"All Power to the People": Algiers, the band, is back

 Reminder:

 Music that reminds us in what kind of word we live in and give us the strength to remember we can change it!! Anytime!!! If we are strong enough and work in solidarity.

Thank you, Algiers.

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Message from the band:

We are excited to launch the second installment of our tape/zine series, featuring ten unreleased songs and original art from the band and collaborators (and lots of Marxist polemics).

"In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience." Stokely Carmichael

Purchase physical copies here for $10
(Tape comes with download code.)
Purchase digital copies here for $5

Tracklisting:
A1 Overture
A2 Games (Demo)
A3 Time Lapse
A4 Incidental 6
A5 Insomnia
B1 Remains (demo)
B2 Repetition 1
B3 Repetition 2
B4 Repetition 3
B5 Without Atmosphere

Zine #1 with 'Walk Like A Panther' 7"
also still available.

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Upcoming Shows

These shows are selling fast. Buy your tickets in advance. 

28 Sep   Santa Fe, NM ^
29 Sep   Phoenix, AZ ^
30 Sep   Santa Barbara, CA ^
1 Oct   San Diego, CA
15 Oct   Atlanta, GA
17 Oct   Durham, NC
18 Oct   Columbus, OH
19 Oct   Chicago, IL
20 Oct   Detroit, MI
21 Oct   Toronto, ON
22 Oct   Montreal, QC
24 Oct   Cambridge, MA
25 Oct   South Burlington, VT
1 Nov   Eindhoven, Netherlands
2 Nov   Amsterdam, Netherlands
3 Nov   Bielefeld, Germany
5 Nov   Dresden, Germany
6 Nov   Berlin, Germany
8 Nov   Poznan, Poland
9 Nov   Warsaw, Poland
10 Nov   Wrocław, Poland
11 Nov Prague, Czech Republic
13 Nov   Turin, Italy
14 Nov   Nîmes, France
15 Nov   Barcelona, Spain
16 Nov   Lyon, France
17 Nov   Bern, Switzerland
18 Nov   Zürich, Switzerland
19 Nov   Brussels, Belgium
20 Nov   Paris, France
22 Nov   Manchester, UK
23 Nov   Liverpool, UK
24 Nov   Glasgow, UK
26 Nov   Birmingham, UK
27 Nov   Leeds, UK
28 Nov   London, UK
29 Nov   London, UK   SOLD OUT
30 Nov   Brighton, UK
2 Dec   Dublin, Ireland
4 Dec   Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
5 Dec   Bristol, UK

Stay strong in the struggle. 

Love and solidarity, 
Algiers 

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And music with video of course:

Algiers - "Cleveland" (Official Video)

Published on 12 Jul 2017

From Algiers' new album 'The Underside of Power' released by Matador Records on June 23rd, 2017 and available for purchase now: http://smarturl.it/TheUndersideOfPower

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"A recurring theme in our music is the idea of injustice and the bitter understanding that obtaining justice in this world is all but impossible--particularly for black and brown people.”
- frontman and lyricist Franklin James Fisher

Please follow the links below for more information and to see how you can help.

KINDRA CHAPMAN:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles...

ANDRE JONES:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/21/us/...
http://unsolved.com/gallery/andre-jones/

LENNON LACY
http://www.naacpnc.org/lennon_lacy
https://www.change.org/p/fbi-reopen-t...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
http://theundefeated.com/videos/the-d...

SANDRA BLAND:
https://www.gofundme.com/sandystillsp...

ROOSEVELT PERNELL:
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article...

KEITH WARREN:
http://www.thekeithwarrenjusticesite....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...

ALFRED WRIGHT:
https://www.texasobserver.org/alfred-...
http://rollingout.com/2014/11/30/alfr...
http://heavy.com/news/2014/02/alfred-...
http://www.aframnews.com/case-not-clo...

TAMIR RICE: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/jus...
http://www.gq.com/story/tamir-rice-story

ERIC GARNER
https://fundly.com/eric-garner-family...

AKAI GURLEY
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexronan/th...

PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE COMMITTEE:
http://chairmanfredjr.blogspot.com/

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
https://donate.splcenter.org/sslpage....

NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
http://www.nlg-npap.org/

BLACK LIVES MATTER:
http://blacklivesmatter.com/

Directed by Marisa Gesualdi & Franklin James Fisher
Edited by Sam Campbell

"I Origins" - Soundtrack

 I've always loved film soundtracks.
For a long time, I even thought that it should be the most satisfying job in the world, writing music for films, creating the emotions for a storyline, for characters. Also because I didn't know how controlled it could be.

