Monsanto Go Away
As part of the Occupy Maui movement, The Human Revolution has a clear message for Monsanto.
More on Monsanto on The Road.
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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
As part of the Occupy Maui movement, The Human Revolution has a clear message for Monsanto.
More on Monsanto on The Road.
Read the full post...
Yeaah, It's a Party in the CIA
yeah, we’ve got our backups all over the world,Read the full post...
from Kazakhstan to Bombay;
payin’ the bribes like yeah, pluggin’ the leaks like yeah;
interrogating the scum of the earth,
we’ll break them by the break of day!
yeeeaaahhh, it’s a party in the CIA!
by Weird Al Yankovic
Song of the Day:
Lotus Flower by Radiohead
Because all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what it is
Just to see what gives
Take the lotus flowers into my room
Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
All I want is the moon upon a stick
(Click on the picture to watch the video on YouTube)
Discovered via Matt Brown, who shot the video.
More Songs of the Day on The Road Read the full post...
"Changement" by Sodre Ousmane and Isaka Belem
When we were in Ouahiqouya, a town in the Northern region of Burkina Faso last December, I saw Sodre Ousmane presenting a radio programme on the farmer's radio "La Voix du Paysan" (The voice of the farmer).
During the programme, Sodre sung along with one of the songs on the radio, and I got enchanted by his melodic voice. Afterwards, I asked him if he could do a song for us, which we would then use as background music for our video testimonials about farmers adapting to the climate change challenges.
Sodre asked what he should sing about, and I suggested "Change" (or "Changement" in French). He sat down with Isaka Belem, and improvised a song, right there on the spot, about the impact of "Change", in the weather, the political climate, the economy...
The song, the authenticity, and "couleur locale" of the melody took us all by surprise.
Meanwhile, we have used the song as a background for one of our testimonial videos, but I also wanted to show the song by itself.
So here is Sodre Ousmane with Isaka Belem on strings. Enjoy! Read the full post...
Song of the Day: Lisa Hannigan - I Don't Know
My vote of Song of the Day... Well, even Song of the Season... Nice!
Thanks to Samuel! Read the full post...
Requiem for Luc
Last night, my nephew posted his last Facebook update after years of fighting cancer.
Tonight is the last night.
It was a privilege knowing you all.
Eva Cassidy, Somewhere over the Rainbow. For Luc. Read the full post...
Glory sings Halleluya
We met Glory Kinya Gitonga during our Kenya tour. We were interviewing her mother-in-law about the way she adapted her farming techniques to cope with climate change.
Glory said she wrote songs in her native Kimeru, and asked if we could videotape one called "Halleluya".
So, ladies and gentlemen, here is Glory Kinya Gitonga performing "Halleluya" in a cappella!
Song of the Day: Live like Horses
I stepped onto the moving stairs
Before I could tie my shoes
Pried a harp out the fingers of a renegade
Who lived and died the blues
And his promise made was never clear
It just carved itself in me
All I saw was frost inside my head
On the night he said to me
Someday we'll live like horses
Free rein from your old iron fences
There's more ways than one to regain your senses
Break out the stalls and we'll live like horses
Pavarotti and Friends
performing for War Child
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Song of the day: Angel - Sarah McLachlan
For the five friends and colleagues we lost due to senseless violence today.
The lyrics:Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
There's always one reason
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh beautiful release
Memory seeps from my veins
Let me be empty
And weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort there
So tired of the straight line
And everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
And the storm keeps on twisting
You keep on building the lie
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference
Escaping one last time
It's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
This glorious sadness that brings me to my knees
In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort there
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here
Song of the day: Wait it out (Imogen Heap)
Where do we go from here?
How do we carry on?
I can't get beyond these questions...
Clambering for the scraps in the shatter of us collapsed
that cuts me with every could-have-been
Pain on pain on play repeating
with the backup, makeshift life in waiting
Everybody says time heals everything
but what of the wretched hollow?
The endless in between
are we just going to wait it out?
There's nothing to see here now,
turning the sign around
We're closed to the earth 'til further notice
A stumbling cliched case,
crumpled and puffy faced
Dead in the stare of a thousand miles
All I want, only one, street level miracle
I'll be an out and out, born again, from none more
cynical
And sit here cold, we will be long gone by then
In lackluster, in dust we layer on old magazines,
fluorescent lighting sets the scene
in the one life that we've got
And sit here
Just going to wait it out
And sit here cold
Just going to sweat it out
Wait it out
This song should be played at the opening of the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Summit meeting.
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Song of the day: Run Away (The Corrs)
Say it's true, there's nothing like me and you
Not alone, tell me you feel it too
And I would runaway
I would runaway, yeah
I would runaway
I would runaway with you
Cause I have fallen in love
With you, no never have
I'm never gonna stop falling in love, with you
Close the door, lay down upon the floor
And by candlelight, make love to me through the night
Cause I have runaway
I have runaway, yeah
If you are in for a magical life version of this song, try this.
More music on The Road. Read the full post...
Song of the day: The Corrs and beatboxers
I have two variations of music for you today.
If you feel romantic and in the mood for a bit of floating, try "Only when I sleep" by The Corrs:
If on the other hand, you have to shake that rhythm out of your booodeh. Then... these two British beatboxers performing at the cafeteria of Google London will probably do the trip:
So which one worked for you?
Beatbox video discovered via The Next Web who got it via Michael J. Cohen's FriendFeed
Song of the day: Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
I keep on telling you all. The daily worries are not important... Go beyond. Listen to this song and close your eyes.
Or listen to the official music video clip of the same.
More music and videos on The Road.
Song of the day: Always look at
No matter how tough stuff gets, at least at work... Sometimes it is just better to take a distance and see the relativity of it all... Does it all really matter that much, in the wider scheme of things?
At those moments, this song comes to mind:
More music and videos on The Road.
Song of the day: Je pense a toi - I am thinking of you...
Amadou & Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, who met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind.
The duo's early recordings in the 80s and 90s feature spare arrangements of guitar and voice. Since the late 1990s Amadou & Mariam produce music that mixes traditional Mali sound with rock guitars, Syrian violins, Cuban trumpets, Egyptian ney, Colombian trombones, Indian tablas and Dogon percussion. All these elements put together have been referred to as "Afro-blues".
More music and videos on The Road.
Song of the Day: Stand by me...
From the documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.
More music and videos on The Road.
Video courtesy Playing For Change.
Song of the day: Beautiful Flower - India Arie
Song of the day: Vaporous
Rumble: Today. And my favorite music station.
The sun is out again. A picture as I was walking back from my morning coffee at the bar around the corner.
On this wonderful day, let me share a secret with you. But shhht, don't tell anyone! If your Internet connection is good enough to listen to music streams, try my favourite chill radio station, 181.fm...
And imagine you are here, in Italy, with the sun shining in your face... Enjoy! Read the full post...
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Peter. Flemish, European, aid worker, expeditioner, sailor, traveller, husband, father, friend, nutcase. Not necessarily in that order.
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