A special message from Peter Gabriel to Antoine de Caunes and Rapido Birthday
We7 offers free, legal music downloads. The much-ballyhooed theory that legitimate music downloads will go to a free, ad-sponsored model has thus far failed to materialise but believers can get a taste of the concept at the new We7 site.
A partir du vendredi 13 avril, le célèbre batteur Manu Katché présente une nouvelle émission musicale live sur la chaîne Arte. Batpisé "One Shot Not", ce nouveau rendez-vous télévisuel s’annonce rafraîchissant et instructif. En ouverture, Manu Katché a rassemblé rien moins que Bryan Ferry, Air, Joss Stone et Kyle Eastwood. 
Contre les mines anti personnel en RDC, avec MAG et l'UNICEF 
Tickets are now available for the Black Horse Music Festival, which this year will feature more than 30 acts of the calibre of Wilko Johnson, The Blockheads, Osibisa, Martin Carthy and Peter Gabriel protégé Daby Toure.
Sometimes the true nature of jazz is obliterated by our tendency to classify and label. Despite its “melting pot” roots and evolution, the genre is often embroiled in controversy over its definition. Enter an undeniably talented pianist/vocalist/composer whose chops shout Shorter and Hancock while her repertoire screams Sting and Stones. Such fusion of stylistic ideas has haunted popular performers from Miles Davis to the Bad Plus, and similarly, Rachel Nicolazzo—known simply as Rachel Z.
The Answer, Jason Mraz, McQueen, Rushmore, Reuben, & moreAre you driving to this year's WOMAD festival at Charlton Park and have a space in your car?
Senegalese mbalax superstar Youssou N'Dour has opened a door of acting for himself with a thrilling feature in the February 23, 2007 released biopic movie entitled 'Amazing Grace'. The movie is the inspiring story of how one man's passion and perseverance changed the world. Based on the true life story of William Wilberforce, a leader of the British abolition movement, the film chronicles his epic struggle to pass a law to end the slave trade in the late 18th century.
In this month's update Peter talks about WOMAD, tour dates, song lists, cello playing birds and the sounds of Rabbit Proof Fence. The Elders and Witness catch a break and spring is in the air.
Do you want to write music, or remix a band's tunes and then find similar stuff? Three top rock stars are eager to help...online musical distribution service he helped establish.
Now Gabriel is taking further steps into software with his involvement in The Filter, an intelligent playlist generator for the shuffle generation.
It currently works with Apple's iTunes and Nokia mobile phones - it's a free download that claims it will get us to hear more of the often neglected music files that lie dormant in our ever-expanding digital archives.
"About five years ago I registered the name thefilter.com," says Gabriel, "because it seemed inevitable that as people had more access to information, data and media, the way they found stuff they wanted or needed would become increasingly sophisticated and important. So I encouraged some experiments with filtering within OD2, and the team who were designing it for us began a business of their own based around recommendation engines into which I was invited to participate.
"The current incarnation is the beginning of something which I think is really exciting. I can see today's 'disc jockey' evolving into tomorrow's 'life jockey', and of all the different approaches to recommendation engines, The Filter has the most human response."
As a recording artist and head of a record label, Gabriel seems excited by the idea that developments such as The Filter can serve both equally well. "It enables people to find material that can surprise, inspire and excite," he says.
"The filtering process is not dictated by marketing dollars. Paid-for content has been the rock on which both the music and the film industries have been built. This rock is rapidly turning into quicksand and it seems to me that the future income streams are probably going to come as much from filtering and advertising, as from direct sale of content. I am hoping in our internet projects to make sure that musicians are not at the bottom of the pecking order."...
Last week, seven years late, I made the 20-minute journey to North Greenwich for my first visit to the ium Dome, or "The O2" as it is now known.
Pianist Rachel Z revisits her successful deconstruction of (largely) contemporary tunes on Everlasting (Tone Center, 2004) with Dept of Good and Evil. This time, however, the trio’s more collaborative nature has compelled Z to release the music under a collective group name, Dept of Good and Evil.
