Dan Everett's "Fragments"

Dan Everett, talented musician and instrumentalist I had the pleasure to listen to in Bristol and at WOMAD Festival is releasing a first album!

Enjoy this extracts:

Fragments

par Daniel Everett

	Give It Up 00:57 / 05:37

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	1.	Rivers and Canyons 03:31
	2.	I Won't Go 01:57
	3.	Time 03:07
	4.	Farewell, Louisiana 03:20
	5.	From the Sidelines 02:34
	6.	Rise and Fall 03:51
	7.	Hold On 03:14
	8.	Northern Lights 04:33
	9.	Beautiful Again In Your Eyes 03:04
	10.	Give It Up 05:37
	11.	Everlust 05:38

crédits

paru le 4 novembre 2017

All tracks written and performed by Daniel Everett. Tracks 10 and 11 arranged by Paul Isaac.
Daniel Everett: Guitar, Bass, Voice, Keys and Percussion
Paul Isaac: Percussion and Keys
Mike Cooper: Drums
Andrew Steen: Electric Guitar on Northern Lights
James Fisher: Electric Guitar on Give It Up

Recorded in Winchester, Bristol and Stroud at Glitchy Nomad Studios. Engineered by Paul Isaac and Daniel Everett. Mixed and mastered by Paul Isaac.

Photography by Jethro Massey -  jethromassey.com Design and Artwork by Paul Isaac and Daniel Everett:  threemuses.co.uk and danieleverett.co.uk respectively.

Produced by Paul Isaac and Daniel Everett. P & C Daniel Everett 2017

No record companies were harmed during the making of this album.

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Daniel Everett
Bristol, UK

Folk guitarist and songwriter, Dan Everett, lives in Bristol, England.

 He released his first EP in 2011 and is currently recording a follow-up album, due due for release November 2017. 

danieleverett.co.uk

A year after November 2016's disaster

 Last year, while the Americans were messing around with their  presidential election - not realising how damaging it could be for the rest of the world too, I was in London, immersing myself in the painting of an artist who lived through war and exil, looking for a publisher for my book, then travelling to Belfast to report on the consequences of Brexit on Northern Ireland... 

Such a hard twelve-month period since then. 

But we are making a lot of progress (look at the previous post).

As all the thinkers, writers, artists, who lived through dark times, I could add, as James Baldwin used to say: "I cannot be a pessimist, because I'm alive". 

Some are not so lucky. 

May the rest of us realize we need to gather our strength and make this world a better place.

Paradise Papers

Sunday revelations.
Journalists mostly knew, but here are the links and details.
Now, let's change this.

Tax evasion is a major flow in our economic system. If tackled, it could eliminate poverty in a few years. In the west but also on other continents. We have responsibilities and must act for this appalling situation to be stopped.

What are the Paradise Papers?

By the Guardian

Published on 5 Nov 2017

A massive leak of more than 13m files reveals the hidden wealth of some of the world’s richest people including sports stars, celebrities and heads of state. The Paradise Papers show how complex schemes set up in offshore islands can help the super-rich avoid billions in tax

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All the articles here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/paradise-papers

The Paradise Papers is a special investigation by the Guardian and 95 media partners worldwide into a leak of 13.4m files from two offshore service providers and 19 tax havens' company registries

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Paradise Papers leak reveals secrets of world elite's hidden wealth

Files from offshore law firm show financial dealings of the Queen, big multinationals and members of Donald Trump’s cabinet

Juliette Garside

@JulietteGarside

Sunday 5 November 2017 18.00 GMT

The world’s biggest businesses, heads of state and global figures in politics, entertainment and sport who have sheltered their wealth in secretive tax havens are being revealed this week in a major new investigation into Britain’s offshore empires.

The details come from a leak of 13.4m files that expose the global environments in which tax abuses can thrive – and the complex and seemingly artificial ways the wealthiest corporations can legally protect their wealth.

The material, which has come from two offshore service providers and the company registries of 19 tax havens, was obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists with partners including the Guardian, the BBC and the New York Times. 