 I still do love some soundtracks. I could post so many here. But just discovered this one.

 I'm a writer but really I can confess that, although I love words so much, and lyrics in particular, music is truly the most powerful language of all...

 Just sharing...

"I Origins" - music video

Published on 21 Jul 2014

Music video for "Driverless Car", taken from the soundtrack to Mike Cahill's I Origins, released by Fox Searchlight.

Video Directed by Rupert Cresswell at MPC Creative in London

Music by Fall On Your Sword

Soundtrack album available on Milan Records

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More:

"I Origins" Soundtrack - 

01 "Message to My Future Self"

 "I Origins" Soundtrack - 03 "Lucky Elevens"

"I Origins" - Soundtrack - 13 "Salomina"

Marseille: M A T I È R E N O I R E - Gonzalo Borondo show - D-8

 Heading to Marseille in a week for this very unique art event:
More soon!!

M A T I È R E  N O I R E
Gonzalo Borondo show

Oct 7 – Jan 31 | Galerie Saint Laurent, Marché aux Puces, Marseille
Opening reception Saturday October 7 – h 18.00 / 06pm
FREE ENTRY
 

On October 7 ^th, Catherine Coudert and Galerie Saint Laurent proudly presents Matière Noire, international artist Borondo’s biggest exhibition to date in the heart of Marseille’s famous antique Marché aux Puces, one of the largest markets in Europe.

Curated by Carmen Main, the show is co-produced by Gonzalo Borondo himself and Italian artist, and his close friend, Edoardo Tresoldi. The three artists have already worked together in Borondo’s last exhibition ‘Animal’ in London.

 

Matière Noire deals with the dark matter - everything we cannot directly see or detect but allows the universe to exist - as a metaphor of the invisible in our perception. The show is a reflection upon different cultural, social and generational realities and the media through which they are filtered, from earlier forms of representations to contemporary digital technologies.

In the 4,000-square-meter exhibition, Borondo will present its universe for the first time through more than 30 in-situ artworks - animations, holograms, installations, paintings, videos - in collaboration with 8 international multidisciplinary artists under 30, all born before the digital boom: BRBR Films, Carmen Main, Diego López Bueno, Edoardo Tresoldi, Isaac Cordal, Robberto Atzori, Sbagliato and A.L. Crego, author of the exhibition's dynamic visual content, such as gifs and videos.

The objects found on site are the raw material used for most of the works; they represent the fil rouge for the whole exhibition as opposed to the digital archive of our times. As Borondo has said: “When I entered into the market for the first time I felt like I was in a limbo of objects waiting to find a new life through the viewers’ gaze. A reserve of collective memory that inspires constant search and the feeling of being able to find something unique, belonging to personal history”.
 

Divided in 3 acts – projection, perception, and interpretation – the exhibition casts doubts on the uniqueness of reality and its representations, penetrating and questioning the edges of human perception; from Plato’s allegory of the cave to a 2.0 reality which shows a world flowing behind a screen, to the free creative contribution of each artist.

 

During the 3-month art residency in Marché aux Puces, the artists have lived and worked together, curating and organizing every detail of the show, sharing the space with the merchants of the iconic market in the heart of a disappearing neighborhood, the dark matter of Marseille. 

Borondo makes use of collective symbols and myths, and touches archetypes and latent unconscious, bringing the audience to a kaleidoscope of infinite universes to explore and capture. They are drafts of an invisible past without which our existence would not be possible, as the dark matter of our present.

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Matière Noire

From Thursday to Saturday from 10.00 am to 06.00 pm


Sunday from 10.00 am to 01.00 pm


Private visits on appointment+33 06 76 91 42 61



Address

Hall des Antiquaires

Marché aux Puces

130 Chemin de la Madrague Ville 

13015 Marseille 

"Haitian director Raoul Peck knows how to make films that move you and shake you to the core."

More about the first film I ever worked on, as a journalist, researcher, writer, for the amazing filmmaker Raoul Peck, in English:

FILM: The Young Karl Marx

28/09/2017 BY NEPTUNE 

29 September 2017

THE YOUNG KARL MARX **** (vo German, French, English)

Haitian director Raoul Peck knows how to make films that move you and shake you to the core.

The Young Karl Marx - Trailer [en]

As a political militant, he makes films about history, humanity and injustices that cause you to reflect and feel the larger truths with your gut, literally.

