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小葉 0824
《寫給西藏的歌——和平的藝術》（英語：Songs for Tibet - The Art Of Peace）是一張由來自美國、英國、加拿大和南非等國的全球十多名著名歌手在2008年錄制的慈善音樂合輯。合輯中的音樂藝術家包括斯汀、蘇珊.薇格和艾拉妮絲.莫莉塞特等歌星。本專輯宣稱是為了支援西藏，促進西藏地區的和平和基本人權，包括言論自由和宗教自由，以及表示對第十四世達賴喇嘛.丹增嘉措的支持。專輯同時也是設在華盛頓特區的和平藝術基金會（Art of Peace Foundation）的實踐計劃的一部分，基金會的負責人Michael Wohl是專輯的出版人，Rupert Hine為監制。
專輯在北京奧運會開幕的當日，即2008年8月8日公開發行。8月5日，先在蘋果公司iTunes上供人購買下載，當天和平藝術基金會也發布了專輯的MV，僅僅一天，本專輯就成為iTunes全球流行音樂銷售量第一位。專輯的CD也在8月19日公開發售。
CD1
1. Hide & Seek 2 伊摩根.希普
2. Send Your Love (Art of Peace remix) 史汀
3. Versions Of Violence (recorded in Dressing Room in Cologne, Germany) 艾拉妮絲.莫莉塞特
4. Belief 約翰.梅爾
5. Better 蕾吉娜.史派克特
6. We Are All Made of Stars (2008) Moby
7. Making Noise 戴米恩.萊斯、The Cheshire Project
8. More Than This (Campfire Take) 凡妮莎.卡爾頓
9. Nothing Fades (Kosen Rufu version) 鄧肯.謝克
10. Where Are You Going (live in Barcelona) 戴夫.馬休斯、蒂姆.雷諾爾茲
CD2
1. Song Of Sand (Great City version) 蘇珊.薇格
2. All The Good In This Life 垃圾樂團
3. Hope (live for The Art of Peace) 匆促樂團
4. Madonna On The Curb (Peace mix) 簡納花.布洛克
5. In These Times (The Concord mix) Joan Armatrading
6. All My Mistakes (feat. Tarira) Teitur
7. Alive In The World 傑克遜.布朗
8. Better Way (live in Six Fours Les Plage) 本.哈珀
9. The Heart Of The Matter (Underlying mix) Rupert Hine
10. To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies) 地獄樂團
20名國際頂尖音樂人聯手灌制的《》遭北京封殺
德新社北京電：國際援藏活躍人士表示，中國封鎖了蘋果音樂播放軟體iTunes的互聯網服務，以阻止由20位元國際頂尖音樂人聯合制作的西藏 歌曲專輯的廣泛傳播。國際聲援西藏運動組織週六表示，亞馬遜網上書店、音像製品店的下載頁面也遭到遮罩。據悉，史汀、大衛.馬修、艾拉妮絲.莫莉塞特、蘇珊.薇格等20位元國際著名音樂人借北京奧運之機灌制了《西藏之歌》的雙份光碟，40名身處北京的奧運參加者此前在一次"對抗審查的微妙行動"中下載了這張 專輯。
08/21/2008
Apple has just opened its first Chinese retail store and Steve Jobs, who is a practicing Buddhist, is negotiating with mobile companies to brin the iPhone to the country. Officially sponsored China.org.cn claims that...
"Some say they will boycott all Apple products from now on, including the popular iPhone, which is not available in China since negotiations among Apple, China Mobile and China Unicom broke down," the site reported.
Songs for Tibet - Art of Peace Foundation "Freedom is Expression"
Just in time for the Olympics comes this 20-track compilation, available exclusively on iTunes and designed to raise awareness of the plight of Tibetans who continue to demonstrate for independence in the face of increasingly violent crackdowns by the Chinese government.
Granting China the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympics was a decision preceded by no small amount of debate, of course; some argued that by placing their nation at the center of the world stage during the Games, the Olympics would place pressure on the Chinese government to ease off some of its more restrictive laws and policies. The optimists seem to have come up snake eyes on that roll, but on the bright side (sort of), the Art of Peace Foundation has convinced 20 artists to contribute new songs (or new versions of old songs) to the cause. It’ll never get as much press as the games themselves, but at least everyone’s heart is in the right place, right?
That’s as apt a summation as any for this album, actually. If you’ve purchased even one charity compilation CD in your life, you know pretty much what to expect from Songs for Tibet – namely, a handful of worthwhile songs, surrounded by fluffy white mounds of filler. The project has a lot of big names involved – Sting, Suzanne Vega, Dave Matthews, Garbage, Alanis Morissette, John Mayer, and Rush, to name just a handful – as well as an impressive array of buzz artists, like Imogen Heap and Regina Spektor, but all that star wattage can’t keep the album from boiling down to a thoroughly uneven listening experience.
