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Brief: 2015 in Car Sales
Andrew Elliott
Mercedes-Benz delivered more cars to customers in 2015 than ever before in one year. The Stuttgart-based premium brand with the three-pointed star sold a total of 1,871,511 vehicles (+13.4%), posting its fifth record year in a row. Furthermore, the year 2015 ended for Mercedes-Benz with its strongest-selling December (178,017 units, +9.1%) and best quarter (495.159 units, +8.8%).
Mercedes-AMG can look back on a record year 2015: With 68,875 units sold (+44.6%), the sports-car and high-performance brand of Mercedes-Benz reached a new peak last year.
The full availability of the C-Class Saloon and Estate models in all core markets created additional sales impetus in 2015, so that unit sales surpassed the prior-year number by 40.1% (443,909 units).
Italian super luxury sports car manufacturer Lamborghini Automobile Co. sales hit a record high: in 2015 delivered a total of 3,245 super sports cars to customers worldwide
Thanks equipped with 10-cylinder engine Huracán LP 610 – 4, 2015 became history on the Lamborghini V10 models sold most successful year. In the first year, a comprehensive listing of Huracán, Lamborghini has delivered 2,242 sets of customers. Within 18 months after its launch to the market, Huracán sales growth of 70% over its predecessor Gallardo performance in the same period.
Equipped with 12-cylinder engine Aventador LP 700-4 and open-top version, and the new Aventador LP 750-4 Superveloce total deliveries reached 1,003 units.
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, usually known under its abbreviation BMW, saw an excellent sales year with full-year sales up 6.1% to total 2,247,485. The year 2015 marked both BMW and MINI's most successful year on record. For the full year, BMW sales increased by 5.2% to total 1,905,234 while MINI sales achieved a substantial 12.0% increase to total 338,466 units. In total, the group sold over 30,000 BMW i vehicles in 2015 with deliveries having increased across all regions. In Europe alone BMW sold almost 1 million vehicles.
Audi:
AUDI AG achieved a new sales record in 2015: Compared with 2014, worldwide deliveries increased by 3.6 percent to around 1,803,250 automobiles. This total was achieved despite the fact that the first representatives of the current model initiative – the new A4, the new Q7 and the new R8 – were not yet available in all regions of the world. In Europe and China, Audi confirmed its position as the most successful premium brand; in the United States, the brand with the four rings grew at twice the rate of the market. In December, around 158,450 customers worldwide chose an Audi, an increase of 5.6 percent. This means that the company has increased its sales for the 72nd successive month.
Bentley:
Bentley Motors delivered 10,100 cars in 2015, following double-digit growth in Europe, strong performance in Bentley's UK home market and North America retaining its position as the number one region. This helped Bentley achieve its third consecutive year of selling more than 10,000 cars.
Record sales in South Korea, Japan and the Middle East – with United Arab Emirates establishing itself as the fifth most successful single country – further reinforces Bentley's position as the most sought-after luxury car brand in the world.
Rolls-Royce:
Rolls-Royce has a storied and long history. A 112-year history in fact. And during those 112 years, 2015 was the second highest sales year on record for the storied British automaker. In 2015 Rolls-Royce delivered 3,785 cars with strong performances in all global regions, except for China. Top sale regions for 2015 included North America at the top followed by the Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific. Rolls-Royce continued their dominance of the super-luxury market, remaining the top brand in the segment.
JLR:
Jaguar Land Rover delivered their best full year global sales ever, retailing a total of 487,065 vehicles in 2015. That is an increase of 5% year over year. Sales have more than doubled compared to 2009 numbers with help from a refreshed and award-winning global product portfolio. This updated portfolio helped the company sell more Range Rovers and Range Rover Sports in 2015 than ever before. Similarly, Jaguar sales saw their strongest full-year performance in a decade driven by sales of the Jaguar XF and the new Jaguar XE. Overall, Jaguar sold a total of 83,986 vehicles in 2015, up 3% year-on-year.
McLaren:
Britian's newest supercar maker, McLaren, delivered more than 1,650 McLaren cars from the McLaren Production Centre in 2015. In total, 1,654 cars were delivered to customers across 30 markets in 2015. This strong demand helped to fuel the creation of 250 new jobs as well as a second shift in the McLaren Production Centre.
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Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG can look back on an extremely successful fiscal year. With 225,121 vehicles delivered to customers worldwide, the company achieved a new record in 2015, exceeding the previous 2014 record of 189,849 cars by 19%.
The 911 legend continues unabated. The sports car icon recorded an increase over the previous year of 4% with just under 32,000 units delivered.
Clearly, the growth drivers are the SUV models and the best-seller is the latest addition to the Porsche family. With more than 80,000 cars delivered, the Macan compact SUV became the most coveted Porsche in the first year of full availability. It is closely followed by the Cayenne (73,119 units).
VW:
Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered 5.82 million vehicles to customers worldwide in the full year 2015.
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Webb v. HCA Health Services of Midwest, Inc.
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Full title:Margaret WEBB v. HCA HEALTH SERVICES OF MIDWEST, INC. d/b/a Doctors…
Court:Supreme Court of Arkansas
780 S.W.2d 571 (Ark. 1989)
780 S.W.2d 571
Supreme Court of Arkansas
In Webb v. HCA Health Servs. of Midwest, Inc., 780 S.W.2d 571, 573-74 (Ark. 1989), the court reversed the grant of summary judgment and ordered trial of a former employee's claim that she had been discharged for reporting that she had been ordered to falsify regulatory compliance documents.
Summary of this case from Jarrett v. ERC Properties, Inc.
See 4 Summaries
Opinion delivered December 11, 1989
1. APPEAL ERROR — REVIEW OF TRIAL COURT'S GRANTING OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT. — Where the appeal is from the trial court's granting of summary judgment, the appellate review is limited and focuses on the pleadings, deposition testimony, and other documents filed by the parties in support of their respective arguments. 2. TORTS — TORT OF OUTRAGE — DECIDED ON CASE-BY-CASE BASIS. — The type conduct that meets the standard of an outrage cause of action must be decided on a case-by-case basis. 3. TORTS — TORT OF OUTRAGE — CONDUCT NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN CLAIM. — In order to sustain a claim for outrage, conduct must be so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. 4. TORTS — TORT OF OUTRAGE — CONDUCT NOT SUFFICIENT TO CONSTITUTE TORT OF OUTRAGE. — Where appellant, in her count against the doctor, alleged that he had made derogatory comments about her in the presence of others, had made unwarranted complaints to her supervisors, had caused severe difficulty in her performing her duties, and had encouraged her supervisors to terminate her; and where appellant offered evidence that the doctor had told appellant and a co-worker not to touch his charts, that he had threatened to sue everybody connected with the review procedure and that he was verbally abusive to the utilization review coordinators, which included appellant; but where appellant conceded in her deposition that she did not know if the doctor took part in or forced the hospital's decision to fire her, that the doctor did not make derogatory comments directly to her but told others within hearing that utilization review was "stinky," and in general, that the doctor had a problem with the utilization review process, the evidence failed to support a claim for the tort of outrage. 5. TORTS — TORT OF OUTRAGE — EVIDENCE NOT SUFFICIENT TO SHOW TORT OF OUTRAGE CLAIM AGAINST EMPLOYER. — Where appellant alleged that her supervisor asked her to falsify records and that her employer misrepresented the cause of her termination when appellant applied for unemployment benefits, but the employer claimed that appellant was discharged for not maintaining positive physician relationships and because she was insubordinate in disobeying her supervisor's directions, appellant's allegations and evidence were insufficient to show a tort of outrage claim. 6. CONTRACTS — EMPLOYMENT AT WILL — PUBLIC POLICY EXCEPTION. — If an employee is discharged for exercising a statutory right, or for performing a duty required by law, or the reason for the discharge was in violation of some other well established public policy, the employee's wrongful discharge claim is recognized as an exception to the employment at will doctrine. 7. APPEAL ERROR — REVIEW OF MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT. — In reviewing motions for summary judgment, the burden is on the moving party to demonstrate that there is no genuine issue of fact for trial. 8. JUDGMENT — SUMMARY JUDGMENT NOT PROPER WHEN EVIDENCE REVEALS ASPECTS FROM WHICH INCONSISTENT HYPOTHESES MIGHT BE DRAWN. — Summary judgment is not proper where evidence, although in no material dispute as to actuality, reveals aspects from which inconsistent hypotheses might reasonably be drawn and reasonable men might differ. 9. TORTS — WRONGFUL DISCHARGE — SUMMARY JUDGMENT IMPROPER. — Where appellant alleged and testified that she was told to falsify records which she was required to complete and certify, and the employer, on the other hand, summarized its position by saying appellant was not requested to falsify anything but she simply did not know how to review the two disputed charts, the state of the record on motion for summary judgment did not resolve that fact issue, and the cause was reversed and remanded for trial on the wrongful discharge issue.
