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Stronger than silence
Norwegian singer-songwriter and activist Moddi will soon release an album which gives voice to singers whose works have been banned around the world. ANNE DOUGLAS reports
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JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
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THE IDEA for the album Unsongs came to Moddi when he learned about an Israeli officer who refused to lead his forces into Beirut during the Lebanon war in 1982.
The song about Eli Geva, sung by Norwegian Birgitte Grimstad, had never been released due to being “too provocative” at the time.
“I was amazed to discover that one short song could convey so much history and still be unheard,” he says.
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