Listen to the new “City of Refuge” podcast

 

Just released today (with a new episode every week until the end of the year) is an amazing podcast called City of Refuge, featuring theme music and a whole bunch of other original songs by Lokashakti’s own Will Travers.  A legit labour of love from Bryan Farrell and Waging Nonviolence, City of Refuge tells the story of Le Chambon-sur-Lingnon, a small town in France where villagers during World War II managed to save thousands of people from being sent to death camps by the collaborationist Vichy régime.

Basically if Schindler’s List was up your alley, you’ll really enjoy learning about this little French village with a larger-than-life story to tell.  Check out the 3-minute trailer above, and see below for the many ways you can listen to all the episodes.

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Download our music free until April 30!

For the next two weeks, from now until April 30, we’re offering free downloads of our 3-song EP Three Stories to anyone who follows us on Twitter or becomes a fan on Facebook. How does it work? Well, as soon as you click the requisite “follow” or “like” buttons on said social networking sites, just shoot us a quick message and we’ll reply with a code for you to enter on www.digstation.com. Enter this code in the section marked “Redeem Download Cards” and the download should start automatically. Included are the three songs from the EP, and all the album art you would get if you bought a CD (which, of course, you can also do here). What happens if you already follow us? Then you’re totally rad, and definitely entitled to a free download. Maybe two! So tell your friends!! And don’t forget — this is only until the end of April, so email us soon!!!

Three Stories digital download card

Download our 3-song EP Three Stories – Free until April 30, 2012!

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Announcing www.lokashaktirecords.org

We hereby announce the launch of our record label’s new website, www.lokashaktirecords.org.  Through various channels Lokashakti Records is committed to promoting innovative and incisive protest music from around the world.  The creation of this website marks the label’s biggest promotional landmark since its founding in 2010.

The website also contains a brand new Online Record Store, where you can purchase our music on CD. This is where we’ll eventually be making available t-shirts, stickers… probably pens, underwear, collectible lunchboxes… and then more than likely digital downloads, too. Pick up a CD — only $5 — and check back soon for other additions to the Loka product line.  In addition, Lokashakti Records is on Facebook and YouTube, and of course, part of the Lokashakti Network.  Make sure to stay on top things by signing up for the mailing list!

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The new Lokashakti family of sites

Welcome to Lokashakti Music online!  Today marks the launch of the first of four brand new websites we’ll be rolling out in the next month, all geared towards promoting some of the various initiatives of our nonprofit organization, Lokashakti Inc.  As these initiatives begin to build up steam – first with the band Lokashakti, then following closely on its heels our record label, Lokashakti Records, a new blog called Protest Music, and finally our brand new social media / activism resource, the Lokashakti Network – we hope for these sites to provide a simple way to assimilate the different ideas we’re putting together.

While it’s still a bit under construction, this particular website is for the band Lokashakti.  Feel free to have a look around, read about how we got started, and check out some of the songs we’ve written.  Then by all means let us know what you think, and connect with us in whatever way you can – by signing up for our mailing list, following us on Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere online, buying our music and supporting the work of our nonprofit organization, or eventually taking advantage of the Lokashakti Network’s unique blend of online resources for activists.  Shukriya!

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