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court; Perry V. Whitmore, Judge; affirmed in part, reversed and remanded in part.
Perroni, Rauls Looney, P.A., by: Rita S. Looney, for appellant.
Ford Harrison, by: E. Scott Smith and Patricia G. Griffith; and Huckaby, Munson, Rowlett Tilley, by: Mike Huckaby and Timothy L. Boone, for appellee HCA Health Services of Midwest, Inc.
Friday, Eldredge Clark, by: C. Tab Turner, for appellee Dr. Nicholas Riegler.
TOM GLAZE, Justice.
Appellant filed a complaint alleging a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress, commonly referred to as tort of outrage, against HCA Health Services (HCA) and Dr. Riegler. HCA does business as Doctors Hospital. The appellant also filed a cause of action against HCA for wrongful discharge. HCA and Riegler answered denying appellant's claims and Riegler moved to dismiss the claim against him based upon the statute of limitations. Dr. Riegler and HCA subsequently filed motions for summary judgment which the trial court granted in their favor on both the tort of outrage and wrongful discharge claims. Appellant appeals from the trial court's granting of summary judgment and Dr. Riegler cross-appeals from the trial court's denial of his motion to dismiss. We affirm the lower court decision denying appellant's tort of outrage claims, but reverse and remand the wrongful discharge claim against HCA.
Because this appeal is from the trial court's granting of summary judgment, our review is limited and focuses on the pleadings, deposition testimony and other documents filed by the parties in support of their respective arguments. From that record, the following relevant facts and events are disclosed. HCA entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Arkansas Foundation of Medical Care (AFMC) pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1395cc(a)(1)(F), which requires providers of health services to maintain an agreement with a professional standards or quality control organization that addresses utilization and quality control, including the appropriateness of admissions. In this connection, HCA employed appellant as a utilization review coordinator, and in that capacity, appellant reviewed the charts of Medicare and Medicaid patients to determine if their admissions and lengths of stay complied with criteria set out by AFMC. This review process is a part of a federal government program dealing with the cost containment of services. If, in appellant's opinion, the admissions or stays did not comply with criteria, she reported that fact to the designated physician advisor who assessed whether additional diagnoses should be made or the underlying charting improved so as to certify additional hospital days for the patient. To meet its obligations under the federal program, AFMC conducted independent audits of patient charts.
Dr. Riegler made no secret of the fact he disliked this utilization review procedure. He voiced criticism that his charts were out for review when he made hospital rounds and complained to Ms. Chandler, appellant's supervisor. Apparently, Dr. Riegler had been placed on 100% review so every chart of all his patients had to be reviewed. Ms. Chandler instructed appellant to avoid Dr. Riegler and to review his charts retroactively rather than reviewing the charts of patients upon their admissions and periodically thereafter.
In late December 1986 or early January 1987, appellant had problems when reviewing two of Dr. Riegler's patient charts, and in discussing the matter with Ms. Chandler, appellant claims Chandler asked her to submit false information regarding these two Medicaid patients' charts. Appellant refused, claiming the number of days the two patients spent in the hospital did not meet the AFMC criteria. Chandler eventually certified the days and told appellant to place the certification documents with the patients' charts, which appellant did.
On January 13, 1987, the appellant was reviewing charts when Dr. Riegler made his rounds, and upon seeing appellant, Riegler went to Chandler to complain. Appellant was called to Chandler's office and informed of Dr. Riegler's complaints. Appellant was later terminated on January 22, 1987.
Appellant filed suit in March 1988, and in her count against Dr. Riegler alleged that he had made derogatory comments about her in the presence of others, had made unwarranted complaints to her supervisors, caused severe difficulty in her performing her duties and encouraged her supervisors to terminate her. In her deposition, however, appellant conceded that (1) she did not know if Dr. Riegler took part in or forced the hospital's decision to fire her, (2) Dr. Riegler did not make derogatory comments directly to her but told others within hearing that utilization review was "stinky," and (3) in general, Dr. Riegler had a problem with the utilization review process. Appellant further offered evidence that Dr. Riegler had told appellant (and a co-worker) not to touch his charts, that Riegler had threatened to sue everybody connected with the review procedure and that he was verbally abusive to the utilization review coordinators, which included appellant.
[2-4] Even when viewing the foregoing evidence most favorably to appellant, as we are required to do, it simply fails to support a claim for the tort of outrage. In Ingram v. Pirelli-Cable Corp., 295 Ark. 154, 747 S.W.2d 103 (1988), we stated that the type conduct that meets the standard of an outrage cause of action must necessarily be decided on a case-by-case basis. We further noted that this court had taken a somewhat strict approach to this new tort or cause of action. Id.; Sterling v. Upjohn Health Servs., 299 Ark. 278, 772 S.W.2d 329 (1989). As established in M.B.M. Co. v. Counce, 268 Ark. 269, 596 S.W.2d 681 (1980), in order to sustain a claim for outrage, conduct must be so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized society. We hold that standard was not met by the appellant in her outrage claim here against Dr. Riegler.
We also find appellant's record insufficient concerning her outrage claim against HCA. In addition to her allegations concerning Chandler asking her to falsify records, appellant claimed that HCA misrepresented appellant's cause of her termination when appellant applied for unemployment benefits. HCA claimed that appellant was discharged for not maintaining positive physician relationships and that she was insubordinate on January 13, 1988, in disobeying her supervisor's directions.
Appellant's application for benefits had "insubordination" as the reason for termination, but she denied she provided that reason. The Arkansas Appeal Tribunal found appellant did not defy a direct order, was not insubordinate and awarded her benefits.
Appellant, in her deposition, stated that, in terms of Medicaid reimbursement to the hospital, she did not know if it mattered what she certified as a result of review of patient charts, and she further offered that she did not know if Chandler was trying to defraud the government. When asked why she thought the incident between her and Chandler concerning Dr. Riegler's charts had anything to do with her discharge, she replied that Chandler seemed angry with appellant and it was the only time appellant had not done what she was asked to do. Finally, appellant described her encounter with Chandler by saying she refused Chandler's instructions to certify certain patient in-house (hospital) days and shoved the document (abstract) back to Chandler, who completed and certified the days instead.
Although we hold appellant's allegations and evidence are insufficient to show a tort of outrage claim, we do believe, when viewing the evidence in her favor, a fact issue exists regarding her wrongful discharge cause of action against HCA. In Sterling Drug, Inc. v. Oxford, 294 Ark. 239, 743 S.W.2d 380 (1988), we adopted the rule that if an employee is discharged for exercising a statutory right, or for performing a duty required by law or the reasons for the discharge was in violation of some other well established public policy, we would recognize the employee's wrongful discharge claim as an exception to the employment at will doctrine.