Among the album’s worst offenders are Sting, who contributes a useless remix of the already-crappy “Send Your Love”; Moby, whose new version of “We Are All Made of Stars” is the very definition of inessential; and Underworld, whose “To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies)” is ultimately far less interesting than its title. The Alanis track, titled “Versions of Violence,” sounds impressively polished for something that was recorded in a dressing room, but unfortunately, it finds Morissette in full-on screeching hippie mode – as a song, it’s pretty bad, but it does make you wonder how quickly Chinese Communist Party officials would cave into Tibet’s demands if they were locked in a room with the singer while she performed it.
Some of the artists on the plus side of the ledger include the always-charming Imogen Heap, who offers up a remixed version of “Hide & Seek”; Regina Spektor, whose “Better” just might be the album’s highlight; Dave Matthews, who contributes a stellar live version of “Where Are You Going,” performed with Tim Reynolds; and Jonatha Brooke, whose “peace mix” of “Madonna on the Curb” is starkly beautiful.
The positives outweigh the negatives, if only slightly; if you pay for the whole set instead of just cherry-picking the best tracks, you’re probably going to do it to support a cause, because the only album-only “track” is a 15-minute video featuring the Dalai Lama. (Judging from the first week’s sales – which, as of this writing, have pushed Songs for Tibet to the top of iTunes’ worldwide charts – a lot of people either really believe in a free Tibet, or really want that video.) It probably doesn’t have anything your collection absolutely needs, but if you’re a fan of any of the artists involved, you stand to lose nothing by heading over to iTunes and dropping a few bucks on some of the most humanitarian-friendly music you’ll hear all year.
小葉 0824
《寫給西藏的歌——和平的藝術》（英語：Songs for Tibet - The Art Of Peace）是一張由來自美國、英國、加拿大和南非等國的全球十多名著名歌手在2008年錄制的慈善音樂合輯。合輯中的音樂藝術家包括斯汀、蘇珊.薇格和艾拉妮絲.莫莉塞特等歌星。本專輯宣稱是為了支援西藏，促進西藏地區的和平和基本人權，包括言論自由和宗教自由，以及表示對第十四世達賴喇嘛.丹增嘉措的支持。專輯同時也是設在華盛頓特區的和平藝術基金會（Art of Peace Foundation）的實踐計劃的一部分，基金會的負責人Michael Wohl是專輯的出版人，Rupert Hine為監制。
專輯在北京奧運會開幕的當日，即2008年8月8日公開發行。8月5日，先在蘋果公司iTunes上供人購買下載，當天和平藝術基金會也發布了專輯的MV，僅僅一天，本專輯就成為iTunes全球流行音樂銷售量第一位。專輯的CD也在8月19日公開發售。
CD1
1. Hide & Seek 2 伊摩根.希普
2. Send Your Love (Art of Peace remix) 史汀
3. Versions Of Violence (recorded in Dressing Room in Cologne, Germany) 艾拉妮絲.莫莉塞特
4. Belief 約翰.梅爾
5. Better 蕾吉娜.史派克特
6. We Are All Made of Stars (2008) Moby
7. Making Noise 戴米恩.萊斯、The Cheshire Project
8. More Than This (Campfire Take) 凡妮莎.卡爾頓
9. Nothing Fades (Kosen Rufu version) 鄧肯.謝克
10. Where Are You Going (live in Barcelona) 戴夫.馬休斯、蒂姆.雷諾爾茲
CD2
1. Song Of Sand (Great City version) 蘇珊.薇格
2. All The Good In This Life 垃圾樂團
3. Hope (live for The Art of Peace) 匆促樂團
4. Madonna On The Curb (Peace mix) 簡納花.布洛克
5. In These Times (The Concord mix) Joan Armatrading
6. All My Mistakes (feat. Tarira) Teitur
7. Alive In The World 傑克遜.布朗
8. Better Way (live in Six Fours Les Plage) 本.哈珀
9. The Heart Of The Matter (Underlying mix) Rupert Hine
10. To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies) 地獄樂團
20名國際頂尖音樂人聯手灌制的《》遭北京封殺
德新社北京電：國際援藏活躍人士表示，中國封鎖了蘋果音樂播放軟體iTunes的互聯網服務，以阻止由20位元國際頂尖音樂人聯合制作的西藏 歌曲專輯的廣泛傳播。國際聲援西藏運動組織週六表示，亞馬遜網上書店、音像製品店的下載頁面也遭到遮罩。據悉，史汀、大衛.馬修、艾拉妮絲.莫莉塞特、蘇珊.薇格等20位元國際著名音樂人借北京奧運之機灌制了《西藏之歌》的雙份光碟，40名身處北京的奧運參加者此前在一次"對抗審查的微妙行動"中下載了這張 專輯。
08/21/2008
China has blocked internet users from accessing the iTunes Music Store after a group of atheletes downloaded the Songs For Tibet protest compilation while housed in the Olympic Village near Bejiing.