The first film of his that I saw was I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, a searing documentary on James Baldwin and the assassinations of three great black figures. It was a haunting experience. In this film he has taken up the life and works of Marx, instigator of one of the most important social revolutions in history, along with his friend Frederick Engels.

To go from documentary to a feature film based on historical facts is not a given, but Peck has managed it with both mastery and discretion. From the excellent dialogue, acting, editing, the intermingling of languages depending on the locations, and the delicate music, he pulls us into the young lives of Marx and Engels in the 1840s, as they took on the incredible idea of setting workers free and giving them decent wages. It was a dangerous and revolutionary idea for the times.

From Germany to Manchester, Paris, London and Brussels, Peck follows dedicated men and women who believed in the new idea of equality and freedom from the slave labor of the Industrial Revolution – a revolution that had benefited the industrialists and condemned the workers to poverty and horrific living conditions.

This is an eye-opener of the first order, above and beyond our knowledge of the Communist movement or our opinion of it. As in I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, Peck seems to be continuously capable of transmitting larger ideas. Here he makes us witness to the details and importance of the ideals of the Communist movement, rather than the flaws in its later manifestations.

Massive Attack's 3D on His Graffiti Art in 1985/6 in Bristol

This footage shows the graffiti ability of the man known as 3D, aka Robert Del Naja, at the centre of my book.

Shared in July by the BBC West of England, it was finally shared by the man himself today on his band's Facebook page.

It contains a very interesting interview about the street art scene in the middle of the 1980s, which has dramatically changed since. It is also a great footage showing the artist at work, at a time when spraying was still largely illegal or possible on a few private walls.

BBC Inside Out West

July 26 · 

This previously unbroadcast footage of young graffiti artist Robert Del Naja - 3D from Massive Attack - is a priceless piece of social history. 

Produced by Philip Johnson for his open access Video Workshop at Filton Technical College circa 1985/86, it shows 3D painting a piece on the facade of the original Westworld clothing shop in Lower Park Row, Bristol, filmed by student Morris Weeks as part of a group project. 

This is intercut with an interview with the man himself by Philip, with whose permission we're able to share this with you.

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According to now famous street artists from Bristol, like Inkie, Nick Walker and of course Banksy, 3D inspired them all and really made graffiti special in this era. His adventures at the time are recollected in the fourth and fifth chapter of my book...

Enjoy this rare piece of recent history!! 

About Giles Duley’s interactive exhibition for refugees

 Must see in London in October.

Link: http://trumanbrewery.com/cgi-bin/exhibitions.pl

Article published in the British Journal of Photography today:

Published on 25 September 2017

Helping refugees starts in London with Giles Duley’s interactive exhibition

Written by Alex Jackson

Murad, 5 years old, from Idlib – Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. Feb. 2016. © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Hosted at The Old Truman Brewery, Giles Duley's exhibition, I Can Only Tell You What I See, featuring images from his photobook of the same name, promises collaborative conversations to bring people together on the issue of refugees.

“They gave me the greatest brief a photographer can be given: ‘Follow your heart’,” says Giles Duley of the moment the UNHCR asked him to work with them on documenting the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015, with many of the photographs featuring in upcoming exhibition, I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See. “That was it really, I was free to do as I saw fit.

“I started by documenting the journey, the journey from Greece and the boat landing there, up through the Balkans and on towards Germany and Berlin,” he continues. “But that was only really one part of the story. The real crisis is happening in the Middle East in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Jordan. So most of the project then was concentrated in those countries.”

Duley travelled throughout the region for eight months, returning time and again to refugee camps and conflict zones in Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. He jokes that he didn’t have a day off for over half a year – but adds that he needed to take time to get to know the people he was photographing.

Shamah Darweesh, over 90 years old, from Homs – Al-Mafraq, Jordan. March 2016 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Hussein, 8 years old, from AL bab near Aleppo – Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. February 2016 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Ibrahim, 25 years old from Idlib – Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. February 2016 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

“You need to spend time with people, you need to respect these people, you have to get to know them, becoming friends before you start talking about making photographs,” he says. “Too many people turn up and start taking photographs immediately, and you’ve created a barrier. I’m a photographer whose camera spends more time in the bag than it does out of it. I can spend days and even weeks with people before I even bring out my camera.”

Yet the journey to take these photographs has not always been easy. In 2011 Duley sustained massive injuries after stepping on an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Afghanistan, losing both legs and one arm. Continuing his work in photojournalism has been a mammoth task, especially given the fact he carries all his own equipment and works in sometime hostile environments. “I don’t think my photos are as much in focus anymore. Focus is overrated though,” he laughs.