[7, 8] In reviewing motions for summary judgment, the burden is one the moving party to demonstrate that there is no genuine issue of fact for trial. Prater v. St. Paul Insurance Co., 293 Ark. 547, 739 S.W.2d 676 (1987). Summary judgment is not proper where evidence, although in no material dispute as to actuality, reveals aspects from which inconsistent hypotheses might reasonably be drawn and reasonable men might differ. Id. In the present case, HCA states that the appellant was terminated for reasons unrelated to any alleged violation of public policy. Further, HCA argues, or at least implies, that the appellant did not know how to evaluate or review the charts she discussed with Chandler, and besides it did not matter how she evaluated the AFMC criteria and the two disputed charts because her actions did not bear on whether Medicaid reimbursements were made. Such arguments ignore the fact that the entire reason for appellant's employment with HCA arose out of federal statutory and regulatory requirements that are designed to contain medical costs. AFMC criteria are employed to further that purpose, and utilization coordinators like the appellant, are, at least in some part, provided to implement this federal program. Appellant alleged and testified that she was told to falsify records which she is required to complete and certify. HCA, on the other hand, summarizes its position by saying appellant was not requested to falsify anything but she simply did not know how to review the two disputed charts. Undoubtedly an employer's request to falsify a business record used in achieving the purposes of a program required by law of medical providers violates public policy.
It may well be that when further evidence is presented at trial, HCA may sustain its position that appellant altogether failed in performing her duties which caused her termination and no falsification existed or was intended. The state of the record on motion for summary judgment does not resolve that fact issue, and therefore, we reverse and remand this cause for trial on the wrongful discharge issue.
Because we affirm the trial court's decision dismissing the tort of outrage claims against HCA and Dr. Riegler, we need not address Riegler's cross-appeal. For the reasons stated above, we affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.
HICKMAN, J., would affirm on all points.
stating that an employer's request to falsify a business record used in achieving the purposes of a program required by law of medical providers violates public policy
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Difference between "alentar" and "animar"
"Alentar" and "animar" can both be used to mean "encourage." Are there situations when one is more appropriate over the other?
I've seen this question, but it does not explain satisfactorily the distinction between these two words. The accepted answer there gives definitions (which don't help much) and one comment about usage that is, IMO, a bit vague. The two answers received here to date have given additional insight that is useful for clearly understanding the differences. With little more discussion, we non-native Spanish speakers can gain a clearer understanding of usage.
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possible duplicate of Words for "to encourage": alentar, animar, fomentar – jrdioko Aug 9 '13 at 5:53
@jrdioko "I use alentar when trying to encourage someone who is dealing with a depression of some kind." This is the only comment on difference in usage from the other question, and from only one person. I'd like more perspectives and more specific cases where one is preferable over the (if there are any). – neizan Aug 9 '13 at 6:20
In my opinion, this question is a subpart of the the precedent one. An argument of the type "the answers were not satisfactory" is invalid. You could either offer a bounty for the other one or be more specific on what you are looking for. Otherwise I will vote to close. – Theta30 Aug 19 '13 at 18:03
I'd say the main difference, aside from the fact that "animar" has a broader meaning than "alentar", is the register. You wouldn't say "alentar" in a casual register or without a poetic meaning.
I also use a lot "animar" in a sense similar to "cheer up." For example, when someone is feeling down or depressed, you say "¡Venga, anímate!" which you can translate as "C'mon, cheer up!". As an example where "Alentar" could fit: in a report about people cheering for a football team, the reporter might say "Una multitud de personas alentaron a la selección española de fútbol en su debút." which can be translated as "A crowd of people cheered the spanish football team in its debut." In this context "alentar" may be translated as the Spanish idiom "dar aliento" which literally means "to give breath".
Yesterday while reading a medical report I realized that probably, the most common use of "alentar" is the adjetive "alentador": to express that the results of a forecast or a survey are encouraging, it's not unusual to hear the word on a politician speech or from a doctor. In fact, there isn't an equivalent to "alentador" with the verb "animar" (You might hear "Los resultados de su analítica son alentadores" but you definitely won't hear that the results were "animadores")
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I've made some edits, but overall I'd call this a very good answer. – Michael Wolf Aug 9 '13 at 19:24
Interesting answer. The example you give with people cheering, though, is one where I thought "animar" would be more appropriate, hence the word "animador" ("cheerleader")...or maybe you're suggesting that this would be one of those poetic uses. – neizan Aug 10 '13 at 7:28
In the example I tried to emphasize the non-casual register by refering at the reporter, mainly, because almost every english teacher that I've ever had treated the press as a linguistic institution :P – Alfageme Aug 10 '13 at 17:22
"Alentar" has more meaning when you are encouraging someone: Me gusta alentar a mis estudiantes a ser mejores.
"Animar" is when you are trying to improve the mood in a situation or make someone feel better: ¡Hay que animar la fiesta un poco, tío!
While both terms have a similar meaning, they're not interchangeable in some contexts.
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Good point about mood. I do often hear "animar" used as "cheer up" would be used in English. That sounds like a good distinction. Would it also make sense to say "animar" has more in-the-moment implications, whereas "alentar" would maybe have more long-term implications (like in finding a job)? – neizan Aug 15 '13 at 7:26
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HR Theory Essay
Three-fold distinction between 'pluralism','unitarism' and 'radicalism' to understand the competing positions; a classification system first applied to industrial relations by Fox (1974 and 1966) and subsequently debated with considerable fervour (e. g. Clegg 1975 and Hyman 1975). A pluralist perspective takes the view that the potential for conflict is inherent in the employment relationship, but that it is manageable and can be contained by an appropriate network of rules and regulations.
A unitarist view of employer–employee relations sees them as essentially harmonious, punctuated only by occasions of temporary and illegitimate conflict. Radicals see industrial relations in terms of an enduring structural conflict between employers and those who sell their labour to the employers. Temporary accommodations to this conflict, according to radicals, do little more than control employees in their exploited position and secure the stability of a system that continues to favour employers.
This taxonomy of ideological perspectives is an imprecise device because there is plenty of room for differences within each category and it is often difficult in practice to distinguish at the boundaries between, say, a conservative pluralist and a unitarist or between some pluralists and some radicals. As well, few people are completely consistent in their statements and actions, with the result being that they can be analysed as unitarists in one situation and pluralists in another.
Nonetheless, despite these imperfections, the device helps to reveal real differences between the perspectives of rank and file employees, industrial-relations practitioners and scholars alike—differences that deeply affect their diagnoses of industrial-relations 'problems' and their prescriptions for remedies. Like the work of most industrial-relations scholars, the ideological perspective adopted in this book is essentially pluralist. A discussion of the analytical tools used in different theoretical approaches focuses attention on the various sets of concepts used to analyse the employment relationship.
Again, debates within economics between competing 'schools of thought' illustrate how the same broad empirical events and processes can be interpreted differently according to the analytical tools or theoretical PLURALSIM Pluralism is, as Blyton and Turnbull (1998) have observed, far from a homogeneous or unified analytical construct. What unites pluralists, however, is the recognition that there is some underlying social structure that has the potential to create sectional groups and interests within organisations and to bring these groups into conflict 13 ach other as they seek to achieve their separate goals. In contrast to the unitarist approach, which admits only one source of legitimate power, pluralism points to the likelihood of diverse interest groups and multiple forms of loyalty and attachment. A pluralist framework of analysis suggests that employees in different organisations could have similar interests; and by creating horizontal links with groups outside the membership of their organisations in the form of trade unions, a loyalty and commitment to leaders other than the management of their own organisations could develop.
