music
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Video: Sbujwa
I had a treat when I was in Johannesburg recently. I was about to jump into a cab when this van pulled up and out piled these colourfully clad kids. With their exit came the loud, blasting house-sort of music, then the dance moves, taunting, shouting matches, some alcohol, and street fashion … but at… Continue reading
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Video: Black History Special: Jazz Legend Randy Weston on His Life and Celebration of "African Rhythms"
In a Black History Month special, today we spend the hour with the legendary pianist and composer Randy Weston. For the past six decades, Weston has been a pioneering jazz musician incorporating the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa. His most famous compositions include “Little Niles,” “Blue Moses” and “Hi-Fly,” and his 1960 album, “Uhuru Afrika,”… Continue reading
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SOPA: Anti-Piracy or Censorship? Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales vs. Copyright Alliance’s Sandra Aistars
Congressional support for a pair of anti-piracy bills is weakening after Wednesday’s historic online protest in which thousands of websites went dark for 24 hours. Continue reading
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Video: Egypt – “The best armies in the world are ours”
A masterpiece video, the music is an old patriotic song from the operetta “Shehrzad” composed by Sayed Darwish in 1920s. Its title is “the best armies in the world are ours”. The scenes are those of security forces cracking down on the protests in front of the parliament. Continue reading
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Music Video: Cornershop – 'Brimful of Asha – Official Music Video (Original)
A must-listen. Mix Punjabi folk music with some wholesome Cornershop beats, cook and serve. Excellent! Continue reading
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Blue Scholars – 'Cinemetropolis'
Title track from Cinemetropolis. This song is owned by Blue Scholars and the people who pledged towards The Cinemetropolis Project. Enjoy Continue reading
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Johnny Griffin Live at the Village Vanguard
Video clip of tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin soloing over an up tempo blues, filmed at the Village Vanguard with Ronnie Matthews piano, Ray Drummond bass, and Kenny Washington drums. Continue reading
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United against cultural fascism – a letter to every cultured person in this country BY Gilad Atzmon
There was a time when Jewish politics and culture were associated with liberalism, human rights, pluralism and freedom of expression. Those days are clearly over. Nowadays, it is pretty much the opposite. Continue reading
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Video: Seun Kuti and Fela’s Africa 80 ‘ Many Things’
11 November 2011 Seun Kuti and Fela’s Africa 80. His first video. I saw this band live once, here in London. Whatta jam! Building on Fela’s massive contribution to African music. Continue reading
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Gaza Island — new video about flotilla and boycott
Here’s a new video I just finished this morning — about the music boycott of Israel, and the freedom flotilla of 12+ boats/1000+ people sailing to Gaza later this month, trying to open up the port and help end the illegal Israeli seige of Gaza. Continue reading
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Preview of CNN’s WikiLeaks Special Coming This Sunday: ‘Mission’ Implausible By Greg Mitchell
Like the PBS Frontline producers, the CNN team appears to believe that quoting Assange alone balances a brigade of critics. This, of course, is silly. Many viewers, naturally, take anything the subject of criticism says with huge grains of salt especially when no one else rises to his or her defense (besides figures in masks). Continue reading
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Gil Scott-Heron, Spoken-Word Musician, Dies at 62
Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” died Friday at age 62. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Miles – ‘So What’ with John Coltrane
Miles Dewey Davis III was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois. Miles’ mother was a blues pianist though she kept this hidden from him and his father a dentist. Davis began studying trumpet at the age of thirteen with local musician Elwood Buchanan and Buchanan would always stress to Miles to play without… Continue reading
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Ed Neumeister ‘ESP’
27 April 2011 Readers might be curious as to why I also publish music videos on a site dedicated to investigating imperialism. Well the short answer is that I’m an ex-muso raised on jazz, funk, reggae, latin and african music and amidst all the gloom and doom, I need a shot of syncopation every now Continue reading
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First Flight by Belisarius
8 April 2011 — MRZine A tribute to Yuri Gagarin and his first human spaceflight, 12 April 1961. . . . Music by Zemlyane ("The Grass at Home"). Cf. <www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=87>, <english.ruvr.ru/tag_45875342/>, <ciudad-futura.net/2011/04/05/soyuz-gagarin-2/>, <www.yuriesfera.net>. Continue reading
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Billy Taylor ‘One for the Woofer’
A tribute to Oscar Pettiford featuring Billy Taylor’s Trio and Billy’s composition, “One for the Woofer,” featuring Chip Jackson on bass. Billy Taylor, great pianist, great educator, great champion of the music. Continue reading
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Robert Wyatt & Gilad Atzmon in Haaretz By Yaron Frid
Haaretz published today a massive interview with Robert Wyatt and myself. It is a very interesting piece. I may also mention that the Israeli paper didn’t censor me. It let me say it all (Jews, Judaism, Jewishness, Jewish left, Zionism, Israeli collective barbarism etc’) Continue reading
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Paul Hanmer – Hymn for the Ballies
Live session, but unfortunately, incomplete. Nevertheless, it’s enough to give the listener a sense of what Paul’s music is all about. Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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In the meantime…here’s Ahmad Jamal
With some good music 22 June, 2010 Ahmad Jamal has long been one of my favourite musicians, in fact since I was around 15 when I first heard ‘Ahmad Jamal at the Alhambra’. Click Here to view a bunch more Jamal videos and I’ve added some to Creative-i’s Video Library. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 