Lucy Rose sera de passage à Paris le 09 mai au Café de la Danse pour nous faire découvrir son nouvel album No Words Left. Lucy Rose est une chanteuse et compositrice multi-instrumentaliste anglaise, exerçant à la fois la batterie, le piano et la guitare. Ses compositions folk et pleines d’émotions ne sont pas sans rappeler celles de Laura Marling avec qui elle partage plusieurs influences dont Joni Mitchell et Neil Young.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ShTxl7DpQ
Le chanteur irlandais Hozier invite Mavis Staples pour chanter une chanson dédiée à Nina Simone :
Nina Cried Power
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2YgDua2gpk
Une version live :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBKPI5t9xI8
Les paroles (où l’on retrouve Nina Simone, Billie Holliday, Mavis Staples, Curtis Mayfield, Patti LaBelle, John Lennon, James Brown, B.B. King, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger, Marvin Gaye, Millie Jackson, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie) :
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising
It is the grounding of a foot uncompromising
It’s not forgoeing of the lie
It’s not the opening of eyes
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising
It’s not the shade, we should be past it
It’s the light, and it’s the obstacle that casts it
It’s the heat that drives the light
It’s the fire it ignites
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising
It’s not the song, it is the singing
It’s the hearing of a human spirit ringing
It is the bringing of the line
It is the baring of the rhyme
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising
And I could cry power (power)
Power (power)
Power Nina cried power
Billie cried power
Mavis cried power
And I could cry power
Power (power)
Power (power)
Power
Curtis cried power
Patti cried power
Nina cried power
It’s not the wall but what’s behind it
The fear of fellow men, his mere assignment
And everything that we’re denied
By keeping the divide
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising
And I could cry power (power)
Power (power)
Oh, power Nina cried power
Lennon cried power
James Brown cried power
And I could cry power
Power (power)
Power (power)
Power, lord
B.B. cried power
Joni cried power
Nina cried power
And I could cry power
Power has been cried by those stronger than me
Straight into the face that tells you
To rattle your chains if you love being free
NB : Nina Simone - Voleurs (1977)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkp77Rjt-9Q
#Musique #Musique_et_politique #Mavis_Staples #Nina_Simone #Hozier
Deep Green: The 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace | Greenpeace International
▻http://www.greenpeace.org/archive-international/en/about/deep-green/deep-green-jan-2010
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In 1969, a United States plan to conduct nuclear bomb tests on Amchitka Island in the Aleutian archipelago ignited the movement in Canada that would become Greenpeace.
Irving and Dorothy Stowe were American Quakers, who left the US in protest of its military policies, and arrived in Canada, in 1966, with their children Robert and Barbara. The Stowe home became a nexus of action to protest the US nuclear tests. Their Quaker friends Marie and Jim Bohlen first proposed the idea to sail a boat into the test zone. Canadian journalists Bob Hunter and Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe lent media experience, and the small group swelled with volunteers.
Hunter wrote a newspaper column about the danger of a tsunami from the bomb tests, which provided the group with its first name: The Don’t Make a Wave Committee. Twenty-two year-old Bill Darnell, who organised an ’Ecology Caravan’ in Canada, inspired the name that has endured for four decades. After a meeting, when Irving Stowe said “Peace,” Darnell responded with “Make it a green peace,” and the name stuck.
The group raised money with tin cans in corner grocery stores, and 25 cent ’Greenpeace’ buttons, but had not raised nearly enough to charter a boat and sail 6,000 kilometres across the Gulf of Alaska. Irving Stowe, a lover of music, decided to stage a rock concert.
He wrote to activist musicians Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, and others. Ochs and the popular Canadian band Chilliwack agreed to appear. Baez could not attend, but sent a $1000 check and connected Stowe with Joni Mitchell, who agreed to perform and brought her friend James Taylor. Stowe booked Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum for the event on16 October, 1970. Sound engineer Dave Zeffertt, recorded the concert on quarter-inch tape, and gave a copy to Stowe for his personal use only: it is a testament to Irving Stowe’s integrity that this historic recording never leaked out as a bootleg.
Joni Mitchell vs. Janet Jackson
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Joni Mitchell, multi-instrumentiste canadienne ayant inspiré de grands noms comme Neil Young ou Jimmy Page, a commencé sa longue carrière par le folk dans les 60’s, pour ensuite s’intéresser au rock puis au jazz. Avec plus d’une vingtaine d’albums studio et compilations à son actif, elle a gagné au (...)
The last space of cultural dynamism in #Luanda’s baixa is no more
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-last-space-of-cultural-dynamism-in-luandas-baixa-is-gone
Thirty years ago Joni Mitchell sang: “They paved paradise/ And put up a parking lot/ With a pink hotel, a boutique/ And a swinging hot spot. /Don’t it always seem to go/ That you don’t know what you’ve got/ Till it’s gone.” Who knew her words would resonate in today’s Luanda? Since 1988, #Elinga_Theater, […]