2007 Show Topics
22 July
Bollywood Brass Band
An Indian Wedding band formed mainly bei white Londoners, who has already played acouple of times at the Buckinham Palace but never went to India so far - how does that work? We will figure it out, when the 9 piece Bollywood Brass Band will play at the Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz on 14 July in Mayence. The Indian Vibes Team will heat up the after show party and at this occasion we will speak with the band which is in France very highly requested.
27 May
Mira Nair's "The Namesake" and more
When the Indian director Mira Nair read Jhumpa Lahiri’s first full length novel “The Namesake” she knew immediately, that this would be her next movie. She turned the novel into a sensitive immigrant’s drama, atmospherically underlined by Nitin Sawhney’s beautifull soundtrack. We will tell you more about the film and will hold a little competition where you can win Jhumpa Lahiri’s book or tickets for the movie. We will review an interesting event around the subject “India and globalisation”. Probably we will have a guest in our studio - a longtime listener of our radio show, who now lives and works in India.
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22 April
Alice Coltrane and more
We start with a portrait of the late jazz musician Alice Coltrane, who always had a strong relationship to Indian Music. On an excursion to Africa we follow the tracks of Kenyan designer Boniface Otieno Wanyera. And of course we will present you some new tracks.
25 March
Adel Halim Hafez
In the Arabian world the Egyptian singer and actor Abdel Halim Hafez is nearly as famous as the legendary Om Kalsoum. During the thirties the “Nightingale from the Nile” took the audience in Northafrica and the Middle East by storm. Natacha Atals titled her second album “Halim” as a homage to Abdel Halim. We present the charismatic Egyptian singer and some of his most beautiful songs as well as some new tracks from the Asian world.
25 February
New Asian Sounds
In this edition we explored the works of new artists in the Asian field and found some extraordinary pieces of music, reaching from beautiful neofolky songs to cutting edge grimy club tracks.
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28 January
Film festival „ueber arbeiten“ – „about working“
What has you cup of coffee for breakfast to do with the living conditions in Africa? Why do US-American customers call Indian call centers? How much work was necessary to make your jeans “Made in China”? Questions like that like these will be the subject of the film festival „ueber arbeiten“ – „about working“ with eleven documentary films revolving around the issues globalisation, wok and economy. Also “John & Jane” by Indian director Ashim Ahluwalia is part of this interesting package. Ashim was our guest at the 1st International Conference Call Center India last year and that is our connection to the festival.
Other films portray textile workers in China, unemployed young people in Germany with no perspective but also the backgrounds of the Enron scandal. “Aktion Mensch” puts the film package on a tour through 80 German cities, coming to Frankfurt from 15 to 21 February 2007. Attac frames the films with a cultural programme and various discussions, involving local NGOs. We present the rich programme in this broadcast, please also check www.ueber-arbeiten.de