The project has been called the Paradise Papers. It reveals:

• Millions of pounds from the Queen’s private estate has been invested in a Cayman Islands fund – and some of her money went to a retailer accused of exploiting poor families and vulnerable people.
• Extensive offshore dealings by Donald Trump’s cabinet members, advisers and donors, including substantial payments from a firm co-owned by Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law to the shipping group of the US commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross.
• How Twitter and Facebook received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments that can be traced back to Russian state financial institutions.
• The tax-avoiding Cayman Islands trust managed by the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s chief moneyman.
• A previously unknown $450m offshore trust that has sheltered the wealth of Lord Ashcroft. 
• Aggressive tax avoidance by multinational corporations, including Nike and Apple.
• How some of the biggest names in the film and TV industries protect their wealth with an array of offshore schemes.
• The billions in tax refunds by the Isle of Man and Malta to the owners of private jets and luxury yachts.
• The secret loan and alliance used by the London-listed multinational Glencorein its efforts to secure lucrative mining rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• The complex offshore webs used by two Russian billionaires to buy stakes in Arsenal and Everton football clubs.

The disclosures will put pressure on world leaders, including Trump and the British prime minister, Theresa May, who have both pledged to curb aggressive tax avoidance schemes.

The publication of this investigation, for which more than 380 journalists have spent a year combing through data that stretches back 70 years, comes at a time of growing global income inequality.

Meanwhile, multinational companies are shifting a growing share of profits offshore – €600bn in the last year alone – the leading economist Gabriel Zucman will reveal in a study to be published later this week.

“Tax havens are one of the key engines of the rise in global inequality,” he said. “As inequality rises, offshore tax evasion is becoming an elite sport.”

At the centre of the leak is Appleby, a law firm with outposts in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. In contrast to Mossack Fonseca, the discredited firm at the centre of last year’s Panama Papers investigation, Appleby prides itself on being a leading member of the “magic circle” of top-ranking offshore service providers.

It acted for the establishment offshore, providing the structures that helped to legally reduce their tax bills.

Appleby says it has investigated all the allegations, and found “there is no evidence of any wrongdoing, either on the part of ourselves or our clients”, adding: “We are a law firm which advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business. We do not tolerate illegal behaviour.”

About philanthropists’ money

Interesting read:

Money still overcomes morality when it comes to philanthropists’ wealth 


Inews
By Ian Birrell 
Sunday November 5th 2017


Colston’s Girls’ School in Bristol has decided not to ditch its name, despite bearing the moniker of a 17th-century merchant who made a fortune by shipping slaves from Africa to the Americas. 

In a letter last week to parents, the headteacher insisted it was “not appropriate” to disassociate the school from Edward Colston and saw no benefit from “denying” its financial origin and “obscuring history”. 

But Colston Hall has taken a different tack after a boycott from local band Massive Attack. The music venue is changing its “toxic” name since it does not believe this offers the right image for a progressive arts organisation in a multiracial city. A bronze statue commemorating Colston remains in Bristol, however, even claiming to be “a memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons of their city”. 

“These controversies arise from bountiful legacies of buccaneering businessmen who, having made fortunes in dubious style, sought to spruce up their image with charitable donations.” Many might disagree with such an inscription, given the deaths and misery caused by the transatlantic slave trade. Yet this debate in Bristol, with prominent institutions coming to different conclusions, shows some difficulties caused by philanthropy from past times. 

These controversies arise from bountiful legacies of buccaneering businessmen who, having made fortunes in dubious style, sought to spruce up their image with charitable donations. Note how in Oxford students still demonstrate over a statue of Cecil Rhodes outside Oriel College. 

Money still overcomes morality 

There are valid arguments on both sides of these debates – although sometimes it feels the ferocity of argument over symbols from history serves to displace more important modern debates. Yet you might have hoped all this anger over past donations would, at very least, place modern institutions on guard over pocketing stained cash. 

Sadly, however, this does not seem the case. Money still overcomes morality for many of Britain’s most famous places. 

Look at the Victoria and Albert Museum. If you have been recently, you might have seen the stunning Sackler Courtyard, with thousands of hand-made porcelain tiles in various patterns shimmering over an area the size of six tennis courts. The Duchess of Cambridge went “Wow” when she went to open this amazing creation earlier this year. It joins their Sackler Centre for arts education and Sackler annual lecture. The Sackler Trust has even selected some acquisitions. 

Who are these people spraying their cash around? 

