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Raging better than ever
to give this album a miss. Unlike many popular politically like-minded bands of the past, Rage ... otherwise receives garbage morning, noon and night. Like this album's predecessor, the lyrics all point ...
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Welcome return of War
provided some very political and socially aware music. Like today's hip hop, and like most earlier ... Early '60s soul reflected the political and social optimism of a mobilised black community that had ... '60s rolled on, much soul music became explicitly political and militant. The early naivete fell away, ...
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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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One of reggae's living greats
is one of reggae's most underrated exponents. He is also one of its most politically conscious. ... injustice, and Rastafarianism, the black Caribbean's "liberation theology". In album after ... album for the past quarter century, Rodney has made it his mission to tell the real history of the ...
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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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MC's keeping it real
impact on the direction of hip hop with the release of the second album from his group, Boogie Down ... Productions, entitled By Any Means Necessary. In 1988, Public Enemy also released their second album, and the ... combined effect of Kris Parker and Chuck D's militant lyrics fuelled a surge in political hip hop that ...
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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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Delivered like a letter bomb
Political Prisoners iNsuRge Through Warners Music Reviewed by Jen Crothers Those who are at all ... interested in hardcore music will be interested in the latest offering from iNsuRge. Political Prisoners is ... property" aren't criminals but political prisoners. A pretty hard-hitting message, delivered like ...
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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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Beautiful mixture of sounds and rhythms
New Moon By Abderrahmane Abdelli Real World Records Reviewed by Jenny Long This album from Abdelli ... against social and sexual conservatism) to raise political subjects in their popular Algerian rai music. ... musical traditions to produce the album. As a result, the instruments used include the Magrebian darbukka, ...
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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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Radio highlights
Wednesday: Christy Moore Live — 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: ...