“But photography is absolutely everything in my life and the only time I don’t feel like I have a disability, the only time I don’t feel in pain, is when I am taking a photograph,” he continues. “There are a lot of extra challenges which almost make it impossible, but I think the people I document look at me and hear my story and immediately we have something in common. They meet me and they know that it’s not easy for me to be there; they see me struggling, in pain, really making all the effort I can and challenged to take their photograph.”

Duley says his desire to see the refugees helped outweighs his personal difficulties, and that’s an ethos that carries through to the exhibition of his work coming up at The Old Truman Brewery. He’s chosen to make it an interactive display, hopeful that this will empower those who come to see it, inspiring them to reach out to those in need.

Ibraheem Alazam teaches math to his two sons – Ajloun, Jordan, April 2016 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Aya screams “Faster Donkey, faster!” while being pushed in her wheelchair by her brother Mohamad. Tripoli, Lebanon, 2016 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

On arriving in France, Sihan (Aya’s mother) said – ‘Aya struggles to sleep, but on the first night I was able to say to her, “It’s ok Aya, this is your home now”.’ Laval, France, June 2016 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

“The world at the moment can feel overwhelming. What I want to do is remind people that any small act can make a difference,” he says. “Don’t think globally – it’s ridiculous to think that you can end the war in Syria individually. Of course you can’t. But can you bake a cake and take it down to your local refugee centre? Of course you can.”

The show will also involve other artists, with Semaan Khawam will be the artist-in-residence, creating new work every night of the exhibition, and Rob Del Naja of the band Massive Attack has creating a soundscape to go with it. A supper gathering each evening will host up to 100 people, featuring cuisine from a Syrian couple who have set up a food outlet in London. Perhaps the most intriguing part of the exhibition will be paintings from children living in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, an addition which is made possible through the support of Sir Bobby Charlton’s charity, Find A Better Way. The pictures depict both the horrors the children have escaped, and the conditions they continue to endure.

“The exhibition just becomes this transition point – there will be new artwork created by the exhibition,” says Duley. “I think that’s exciting, it means it becomes alive. These often tragic stories will continue living in other forms, whether through painting or through music, so it’s about making the exhibition a place of life and a celebration of that life.”

He hopes that in doing so he can promote a positive, enriching experience, far away from the current political polemic surrounding migrants and migration. “I have a ‘Burning House’ theory,” he explains. “Even right now, we hear people have extreme views and there’s a lot of hatred in the world. But I believe most people, if they were going past a burning house and they saw someone in the window, would not ask ‘Is that person black or white, is that person straight or gay, is that person Muslim or Christian?’

“Their instinct would be to try and save that person. My job is to make sure that people see refugees in the same way they would see people in a burning building, because the situation is the same.”

I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See runs daily at The Old Truman Brewery, 4 October – 15 October. Giles Duley’s photobook of the same name is available now, published by Saqi books, with all profits being donated to the work of the UNHCR.

A train carrying Iraqi, Syrian and Afghan] refugees – FYR Macedonia. 28 November 2015 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

FYR Macedonian military use razor wire to construct a border fence – Idomeni, Greece. 29 November 2015 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Greek/FYROM border – Idomeni, Greece. 28 November 2015 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Thanasis, a local fisherman in Lesbos, rescues a boat that had become stranded. He had brought in boats everyday since June. November 2015 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Migrant workers from Pakistan warm their hands against the freezing temperatures – Idomeni, Greece. 30 30 November 2015 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Nighttime at the border crossing between Greece and FYR Macedonia – Idomeni, Greece. 30 November 2015 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Caught at the border, Sara, Mohammad and Asea from Homs, Syria try to keep warm in donated clothes as they prepare for another night without shelter – Idomeni, Greece. 03 December 2015 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

Malak’ Alazam with her three daughters. In 2014, whilst the family relaxed on their rooftop in Syria, a rocket hit their house. Two of her daughters were killed, another lost an eye and ‘Malak’ herself lost her leg – Ajloun, Jordan, April 2016 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

“I never wanted to go to Europe. I never wanted to be so far from Syria,” Ayman said before leaving Lebanon. “But if this gives my children a chance of a future, then I will go.” © Giles Duley/UNHCR

A boat carrying over 40 Afghans approaches Lesvos after crossing the Aegean from Turkey – Lesbos, Greece. 31 October 2015 © Giles Duley/UNHCR

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Link: http://trumanbrewery.com/cgi-bin/exhibitions.pl