So I recently bought the most incredible record I’ve heard in a long time. Playing for Change, Songs Around the World is the most diverse, most amazing work I’ve ever heard recorded, and I love the message that comes with it.

The whole idea behind the album is peace through music. Each song is made up of various tracks from different artists all over the world, some of whom have never met in person, recorded over each other to make one track. Take for example the first song on the album, Stand By Me. The original track was recorded with vocals, and guitar by Roger Ridley in California. They producers took that track and flew across the country to Louisiana, to add Grampa Elliot’s vocals, and Roberto Luti’s guitar solo to the song. The third singer on the track is Clarence Bekker from Amsterdam. The drummer is from the Congo. It says a lot about musicians, and people in general, that these people who have never met each other in their lives, can sing with one another on the same song.

The album is being used to show that people of every nation, every religion, can find peace through one medium or another. The producers chose the universal media of music. I think if this album is any indication of what the human race is capable of, we’re heading in the right direction. Through all the war, famine, diseases, religious or political conflicts, we can come together and make something as fantastic as this, we can have a worldly brothership if we all work for it.

Please watch this video, I hope it inspires you as much as it has me.

Peace.