Der Tagesspiegel : Angélique Kidjo im Konzerthaus Noch lange nicht genug

Hochleistungssport: Angélique Kidjo gibt einen Powerabend im Konzerthaus – und besingt die Widerstandskraft und Schönheit der Frauen in Afrika.

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Iran: Musicians and activists launch campaign to free jailed artists

Amnesty International and renowned Iranian music band Kiosk are calling on artists and members of the public around the world to join a #FreeArtists campaign to demand that Iran immediately and unconditionally release jailed artists, including a musician and a filmmaker who are on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison.

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Theo / Heart Of Soul – CD-Review

»Ruhrpott meets Los Angeles! Soul-Doktor aus Schwerte nimmt Debüt mit US-Session- Legenden auf. […]« Theo nennt sich der deutsche Musiker. Damals in den Achtzigerjahren machte er fetzige Soul-Musik unter dem Bandnamen Raoul Vandetta & Soulfingers. Vabanque, 1982 erschienen, war eine heiße Scheibe und 1990 folgte der mit "En Vivo" betitelte Liveplatten-Beleg für die schweißtreibenden Konzerte der Combo. 2016 holt der Frontmann zum großen Schlag aus.

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Theo – Heart Of Soul Staages Music / Cargo Records (2016)

Ein Dutzend Stücke hat der deutsche Sänger und Pianist Theo Spanke für sein Album „Heart Of Soul“ eingespielt. Unter seinem Vornamen veröffentlicht er das Album, das unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher US-amerikanischer Studiomusiker entstanden ist.

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„Heart Of Soul“: Theo nimmt mit Soul-Studiokoryphäen ein Album auf

Ein Doktor aus Schwerte ruft nach Los Angeles ins Aufnahmestudio: Theo präsentiert "Heart Of Soul"

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Deutschlandfunk : Am Mikrofon: Der Rockmusiker Carl Carlton

Der Sänger, Gitarrist, Produzent und Songwriter Carl Carlton feiert als musikalischer Leiter für Amnesty International und als Soundtrack-Komponist nationale und internationale Erfolge. Der fast zwei Meter große umtriebige Kreativriese ist in der Welt zu Hause – und stemmt mit inspirierender Leidenschaft auch seinen Auftritt bei Klassik-Pop-et cetera.

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My Times : Amy Helm takes center stage

After a lifetime of playing in bands, Amy Helm has taken on the role of frontwoman. While life in the spotlight was unfamiliar at first, Helm hit her stride with a 2015 debut album, “Didn’t It Rain,” and an international tour that stops at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, July 24. New York–based group Fife & Drom will open the night, and Ms. Helm is set to perform with her band, the Handsome Strangers, at 7:30 pm. In a recent interview with The Times, Ms. Helm said she is excited to return to the Island after fondly remembered trips as a child.

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The Guardian : Marianne Faithfull review – the longer she plays, the better she gets

or more than 50 years, Marianne Faithfull’s blues have both obscured and informed her music. From her melancholy first single, the Jagger-Richards penned As Tears Go By, which launched her as the blue-eyed, flaxen-haired poster girl for sadness, through to the tremulous Rich Kid Blues, recorded when Faithfull was, ironically, destitute, unhappiness has stalked the 69-year-old with virulent ardour.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine : Vom Großrocker zum Proberaummucker

Selbstironisch ist er geworden, er spöttelt übers Alter, nippt an „elektrolytischen“ Getränken („kein Whiskey“) und witzelt spöttisch mit seinem Gitarristen Carl Carlton – wie  Westernhagen ein Urgestein der Deutschrock-Szene – über die guten alten Zeiten, als Platten noch Platten hießen und im Regal standen. Zwei entspannte Dinosaurier der deutschen Rockszene, die offenbar keinerlei Angst vor dem Aussterben haben.

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CD Review: The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Spirit of The Century

The album that brought The Blind Boys Of Alabama to the mainstream gets a 15th anniversary reissue with bonus tracks.

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Concert review: Steely Dan, Winwood create musical sparks at the Pavilion

Why open a Steely Dan review talking about Traffic? Because while the Dan was its usual stellar self in this tour closer, the seldom-seen Winwood surprised the crowd of around 9,000 by generating some of the evening’s finest musical sparks.

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Southern Daily Echo : Legendary blues guitarist Warren Haynes to play Southampton

GRAMMY-Award winning vocalist-songwriter and revered guitarist Warren Haynes is touring the UK this month in support of his latest solo studio album Ashes and Dust. He visits Southampton with a trip to the 1865 on Tuesday July19.

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Independent : Christine And The Queens and the other leftfield pop acts taking the music scene by storm

Glastonbury Festival often provides a breakthrough hit, a relative unknown that uses the weekend to catapult into mainstream consciousness. This year, that act was undoubtedly Christine And The Queens, the vehicle of French auteur Héloïse Letissier, whose debut album Chaleur Humaine has risen to its highest chart position so far in the wake of her captivating Other Stage set.

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CBC Canada : From child soldier to entrepreneur: new cafe latest peace project for Emmanuel Jal

Emmanuel Jal wants to start a revolution — and he's opened a cafe in Moss Park where it can begin.

Named Jal Gua, which means "walk in peace" in the Naath language of East Africa, the cafe is the latest project in the former child soldier's quest to create the life that was stolen from him as a boy.

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Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger : Interview mit Gentleman „Regt euch ab, versucht euch zu unterhalten“

Gentleman, bürgerlich Tilmann Otto, ist in Osnabrück geboren und in Köln aufgewachsen. Trotzdem singt er im jamaikanischen Patois – und wurde damit der erste heimische Reggae-Star in Deutschland.

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Billboard : Rosanne Cash Pleads for Gun Control Reform After Orlando Massacre: 'Are We to Live in Constant Fear?' (Guest Essay)

Rosanne Cash, daughter of the late legend Johnny Cash, is a Grammy Award-winning artist with 11 No. 1 hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. Her first chart-topper was “Seven Year Ache,” which was nominated for a Grammy in 1982. Cash has had No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, Americana/Folk Albums chart and World Albums chart.

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News.Com.Eu : Jimmy Barnes digs deep into his troubled childhood to unlock the vocal power he unleashes on Soul Searchin’

JIMMY Barnes says painful childhood memories are helping him be a better singer. But you will have to wait for the book to find out what happened. Until then, you can feel it in his music.

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National Post : How punk-rock band Anti-Flag plan to make America (and Canada) great again with the power of music

The Pittsburgh rockers reflect on how the punk scene has become less bigoted and a lot more welcoming, including their recent Fort McMurray relief show

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Rolling Stone : Kris Kristofferson’s 80th Birthday Celebrated With 16-Disc Box Set

The 80th birthday of songwriter, actor and country-music icon Kris Kristofferson will be celebrated next month with the release of The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection, a 16-CD deluxe box set from Sony Music’s Legacy Recordings. Due June 10th, the collection will consist of 11 of Kristofferson’s studio albums spanning the entire decade of the Seventies. At the same time he was recording his own material, Kristofferson’s massive song catalog was mined for hits by artists ranging from Janis Joplin (“Me and Bobby McGee”) to Ray Price (“For the Good Times”) and beyond.

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