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Sparking up the revolution
Bristol rap scene, Marxman are cool in style and uncompromising in politics. Their debut album is called ... one crisis to another...". Marxman identify very strongly with the politics of young people. In ... — generating a safety valve to avoid the real deal". The lyrics are extremely political, but their message ...
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Not doing what she does best
told that someone recollects, they think, that Joan Baez has become quite a political conservative — ... her for a political guru — or if they did, their blunder doesn't matter. We listened to Joan ... Baez because she sang beautifully. We would have listened even if she'd been singing non-political ...
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Gospel worth waiting for
their debut album. It follows many months of scrimping and scrounging by choir members to pay for its ... COTGOS are a group of people who have caught the black gospel music bug. Their album is inspired by the ... politics. During slavery, church services provided slaves their only opportunity to gather freely. The ...
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Mixed efforts from African favourites
jive. With Latin Quarter, the Bhundu Boys produce the albums most political tracks, "Radio ... highly political messages in favour of social justice, and against racism, apartheid and exploitation of ... But despite that failing, it is a great studio album. It is both fascinating and surprising. The album ...
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Groove to a new style
studio release from Australia's most public political band lacks the aggressive punch between the ... picked up over the years and have recorded an album with a powerful live sound. Forced long by Rob ... hopeful, a new style altogether. "Truganini", the first single from the album has been well ...
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Benin Bop
latest album Logozo. Now I'm a fan! The album makes great listening. If you're into ... music, you can guess it will be good. She doesn't ignore politics either. Kidjo's lyrics ... forward to understanding." After listening to this album, I'm looking forward to hearing ...
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Sounds sampled
Available on CD Reviewed by Peter Hicks This is an album of ambient guitar pieces which Peter Crowe ... Texas. Like that album, it has a mystical, dreamy air about it. Crowe claims to have been inspired by the ... Painters and Dockers' concern with social and political issues. The title is a reflection on the ...
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Lucky Dube: 'Bringing inspiration to life'
Mandela and other political figures". Lucky Dube dedicates his album to those who have struggled for ... seat. Lucky Dube comes to Australia hot on the heels of the release of his latest album Victims. ... Speaking from South Africa, Dube says he is "totally happy with the album". Victims has been ...
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South African musos emerge from apartheid's pall
through each track giving the album a special beauty. Politics is never ignored in a Mabuse album ... of the United States and Western Europe. Four albums just released in Australia provide a glimpse of ... Earthworks' Indestructible Beat of Soweto series, presents the cream of modern mbaqanga. The album showcases ...
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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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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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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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Wild Pumpkins At Midnight
that's taken in the political refugees. They take in more immigrants than most other countries." ... Over the years Wild Pumpkins At Midnight have written many political songs, including "Another ... though, believing there is more to their music than can be categorised. Their new album Strangeways is ...
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Set down at the bottom of the system
lyrical content. For a 35-minute album with a mere 10 tracks, it is amazing how powerful and thorough this ... album really is. The intensity is retained throughout each song, boasting no token ballads. Since ... a means to reach political ends. For the evil to take place, however, there needs to be compliance with ...
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Nigerian musician faces the gallows
By Norm Dixon Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, one of Africa's most popular, courageous and politically ... outspoken musicians, may finally be silenced, much to the relief of Nigeria's corrupt political and ... Yoruba rhythms with intensely political lyrics delivered by call-and-response vocals. A visit to the US ...
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Renewable hero
politics and social commentary that is central to Franti's music. The album consists of songs about ...
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'Oppressor man, your kingdom is falling!'
world reggae's successor to the great Peter Tosh. With this album, Dube strengthens his claim to ... that title. Dube, as on his previous album, Prisoner, again sweetly blends the bright ... a soaring falsetto. The political message on Exile is more determined and defiant in demanding a rapid end ...
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A talented warrior of the word
Reviewed by Norm Dixon Poetry spoken to a beat is a very powerful medium for social and political comment. ... biting criticism of apartheid. John Trudell's first album, AKA Grafitti Man, is firmly in the ... toured the US with Midnight Oil in 1988. Trudell's political activity continues as he campaigns for ...
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The mellowing of 'Miss Shell Shocked'
from", says Michelle Shocked about her latest album The Arkansas Traveler. This sense of heritage is an ... important theme that flows through Shocked's music. While listening to her albums you can almost smell ... crickets chirruping in the background of her first album as it was strummed beside a Texan campfire. ...
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Social decay and musical violence
a terrible war against the people of Vietnam. Rock music had already become popular, and the political ... not the first punk band, the Sex Pistols became the most successful. Their first album went to number ... UK" and the Clash even called an album Sandinista in tribute to the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution, punk ...