Friday, 12 December 2014
Silver X & Allstars - Let's Stand Together
Silver X is a 26-year-old South Sudanese musician who wrote the song "Let's Stand Together." He was displaced from his home in Torrit, South Sudan with his family in 2000. Four years ago he returned to his birthplace from a refugee camp in Uganda to launch his music career and help jumpstart South Sudan's burgeoning music industry
Seconded
"Worse still is the whole TED talks phenomenon, which offers the intellectual equivalent of diets in which someone can lose 10 pounds in two weeks without giving up ice cream sundaes or pizza. In just 18 minutes, a person can be exposed to breathlessly earnest genius -- a slickly marketed brand of chicken nuggets for the brain. The talks enable non-scientists and non-technologists to feel smart, but that is not the same as actually being smart or, alternatively, feeling dumb in the way that hard ideas sometimes make you feel -- and should -- when you first encounter them."- David Rothkopf
Oh the hypocrisy of Abbott
“Oh the irony of Tony Abbott playing a gender card. He spent three years criticising Julia Gillard for speaking about women’s issues and the treatment of women, condemning her for talking about the treatment of women, and then he plays the gender card. The longer you stay in and around politics the less you’re surprised about the way the wheel turns.” - Craig EmersonWould he have attacked Julia Gillard if her name was spelled J-U-L-I-A-N?
Hmmm...
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Shane Levene discusses heroin addiction on Sky News
Shane truly is one of the most powerful of writers
Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) - Africa In Your Earbuds #53 Mix
The music on this mix comes from compilation CDs from market stalls in Marrakech, and from street musicians selling their own CDs, as well as my own field recordings of dawn and dusk prayer sounds and general Medina music/noise. Some of the music comes from the Gnawa tradition, and the low lute-like instrument you hear on some of the recordings is the Sintir or Guembri (or Gimbri or even Hejhouj), a three stringed skin-covered bassy instrument. My favourite music collected here is the opening piece (after my short field recording ends) which is performed by an unnamed (on his CD-R) musician who was playing whilst I walked down a narrow backstreet one evening on a recent visit. Despite no name, song or title information being printed on his CD-Rs he had for sale, I recently found this footage of him: and this also, where he performs the same music but in a different key. What do you think?
I also very much like the second piece, known as Maquamat, attributed to Musique Douce (which may just be the CD name), for it’s combination of soft keyboard sounds and drum machine (all in the same keyboard I imagine) along with the Oud, another lute instrument. I hope you enjoy this mix. Sorry there is not much in the way of information about performers or song names, dates of recording etc
Via
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Spoek Mathambo - Cava The Combo 1 Mix
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Bizz Atv – Negative People(DJ Spoko Remix)
Fantasma – Sefty Belt ft. JOSIAHWISE IS THE SERPENTWITHFEET
DJ Spoko – I Remember ft. G Dog
DJ Spoko – Chitahuri Dance
DJ Mujava – Township Funk
Tribal Warriors – Lerato ft. Noeli
Tribal Warriors – In The Heart Of The Nite
DJ Spoko X Lafawndah – I Lost My Fear
DJ Spoko X Massacooramaan – Feathers of the Phoenix
Dubbel Dutch x DJ Spoko – Sweat of the Dragon
Aero Manyelo x DJ Spoko – Rapoka
Ken Russell: A Kitten For Hitler (2007)
Following a discussion about film censorship with British broadcaster Melvyn Bragg while they worked on The South Bank Show, Russell was challenged by Bragg to create a film which Russell himself would want banned. A Kitten for Hitler was the result of the process that followed. After Russell sent Bragg an initial draft, Bragg responded "Ken, if ever you make this film and it is shown, you will be lynched."
A Kitten For Hitler
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