The main features of pluralism are summarised in Table 1. 1. The British writer Alan Fox believes that it is important for management to recognise that there are other legitimate sources of leadership and focuses of loyalty within an organisation, and that they must share their decision-making authority with these competing interest groups (Fox 1971). Furthermore, he has contended that management should not regard industrial conflict as a pathological deviation from the natural harmony of industry, but it should recognise conflict as inherent in he employment relationship. Rather than trade unions being seen as introducing conflict into the workplace, they should be viewed as providing an organised and continuous way of expressing the sectional interests that exist. Fox believes that the pluralist framework makes more sense of industrial relations and provides management with a better understanding of the limitations to their power that exist. He sees it as a necessary basis for: ecognising that co-operation is unlikely to be achieved in modern industry through the attempted manipulation of team spirit, high morale and loyalty but needs to be engineered by structural adaptations in work organisations, work roles and work practices and that direct negotiation with work groups is an essential part of this process (Fox 1971, p. 408). Cooperation and trust within organisations, then, is not something that can be assumed.
Rather, cooperation must be created and trust must be earned by management by developing power-sharing and decision-making procedures and equitable policies that accommodate the potential conflicts of interest that occur between employees and management. The pluralist ideological position has provided the theoretical perspective for the great majority of academic work in industrial relations. However, few scholars agree over the precise definitional properties of pluralism, as it has changed over time and between writers, and there have been many debates—some profitable and others less so—about the value of this approach.
One of the major concerns, especially voiced by radicals, has centred on an alleged assumption by pluralists of an approximate balance of power between the competing interest groups within organisations or within broader society (Child 1981). Hyman and Fryer (1975) have argued, for example, that rather than there being some symmetry in the distribution of power between management and unions, power has been heavily weighted towards management. They feel that the starting point for any realistic analysis of industrial relations must be the substantial power imbalance between capital and labour.
This derives from the fact that the productive system is, in the main, the private property of a small minority of the population. As Fox (1974, p. 274) has observed: From this view, any talk of 'checks and balances', however apt for describing subsidiary phenomena, simply confuses our understanding of the primary dynamics which shape and move society—a useful confusion indeed for the major power-holders since it obscures the domination of society by its ruling strata through institutions and assumptions which operate to exclude anything approaching a genuine power balance.
A second, and related, criticism of the pluralist perspective is its emphasis on the promotion of rational, efficient and effective conflict management. Fox (1974, p. 282) has suggested that this may be little more than a sophisticated form of managerialism aimed at finding ways of containing conflict within a regulatory framework that promotes and maintains order.
Pluralism tends to focus attention on the types of rules, regulations and processes that are likely to contribute to the accommodation of conflict and ensure that disruptive pressures threatening organisations are countered effectively so as to restore and maintain the equilibrium of the system. Its emphasis, some have argued, is on social stability, compromise and granting concessions. Hyman (1975), a strong critic of this approach, has found this unsatisfactory:
To define industrial relations in terms of rules is to emphasise the relatively defined, stable and regular aspects of employer–worker and management–union relationships; by the same token it is to play down the significance of conflicts of control in the labour market and over the labour process as manifestations of a fundamental and continuous antagonism of interest (p. 34). More recently, MacDonald (2003) has argued that the pluralist assumptions underlying much of the Australian research on enterprise bargaining have resulted in a failure to properly understand the processes and outcomes of workplace reform.
In particular, he identifies the overriding focus on the 'labour problem', the preoccupation with institutions rather than workers and the conservative managerialist ideology underlying this research as being at fault. These critics, however, often overstate their case and both real-world events and the development of theory since the 1970s have produced pluralist analyses that avoid the naiveties of earlier writers. In fact, contemporary analysts like Blyton and Turnbull (1998) and Edwards (1995b) have accommodated many of the radical critiques while retaining a largely pluralist perspective.
Few modern pluralists, for example, assert an equal balance of power between employers and employees. At the same time, changing economic circumstances and the instability of many industrial-relations institutions over the last two decades have amply demonstrated the weakness of any theoretical approach that assumes stability and equilibrium. UNITARIST Some of the competing approaches to the study of the employment relationship are based on a more conservative ideological position, which is called unitarism', and they draw on different intellectual traditions for their analytical tools. In fact, the history of management thought is replete with examples of such approaches. 'Scientific management' or 'Taylorism', associated with the writings of Fredrick Taylor, focused on the role of management in reorganising the production system and designing payment systems that gave employees economic incentives for cooperating with management.
The human relations school, associated with the names of Mayo and his colleagues, drew on psychological analysis to stress the importance of work groups in achieving employee satisfaction and organisational efficiency. The neohuman relations school, usually associated with McGregor, Likert and Herzberg, again used psychological concepts to emphasise the individual (or egoistic) needs of employees and the type of work tasks and work organisations that can satisfy these needs (see Deery et al. 001, pp. 9–12). It is, however, the human resource management (HRM) school of thought that is used in the following pages to illustrate the differences between the unitarist and pluralist ideological perspectives. Human resource management is usually regarded as having emerged in the early 1980s through the work of scholars at Harvard University (Boxall and Dowling 1990), although Strauss argues that the term has a much longer history (Strauss 2001).
During the late 1980s and 1990s, it caught the imagination of management scholars and practitioners alike and it found advocates and critics in Britain, Australia and its native place of origin, the US. In many ways the new HRM replicated the unitarist perspective and the psychological/organisational analytical tools of earlier management writers, especially the human relations school and the neo-human relations school. It was considered that its novelty, however, lay in its emphasis on strategy and the 'strategic fit' between an organisation's humanresource strategy and its broader business strategies.
The distinguishing feature that characterises the unitarist ideological perspective towards the study of the employment relationship is the assumption that each work organisation is an integrated entity with a common purpose and a shared goal (see Table 1. 4). The employment relationship is based on mutual cooperation and a harmony of interest between employers and employees. There is no fundamental conflict between those who own capital and those who supply their labour; by definition, all are part of the same team.
Where industrial conflict exists it is seen as temporary or the product of aberrant behaviour—something that has been induced by troublemakers, poor management or bad communications. Trade unions are usually regarded as unwelcome intruders and their presence upsets the unified and cooperative structure that exists within the organisation. Furthermore, unions are judged to be in competition with management for the loyalty of employees. Unitarists support strong leadership by management in order to achieve the commitment of employees to the job and to the organisation itself. The unitarist perspective is predominantly managerially oriented.
Managements' adoption of this view has much to do with the fact that it legitimates their authority. They are the organisational leaders and they represent a single source of authority and a single focus of loyalty. In the absence of aberrant events, employees can be expected to accept their authority. While there is considerable diversity within HRM and some commentators claim that HRM can be consistent with pluralism (e. g. Boxall and Dowling 1990), most scholars consider HRM to be fundamentally unitarist in its ideological position. It sees employers and employees as sharing similar goals and interests.
As a way of managing people, HRM emphasises the goals of organisational commitment and policy integration with the needs of business (Legge 1989). Storey (1995) has described HRM as an 'approach to employment management which seeks to achieve competitive advantage through the strategic deployment of a highly committed and capable workforce' (p. 5). Because of this, Purcell (1992) believes that: HRM is the visual embodiment of the unitarist frame of reference both in the sense of the legitimation of managerial authority and in the imagery of the firm as a team with committed employees working with managers for the benefit of the firm (p. ). In this way, the employment relationship rests on a mutuality of interests, and the organisation reflects integrated and fundamentally harmonious goals. A major criticism of the unitarist ideological perspective on industrial relations, and the policy prescriptions that flow from it, is that it takes a narrow view of the nature of industrial conflict. It avoids fundamental questions such as conflict over the distribution of the proceeds of business, security f employment, the status of labour as a factor of production, and the issues of power and control in industrial decision making. None of this is to say that the determinates of conflict favoured by unitarists— such as poor management, poor communications or trouble-makers—cannot contribute to conflict in workplaces. Rather, conflict is far too prevalent in society and in organisations to be explained solely in these terms. A more realistic approach must acknowledge deeper structural sources of conflict. RADICALISM
A third alternative approach to the study of the employment relationship—radicalism— is based on an ideological perspective located at the other end of the political spectrum and it draws on intellectual traditions associated with Marxism. Scholars of this mould have been researching and writing about economic and social affairs since at least the nineteenth century and, like their pluralist and unitarist counterparts, they form a broad church in which disagreement and debate have often been as common as consensus.
