The Mercury prize winner’s collaboration with Egyptian musician Ramy Essam and photographer Giles Duley is committed to displaced children in Lebanon Related: PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project review – potent,beautiful songs and minor lyrical missteps The timing of PJ Harvey’s latest release is pertinent. As political squabbling reaches its climax before the UK’s general election on 8 June, the musician is turning her gaze towards the global refugee crisis for a collaboration with Egyptian artist Ramy Essam, or whose song Irhal became synonymous with the demonstrations at Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Related: Giles Duley: ‘I stood on those Lesbos beaches in floods of tears’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com