Music for the Rev: Rock El Casbah (Rachid Taha) (Add yours)

[Hannah Bell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbFYsi9iSg

Rocking the Casbah *in* the Casbah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJkGQps1lrs&feature=related

Rachid Taha Arabic: رشيد طه‎ (born September 18, 1958 in Sig, Algeria) is an Algerian singer. His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, electronic, punk and raï.

Taha was born in Sig (Mascara Province), Algeria. His father was a factory worker.<1> Taha's family immigrated to France in 1968.<2>

While working in a heating appliance factory in the late 1970s, Taha founded Les Refoulés ("The Rejects"), a nightclub where he would spin mashups of Arabic pop classics over Led Zeppelin, Bo Diddley and Kraftwerk backbeats.<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Taha

[Alameda]

1. Nice, thanks. North Africa has some really nice music.

[leftstreet]

2. Sweet n/t

[Catherina]

3. Cool. Sounds like a good sound to listen to these next coming weeks too.

Thanks Hannah! Rec'd

[chollybocker]

4. Thanks - très cool.

I miss Joe Strummer.

[tabatha]

5. Africa, still north, Guinea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2gMLCLSZ9w

[Hannah Bell]

7. pretty. i always wish i could understand the words.

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 10 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist. In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music in the U.S. and around the world...

In 1963...her second studio album for RCA, The World of Miriam Makeba...peaked at number eighty-six on the Billboard 200.<14><16> Later that year, after testifying against apartheid before the United Nations, her South African citizenship and her right to return to the country were revoked.<4> She was a woman without a country, but the world came to her aid, and Guinea, Belgium, and Ghana issued her international passports, and she became, in effect, a citizen of the world...

Her marriage to Trinidadian civil rights activist, Black Panther, and Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee leader Stokely Carmichael in 1968 caused controversy in the United States, and her record deals and tours were cancelled...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Makeba


Soweto Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwAX_r99Ck

[tabatha]

27. More Soweto music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3s6VIi4YaE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaD409EPIRQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MufiAgwQN1w

[pinboy3niner]

6. Adding mine...

I happen to be a big fan of John Fogerty (of Credence Clearwater Revival fame) For a revolutionary, antiwar anthem I'd offer this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfjU3_XOaA

[Hannah Bell]

9. powerful video - little history of the bomb. fits the music well.

[pinboy3niner]

12. I'm glad you liked it

As a Vietnam vet and peace activist, I have a long list of songs in that theme.

Another is "The Great Mandala," by Peter , Paul and Mary. One with which I'm sure you are familiar.

Love & Peace, Sister Hannah,
pinbioy3niner

[Hannah Bell]

14. PPM's "Songs of Conscience & Concern" = one of my favorite albums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB1YnAMLg48

I like this one too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yZ1zxtbOJE&feature=related

[rabs]

8. More of rachid taha, the best of

Instrumental, features oud -- will get your toes tapping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaU__4900c4&feature=related

[Hannah Bell]

10. i didn't know what an oud was.

The oud (Arabic: عود‎ ʿūd, plural:أعواد, a‘wād; Assyrian:ܥܘܕ ūd, Persian: بربط barbat; Turkish: ud or ut;<1> Greek: ούτι; Armenian: ուդ, Azeri: ud; Hebrew: עוד ud‎; Somali: cuud or kaban) is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North Africa (Chaabi, Andalusian, ...) and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging evolutionary paths. The oud is readily distinguished by its lack of frets and smaller neck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oud

but taha is a vocalist, so i think this isn't him

[rabs]

15. Good catch

whoever uploaded mislabled it as from Taha.

So had to go looking to find out who it is -- Mohamed Rouicha, from Morocco.


Short, one minute of Rouicha playing oud ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDzVgjFFD-g&feature=related

[Waiting For Everyman]

11. Lives in the balance...

...
On the radio talk shows and the TV
You hear one thing again and again --
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend...

But who are the ones that we call our friends --
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun, or a brick, or a stone?