The Sacklers are among the world’s wealthiest families, worth an estimated £10bn, and clearly very generous philanthropists. Their name is scattered across other prominent British institutions, with one senior arts world figure telling me they are “unbelievably supportive” patrons. 

There is a Sackler Wing at the Royal Academy, a Sackler Gallery at the Serpentine and Sackler Library behind Oxford’s Ashmolean. There is the Sackler Crossing at Kew Gardens, Sackler Centres at universities from Edinburgh to Sussex, even a Sackler escalator at Tate Modern. 

Yet who are these people, so public-spirited they spray cash around the planet on good works yet so little-known? The family has endowed academic posts, funded medical research and placed its name on new buildings from the Louvre in France to Harvard University in the United States. 

“This family’s fortune comes from the sale of the opioid painkillers blamed for America’s devastating heroin epidemic.” Clan members talk regularly about their philanthropy, although rarely on how they accumulated their great wealth with such rapidity. For the reason is simple: this family’s fortune comes from the sale of the opioid painkillers blamed for America’s devastating heroin epidemic. 

Much of the family cash came from a drug called OxyContin. This potent painkiller, released in 1995, is one of the most lethal products sold on mass scale. Its active ingredient is a chemical cousin of heroin stronger than morphine. 

Although easily abused by addicts, it was promoted hard for pain relief by a firm that later admitted exploiting doctors’ misconceptions over its strength; it then dominated the market for long-lasting opioids. 

In Ohio, which I visited three months ago, nearly 800 million doses were sold in 2012 – enough to give 68 pills to each person there. Now this state leads the nation in drug overdose deaths. 

The legacy of this business is people dying 

This was capitalism at its crudest and least ethical. Ohio’s attorney general told me of seeing a doctor – with “no nurse, no receptionist, just him sitting at a table” – who had issued 43 prescriptions at $200 a pop by 11.15am. 

But when supplies stopped, or prices rose more than alternatives, addicted patients turned to street heroin. Now you can hear gangsters shout the names of prescription opioids while selling heroin and its super-strong synthetic cousin, fentanyl. 

The legacy of this family’s business is 142 dead Americans each day– or what New Jersey governor Chris Christie memorably called “September 11 every three weeks”. 

No wonder the Sacklers do not boast about how they made those tainted billions. Perhaps a psychologist would suggest this dark history explains the desire to link their name to places of culture and learning. 

Yet have all those university chiefs and museum bosses really learned nothing from history? Have they missed the fuss over historic donors, forgotten the furore over a Libyan dictator’s gifts to the London School of Economics? 

“It’s really complicated,” said one, pointing to how Alfred Nobel, who endowed the world’s most famous peace prize, was an arms dealer. 

Charity is used to clean reputations 

But it is not complicated. From slave traders to corporate drug pushers, charity is used to clean reputations. 

The Sacklers made billions from firms that, intentionally or otherwise, sparked a deadly storm of drug addiction ripping apart other families, communities and cities across America. 

If there was any justice, these people would be stripped of their cash and spend days volunteering in treatment centres. Instead they are feted as patrons of arts and education. 

And to our national shame, Britain’s most famous public institutions are helping them shine up the family name.

Read on iNews at: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/money-still-overcomes-morality-comes-philanthropists-wealth/

"Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?"

 Seeing The National tonight in Paris.

I found this song a few months ago, randomly on YouTube, as I like it.
I like this lyrics too.

"Have you given up?"

"Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?"

"Did you fall for the same empty answers again?"...

Oh Exile. Felt exiled since I was born.


"Exile Vilify"

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again
You've got suckers' luck
Have you given up?

Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again
Oh, you meant so much
Have you given up?

Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?
Does it feel like a trial?
Now you're thinking too fast
You're like marbles on glass

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try

You've got suckers' luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?
Does it feel like a trial?
Did you fall for the same empty answers again?

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify...

The National - 'Exile Vilify'

Published on 19 Apr 2011

Song from Portal 2 soundtrack and one of my favorite bands! Don't own any rights to this, just I'm sure others been trying to look for this on youtube just as I was. Enjoy :)
I got my download from http://stereogum.com/688961/the-natio...
just play the song then right click the player and open in a new tab. It should download the file.
Sheet Music by request:

New song. New album coming soon.

Young Fathers - 'Lord'

Published on 31 Oct 2017

‘Lord’ Out Now -
Ninjashop / Stream / Download: https://YoungFathers.lnk.to/lordYT

Taken from ‘Lord’ released 31st October 2017 via Ninja Tune.