The Art Of Peace Foundation, who produced the album, encouraged the atheletes to download the album to show how "compassion and non-violence can overcome intolerance and oppression - beautiful ideals to be associated with the Olympic spirit". More than 40 
athletes downloaded the album which includes songs by Sting, Rush, Damien Rice, Dave Mathews, Alanis Morissette and others.
Apple has just opened its first Chinese retail store and Steve Jobs, who is a practicing Buddhist, is negotiating with mobile companies to brin the iPhone to the country. Officially sponsored China.org.cn claims that...
the album "ignited strong indignation among Chinese netizens" that are "rallying together to denounce Apple in offering "Songs for Tibet" for purchase. They have also expressed a wish to ban the album's singers and producers, most notably Sting, John Mayer and Dave Matthews, from entering China. Many people have made remarks on online forums to express their anger, even those who have been fans of the artists in the past."
"Some say they will boycott all Apple products from now on, including the popular iPhone, which is not available in China since negotiations among Apple, China Mobile and China Unicom broke down," the site reported.
Songs for Tibet - Art of Peace Foundation "Freedom is Expression"
Just in time for the Olympics comes this 20-track compilation, available exclusively on iTunes and designed to raise awareness of the plight of Tibetans who continue to demonstrate for independence in the face of increasingly violent crackdowns by the Chinese government.
Granting China the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympics was a decision preceded by no small amount of debate, of course; some argued that by placing their nation at the center of the world stage during the Games, the Olympics would place pressure on the Chinese government to ease off some of its more restrictive laws and policies. The optimists seem to have come up snake eyes on that roll, but on the bright side (sort of), the Art of Peace Foundation has convinced 20 artists to contribute new songs (or new versions of old songs) to the cause. It’ll never get as much press as the games themselves, but at least everyone’s heart is in the right place, right?
That’s as apt a summation as any for this album, actually. If you’ve purchased even one charity compilation CD in your life, you know pretty much what to expect from Songs for Tibet – namely, a handful of worthwhile songs, surrounded by fluffy white mounds of filler. The project has a lot of big names involved – Sting, Suzanne Vega, Dave Matthews, Garbage, Alanis Morissette, John Mayer, and Rush, to name just a handful – as well as an impressive array of buzz artists, like Imogen Heap and Regina Spektor, but all that star wattage can’t keep the album from boiling down to a thoroughly uneven listening experience.
Among the album’s worst offenders are Sting, who contributes a useless remix of the already-crappy “Send Your Love”; Moby, whose new version of “We Are All Made of Stars” is the very definition of inessential; and Underworld, whose “To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies)” is ultimately far less interesting than its title. The Alanis track, titled “Versions of Violence,” sounds impressively polished for something that was recorded in a dressing room, but unfortunately, it finds Morissette in full-on screeching hippie mode – as a song, it’s pretty bad, but it does make you wonder how quickly Chinese Communist Party officials would cave into Tibet’s demands if they were locked in a room with the singer while she performed it.
Some of the artists on the plus side of the ledger include the always-charming Imogen Heap, who offers up a remixed version of “Hide & Seek”; Regina Spektor, whose “Better” just might be the album’s highlight; Dave Matthews, who contributes a stellar live version of “Where Are You Going,” performed with Tim Reynolds; and Jonatha Brooke, whose “peace mix” of “Madonna on the Curb” is starkly beautiful.
The positives outweigh the negatives, if only slightly; if you pay for the whole set instead of just cherry-picking the best tracks, you’re probably going to do it to support a cause, because the only album-only “track” is a 15-minute video featuring the Dalai Lama. (Judging from the first week’s sales – which, as of this writing, have pushed Songs for Tibet to the top of iTunes’ worldwide charts – a lot of people either really believe in a free Tibet, or really want that video.) It probably doesn’t have anything your collection absolutely needs, but if you’re a fan of any of the artists involved, you stand to lose nothing by heading over to iTunes and dropping a few bucks on some of the most humanitarian-friendly music you’ll hear all year.
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