Brainbeau: Infinite Ways

Submitted by chrisc on Tue, 12/05/2020 - 10:57

- I doubt there’s a person out there who doesn’t feel hard-done-by when it comes to 2020’s Covid19 experience. As always, however, when you’re in Australia, you’ve really got to put your problems in perspective. Even this country’s musos, who are undoubtedly doing it tougher than most, probably have it better than one act out of the pack in particular, Brainbeau, who picked a remarkably poor time to be touring Europe.

Dysp0ra 'Australien' EP

Submitted by charlottec on Mon, 11/05/2020 - 11:24
Born in time of desperation in South Sudan, as his father fought in the civil war and his mother struggled to bring his family to safety, Gabriel Akon spent his first years in a refugee camp before finally resettling in Adelaide. “I became a man in a land that isn’t my own - but I’ve learnt to embrace that”. A self made social entrepreneur, when he isn’t running community workshops for youth in the far reaches of Adelaide’s outer suburbs, or advocating to build recording studios in refugee camps, Akon runs his own Playback 808 label, a home for African youth on the forefront of Adelaide’s music scene. In a new partnership with Melbourne’s Music in Exile label, 'DyspOra' is his long-awaited debut, recorded throughout 2018 in the suburbs of Adelaide. The sound is decidedly old-school, finding a home somewhere in the soul-jazz sound of Rawkus-era mid-nineties hip hop with a nod to contemporary beatmaker and sample culture in Adelaide.

Various Aritsts: Exile At Home: Music In Isolation

Submitted by chrisc on Mon, 11/05/2020 - 08:21

<p><span><span>- Is there a worse genre name in existence than so-called "world music"? At best the term is hopelessly vague, at worst actually racist in the way we conjure infinitely expanding monikers for the limited stylistic variations of english-language popular music, but lump literally everything else into one basket.</span></span></p>

JK Group: The Young Ones

Submitted by chrisc on Mon, 11/05/2020 - 08:08

<p><span><span>- Melbourne label La Sape have just released an album from jazz band JK Group. Led by local saxophonist <strong>Josh Kelly</strong>, The Young Ones features his <strong>30/70</strong> bandmates <strong>Matt Hayes</strong> and <strong>Ziggy Zeitgeist</strong> with keys player/producer <strong>Lewis Moody</strong> (<strong>Z*F*E*X</strong>, <strong>Sex on Toast</strong>).

Violence erupts at protest over coronavirus lockdown in India

Submitted by Zedlines Contributor on Sat, 09/05/2020 - 12:25

Efforts to enforce strict coronavirus lockdown measures in the Indian city of Ahmedabad have been met with violence from residents. 

Ahmedabad authorities have implemented tighter restrictions than those in place   nationwide, ordering all shops to shut until May 15th, except those selling milk and medicine.

Angry and agitated locals responded to the measures by throwing stones at police, who fired tear gas back at the crowd to disperse them.
 

Venezuela Demands Extradition of U.S citizens

Submitted by Zedlines Contributor on Sat, 09/05/2020 - 12:21

A request for the extradition and detention of U.S military veteran, Jordan GOOD ROW has been made by Venezuelan chief Prosecutor Taarek Saab in response to Mr GOOD -  ROW’S alleged involvement with a bizarre failed attempt at invading the Latin American state to overthrow the  regime of President Nicholas Maduro 
 
Mr Saab outlined Goodreau’s alleged guilt in organising the design, financing and execution of the raid along with two Venezuelan opposition politicians, Juan Rendon and Sergio Vergara who have also been implicated in the plot.

Considerations made on lifting International student travel ban

Submitted by Zedlines Contributor on Sat, 09/05/2020 - 12:19

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given confirmation that the federal government will consider allowing international students to bypass the COVID-19 travel ban as early as July.

Morrison unveiled a three-stage, structured plan to ease restrictions on Friday which included the possibility for overseas students to return to Australian universities.  International students contribute over 40 billion dollars to the Australian economy a year. 

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