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From December 9, the music video ‘The Price of Silence’ – featuring such stars as Hugh Masekela, Angélique Kidjo, Rachid Taha, Emmanuel Jal and Natacha Atlas – will be available for download through iTunes in 22 countries worldwide.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, Amnesty International have teamed up with Link TV and a host of musicians from Tibet’s Yungchen Lhamo to Indian-Canadian Kiran Ahluwalia, Mexico’s Julieta Venegas to Zimbabwe’s Chiwoniso, to produce the track ‘The Price of Silence’ – a plea for the values of the declaration to be applied to the billions who still live without them.
The video for the track is a work of visual effects wizardry in which the artists were filmed separately in studios around the world and then transplanted to the UN building in New York, where they play to a full house of UN delegates (played by actors). The results, as the uplifting rhythms bring an initially sceptical auditorium to their feet and dancing, are a pleasure to watch.
http://www.linktv.org/silence
By: Simon Broughton 12/12/08 >> go there
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