# 35 ELO - ELO 
January 5, 2011 Here is my ranking
Music 2010, with some delays and as usual, a great concert of Stevie Wonder with Prince as a guest, the Brooklyn Funk Essentials and Festival Porretta ...
1) Sharon Jones
: I Learned The Hard Way (2010), still as good and excellent concert
2) The Green Brothers
: Soulsville (2009), a beautiful discovery
3)
John Legend and The Roots : Wake Up (2010), a success
4)
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah 2 (2010), at the height of expectation
5)
Gil Scott-Heron : I'm new here (2010) , very very remains beautiful and a nice concert
6) Tom Waits
: Glitter and Doom (2009), a beautiful live album
Excellent discs reissued in 2010, or nearly so, and as usual, thanks in Porretta, discoveries of Swamp Dogg, Clay Hammond, Thelma Jones, the Green Brothers ...
1 and 2) Both CDs
Numero Good God, dedicated to funky gospel (2006 and 2009)
3)
The Jacksons: Get It Together (1973), "thanks" to the death of Michael, we republishes everything, including CDs that had disappeared, like this album very funky
4) Lee Fields
: Problems (2002), again an album disappeared, thank you to republishers
5)
Esther Marrow : Sister Woman (1972), which was never released on CD!
6) The compilation
Rhythm & Blues Putumayo (2010), which allowed me to discover the Emotion and Rockie Charles
In Jazz, I enjoyed the album Tribe, Rebirth, and albums some good French: Eric Legnini, Mina Agossi and Alex Tassel. A special jazz concerts and Taste of Sunside to take the kids ...
1)
Rebirth: Tribe (2009)
2) Eric
Legnini : Trippin '(2008)
3) Mina Agossi
: Just Like a Lady (2010), also nice concert
4) Alex Tassel
: Heads or Tails (2010)
In terms of speaking, I put at the top of rappers (PTA, but Casey also MAP Rocé in concert), but also established artists (Bashung and Desjardins, but Higelin en concert). Special mention to Mouss and Hakim for a splendid concert at the Cabaret Sauvage ...
1)
PTA : Duty of Insolence (2010)
2) Alain Bashung
: Sundays at the Elysee Palace (2009)
3)
Richard Desjardins : Symphony (2009)
4) Casey
: Unleash the Beast (2009), also great in concert.
In the rest of the world, I enjoyed the rappers Donquishoot (Algeria), Narcicyst (Iraqi) and K'naan (Somalia), despite all the hullabaloo around it during the World Cup. I enjoyed the tour of Youssou N'Dour and reggae have, moreover, found the album of the English El Persecucion Lebrijano and a compilation of Brazilian Tim Maia. Excellent concerts Alemayehu Eshete, Mahmoud Ahmed, Buika, Enrique Morente, Khaled, but also Rastas Toots and the Maytals, U-Roy and I Jahman Levi ...
1)
Donquishoot Rabah: The latest (2010), which reads as
Madrsa 2) The
Narcicyst : Two (2010)
3)
K'naan : Troubadour (2009)
4) Youssou N'Dour
: Dakar-Kingston (2010)
5)
El Lebrijano : Persecucion (1976)
6) Tim Maia
: Millennium
======================= Here are two open letters sent by
France BDS Campaign Vanessa Paradis and Juan Carlos Caceres, to desist from visiting the country of apartheid ...
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Vanessa Paradis Universal Music France 20 rue des Fosses St. Jacques
75005 Paris
Paris, December 27, 2010
Dear Vanessa Paradis
We learned that after your French tour sound, you go back on the road and make a series of concerts abroad, including Israel, to Opera in Tel Aviv, February 10, 2011.
"Sometimes you look at things as they are wondering why", this phrase, taken from one of your walks, said today the situation in the country where you are going to play. If you look at things as they are, we can not ignore the military occupation of the West Bank, continued settlement on Palestinian lands and denial of basic human rights of Palestinians, including access to acids or to a quality education. As they are, 600 checkpoints hamper movement of thousands of people who can not get to work, at school or ... at your concert. As they are, the real policy of apartheid, led by the Israeli government, discriminate against Arab citizens of Israel and deny the right of return of thousands of Palestinian refugees seeking to return to their homes.
One wonders why, why such impunity, why support of the European Union, the United States States and neighboring countries, a state that has killed there two years ago, the population of Gaza, helpless and kept under embargo for several years, a State, a few months ago, has not hesitated to draw blank at peace activists who were providing humanitarian assistance in the framework of the "humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.
"Sometimes it looks like they might be saying why not." Why not, we also respond to this impunity, a non-violent? In this context, given the failure of all forms of international intervention and attempts at peace and inspired by the struggle of South Africans against apartheid, as part of the campaign "BDS" initiated in 2005 by all sectors of Palestinian civil society. This is a call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel until it applies the international law and universal principles of human rights.
Today, many personalities of your two families have artistic chose not to perform in Israel until that State will not change its policy. Among filmmakers, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Meg Ryan, Dustin Hoffman or Mike Leigh. Among musicians, Roger Waters, Brian Eno, Annie Lennox, Carlos Santana, Elvis Costello, Gil Scott-Heron, Gorillaz, The Pixies, Massive Attack, Gilles Vigneault and Lhasa, among others, have recently canceled their artistic performances in different Israeli cities.
You who have participated in numerous charity concerts, which you are a mother, you who are godmother of an association that carries the dreams of children, we ask you to think of the thousands of Palestinian children who are not lucky now able to dream, or even lead a normal life, access to education, water or health.
While some are bound to interpret your concert as political support, not just culturally, to the State of Israel, we hope instead to count you among the artists worldwide who have joined calls to boycott Israel until it No 'has not fulfilled its obligations to international law and fully recognizes the rights of Palestinians.
We remain at your disposal for any further information.
BDS France
http://www.bdsfrance.org/ ------------------------------ ----------
Juan Carlos Caceres c / o Deeply Tonight
Lot. Codani
Road Sea
20260 Lumio
Paris, December 27, 2010
Dear Juan Carlos Caceres,
We are writing on the eve of your planned participation in the Red Sea Jazz Festival Winter, in the hope that you cancel your trip.
You may not know that this festival is sponsored by the Israeli government, which also sponsors the dispossession of Palestinians from their homes, and many laws discriminate against "non-Jews" in a undemocratic system that can be described as apartheid. Cultural initiatives such state seeking to hide behind a propaganda "vibrant cultural hub," a brutal policy, and to summarize in one word, colonial.
In response to decades of oppression, coupled with the failure of all forms of international intervention and attempts at peace, the Palestinian people called artists of conscience for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) until 'that Israel comply with international law and universal principles of human rights. This movement is inspired by the struggle of South Africans against apartheid. A multitude of artists, Elvis Costello recently, Gil Scott-Heron or Carlos Santana, responded to the call for a boycott and canceled performances scheduled for Israel.
You have studied the cultures of indigenous peoples and oppressed peoples in Argentina, Indian and black. You wanted to be "history denied" by 150 years of racism immigrants from Europe. You can not be insensitive to the history and culture denied, under your eyes, the Palestinian people, indigenous and oppressed by the Israeli state. In this case, how could you not hear his call?
While some are bound to interpret your concert as political support, not just culturally, to the State of Israel, we hope to count you among otherwise artists who will join the call nonviolent boycott of Israel, and especially RSWJF, and thus help to achieve equal rights and justice in Palestine-Israel.
In response to the Palestinian call for international solidarity, refuse to play in apartheid.
We remain at your disposal for any further information and to meet you if you wish.
BDS France
http://www.bdsfrance.org/
