Manchester loves New Orleans: Voodoo Ray Transatlantic Mix "New Orleans lives!"

WHAT IS THIS? http://foodmusicjustice.com/blog/2009/11/08/the-manchester-new-orleans-connec...

It's footage shot in pre and post-Katrina New Orleans laid over the techno classic "Voodoo Ray" by the incomparable Gerald Simpson (aka A Guy Called Gerald)

New Orleans and Manchester have a history together that goes way back - but everyone forgets.

Where did the cotton from New Orleans go?

Manchester, where textile mill workers - including children as young as five - faced conditions every bit as brutal as Delta slavery.

In spite of their own situation, Manchester workers stood in solidarity with enslaved Africans in America and called for Abolition.

Today, victimized by government corruption, incompetence and neglect on an epic scale, the people of New Orleans have been beaten, but are not bowed.

If ever there were a time for Mancunians who love the beat to turn their eyes back to New Orleans, now's the time.

Every beat in popular music - jazz, R & B, rock and roll, funk - originated on a drum kit in New Orleans.

Chicago and Detroit? Musical nephews of the Big Uncle Big Easy. Look it up...and share the video.

Thanks to videographers Hubie Vigreaux, Ken McCarthy, and YouTubers. Edit by Matthew Lipscomb and Ken McCarthy.

Special thanks to A Guy Called Gerald.

Manchester loves New Orleans!

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[iching64]

Hi y'all. Thanks for the love, but we're not saying this is jazz. We're saying there is a direct soul connection between the streets of New Orleans and the Manchester rave scene where this beat comes from.

The reality is the people in this video have been abandoned by their government in a most cruel way. Maybe people in the UK who love the music will care. That's our hope and the reason for our New Orleans-Manchester event this month.

[systemseminar]

Incredible!

[MindsiMedia]

Great stuff it might not be your daddy's jazz but it's the 21st century time to look beyond how something is supposed to sound.

[WILLIAMCHANEL]

New Orleans loves you, too, baby! Looks like you were at some GOOD 2nd lines! XO

[Jhenisus]

i dig it;)

[doctorj2u]

Thanks from NOLA! (New Orleans, Louisiana)

[biltastic]

great vid

[ufomofo]

Wow - awesome...thanks

[williamboulby]

Same people doing the same thing. The Hacienda played host to the same shapes being thrown in New Orleans, sans big fish little fish (cardboard box).

[BourbonRealty]

Love this video, Merci!

[joemikejake]

V-E-R-Y catchy beat to this baby! If you've ever been to New Orleans and the downtown is hoppin', you'll understand where this tribute to the spirit of the people who live there comes from. Very nicely done.

[ubaniwena]

cool. I love it. Got the music, got the vibe, call it what you want, it's music, it's people, its African Jazz of today.