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Bristol named a UNESCO Creative City of Film

Great news all over for my favourite people and places this week!

Here is to Bristol's artistic glory.

Darling, once the UK has sorted its blocks and errors illustrated by "Brexit", we'll meet again, I'm sure...

Image: Lloyds Amphitheatre, Bristol, credit Colin Smith

Two UK cities join prestigious UNESCO Creative Cities Network

The cities of Manchester and Bristol have been named UNESCO Creative Cities in global recognition of their outstanding contributions to culture and creativity.

Bristol has been named a UNESCO Creative City of Film, and Manchester a UNESCO Creative City of Literature.

The UNESCO Global Creative Cities Network is a global network of cities working towards the joint mission of placing creativity and cultural industries at the core of their urban development to make their cities safe, resilient, inclusive and sustainable. Made up of 180 Members globally, UNESCO Creative Cities specialise in seven fields: Crafts & Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, Music and Media Arts.

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, John Glen MP said:

“This is fantastic news for both Bristol and Manchester and recognition of their global significance to film and literature. This UNESCO designation will enhance their reputation around the world and help forge strong partnerships with other nations.”

Chair of the UK National Commission for UNESCO, Dr Beth Taylor, said:

“Many congratulations to Bristol and Manchester on becoming UNESCO Creative Cities. Winning UNESCO accreditation is a real accolade, reflecting the strength in depth of your communities in the areas of film and literature. A UNESCO Creative City is not a one-year-only title, but represents a lasting commitment and a long-term opportunity to benefit from membership of the global UNESCO family, working in partnership with colleagues around the world.”

Bristol is home to world-leading media. Aardman Animations set up studios in Bristol in 1976, finding fame with Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and Shaun the Sheep, among many others. BBC Bristol produces globally recognised radio, drama, factual and wildlife television, and is home to the largest production facility in the West of England, Bottle Yard Studios, whose productions include Poldark, Broadchurch, and Wolf Hall. BBC Bristol also houses the globally significant Natural History Unit, spawning ‘Green Hollywood’, the world’s largest concentration of firms producing wildlife content. With 11 community-driven international festivals dedicated to film annually, 10 cinemas, and 2 major universities (University of the West of England and University of Bristol) providing 28 film related degrees, Bristol will play a central role in this global network of like-minded cities.

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Manchester and Bristol join 10 UK UNESCO Creative Cities: Glasgow and Liverpool(Music), Dundee (Design), Bradford (Film), York (Media Arts), Norwich, Nottinghamand Edinburgh (Literature).

Becoming a UNESCO Creative City does not just celebrate the City’s creative output, it also means that Bristol and Manchester must have plans in place to improve access to and participation in cultural life across their cities, especially for marginalised or vulnerable groups and individuals.

Bristol hopes to use film as a way to reduce inequalities and barriers, and promote inclusivity and unite Bristol’s currently fragmented film sector.

Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, said:

“This is fantastic news and a ringing endorsement of Bristol’s position as a world leader in film culture. Our reputation as a diverse and creative city has long helped to attract productions across film, TV drama, animation and of course natural history. I hope this recognition will be a catalyst for bigger opportunities for the city and Bristolians to showcase Bristol as a centre for film.

Manchester intends to use its new international status to provide an opportunity to build on the city’s unique and diverse literary heritage by using reading and writing to bring communities together, support skills development and to cultivate pride and belonging, while building self-reliance and mental wellbeing.

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A few words from the Watershed Cinema, a film house and so much more:

Bristol named UNESCO City of Film

Posted on Wed 1 Nov 2017

Great news – we are proud that Bristol has been named UNESCO Creative City of Film, a global recognition of the city’s outstanding contribution to film culture and creativity.

The announcement was made yesterday by the Director-General of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). Bristol now joins the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, a network of cities working towards a common mission for cultural diversity and sustainable urban development.

Watershed’s Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove said:

“This award is excellent news for Bristol. Film is an important feature of the city’s vibrant cultural provision and it is great that this area of work and activity is getting such prestigious – and international – recognition.

“It will create more awareness of the city’s excellence in this area and here at Watershed we are looking forward to working with partners to engage everyone in the past, present and future of cinema through events such as Cinema Rediscovered and Filmic and talent development initiatives like BFI Film Academy Bristol and Depict, part of Encounters Short Film & International Festival.”

