The Five: Instrumentals.

The Five: Instrumentals.

Industrial
Hip Hop
Ambient
Acoustic
Electronica

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"I`M SORRY BUT THEM LYRICS HAVE GO TO GO"

Another instalment of goodies culled from the web with no lyrics, but plenty of meaning. All different genres, so there`s a good chance you may only like one or two out the five that I`ve liked (and played). They`re all coming from different corners of the globe. Supplying the Industrial are Black - logic, coming out of LIVERPOOL. Just started following them on Soundcloud myself, but have been playing their songs for awhile now. (I have a strict policy about following on soundcloud, If I think there`s a good album or two in you then I`m interested enough to follow) The Hip hop track is being served to you from too - fucking - sunny MELBOURNE, Australia courtesy of Moutherific, all smooth and thoughtful. The beautiful acoustic guitar on track two of this selection comes from BELGIUM by the mysteriously named Jerun. We go to the other side of the world again (I`m a brit remember) to find some Industrial/Electronica coming from CHINA by 前進！Qianjin! which sounds unmistakably from the Far East - worth a listen. Then we return to our cold wet, class obsessed shores to be enveloped in the world that LONDON based Sandy Dobson creates with her treatment of "In High Contrast" , she`s a composer that works within the field of electronica as well as traditional acoustic instrumentation - respect to that. She knows her stuff.

Google is your friend, and so is your finger. Click on the artists name on each player to be taken to their profile page which SHOULD have all their social network links. This isn`t always the case, but a quick google can get the right result. Find them, say thanks for the free music, give them a like if you can`t give cash - can`t stress enough the lift you get when someone out the blue says thanks. You might as well buy me a brand new studio, I get that refreshed and buoyed up by it that you just want to get creating again - no matter how shit you`d been feeling 5 minutes ago.

Okay, time to kill the prose. Press Play.

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ARTWORK
BY
A*BOO

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DOCUMENTARY / FEAR AND FAVOUR IN THE NEWSROOM / USA

DOCUMENTARY / FEAR AND FAVOUR IN THE NEWSROOM / USA

Ownership of the Media and it`s affect
on Journalists & Journalism

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There has been a gradual change in the newsroom environment over the last twenty years. This has been largely driven by the changes in technology, but also by takeovers and acquisitions inside the television, radio and print industry. What we have now is a few major players, owned by huge corporations whose interests span far and wide. An untold story in all of this, is the tale of the journalists who had worked within the realm of investigative journalism during this time.

They had worked in their field successfully, gaining awards in some instances, but as time went on they noticed a change in editorial policy. Suddenly stories were being spiked, there were now discouragement against reporting anything that would highlight wrongdoing in certain companies. People were reassignment, some resigned, the rest kept their head down. The result of this change of personnel is the entertainment led news reporting that we see today, where the news channels broadcast for 24 hours but the scope of what they report on is has narrow enough to to be repeated many times over.

Fear and favour shows what happens to the Journalists who have found themselves shut out from the newsroom, looks at articles that were dropped from publication because someone "high up" was very angry, and the link between companies via the boardroom.

It starts off with a story on banks ripping off American homeowners, and refusing black people mortgages to buy a home. This film was made in 1994, and that example of the shady banking practices, as well as other things highlighted in this documentary shows how the games being played by large corporations and banks was going unchallenged and under reported... way back then.

We are only now seeing the social importance of investigative reporting.

DOCUMENTARY / ONCE UPON TIME - AFGHANISTAN IN 1970`S BEFORE THE WARS

DOCUMENTARY / ONCE UPON TIME - AFGHANISTAN IN 1970`S BEFORE THE WARS

A BRIEF LOOK
TO THE PAST.

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The people of Afghanistan have had to deal with invasions of one sort or another in it`s history. For a lot of people under a certain age, it`s hard not to see this country as a place mostly full of conflict. Bombs, drones, death and corruption make this place a dangerous to live - and yet it wasn`t always like this.

This short documentary shows Afghanistan in the 1970`s, how it was the place where hippies came to relax, where there was women in government posts, and the seething tensions that were simmering in the background before the Soviet invasion began.

This has some parallels with the look of Iran before 1979, both countries had a drastic change in culture after religious groups took control of the power structures. The social norms were re written, "freedoms" were cracked down upon, those who had the means... fled to another place in the world.

Ultimately, if you live within a space that is constantly being invaded then it`s inescapable fact that the men who hold the most guns, hold the power. When the Soviets left in 1989, the power vacuum was filled by the U.S backed Taliban - who had no dreams of restoring Afghanistan to it`s pre soviet days.

There`s a few short images that are GRAPHIC in this film. You`ve been warned.

DOCUMENTARY / LOVE CRIMES OF KABUL

DOCUMENTARY / LOVE CRIMES OF KABUL

LIVING IN PRISON
FOR BEING
IN LOVE.

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life is a total lottery. You grow up in an area, accept its customs as it`s part of your world. you inherit conflicts of the past and hopes for the future of your town, country and continent. From a western point of you, you grow up thinking that everyone enjoys the same rights you do, as you get conscious of the world, you find it is not true at all. Life is a lottery. ...and who you are physically determines just where the boundaries lie in terms of how much freedom you can enjoy in your personal life.

What is just a small joke in one territory, can be seen as highly insulting in another. Displaying certain behaviors in public in one country might be seen as in bad taste or not even noticed at all. ..and the place where you are born on this planet sets rules of engagement.

One stark example is the experience of being born female in Afghanistan. Caught between traditional customs and the new boundaries ones introduced by the Taliban, it is very easy to fall foul of rules that govern the land. To be imprisoned for pre - marital sex or even, planning to have sex is a reality - which you will see in this film.

This film follows the lives of women in a prison named Badam Bagh, where half of the inmates are there for `moral crimes`.