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Octaves Beyond Silence: Benefit Album
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Octaves Beyond Silence: Benefit Album
Genres: Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock
 
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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Octaves Beyond Silence: Benefit Album
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Label: Octaves Beyond Silen
Release Date: 2/13/2001
Genres: Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock
Styles: Contemporary Folk, Modern Postbebop, Bebop, Singer-Songwriters, Folk Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 791022148220

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Review by Meana Kasi of VERGE STAFF
11/09/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"When you think of art, what comes to mind? Social issues? Politics? A fight for awareness? For most people, these are certainly not the first subjects that would come to mind, but for more and more artists, using art to reach the public and raise awareness about an issue is becoming increasingly important. Artists have a unique power with which to touch people and provoke their minds. Artists have a voice that can be used to influence the whole world, without regard to the barriers of culture or even language. Individual artists have been influencing our minds throughout history, but today it has become more popular for artists to band together and emit a louder collective voice. A collaborative CD featuring some very famous women artists (Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Eve Ensler, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, BETTY, Rachel Z, Earthwurm, Alisa Fineman, Nicki Walker, Sheryl Bailey, Feng Shui, Viki Ford, Kathy LeMay, Allison Miller, Virginia Mayhew, and Liza Figueroa) and some local women from war-torn countries (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Rwanda) brings together many voices working together to raise awareness of ongoing violence against women. The Octaves Beyond Silence Project breeds songs with lyrics that may be hard to hearÐcertainly ones you won't want to sing along toÐbut nonetheless, they are comprised of words that need to be heard, need to be known, and need to be understood. My only fear is that the beautiful music accompanying the lyrics might cause the listener to pay no mind to the reality of those words. Inger Brinck, the executive producer of The Octaves Beyond Silence Project, returned from a visit to Bosnia in 1997 with a new understanding of violence against women around the world and she felt driven to do something about it. She was inspired to put together a CD compilation that would help break the silence and the erase the ignorance that allows women to continue to suffer all over the world. Over the next three years, the young Washington, DC activist co-founded the non-profit organization, Octaves Beyond Silence, with Trudy Duisenberg, an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. They joined well-known and emerging artists with women survivors of violence and torture, and created a beautiful and haunting compilation that is sure to prod the deepest emotions in your soul. This CD should come with a warning label, telling you to arm yourself with tissues and a journal in which to jot down notes and inspirations. Instead, a separate CD booklet contains the evoking lyrics in print along with photographs and resources for aid or information. This is a CD that every person should own. It will open your heart and your mind. Hopefully, it will break the silence. When listening to the CD, I have to pause it after various tracks in order to regain my composure and to free my mind of the images of rape, abuse, oppression, and suffering that are introduced through the songs. Track #4, in particular, about the plight of women in Afghanistan stirred something deep inside me, brought me to tears, and gave me a sense of shame that I as an artist, and more importantly, as an Afghan woman, do not properly use my art to open peoples' eyes, to open peoples' ears, and to hopefully open peoples' hearts as well.All proceeds benefit six incredible women's organizations: Women for Women International (Washington, D.C.), Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (Quetta, Pakistan), The Center for Women War Victims (Zagreb, Croatia), V-Day Fund (New York), The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (San Francisco), and Refugee Women in Development (Washington, DC)."