The album Living Like a Refugee includes one disc of raw field recordings from the refugee camps in Guinea, and one disc of studio recordings done in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The music -- African folk/pop with a strong reggae influence -- includes heartbreaking messages of peace and forgiveness, despite what the refugees have been through. A film on the band recently won "Best Documentary" award at the American Film Institute's International Film Festival. Information on future film screenings and other band news is available at www.refugeeallstars.org
[mp3] The Refugee All Stars:
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3 comments:
Great song love it. I will be headed there 2-2006 cant wait to hear more music from there.
I'm family, so I'm prejudiced, but want to say that despite the language barrier, the people to whom I have given the album here in France love it - young rockers and their middle-aged moms. The story is a great tribute to the human spirit and it is all there in the songs.
PC
Fans,
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, a remarkable documentary chronicling a band of six Sierra Leonean musicians over three years, from Guinean refugee camps back to war-ravaged Sierra Leone is now available on iTunes.
All you have to do is click the link below and you will be brought straight to the iTunes store for viewing:
http://tracking.newvideo.com/fclick.php?31
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