Nonetheless, they share some essential assumptions such as a belief in the deep inequality of the employment relationship, the inevitability of conflict and the impossibility of resolving conflict and achieving equality without fundamental changes in the underlying social structure. It is the following analysis of the labour process that is used to illustrate the radical approach and its particular application to the study of the employment relationship.
For many decades before the 1970s, Marxist research and writings focused on broad social, economic and political analysis of capitalism without exploring the implications of their analysis for the arena of the workplace. Braverman's book Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974) changed all that by rediscovering several neglected chapters of Marx's Capital—Volume 1, written almost a century earlier, and passionately demonstrating the value of Marx's ideas to the study of the modern production process.
Braverman stimulated many new studies and much debate; the debates not only resurrected Marxism, but they also deeply affected the development of pluralist analysis of the employment relationship There is one element of the pluralist perspective that is shared by those who adopt a radical perspective on industrial relations. This is the recognition of fundamental and inherent conflicts of interest between workers and employers at the workplace. But the pluralists assert that the conflict of interest is not total, that the parties share at least some common goals and that mutual gain can be achieved through negotiation and compromise.
In contrast, radical writers see worker–management relations as only one aspect of class conflict in which the antagonism of interests between capital and labour cannot be resolved without changing the underlying social structures. The workplace is one arena in which class conflict finds its expression: between the property-owning class and the working class 'there exists a radical conflict of interest, which underlies everything that occurs in industrial relations' (Hyman 1975, p. 23). Conflict, then, is not just an industrial phenomenon.
It is a reflection of class conflict that permeates the whole of society. The conflict that takes place at the enterprise level between those who buy labour and those who sell it is seen as a permanent feature of capitalism and one that is produced by the concentration of economic, social and political power in the hands of those who own and control productive resources. This broader analysis means that few radicals are prepared to acknowledge industrial relations as a separate field of study; rather, they see 'industrial relations as an element in the totality of social relations of production' (Hyman 1975, p. x). To say, as the pluralists do, that industrial conflict is inherent in the structure of employment relations is to stop short of a full explanation. Radicals argue that this evades the question of the extent to which an antagonism of interest is generated at the societal level and is embedded in the mode of production within which the employment relationship occurs. In fact, Hyman (1989a) considers the term 'industrial relations' to be both 'vacuous' and 'incoherent'.
He claims that: the processes of "job regulation" can be adequately comprehended only as part of an analysis, on the one hand of the dynamics of production and accumulation, on the other of the broader pattern of social and political relations (p. 124). Radicals are also critical of the pluralists' preoccupation with the regulation of conflict. They feel that by concentrating on how conflict is contained and controlled, the pluralists divert attention from the more fundamental issue of why conflict is generated. In this context, Hyman (1975, p. 2) believes that 'the question whether the existing structure of ownership and control in industry is an inevitable source of conflict is dismissed as external to the study of industrial relations'. Radicals believe that undue emphasis is placed on how employers, trade unions and other institutions cope with such conflict, and on identifying processes that can be implemented to maintain industrial stability. Radical writers have paid greater attention to the notion of power than have the pluralists. This is not surprising, given the pluralists' emphasis on conflict resolution and procedural reform (Martin 1981).
Radicals see the imbalance of power both within society and at the workplace as central to the nature of industrial relations. At the workplace, those who own the means of production have power superiority over those who sell their labour for wages. This is reflected in a substantial inequality in the distribution of rewards. The weakness of labour in the marketplace is said to be reinforced by the creation of social norms, values and beliefs that tend to sustain the existing distribution of power in industry and inhibit the development of workingclass political consciousness (Martin 1981).
As discussed in more detail in the following pages, this inequality in the marketplace is paralleled by the greater capacity of the owners and managers of capital to control the labour process. Marxists also do not share the pluralist view of the role of the state as a guardian of the 'public interest', dispensing favours to the weak and curbing the excesses of the strong. For them, the state plays an integral role in protecting the interests of the power-holders and maintaining the major structural features of society that are crucial for the power, status and rewards of the owners and controllers of resources.
The state's interest lies in developing institutionalised mechanisms for controlling conflict and achieving social stability. In this way, government intervention to protect the 'national interest' is said to be closely bound up with sustaining the health and strength of private enterprise. Where economic stability is viewed as an important precondition for a society's material wellbeing, it is claimed that governments of all political persuasions have an interest in maintaining the 'confidence of industry' and encouraging the accumulation of profit and the generation of investment.
Table 1. 5 summarises the main features of the radical perspective. The radical approach has been criticised on a number of grounds. Some writers have argued that the Marxist perspective is overly preoccupied with the conflictual aspects of manager–worker relations. As a consequence, the role of trust in work relations and the dynamics of accommodation and cooperation between employers and employees have been seriously neglected (Edwards 1986).
Others contend that, while the Marxist focus on the polarised class struggle may have been a valid interpretation of nineteenth-century capitalism, it does not explain the complex economic, political and social conflicts of welfare-state or monopoly capitalism in the late twentieth century (Farnham and Pimlott 1979). It has also been observed that capital is comprised of a number of heterogeneous and often competing elements, which belie its monolithic character.
Dabscheck (1983) has argued, for example, that a concession gained from the state by one fraction of capital may impose additional costs and burdens on, or be at the expense of, other fractions of capital. Such may be the case with tariff protection, which provides aid to some organisations and businesses while at the same time increasing the costs of inputs to other owners and controllers of capital. Yet others have criticised Marxists for their views on the role of the state. Martin (1981, pp. 115–16) has argued that the Marxist analysis underestimates the independence of the state.
He believes that the legislative action of Labour Governments is, in many cases, designed more to cement political alliances with the industrial wing of the labour movement than to serve the interests of capit CONCLUSION However, this does not mean that the approaches cannot, and have not, influenced each other. From a pluralist perspective, for example, unitarism is generally considered to be an unsatisfactory approach to the study of industrial relations, but Edwards (1995b) has argued that it serves a useful purpose by highlighting the fact that employer–employee relations are not permanently and completely conflictual.
Employees and managers may share common interests on specific issues, such as the survival of the business, and employers may seek to harness employees' loyalty and cooperation, rather than merely their compliance, through a variety of mechanisms (e. g. employee involvement and profit-sharing schemes). This is not to suggest, as many unitarists do, that conflict at work is a pathological deviation from a 'norm' of social harmony and order. Rather, social relationships in the workplace are punctuated by both conflict and cooperation. An appreciation of this dual dynamic is, thus, essential to an adequate understanding of industrial relations.
The emergence and popularity of HRM during the 1980s, with its substantive focus on the relationship between management and individual employees, also encouraged industrial relations as a field of study to broaden beyond the collectivist focus that was sometimes assumed in the post-World War II period. The pluralist and radical perspectives feature some similarities. In fact, over two decades ago, Clegg (1979) observed that there was much in common between the pluralist and radical accounts, particularly in the emphasis on conflict in industrial relations.
Edwards (1986) has noted that the two approaches share the view that the labour contract is an open-ended arrangement and that the work-effort bargain is subject to processes of negotiation and contestation. In fact, as previously demonstrated, Braverman and later labour process writers had a profound impact on industrial-relations writers during the 1980s, when critics were alleging a preoccupation in industrial-relations research with trade unions and collective bargaining to the neglect of management and its control strategies at work.
