[Announcement] New Stories at SIGNATURE and SOUNDPLAY

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New stories available at SIGNATURE and SOUNDPLAY (see below)

::: at SIGNATURE
http://spinach7.com/signature

To Burqa with my Father
by RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH
“As soon as we arrived we were overwhelmed to find that here a person’s roots were all that counted. From the hotel concierge in Jerusalem, to the people that sat beside us in the buses we rode, everybody here understood that there is dignity in being able to claim heritage; in being able to derive identity from an olive tree, a rocky hill, a winding mountain road.”  RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH travels to the Palestinian village her father was forced to leave 35 years ago.
http://www.spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=421

Friendly Fire
by MARNI CORDELL
Douglas Wood is not the first Australian to be kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq — and escape. SBS Journalist John Martinkus was outside the Australian Embassy in Baghdad last year when he was taken at gunpoint by Sunni militants and held for 20 hours. On his return to Australia his terrifying experience was publicly undermined by both the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and large parts of the Australian media. “The Australian Government tried to discredit me because my assessment of the situation in Iraq was directly contradictory to theirs,” he tells MARNI CORDELL.
http://www.spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=436

Behind the 'Boom'
by EVE VINCENT
On June 3, mining heavyweight BHP Billiton concluded the biggest corporate takeover in Australia’s history, assuming formal control over WMC Resources with a cool $9.2 billion bid. According to the business pages, BHP Billiton couldn’t have acquired the world’s largest uranium deposit — Olympic Dam mine, at Roxby Downs in South Australia — at a better time. Signature talks to DAVE SWEENEY, anti-nuclear campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation about the Australian uranium mining industry. more
http://www.spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=417

Music from the streets
by REBECCA HENSCHKE
REBECCA HENSCHKE meets the hip-hop crews of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
http://www.spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=440

Tuvalu
Photos by GIORA DAN
Funafuti, the main island of Tuvalu, surprises you as it emerges out of a seemingly endless Pacific Ocean. The island chain’s central atoll appears just in time to provide somewhere dry for our Air Fiji flight to land.
http://www.spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=443


::: at SOUNDPLAY
http://spinach7.com/soundplay

LONESOME HOME
by DAN RULE
Having written and released three acclaimed records whilst living in LA and London – and toured with the likes of Ken Stringfellow, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Hayden, Paul Kelly, Richard Buckner and Joanna Newsom – it’s safe to say that Toby Burke and his band Horse Stories have ‘made it’ overseas. But after six years abroad, will the Melbourne singer-songwriter’s lo-fi country arrangements and classic American musical sensibilities manage to have the same impact in his hometown? Dan Rule investigates.
http://spinach7.com/soundplay/all-stories.php?id=469

A QUESTIONABLE HERO
by LUCY MORIESON
Melbourne artist Barrage likes to keep listeners at a safe distance – as Lucy Morieson finds out.
http://spinach7.com/soundplay/all-stories.php?id=463

SMILES AND WAVES
by JON TJHIA
Jon Tjhia rummages through the diary of Liquid Architecture 6 – National Sound Art Festival.
http://spinach7.com/soundplay/all-stories.php?id=462

POWER ON
by DAN RULE
Axes, the new record from Electrelane, signifies a return to more comfortable waters for the British quartet. Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist Verity Susman tells Dan Rule of the journey.
http://spinach7.com/soundplay/all-stories.php?id=458

PLUS lots of new music reviews!!!
http://spinach7.com/soundplay/all-reviews.php