We are proud to be part of a strong film and television culture in the city. This award is shared with our friends and partners like Aardman Animations, BBC Bristol, Bottle Yard Studios, Bristol Film Office, the University of Bristol and University of the West of England, Knowle West Media Centre, Calling The Shots, Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival and more.

The award is a designation for the city – meaning that it’s not just enjoyed for a single year. It will be known as a city of film for many more years to come. We’ll raise a toast to that!

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New documentary: "The Rise Of Graffiti Writing - From New York to Europe"

 This 5-minute trailer takes us back to the birth of the graffiti / street culture in the late 1970s / early 1980s, in the words of the writers themselves.

It is a presentation for a documentary series of ten episodes.

Starting with Fab 5 Freddy, in NYC, and Charlie Ahern, who directed the film Wild Style in 1983, it brings a very rare insights from Bristol with the (too short words) of 3D of Massive Attack, one of the first groundbreaking muralists from England.

This film only contains a 20-second clip with him, but there is more to come...

Also interviewed and featured in the trailer are: Skeme, Lee Quinones, Futura 2000, Delta, Mode 2, Bando, Shoe and Pride.

The whole series will be broadcasted on ARTE from November the 13th. Visible in France and Germany then.

The Rise Of Graffiti Writing - From New York to Europe

Published on 27 Oct 2017

Aufgelackt und angesteckt – Graffiti-Virus infiziert Europa.

Die neue Dokuserie - Ab 13.11. auf ARTE.TV/CREATIVE

In 10 Episoden zeichnet die Dokuserie "The Rise of Graffiti Writing" den Aufstieg der Rapschrift nach: vom New York der 70er über Amsterdam und Paris bis nach München, von wo aus der Graffitivirus ab den 80ern ganz Europa infizierte. Mit dabei: Pioniere wie FUTURA2000, LEE, BANDO und MODE2.

www.arte.tv/de/creative

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Translation in English:

The new documentary series - available from 13.11. on ARTE.TV/CREATIVE

In ten episodes, the documentary series "The Rise of Graffiti Writing" traces the rise of the rapeseed: from the New York of the 70s to Amsterdam and Paris to Munich, where the graffiti virus infected Europe from the 80s onwards. On board: pioneers like FUTURA2000, LEE, BANDO and MODE2.

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Of course, it is a German production, and after emphasising the role of New York, the film claims, and the trailer states it clearly, that Germany has been the most vibrant scene for graffiti so far. It is a point of view...

I personally think the Britain's contribution is always underrated and that will have to be corrected soon!

For now enjoy the journey.

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More on this website: http://ilovegraffiti.de/blog/2017/10/27/the-rise-of-graffiti-writing-from-new-york-to-europe-trailer/

The graffiti movement known today has existed for more than 5 decades, and it’s still going strong. Throughout history, graffiti was used by political activists to make statements, by street gangs to mark territory or by funny guys writing jokes in bathrooms. It wasn’t till the late 1960s that graffiti’s current identity and started to form. In Philadelphia during the mid to late ’60s people began to write their nicknames all over the city, gaining attention from the community and local press. A few years later the concept made its way to New York City. In the Washington Heights section of Manhattan graffiti writing caught on and in 1971 The New York Times published an article about TAKI 183, a kid from Washington Heights. TAKI wrote his name all over the city, it was a nickname for his given name Demetrius and 183 was the number of the street where he lived. More about TAKI and his generation of writers you can find out watching the new movie WALL WRITERS!

hrough the 70’s graffiti writing caught on like wildfire in New York, kids all over the city started to write their names everywhere with markers and spray paint. The subway trains quickly became a rolling platform for the movement and carried their names all over the city. Techniques and methods on how to paint your name were developed and led to bigger and bolder paintings until they filled up entire subway cars. When the 80’s arrived, is where our story starts.

