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Refugees’ Stories Through Song: No Borders Music

Music Australia

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“Elijah Gentle, a Melbourne-based advocate for displaced people, believes that music is an ideal vehicle for raising awareness and has established a project that documents the experiences of refugees in Eastern Europe through their own songs.”
“The name of this project is No Borders Music, and in it Gentle has recorded the music-making he encountered in refugee camps that he visited in Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Lebanon. His aim it to combine these recordings with instrumentation prepared back in Australia, and thereby create a cross-cultural synthesis that embraces hip-hop, traditional Arabic music, Sufi, and East-West fusions.”
“Along with an audio album that will be released later this year, a documentary filmed by a Danish film maker is being made. A GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to cover costs is underway”

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https://musicaustralia.org.au/2019/04/refugees-stories-through-song-no-borders-music

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Refugees’ Stories Through Song: No Borders Music
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https://web.archive.org/web/20221115142525/https://musicaustralia.org.au/2019/04/refugees-stories-through-song-no-borders-music/

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“Elijah Gentle, a Melbourne-based advocate for displaced people, believes that music is an ideal vehicle for raising awareness and has established a project that documents the experiences of refugees in Eastern Europe through their own songs.” · “The name of this project is No Borders Music, and in it Gentle has recorded the music-making he encountered in refugee camps that he visited in Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Lebanon. His aim it to combine these recordings with instrumentation prepared back in Australia, and thereby create a cross-cultural synthesis that embraces hip-hop, traditional Arabic music, Sufi, and East-West fusions.” · “Along with an audio album that will be released later this year, a documentary filmed by a Danish film maker is being made. A GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to cover costs is underway”

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https://musicaustralia.org.au/2019/04/refugees-stories-through-song-no-borders-music

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        “The name of this project is No Borders Music, and in it Gentle has recorded the music-making he encountered in refugee camps that he visited in Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Lebanon. His aim it to combine these recordings with instrumentation prepared back in Australia, and thereby create a cross-cultural synthesis that embraces hip-hop, traditional Arabic music, Sufi, and East-West fusions.”
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    https://musicaustralia.org.au/2019/04/refugees-stories-through-song-no-borders-music

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