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rasderb — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:58:56 +0000

Rage Against The Machine – War Within A Breath (live)

War Within a Breath Lyrics
By: Rage Against The Machine

War within a Breath حرب صامتة

Every official that come in كل مسؤول يأتي

Cripples us leaves us maimed يعرجنا و يتركنا بكم

Silent and tamed ساكتنون و مرَوضون

And with our flesh and bones و بلحومنا و عظامنا

He builds his homes نبني بيوته

Southern fist قبضة جنوبية

Rise through tha jungle mist يرتفع في ضباب الأدغال

Clenched to smash power so cancerous تشد بقوة لكسر قوى شرطانية

Black flag and a red star أعلام سوداء و نجمات حمراء

A rising sun loomin over Los Angeles شمس مهددة تشرق على لوس أنجلس

Yes for Raza livin in La La نعم ل … يعيش لا ل ا

Like Gaza on to tha dawn Intifada مثل غزة في اتجاه فجر الانتفاضة

Reach for the lessons tha masked pass on خذ دروسك الملثم يمر

Seize tha metropolis احتجز المدينة

Its you it’s built on لأنها بنيت عليك

Everything can change on a new year’s day كل شئ يمكن ان يتغير في يوم واحد من العام الجديد

And everything changed on a new years day, come on. كل شئ يمكن ان يتغير في يوم واحد من العام الجديد، هيا !

War within a breath حرب صامتة

Its land or death إنها الأرض أم الموت

Their existence is a crime وجودهم جريمة

Their seat, their robe, their tie مقاعدهم، جلابيبهم و ربطات عنقهم

Their land deeds عقود ملكيتهم للأرض

Their hired guns أسلحتهم المأجرة

They’re tha crime أنهم الجريمة

Shots heard underground round the rapture سمعت طلاقات تحت الأرض حول النشوة

World’s eye captured عيون العالم ذهلت

At last is a Mexican pasture و أخيرا إنه مرعى مكسيكي

Tha masked screaming land or death صراخ “الأرض أم الموت” الملثم

Within a breathبصمت

A war from the depth of time حرب من أعماق الزمن

Shot four puppet governors in a line أطلقت النار على 4 حكام عملاء في صف واحد

Shook all tha world banker زعزعت جميع مصرفي العالم

Who think they can rhyme الذين ظنوا يمكنهم الغناء

Shot the landlords who knew it was mine قتلت أرباب الأرض الذين يعرفون أنها ملكي

Yes it’s a war from the depth of time نعم، إنها حرب من عمق الزمن

And everything can change on new year’s day كل شئ يمكن ان يتغير في يوم واحد من العام الجديد

Everything can change on a new year’s day كل شئ يمكن ان يتغير في يوم واحد من العام الجديد

And everything can change on new year’s day وكل شئ يمكن ان يتغير في يوم واحد من العام الجديد

War within a breath حرب من صامتة

Its land or death إنها الأرض أم الموت

Maroc Disconnect

rasderb — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:27:42 +0000

Hello,

My internet connection sucks. I might be mistaken, but I think it’s due to the quality of the connection Maroc Telecom provides. No freaking idea why. My modem declares the speed I pay for, but it took me about 15 min to write this post. WordPress is a pretty fast service, so… does Maroc Telecom suck? I asked a technician from around here, he said that they have been having the same problem for about 3 weeks now. “Yes, they suck, and they suck our money for a poor service” he said. so wtf is happening here? Does Maroc Telecom have the right to censor Google Earth and provide a VERY PoOr services while we all sit down motionless? No, not even that, we actually go at the end of each month to pay the bill while they keep sucking!

Is Meditel and Wana the same?

مهرجانات المغرب – Festivals in Morocco

rasderb — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:57:06 +0000

Here is a list of some festivals that take place in Morocco:

Festival des Arts populaires de Marrakech, July

Tanjazz, Tangier Jazz Festival, End of May – June

Festival Mawazine, Rabat, End of June – July

Gnawa Music Festival, Swira, June (recommended)

Amazig and World Music Festival, Agadir, July

Festival of Desert Music in Erfoud and Merzouga, May

Festival de Volubilis, Volubilis, August

Intenational Film Festival, Marrakesh, October

Casablanca Festival, August

Sacred Music Festival, Fes, June

Syndicat, 1st Album?

rasderb — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:34:42 +0000

The rumor says that Syndicat, a Moroccan Hip Hop band from Fes, will release their 1st album. Syndicat has been performing all over Morocco for about 4 years. I think it’s about time for them to put the knowledge into a CD! We will see…

Contemporary Moroccan Music – The movement

rasderb — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:33:17 +0000

Boohalee, Darga, Hoba Hoba Spirit, Syndicat, Kashla, Casa Crew, the list is quite long and these groups use different means to throw their message out there: hip hop, rock, reggae and roots like gnawa or lyrics from Abderrahman El Majdoub.

Darga’s second album: Stop Baraka

What’s surprising is that all these bands have emerged after the year 2000. It feels like there was a huge jump from Nas el Ghiwan, Lemchaheb.. to this new ways of expression. No transitory phase but an abrupt change of directions.

The question that one might ask is why now and what happened that made more young people interested in these new form of expression. Let’s think about it and discuss it further in coming posts.

Boohalee @ CafeClock

rasderb — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:59:21 +0000

Boohalee, this music band from Fes will be performing at Cafe Clock on Sunday, April 6, 2008.

revolution is taking place

rasderb — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:06:35 +0000

Astonishing! this morning got to work a early enough to listen to the local radio. The speaker was disscussing the issue of representative and their relation to the People. Many people called the program to discuss they ideas. Most of them don’t think that these elected dudes do their job. Clearly there was a confusion around what these dudes do. Most people actually think that they could provide more jobs and make the people’s lives better, “however, this is a general issues that should be discussed on a upper lever, government” someone said. Someone from Hay Mly Abdellah, deplored the sub-human situation in which they are living.

This is all cool and revolutionary. We get to hear people speaking and taking back the Voice.

Thanks Fes Radio!

a salam al3alam!

rasderb — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:00:08 +0000

a salam al3alam! (hello world)

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