Dear Friends on MySpace,

Freemuse is about to launch a new music player on its website. Below is a draft text for the press release. If you'd like one or two of your songs to be exposed in this way to the ears of freemuse.org-users, then we hope to hear from you on freemuse@freemuse.org

Yours,

mik . aidt AT freemuse . org

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Listen to banned music

'Radio Freemuse' offers a flow of banned music in your loudspeakers. Is your music banned, blacklisted, censored or forbidden? Then read this!

Freemuse – an international organisation advocating musicians' freedom of expression – has launched a new listening feature via www.freemuse.org. It is nicknamed 'Radio Freemuse'. While visitors to the site read news stories or browse though the world's largest archive of articles about music censorship – something which more than 25,000 persons do every month – the player placed in the top bar of the website enables them to also listen to music while they read. A very diverse range of music styles which has one thing in common: All of it has been or still is either banned, blacklisted, censored or forbidden in various countries world-wide.

It is possible that the listening feature will be developed into a real 'radio', broadcasting via the internet, but initially, the player merely functions as a 'jukebox', playing one song after the next.

Freemuse does not host the music files, but only connects to the various webservers where the music is already accessible.

Submit music

If you wish to submit a suggestion for Freemuse to play a certain song or piece of music, then send a link to Freemuse (not the mp3-file itself) with the following information about it:

URL / link to an mp3-file with the music piece / song:

Title of the music piece / song in original language:

Title of the music piece / song in English language:

Composer:

Lyrics written by:

Composed in (year):

Country / countries / region where the song has been censored:

The music piece / song was censored/blacklisted/forbidden by:

Why it was/is censored / why it was/is controversial:

Other information, including details about consequences for the artist/composer/writer:


Send it to freemuse@freemuse.org

Note:

'Radio Freemuse' applies to the international conventions such as the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. See the charter on www.freemuse.org/sw4687.asp