These historical influences aside, the pluralist, unitarist and radical perspectives are essentially competitors in the study of the employment relationship and any attempt at synthesis is misguided. Because the differences between the approaches can often be reduced to value judgments and because each approach emphasises different aspects of the employment relationship, they are incompatible. The mission of students is not to expect integration, but rather to respect difference, and to understand that each approach has its own strengths and weaknesses.
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I've written quite a bit about the Copenhagen, Denmark-based pop duo Palace Winter — Australian-born, Copenhagen-based singer/songwriter Carl Coleman and Danish-born, Copenhagen-based producer and classically trained pianist Caspar Hesselager — over the past few years. The act can trace its origins to the duo's mutual familiarity and appreciation for each other's work throughout a number of different projects. Naturally, that mutual familiarity and appreciation for each other's work, led to the duo working together.
Coleman and Hesselager released their Palace Winter debut single in 2015 — but the following year was a breakthrough year for the Copenhagen-based duo: they released their EP Meditation and full-length debut Waiting for the World to Turn to critical praise from The Guardian, NME, The Line of Best Fit, and airplay from KCRW, KEXP, Norway's P3, Denmark's P6, as well as by BBC Radio personalities Guy Garvey, Lauren Laverne and Tom Ravenscroft. Adding to a growing profile, the duo have a Hype Machine #1 single under their belts, have opened for Noel Gallagher, and have made appearances across the European festival circuit, including sets at Guy Garvey's curated Meltdown Festival, Roskilde Festival, Green Man Festival, Sziget Festival, Latitude Festival and Secret Garden Party among others.
Building upon a rapidly growing profile, Coleman and Hesselager released their sophomore album, 2018's Nowadays. Arguably one of my favorite albums of the year, the album's material found the duo expanding upon the sound and songwriting approach that won them praise, as they paired breezy, melodic, radio friendly pop with dark thematic concerns — in particular, the loss of innocence as one becomes an adult, with its accompanying tough and sobering lessons; the freedom and power that comes as one takes control of their live and destiny. But this was all underpinned by the inconsolable grief of profound loss. The album suggests a couple of things that I've learned about life in my 41 years : Life is ultimately about accepting immense, inconsolable loss as part of the price of admission, and somehow you have to figure out some way to move forwards, even its in fits and starts. And that a significant portion of our lives will be spent maneuvering the confusing push and pull between love and lust, with the prerequisite remote, anxiety, bitterness and loathing. Life is never easy and there's never easy solutions.
Palace Winter's highly anticipated, third album . . . Keep Dreaming, Buddy is slated for an October 23, 2020 release through Tambourhinoceros Records — and unlike their preceding albums, . . .Keep Dreaming, Buddy's material was written through a long distance correspondence as the band's Coleman was residing in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain:"Caspar was sending me these synth hooks and drum loops from Denmark, so I started coming up with melodies and lyrical ideas to record into my phone," Coleman says of the writing sessions. While Coleman's lyrics were inspired by Tenerife's unique landscape, drawing parallels between Mt. Teide, a dormant volcano, which also is one of Spain's tallest peaks and the looming fear of a relationship disintegrating, Hesselager's instrumental parts were inspired by Copenhagen's landscape. And as a result, the album's material is literally a tale of two cities.
"Top of the Hill," which features a guest spot from Lowly is a perfect example of the album's literal tale of two cities: shimmering and icy synths and thumping beats and an enormous, arena rock hook are paired with Coleman's lyrics, which feature volcanic imagery to describe the broiling and bubbling feelings of dissatisfaction, frustration, deceit and distrust that come up in a failing relationship. And yet, throughout there's the dim chance it could survive — even if it shouldn't.
Starring Carla Viola Thurøe, the recently released video follows the actor on a lysergic-tinged walk around Copenhagen's parks and streets — and we see Thurøe's attentive gaze shift from crystal balls to flowers, with the Danish actor carefully examining them and their texture. In many ways, the video mirrors Hesselager and Coleman's writing process with Hesselager walking around Copenhagen figuring out the unfinished instrumentation and beats ins head and how they fit with Coleman's phone recordings.
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JOVM mainstay Omar Souleyman is a Tell Tamer, Syria-born, Istanbul, Turkey-based Sunni Arab vocalist, whose music career started in earnest back in 1994 when he began as a part-time wedding singer. His overall sound has largely been influenced by the incredibly diverse milieu of Northeastern Syria — and as a result, Souleyman and a rotating cast of musicians and producers he has worked with since his early days have found a way to draw from and mesh the sounds and themes of the Kurdish, the Ashuris, the Turks, the Iraqis and the larger Arabic world in a way that's both familiar and novel. Since then, Souleyman has become the region's pioneer of dance floor friendly wedding music.
Amazingly since 1994, Souleyman has managed to be wildly prolific, releasing well over 500 studio and live albums with about 80% of those releases made at weddings. Most of those recordings were first presented to the newlywed couple, and then later copied and sold at local kiosks. Souleyman has released four compilation albums and three full-length albums of original material: 2006's Highway to Hassake, 2009's Dabke 2020, 2010's Jazeera Nights, 2011's Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts and 2011's Leh Jani, 2013's Wenu Wenu, 2015's Bahdeni Nami and 2017's To Syria, with Love — and all of those albums have not only brought the sounds and grooves of the Middle East to the West, his recorded output has helped to expand the Tell Tamer-born, Istanbul-based vocalist's profile internationally.
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Last November, the Tell Tamer-born JOVM mainstay released his fourth album Shlon, through Mad Decent/Because Music. Deriving its title from the Arabic word "how" or more literally "which color," the album featured double keyboard work from Hasan Alo, a fellow native of the Hasaka region of Northeastern Syria, who has recently been active in Dubai's vibrant nightlife scene, a well as saz work from Azad Salih, a fellow Syrian, who currently resides in Mardin, Turkey. The album also finds the Tell Tamer-born, Istanbul-based vocalist continuing his longtime collaboration with Syrian-born, Turkish-based lyricst Moussa Al Mardood, who the wrote most of the album's lyrics spontaneously during the recording sessions.
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Directed and animated by Sound Visuals Club, the recently released video for "Shlon" depicts an animated Omar Souleyman set in which the acclaimed Syrian wedding singer turned global dance music star plays his pan Arabic take on dance music in front of a energetic crowd, who at one point dances hand-in-hand. It's a delightful and playful video that should remind the viewer that on the dance floor, we're all the same.
Indie Electro Pop by William Ruben Helms Nov 5, 201923:15 November 5, 2019
New Audio: Omar Souleyman Releases a Mesmerizing, Club Banging, Love Song
Omar Souleyman is a Tell Tamer, Syria-born, Istanbul, Turkey-based Sunni Arab vocalist, whose music career started in earnest back in 1994 when began as a part-time wedding singer. His overall sound has largely been influenced by the incredibly diverse milieu of Northeastern Syria — and as a result, Souleyman and a rotating cast of musicians and producers he has worked with since his early days have found a way to draw from and mesh the sounds and themes of the Kurdish, the Ashuris, the Turks, the Iraqis and the larger Arabic world in a way that's both familiar and novel. Since then, Souleyman has become the region's pioneer of dance floor friendly wedding music.
Amazingly since 1994, Souleyman has managed to be wildly prolific, releasing well over 500 studio and live albums with about 80% of those releases made at weddings. Most of those recordings were first presented to the newlywed couple, and then later copied and sold at local kiosks. Now, as you may recall Souleyman has released four compilation albums and three full-length albums of original material: 2006's Highway to Hassake, 2009's Dabke 2020, 2010's Jazeera Nights, 2011's Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts and 2011's Leh Jani, 2013's Wenu Wenu, 2015's Bahdeni Nami and 2017's To Syria, with Love — and all of those albums have not only brought the sounds and grooves of the Middle East to the West, his recorded output has helped to expand the Tell Tamer-born, Istanbul-based vocalist's profile internationally.