And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPFdbKLUmQk

[Hannah Bell]

13. Love Jackson Browne. Good back-up singers too. :>)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQiXQUGbac0

I'm going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Though true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender

[Catherina]

16. Here's mine Keny Arkana, The Rage Of The People

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8txhtB2e5M

[Hannah Bell]

18. first one i didn't know. strong lyrics, glad for the translation.

Keny Arkana (born 1982 in Marseille, France) is a French rap artist. She is active in the alter-globalization movement with "La Rage Du Peuple", a music collective created in 2004 in the neighborhood of Noailles in Marseilles.

Raised in Marseilles of Argentine heritage, Arkana began rapping in 1996, with her first texts at the age of 12. She formed the collectives Mars Patrie and later Etat-Major, gaining performance experience in the Marseilles underground scene, culminating in the 2003 release of Etat Major's first mixtape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keny_Arkana


one for you: french hip-hop from a generation back: MC Solar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtnEpwcEP4w

When God created man
Everything was fine as
The eyes of a nun
One fine autumn morning
Then Eve crunched the apple
So add
In the history of man
Remember the formula
Man is like an angel in danger
The waters of the Ganges want change
The money from this song will benefit
Assist danger in Angers
An angel in danger

I must be courteous
You wonder why
Because my cause is noble, mmmh! voilà
It is thanks to the jazz legacy
That men becomes wise monkeys
I am 10 years old when I ask my mom
Why so much evil in the world?
It was cool at the time with my shorts and my pots
Now when I poop I think the spots on the hoods
I hope things will change
An angel is in danger

Finally I thank my sponsor
Namely, my mind and my body
The man known as simply Ron Carter
Faced with his bass descent is a pacemaker
Hip Hop nonstop jazz moves
Live! Live! not sampled in a second-hand record
We have done our part to try to heaven
To try to save an angel in danger

[Catherina]

19. She's got some really good stuff "Victoria" is another one I love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drlpkQTPr0Y

Thanks for this thread. I love music and getting new clues.

[Hannah Bell]

21. how did you hear of her?

[Catherina]

24. French friends.

She's very big with the resistance crowd.

[MedicalAdmin]

17. If I had a rocket launcher - Bruce Cockburn

Written in response to right wing death squads indiscriminite killing in central America thanks to the school of the Americas and old kindly uncle reagan.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Rocket_Launcher?wasRedirected=true

[Hannah Bell]

23. what, no clip?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w

[MedicalAdmin]

25. I'm posting from my iPhone

It's impossible to get YouTube clips as the website just tosses the link to the YouTube player. No URL to copy and paste.

Thanks for the assist.

[Luminous Animal]

20. I know what’s supposed to be...

I know that human rights is supposed to get down on its knees in front of all of this new technology and kiss the microchip circuit. It don’t impress me ever much; it ain’t nothin’ but a you buy, you make, you buy, you die. That’s the motto of America. You get born to buy it.

...

And if there’s anything going to be in the future, it’s going to be from all parts of everything, not just one white way down middle of the road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYDrYIA-res&feature=related

[Hannah Bell]

22. the original

[Starry Messenger]

26. Billy Bragg - The marching song of the covert battalions

This one is more satire, but it's been running through my head all week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-yRKfD2GIk

Here we are, seeking out the reds
Trying to keep the communists in order
Just remember when youre sleeping in your beds
Theyre only two days drive from the texas border

How can a country large as ours
Be scared of such a threat
Well if they wont work for us
Theyre against us you can bet
They may be sovereign countries
But you folks at home forget
That they all want what weve got
But they dont know it yet

Were making the world safe for capitalism

Here we come with our candy and our guns
And our corporate muscle marches in behind us
For freedoms just another world for nothing left to sell
And if you want narcotics we can get you those as well

We help the multi-nationals
When they cry out protect us
The locals scream and shout a bit
But we dont let that affect us
Were here to lend a helping hand
In case they dont elect us
How dare they buy our products
Yet still they dont respect us

Were making the world safe for capitalism

If you thought the army
Was here protecting people like yourself
Ive some news for you
Were here to defend wealth
Away with nuns and bishops
The good lord will help those that help themselves
Ive some news for you
Were here to defend wealth

Were making the world safe for capitalism

[Hannah Bell]

28. :>)