Category Archives: Afghanistan

Cloudcycle on Bakshish

Cloudcycle is an electronic amorphous international music project started by Mauxaum and Greg Hunter, released on Bakshish Music. Ever evolving, deep electronic strata of shapeshifting tones and timbres make for sometimes unsettling, sometimes mystic but always fascinatingly challenging and engaging soundscapes.  Subsonic rumbles and shimmering astrologic starlights coalesce to form intriguing clouds of sound.

cloudcycle/oumres by bak$hish

Joined by fellow explorers Master Margherita, Lingua Lustra and Ishq the journey diversifies, morphs and forms into remixes whilst in the midst of creation.

Produced by digitally weaving strands of sound over internet enabled space time contuinuum, these records of mindstates and emotional configurations of Digital Signal Processing have their own unique flow and form.  For those interested in original explorations of deep and heavy beats fused with sculptural etheric waves of textural sensurround sound and techno aesthetic, this trip is a must.  Download and Donate.

www.cloudcycle.net

www.bakshish.me

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Afghan Star

Afghan Star is a new documentary film which shares insights into the politix of  new and popular music in Afganistan.  An important film in that it highlights, painfully at times the harsh reality of life on our precious planet.  Music is dear to us here at Sangita Sounds and we see music as the only way for Harmony to unite the people of our Earth.  This award winning documentary shares views of this beautiful rich Culture and the music of it’s people.  The paradoxical elements that co-exist in this documentary of apparent western imperialism and traditional religious elements make for compelling viewing.

As one young up and coming Afghani man in media and TV production says, “I want to move people from the Gun to Music.  I want that Dark thinking made Brighter”.

After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop culture has returned to Afghanistan.  Millions are watching Afghan Star – a Pop Idol-style TV series in which people from across the country compete for a cash prize and record deal. 2000 people audition, including three brave women. The viewers vote for their favorite singers by mobile phone and for many this is their first encounter with democracy. This timely and inspired film follows the moving stories of four young contestants looking for a new life. But their journeys take a terrifying turn as one young woman dances on stage, threatening her own safety and the future of the show itself. In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing.

Official Website   :   http://www.afghanstardocumentary.com

Watch the entire Documentary on 4oD   :   Afghan Star (warning : you will have to wade through Channel 4′s bloated ads to get to the actual film)

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