Listen to the Music Playing for Change

• 1 Listen to the Music 04:17
• 2 Everlasting Arms 04:40
• 3 All Along the Watchtower 04:18
• 4 Natural Mystic / Just a Little Bit 04:18
• 5 Skin Deep 05:13
• 6 Chan Chan 04:06
• 7 Africa Mokili Mobimba 05:21
• 8 Ahoulaguine Akaline 03:47
• 9 Rasta Children 04:08
• 10 Congo to the Mississippi 04:27
• 11 Bring It on Home to Me 03:42
• 12 Ripple 04:22
• Total Runtime 52:39

Info for Listen to the Music

"Listen To The Music" ist der vierte Teil, der mit zahlreichen Stars bestückten "Songs Around the World" Album- und Videoserie der weltbekannten Playing for Change-Organisation. "Listen To The Music" enthält Aufnahmen von Rockund Worldbeat-Hits von amerikanische Legenden wie den Doobie Brothers, Buddy Guy, Warren Haynes, Dr. John, u. v.a. Diese kollaborieren mit Straßenmusikern, Gospelchören und einer Reihe internationaler Musikgrößen (darunter der Tuareg-Gitarrist Bombino, dem Kora-Meister Mamadou Diabaté aus Mali, dem kubanische Tres-Virtousen Pancho Amat und Kongos legendärer TPOK Jazz Band) und natürlich der Playing For Change Band. Insgesamt waren an den 12 Songs 200 Künstler aus 25 Nationen beteiligt.

100% der Gewinne aus dem Album "Listen to the Music" fließen an die Playing For Change Foundation, eine gemeinnützige Bildungsorganisation, die 15 Schulen für benachteiligte Schüler in abgelegenen Regionen unterhält.

"Ein Album wie eine Wundertüte, das auch noch einem guten Zweck dient – nur zu empfehlen." (Jazzthing)

"So ist auch dieses Mal wieder ein buntes, weltoffenes Bild entstanden, verbindet hier Musik wirklich die unterschiedlichen Nationen, zeigt sich mit Songs wie ›Listen To The Music‹, ›All Along The Watchtower‹, ›Bring It On Home To Me‹ oder ›Chan Chan‹ einmal mehr, dass es gerade in der heutigen Zeit gar nicht genug solche grenzüberschreitenden Projekte geben kann.​" (Good Times)

Playing For Change Foundation
grew out of a common belief that music has the power to connect people regardless of their differences. Founded in 2007, PFCF was established to create positive change through music and arts education. Our work engages marginalized youth in diverse communities around the world, primarily located in low and lower-middle income countries. These communities are home to great cultural wealth, which we use to create educational and social opportunities.

We currently operate 17 music programs in 13 countries, and have positively impacted more than 40,000 lives since 2007, including more than 3,000 youth through regular programming in 2019. We employ more than 200 staff, teachers, and community leaders locally across program locations, including: Mali, Morocco, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Each program serves anywhere from 50 - 900 children. PFCF was honored to be named a Polar Music Prize winner in 2019.

Changing the world through music requires localized knowledge, outreach, and vision. Our programs are organized to combat systematic social and economic disparity, as well as disparity intensified by crisis. Across many PFCF communities, our programming serves as the only access point to cultural and creative educational activities. These activities drive youth, community, and gender development, cultural preservation, social cohesion, and the promotion of social identities regardless of ethnicity, caste, class, and economic statuses.

We identify strong local leaders, primarily cultural actors, and empower them with the resources and strategies to drive positive change in their communities. This includes providing financial support, leadership development and human resource support, material capacity development, networking, educational resources and curriculum development, operational guidance, and emergency support, among other strategic factors. Local leadership is in the best position to determine how to realize this approach through programming.

Science has shown that learning music benefits people on many different levels. From enhancing cognitive capacities for children, teens and adults to helping memory, literacy, creativity, self confidence and collaboration skills, the power of music has already been demonstrated by hundreds of scientific studies.

One of our main goals is to provide the communities we serve the opportunity for economic and social development, through the educational and artistic activities that we develop. In order to foster sustainability, both locally and globally, we strive to establish valuable partnerships and collaborate with other organizations.

Our work also extends beyond music and arts education as we support essential needs for the communities we serve by providing emergency supplies, medical care or humanitarian support.

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