All the standards had been set and the most active generation was about to reap the benefits of the artistic foundations established by prior generations and a city in the middle of a financial crisis. New York City was broke and therefore the transit system was poorly maintained. By the early 80’s the city and especially the subway trains were covered in graffiti. At the same time graffiti artists from New York started to transfer work from the subways to canvas. The New York downtown scene played a very important role in the spread of graffiti to Europe in the early 80´s. The downtown scene was a culture clash of art galleries, the punkscene, the disco movement, filmmakers, street art and graffiti. Everyone met at that time in the downtown scene. FUTURA2000 met the punkband THE CLASH and started to work with them on backdrop paintings. The subway graffiti king LEE met the filmmaker CHARLIE AHEARN through FAB5FREDDY who had the very first vision to create a historical document.

In 1981, YAKI KORNBLIT, a Dutch gallerist from Amsterdam, came to New York to look for the most talented graffiti artists. He wanted to present graffiti art in Europe. He thought that it would be like when the Pop Art movement was successful promoted in Europe twenty years earlier. Yaki found a network of artists and started bringing them back to Amsterdam where he did shows with them at his Kornblit Gallery. Among them were artists such as DONDI, CRASH, RAMMELZEE, ZEPHYR, QUIK, FUTURA2000, LADY PINK, SEEN and BLADE. The exhibitions of their artworks in Yaki’s gallery and later in the Museum Boymans van Beuningen were an unbelievable success. The critics and collectors of art talked positively about graffiti art and the artworks sold.

This cultural export from New York had a deep impact with the youth of Amsterdam, they were, and perhaps still are, very insubordinate and around that time Amsterdam already had writing on the streets from the punk movement. With the import of graffiti and the artists from New York, the talented kids from Amsterdam found a new influence. 

This and the screenings of the movie WILD STYLE on German and British TV in 1982 and 1983 were the beginning of the modern graffiti movement in Europe. 

Graffiti quickly made its way to other western European cities such as Paris and London and further on to Germany and everywhere else.

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THE RISE OF GRAFFITI WRITING – FROM NEW YORK TO EUROPE tells the story of the New York origins and the rise of modern graffiti in Europe from 1981 and beyond. 

LEE, FUTURA2000, CHARLIE AHEARN, FAB5FREDDY, SKEME, the TATS CRU, YAKI KORNBLIT and a very limited group of European graffiti pioneers like SHOE (Amsterdam), BANDO (Paris), MODE2 (London), 3D (Bristol), DELTA (Amsterdam), STONE (Munich), LOOMIT (Munich), HESH (Hamburg), CANTWO (Mainz), MICKEY (Amsterdam) and a few more protagonists will be featured in the movie.

The first season of the web-series (1973-1988) will be online in 10 Episodes to watch on ARTE.TV/CREATIVE, ILOVEGRAFFITI.DE and the world wide web from november 13th, 2017, on.

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO nominated at the BIFA!

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO has nominated this morning in the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) in the category "Best International Independent Film".


https://www.bifa.film/awards/nominations/2017/best-internation-independent-film

Nominations for Best International Independent Film 

I Am Not Your Negro  (2017)

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and with unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck (Murder in Pacot, Moloch Tropical, Sometimes in April, Lumumba), has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote - a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the 50s and 60s, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is about what it means to be black in America today.

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The ceremony will take place on December10th.

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As a reminder, in the UK still, the film received two nominations for Grierson
(The British Documentary Awards):

- Best Historical Documentary

- and Bertha DocHouse Best Cinema Documentary.

The ceremony will take place on November 6th.

Algiers - the band - is coming back to Europe. You cannot miss them!

 Algiers, the most powerful and relevant band in America at the moment.

In the past three years, I've chosen to write mainly about art and music to comment on social change. Why? Because it can talk to anyone, in any country, from any age and any social class.

I'm a writer, I've written a thesis about two writers, 15 years ago, Frantz Kafka and Milan Kundera, clever and visionary commentators of the twentieth century, I've helped Raoul Peck on his research on a journalist and philosopher, the unique Karl Marx, I've written short stories and a novel, unpublished yet, I'm working on a couple of writers' biography project. I'm reading a book a week at the moment... But...

But, around me, who brought social change the most powerfully are filmmakers and musicians.

This is why I work with a filmmaker and support committed musicians, who understand their world and want to reflect it.
Especially in the times of uncovering of lies and corrupted power.

We must keep on talking, singing, telling the true stories, our history, and uncovering the wrong-doing.


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Music for today:

Algiers - "Death March (Prurient Remix)" (Official Audio)

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Algiers begin their November tour of Europe. See them at the dates below: