of reconciliation, peace and prosperity, especially for them. Peace and Love,

Radu

Here is a short trailer for the documentary film SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS. The film tells the remarkable story of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, a group of musicians who form a band while living in a West African refugee camp. They were forced from their homes by a brutal civil war that took the lives of many of their loved ones and left them with physical and emotional scars that may never heal. But it could never take away their music. Through music they find a place of refuge, a sense of purpose and a source of power. This film follows the band over the course of three years as they make the difficult decision to return to their war-torn country and realize their dream of recording an album of their original music. The story of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars celebrates the best of the human spirit - the incredible ability of individuals to sustain hope and find forgiveness even in a climate of rage and loss.

Van Der Graaf Generator - Whatever Would Robert Have Said? (1970)

A rare VDGG video, dated 1970, from a session filmed for the cult programme Beat Club, that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It was broadcast from Bremen, Germany on Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen, the national public TV channel of the ARD. The integral version of this video has been included in the first edition of the double dvd Inside Van Der Graaf Generator. To download the video, click on the words "buona visione" at the end of this post.

Un raro filmato dei VDGG, che ne documenta l'inedita session televisiva del 1970 per la nota (e benemerita) trasmissione della tv tedesca Beat Club. In quell'occasione il gruppo eseguì, oltre al brano qui postato, l'ottimo Darkness, altra colonna portante dell'album The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other, primo autentico caposaldo del "suono" VDGG dopo l'acerbo se pur promettente esordio di The Aerosol Grey Machine (nato, oltre tutto, come progetto solista del leader Hammill). Suono che è frutto di un approccio "jazzistico" a materiale "rock" (e non viceversa, come nel caso di molta della fusion coeva che, forse proprio per questo, dopo i primi brillanti risultati divenne presto prevedibile e scontata, per risollevarsi solo in tempi recenti - opinione, ovviamente, del tutto personale) e che ancora oggi, nonostante le inevitabili rughe dovute al passare del tempo, rimane fresco e sorprendente.
A quanto mi risulta, le versioni integrali dei due brani sono apparse soltanto sull'interessante (e oneroso) doppio dvd Inside Van Der Graaf Generator, ma, per insondabili motivi, ne sono state rimosse sin dalla prima ristampa. Troppa grazia...? In ogni caso, negli archivi musicali gratuiti reperibili in rete (come YouTube) si possono rintracciare questo e altri video dei VDGG risalenti ai primi anni '70, come quelli che li ritraggono nell'esecuzione di classici quali Theme One (che potrei "postarvi" in futuro, stay tuned...) e A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, registrati per la tv belga.
Nel frattempo, non mi resta che augurarvi...

buona visione!