{"id":9001,"date":"2016-11-09T22:50:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/11\/09\/zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T22:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:50:34","slug":"zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zomba Prison Project On World Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/11\/09\/501463338\/zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\">Talia Schlanger<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/11\/09\/501463338\/zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/11\/09\/zomba-prison-project-credit-marilena-delli_wide-b22f915427ec25469dba0f12ab8029598dd06508-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Zomba Prison Project&#8217;s albums have been recorded in a maximum-security facility in Malawi. <strong>Marilena Delli\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span>Marilena Delli\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I Am Done With Evil&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Will Never Stop Grieving For You&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;AIDS Has No Cure&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2013, the Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan and his wife, filmmaker Marilena Delli, traveled to the African country Malawi to record the music of inmates at the maximum-security Zomba Central Prison. They came back with a stunning collection of song-stories that made up the Grammy-nominated record <em>I Have No Everything Here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brennan discusses producing the Zomba Prison Project on this episode of <em>World Cafe<\/em>, speaking to why he went back to Malawi this past year to record a new album, <em>I Will Not Stop Singing<\/em>, which came out in September. He describes the moment a prisoner sang for the recording that assured him that he was doing the right thing: &#8220;I was weeping and there were a number of war journalists there that are very hardened and had seen a lot of things in their lifetime \u2014 middle-aged war journalists. They were weeping &#8230; None of us even knew what the song had said, yet we were so affected by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><span>Article continues after <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about-npr\/186948703\/corporate-sponsorship\" target=\"_blank\">sponsorship<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/worldcafe.tumblr.com\/post\/152948618521\/world-cafe-playlist-for-11092016-chris\">World Cafe: 11\/9\/16<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/11\/09\/501463338\/zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Zomba Prison Project On World Cafe\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/11\/09\/501463338\/zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/11\/09\/501463338\/zomba-prison-project-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/11\/09\/zomba-prison-project-credit-marilena-delli_wide-b22f915427ec25469dba0f12ab8029598dd06508-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Zomba Prison Project&#8217;s albums have been recorded in a maximum-security facility in Malawi. <strong>Marilena Delli\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span>Marilena Delli\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I Am Done With Evil&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Will Never Stop Grieving For You&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;AIDS Has No Cure&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2013, the Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan and his wife, filmmaker Marilena Delli, traveled to the African country Malawi to record the music of inmates at the maximum-security Zomba Central Prison. They came back with a stunning collection of song-stories that made up the Grammy-nominated record <em>I Have No Everything Here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brennan discusses producing the Zomba Prison Project on this episode of <em>World Cafe<\/em>, speaking to why he went back to Malawi this past year to record a new album, <em>I Will Not Stop Singing<\/em>, which came out in September. He describes the moment a prisoner sang for the recording that assured him that he was doing the right thing: &#8220;I was weeping and there were a number of war journalists there that are very hardened and had seen a lot of things in their lifetime \u2014 middle-aged war journalists. They were weeping &#8230; None of us even knew what the song had said, yet we were so affected by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><span>Article continues after <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about-npr\/186948703\/corporate-sponsorship\" target=\"_blank\">sponsorship<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/worldcafe.tumblr.com\/post\/152948618521\/world-cafe-playlist-for-11092016-chris\">World Cafe: 11\/9\/16<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}