Deriving its title for the Arabic word "how" or more literally "which color," Shlon, which is slated for a November 22, 2019 release through Mad Decent/Because Music is the first batch of new material from Souleyman in a couple of years. The forthcoming album featres double keyboard work from Hasan Alo, a fellow native of the Hasaka region of Northeastern Syria, who has recently been active in Dubai's vibrant nightlife scene, a well as saz work from Azad Salih, a fellow Syrian, who currently resides in Mardin, Turkey. The album also finds the Tell Tamer-born, Istanbul-based vocalist continuing his longtime collaboration with Syrian-born, Turkish-based lyricst Moussa Al Mardood, who the wrote most of the album's lyrics spontaneously during the recording sessions.
Unsurprisingly, his fourth album is vintage Omar Souleyman — 6 songs which mesh the dabke and baladi music of music beloved by the Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, the Kurdish and Iraqis with thumping, synth-led techno — but at its core, the material is comprised of swooning tales of devotion, adoration and love. Now, as you may recall Shlon's first single was the propulsive, club banging "Layle," which was centered around Alo's dexterous and dense layers of synth arpeggios, tweeter and woofer rocking polyrhythmic beats and Souleyman's imitable vocals. But at its core, the song is a slick synthesis of classically-inspired poetry and modern production. The album's second and latest single "Shi Tirdin," which translates into English as "What Do You Wish For?" is a high energy, club banger featuring mesmerizing layers of synth arpeggios and thumping beats and fluttering synths. And while continuing the album's overall vibe of meshing techno and dabke music, the track is a swooning declaration of devotion, in which the song's narrator readily offers his love anything she wishes for.
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New Audio by William Ruben Helms Oct 15, 201914:25 October 15, 2019
New Audio: Internationally Acclaimed Omar Souleyman Returns with a Swooning, Club Banger
Omar Souleyman is a Tell Tamer, Syria-born, Istanbul, Turkey-based Sunni Arab vocalist, whose music career started in earnest back in 1994 when he was a part-time wedding singer. His overall sound has largely been influenced by the incredibly diverse milieu of Northeastern Syria — and as a result, Souleyman and a rotating cast of musicians and producers he has worked with since his early days have found a way to draw from and mesh the sounds and themes of the Kurdish, the Ashuris, the Turks, the Iraqis and the larger Arabic world in a way that's familiar and novel. In fact, Souleyman is considered the region's pioneer of dance music/wedding music.
Amazingly Souleyman has managed to be wildly prolific, releasing well over 500 stdio and live albums with about 80% of those releases made at weddings. Those recordings are first presented to the newlywed couple and then copied and sold at local kiosks. Over the better part of the last decade, Souleyman has released four compilations 2006's Highway to Hassake, 2009's Dabke 2020, 2010's Jazeera Nights, 2011's Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts and 2011's Leh Jani and three full-length albums to the West, 2013's incredible Wenu Wenu, 2015's Bahdeni Nami and 2017's To Syria, with Love –and all of those efforts have brought the sounds and grooves of the Middle East to the West, while expanding the Tell Tamer-born, Istanbul-based vocalist's profile internationally. Adding to a rapidly rising international profile, Souleyman has played sets at some of the world's biggest festivals, including Paredes de Coura, a Caribou co-curated ATP Festival, ATP Nightmare Before Christmas, Bonnaroo, Roskilde Festival, Mostly Jazz, Funk and Soul Festival, Pukkelpop Festival, Electric Picnic, Treefort Music Festival — and oddly enough, one of the strangest House of Vans bills I've ever seen, in which he opened for Future Islands. And before I forget, he's also collaborated with Bjork, contributing vocals for three remixes, which appear on an Biophilia.
Dericing its title for the Arabic word "how" or more literally "which color," Shlon, which is slated for a November 22, 2019 release through Mad Decent/Because Music is the first batch of new material from Souleyman in a couple of years. The forthcoming album features double keyboard work from Hasan Alo, a fellow native of the Hasaka region of Northeastern Syria, who has recently been active in Dubai's vibrant nightlife scene, a well as saz work from Azad Salih, a fellow Syrian, who currently resides in Mardin, Turkey. The album also finds the Tell Tamer-born, Istanbul-based vocalist continuing his longtime collaboration with Syrian-born, Turkish-based lyricst Moussa Al Mardood, who the wrote most of the album's lyrics spontaneously during the recording sessions.
Unsurprisingly, his fourth album is vintage Omar Souleyman — 6 songs which mesh the dabke and baladi music of music beloved by the Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, the Kurdish and Iraqis with thumping, synth-led techno — but at its core, the material is comprised of swooning tales of devotion, adoration and love. "Layle," Shlon's propulsive, club banging first single is centered around Alo's dexterous and arpeggiated synth work, layers of tweeter and woofer rocking polyrhythmic percussion and Souleyman's imitable vocals. And while the track instantly reminds me of the sounds of my home borough — particularly Astoria and Jackson Heights — the song is centered around some gorgeous poetry,. describing a woman's lips as sweet as the dates of Hillah, making the song a slick synthesis of the classic and the modern.
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New Audio by William Ruben Helms Sep 17, 201909:30 September 17, 2019
Throughout this site's nine-plus year history, I've written about and championed a number of acts from across Northern Africa — in particular, Mali. During that same period of time, Mali has been split apart by a bloody civil war between several different factions. In 2012, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azaward (MNLA) took control of Northern Mail; but shortly after, they were pushed out of the region by Ansar Dine, a jihadist group, which quickly imposed sharia law: cigarettes, alcohol and music were banned across the region. And as a result a large number of the country's acclaimed musicians including Songhoy Blues' founding trio Garba Toure, Aliou Toure and Oumar Toure (no relation, but all Songhoy people) were forced to relocate south to Bamako, the country's capital.
As the members of Songhoy Blues have said, the band was formed ". . . to recreate that lost ambience of the North, and make all the refugees relive those Northern songs." The band recruited Nathanael Dembélé to compete their lineup, and began playing shows across the Bamako club circuit, attracting both Songhoy and Tuareg fans. Interestingly, by September 2013, Africa Express, a collective of American and European musicians and producers led by Damon Albarn traveled to Bamako to collaborate with local musicians. The members of Songhoy Blues successfully auditioned and were introduced to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Nick Zinner, who produced and recorded "Soubour" (which translates into English as "patience"), which appeared on that year's African Express compilation Maison Des Jeunes.
Following the success of "Soubour," the band returned to the studio with Zinner and co-producer Marc-Antoine Moreau to record their 2015 full-length debut Music in Exile, which was a commercial and critical success, receiving praise from The Guardian, NME and others, and as a result the band received nominations for "Best New Act" at the Q Awards and "Independent Breakthrough Act" at the AIM Awards. The quartet has opened for Alabama Shakes, Julian Casablancas and Damon Albarn, and have played sets at Glastonbury Festival, Bonnaroo Festival, Latitude Festival, Roskilde Festival, Green Man Festival, Byron Bay Bluesfest, WOMADelaide and The Great Escape Festival.
Building upon a growing international profile, the band's sophomore album, 2017's Resistance was released to critical praise, with Rolling Stone naming it one of the best albums of that year. Since then, the act has been busy touring, including a stop at Union Pool's Summer Thunder last year — and the writing and recording of their forthcoming EP Meet Me in the City, which is slated for an October 18, 2019 release.