Peter Gabriel is coming to London this summer to perform at Hyde Park, it has been announced. The former Genesis singer will be playing at the 2007 Hyde Park Calling concerts on June 23rd and 24th. Backed by the Hard Rock Cafe and produced by Live Nation, the event will also feature Aerosmith and the newly reformed Crowded House. The Antipodean band will co-headline with Gabriel, in what will be their first appearance in the capital for more than ten years. Live Nation managing director Stuart Galbraith described the acts as "an incredible coup for Hyde Park Calling". "Crowded House returning to a London stage after ten years absence will be an amazing event and Peter Gabriel always puts on a truly fantastic show," he said. Gabriel will also be performing at this summer's Womad festival on its 25th anniversary. The innovative musician helped found the world music event in 1982.Thousands joined Rosie Boycott to march for the legalisation of cannabis. But the times, and the cannabis, were different then
When Rosie Boycott, the then editor of The Independent on Sunday, launched her campaign for the decriminalisation of cannabis in 1997, the decision caused a furore.
At the start of the campaign, Ms Boycott wrote: "Certainly, no one has ever been disfigured by a joint. The truth is that most people I know have smoked at some time or other in their lives. They hold down jobs, bring up their families, run major companies, govern our country, and yet... cannabis is still officially regarded as a dangerous drug."
Just a few months later, on Saturday 28 March 1998, thousands of supporters gathered in Hyde Park. Ms Boycott was pictured pushing a wheelchair-bound MS sufferer who used the drug to ease the symptoms of his condition. The campaign had secured the support of celebrities such as Sir Paul McCartney, Martin Amis, Harold Pinter, Nick Hornby, Peter Gabriel and Anita Roddick. They were joined by scientists, lawyers, academics, doctors and artists...
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Open Mic, March 16, 2007 · Joy Askew grew up in northern England and came to New York City in the '80s. She played keyboards and sang with many artists including Joe Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Jack Bruce, Rodney Crowell and performance artist Laurie Anderson appearing in Anderson's film "Home of the Brave".
For the last decade, Joy has focused on her own career as an artist, writing and producing six albums. The last of them, The Pirate of Eel Pie, was self-released this month. These are personal songs of Askew's, written on the guitar and piano, many of them drawing from her past growing up in Newcastle, England and being young and living in London in the '70s.
Her first record Tender City was released in 1996 on Private Music. In 2002, Joy released the electronic, jazz, downtempo CD Echo and played shows in the U.K. on a sold-out tour, opening up for David Byrne.
The first Womad event was held in England 25 years ago and, despite breaking the mainstream mould, it has found world-wide success. Michelle Sutton talks to co-founder, Thomas Brooman, on his way to this weekend's festival in Taranaki.
Rock legend Peter Gabriel will make a special guest appearance at a world music festival to be held in Wiltshire in July.
Change, as you can see, is afoot. We thought it was time to break out of the box!L'émission hebdomadaire Taratata, sur France 4 ( un best of étant diffusé aussi en mensuelle sur France 2) va connaître d'ici la fin du mois une série d'enregistrements.
Voici les invités prévus (sous réserves de modifications)...
Arctic Monkeys, Just Jack, Dolores O’Riordan ( ex Cranberries), Jacques Higelin, Diam’s.
Keren Ann, Rita Mitsouko, Matmatah, Razorlight, Sophie Ellis Bextor.
My Chemical Romance, The Automatic, Camille Bazbaz, Akli D
Eicher, Avril Lavigne, John Legend, Amy Winehouse, The Fray.
Avant d'entendre tous ces invités, rendez-vous sur France 4 avec :
Rachid Taha, Bruno Maman, Plasticines, Herman Dune, Gaetan le vendredi 23 mars.
Peter Gabriel, Billy Idol, Motorhead, Etienne Daho, Zazie, Isaac Hayes, Ben Harper ( spécial "Mon Taratata à moi") le 30 mars.
The project Honest Touch from Athens, Greece is among the diverse group of artists from all over the world, chosen as the Independent Music Awards Vox Populi winners. Visitors of the IMAs website were given the opportunity to vote for their favorite album and the project received the highest rates in the New Age category. The IMAs is a program that promotes independent artists, labels and releases to over 11 Million music fans and industry insiders.
It was truly a cultural melting pot at WOMADelaide yesterday, with scorching temperatures sending festival fans scurrying for shade.
As she takes an early afternoon stroll along 125th Street in Harlem, Rachel Nicolazzo tries to find an area free from passing trains and the bustle of nearby shoppers to conduct a phone interview. Perhaps fittingly, the spot she chooses for conversing has led her directly across the street from New York's famed Cotton Club. As has been the case for much of her career, Nicolazzo -- better known to fans and friends as Rachel Z -- seems to find music around every corner.
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