The effort finds the acclaimed Malian act collaborating with Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney, Junior Kimbrough and Femi Kuti. Interestingly, the EP's first single, the Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney and Songhoy Blues co-written "Time To Go Home" may be the most electronic-leaning they've released to date, it still retains some dexterous and trippy guitar work and the hypnotic grooves of the Desert Blues. And interestingly enough, it finds the band ambitiously desiring to pass the messages at the heart of their material to a much larger, international audience. (There are two different version of the track. One mixed by Grammy-nominated producer Blake Mills and one mixed by David Ferguson.)
Songhoy Blues says, "We're really happy to introduce this new EP and our English-language debut on the song 'Time To Go Home.' Please enjoy it and get ready for a heavy new album coming up very soon."
Matt Sweeney adds, "I think it's safe to say that the brave poets of Songhoy Blues have a different idea what a 'bad day' is than pretty much all other rock bands. Their music and singing are powerful beyond words. Making a new song with them was a humbling honor and an unforgettable joy."
On PBS' American Masters, Will Oldham spoke of working with Songhoy Blyes, saying, "They are a Malian band that's really trying to make sense of what they've been witnessing, what they've been experiencing, and create or transmit a message to people about what they're seeing and how they're trying to understand it and make change…And to think, well I want them to know that I'm trying to listen and trying to understand, and if I can give voice to some of what they're experiencing, that they might be emboldened by this musical connection."
Songhoy Blues will be embarking on a month long Stateside tour that includes two NYC area dates — September 22, 2019 at The Great Green Wall at The United Nations and October 24, 2019 at Baby's All Right. Check out the rest of the tour dates below.
09.21 – Franklin, TN – Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival 2019
09.22 – New York, NY – United Nations | Great Green Wall
09.23 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
09.24 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
09.26 – Oxford, MS – Proud Larry's
09.27 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
09.28 – Austin, TX – Antone's
10.01 – El Prado, NM – Taos Mesa Brewing
10.04 – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge
10.05 – Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone Berkeley
10.06 – Petaluma, CA – Mystic Theatre
10.09 – Eugene, OR – WOW Hall
10.10 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
10.11 – Seattle, WA – Columbia City Theater
10.12 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Rickshaw Theatre
10.15 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
10.17 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
10.19 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
10.22 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Great Hall
10.24 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby's All Right
10.25 – Easthampton, MA – New City Brewery
10.26 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
10.27 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Uncategorized by William Ruben Helms May 18, 201916:50
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New Audio by William Ruben Helms Oct 3, 201821:20 October 3, 2018
Now, over the past few years, I've written quite a bit about Copenhagen, Denmark-based electro pop duo and JOVM mainstays Palace Winter, and the act, which features Australian-born, Copenhagen-based singer/songwriter Carl Coleman and Caspar Hesselager can trace its origins to Coleman and Hesselager's mutual familiarity and appreciation for each other's work in a number of different projects — and naturally, the duo were encouraged to collaborate together. 2015 saw the release of their debut single, but 2016 the duo saw critical praise from The Guardian, NME, The Line of Best Fit, and airplay from KCRW, KEXP, Norway's P3, Denmark's P6, as well as by BBC Radio personalities Guy Garvey, Lauren Laverne and Tom Ravenscroft with the release of the Medication EP and their full-length debut Waiting for the World to Turn. Adding to a growing international profile, Coleman and Hesselager have a Hype Machine #1 single under their belts, have opened for Noel Gallagher, and have made appearances across the European festival circuit, including sets at Guy Garvey's curated Meltdown Festival, Roskilde Festival, Green Man Festival, Sziget Festival, Latitude Festival and Secret Garden Party among others.
Nowadays, the Australian-Danish duo's sophomore album was released earlier this year and from album singles "Empire," "Come Back (Left Behind)," "Baltimore," and "Take Shelter," their sophomore album reveals an act that has managed to expand upon their sound and songwriting approach in a subtle yet decided fashion as the material is centered around Coleman and Hasselager's penchant for pairing at times breezy, melodic and downright radio friendly pop with dark and sobering thematic concerns — with Nowadays, their material focuses on the inevitable loss of innocence as one truly becomes an adult; the recognition of the fear, freedom and power that comes as one takes control of their life and destiny; the tough and sometimes embittering life lessons that get thrown in your way; as well as the inconsolable grief and confusion of loss. Interestingly, the Australian-Danish duo's latest single "Acting Like Lovers" may arguably be one of the upbeat songs on the album as its centered by a production that manages to be simultaneously cinematic and intimate as it features strummed acoustic guitar, shimmering and arpeggiated synths, a motorik-like groove and their uncanny ability to craft breezy, 70s AM rock-like melodies. The song hints at a sense of closure — but with the subtle recognition that in life there is no such thing as closure, that life inevitably shoves you forward while you make every attempt to pick up the pieces and have some semblance of normalcy.
The single features two covers — the duo's breezy, Junip-like take on Elliott Smith's "Christian Brothers," that feels like a subtle departure from the original, and one of my favorite songs by The Cars, "Drive,'" which manages to maintain the song's moody and contemplative air. As the duo's Caspar Hesselager explains, "Elliott is someone who has influenced both me and Carl profoundly, and for me personally (growing up mostly with classical music and jazz) he became the guy that got me into listening to songwriters. We've often jammed his songs in the studio for fun and our cover of his song 'Christian Brothers' has been a favourite encore of ours on many shows. It's from his second album 'Elliott Smith' which along with the debut album is him at his most lo-fi and raw. It's almost 'anti-produced' but as always you can't keep those songs from burning right through all of that." The duo's Carl Coleman elaborates on their cover of The Cars' "Drive," "This was a song that always followed me around growing up in the 80s and 90s. I'm a sucker for sad pop songs. I've just always been attracted to melancholy stuff and this song has it all. All that drama and mystery plus a beautiful simple melody. Hell, we couldn't help but have a crack at it."


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SUNDAYS WITH PUPPET THEATRE
Michael Cacoyannis Foundation |
in cooperation with Unima Hellas
"the strings of music" (Marionette Theater "ANTAMAPANTAHOU")
The play is a funny world music concert performed by humans and marionettes along. It consists of a series of sketches, performed by 11 marionettes and two marionette players/ actors. The latter act as characters of both a puppet theatre performance and a mime performance.
The music ensemble has been formed by the following musicians: a folk music percussionist, an Asian belly dancer, an accordion player, a gipsy singer, an ud traditional player, 3 classical violin players, a guitar player, the drummer of "The Strings" Rock band and a violin player in his early youth.
The performance is based on a combination of puppet theatre techniques and mime techniques. The wooden and paper-made marionettes are being animated with the use of various techniques (strings, marot, bunraku) on black background. Both the marionettes' and the performers' movements are the result of a choreography based on mime and commedia dell' arte elements and techniques.
MARIONETTE THEATER "ANTAMAPANTAHOU"
The laboratory of manufacture and puppet theater of puppet "antamapantahou" was established in 1992 by Nikos Tompros and Eleni Panagiotou at Vasilika of Northern Evoia in Greece.
From 1994 onwards, it has been performing in the streets, theaters, schools and international festivals in Greece and Europe.
In 2002, it was commissioned by the Hellenic Culture Organization to tour in 8 cities in Greece and Cyprus, within the framework of the Cultural Olympiad Programme. Apart from its own productions, it has developed co-operative projects with outstanding Greek musicians and theater groups.
As an integral part of its overall policy, Antamapantahou organizes and delivers seminars and workshops for children and adults in the fields of puppet and marionette manufacture and puppet animation.
Antamapantahou working method combines a variety of puppet theater, pantomime and physical theater techniques. Its performances are being developed in a way that emphasises on the relationship between the puppet and the puppeteer, always aiming to develop the puppet into a distinct and self-animated character.
Direction, puppet construction, music, stage design:
Puppeteers:
Nikos Tombros,
Eleni Panagiotou
Time: 11:00, 17:30
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