HELP CHINA::: Download album for free

[SoNiCbRaT]

Geeks, friends and foes. Let's do our part in lending a hand to help with the recent Sichuan Wenchuan Earthquake. This is my little effort to encourage people to donate. I've even set up a fundraiser page so do drop by. The music in this album uses KORG M3-88, though the mix could be improved (by miles) but I wanted to do it in a day so we'll have to live with the little imperfections. Thank you and sorry moderators for my double posting but this is for charity.

The recent Sichuan Earthquake in China had shocked the world. With more than 28,000 dead and more than 190,000 injured and many homeless; the victims there need our help.

I spent one day to cut this simple electro-acoustic album in response to this recent catastrophe, in hope of helping to raise funds. The album isn't great, but what I could muster in just one day. This album is free for download here, but I have a favour to ask and that is for you to donate. The money goes to British Red Cross, and I am sure they will do good with the money to help with the situation in China. Any amount will do, because that little bit counts. The album is yours to keep. My heart felt condolences to the victims and their families. Please help lend a hand in anyway we can. I hope you'll enjoy the album and thank you for your generous donations.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FUND RAISER PAGEhttp://www.justgiving.com/sonicbrathttp://www.justgiving.com/sonicbrat
Please note that this donates to British Red Cross, but does it matter which avenue you choose to donate? As long as it helps. The site takes all major credit cards. The reason being: Singapore Red Cross Red Tape...

Still, donate to Singapore Red Cross if you feel so. And please do! Every little bit counts!
CLICK HEREhttp://www.redcross.org.sg/chinaearthquake_src_donate.htmhttp://www.redcross.org.sg/chinaearthquake_src_donate.htm

Here's the free download:
sonicbrat: WENCHUANhttp://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/12/1695316/W E N C H U A N/WENCHUAN.ziphttp://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/12/1695316/W E N C H U A N/WENCHUAN.zip

Disclaimer: Please note that I'll allow non-commercial distribution of this album and the music copyright belongs to me. No commercial usage of these music without the prior consent of the artist (sonicbrat). It can be used for any charity events or fund raising events but please drop me a note. Thank you.

 

[pf]

kudos to you...

 

[SoNiCbRaT]

Sorry moderators, I seemed to have posted on quite a few categories. If you feel like taking them out please do so. I just wanted to create awareness and encourage people to donate.

The Cyclone Nargis Album is up, and I've posted them on KOPI-TIAM... do help the people in Burma too...

WENCHUAN
NARGIS

Thank you everyone...

 

[SoNiCbRaT]

Another Artist Had Spoken

Another artist friend/collaborator of mine from Sweden had spoken. MOTOKO ISHII, a vocalist, experimental music artist had downloaded the album and used one of the songs (w_0_0_3) to do some vocals on top. And she has kindly given me the green light to offer it up for download for good cause. Feel free to download and please donate to help the victims thank you!

FREE DOWNLOAD:
FORCE FIELDhttp://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/12/1695316/W E N C H U A N/Force Field.mp3http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/12/1695316/W E N C H U A N/Force Field.mp3
sonicbrat feat. MOTOKO ISHII

 

[luke-chen]

Nice one sonicbrat! May not be unthinkable before some sh*t hits our shores too and we end up as some casualty number reported on someone else's computer screen. Downloading your album now and will support your good cause!

Best,
luke.

 

[SoNiCbRaT]

Thank you Luke... I dropped by Kopi-tiam in the forum and it just riddles me to see that most Singaporean youngsters nowadays are being very ignorant of charity work and what's going on round the world. It's all about their ego, what they have to say and their own little world. I just hope more people will see that there's really alot of help needed.

Thanks for helping out!

Warmest,
s o n i c b r a t

 

[ac]

It is great that you're trying to help a cause, but have you considered that china sits on a 1,528,000,000,000 USD worth of foreign reserve, and that's without taking into account their gold reserves?

China plans to launch the world's largest investment fund - May 14, 2007

Their government could, if they wanted to, rent all the helicopters in south east asia, hire all the rescue workers, fly them over and drive them to the affected areas in gold humvees, to rescue everyone.

 

[pf]

The mountains are high and the "emperor" is far...besides all the way to the people lines the magistrates, officials, red tape, what nots and unfortunately not all of them have the belief of "all for one and one for all".

So...not sure how the money will reach the victims or how it would reach the victims.

But one thing for sure is that red cross went in, red cross need funds for supplies to bring to the victims and the funds come from ppl's donations. So, one thing that can be done to help is to donate to red cross.

 

[Cheez]

China has poured in quite a hefty sum of money already. And you don't move all the foreign reserves just for one disaster - that's creating a second disaster. The cost of damage far exceeded all the amount of donation given by all international aid combined so far.

Safest is still to donate to Red Cross. There maybe complications when money do reach China, but Red Cross is still the safest way. They have a longer term strategy in disasters.

When you see the magnitude of damage to both infrastructure and social structure, you woundn't be saying what you said. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of displaced people with no home. For the past one week, they have been eating mostly donated instant noodles with little nutrition. And boiling water is not easy in such an environment. I know because I was eating instant noodles with them.

And you don't get humvees - they don't get into those areas. I saw one humvee - but it's not going anywhere. As for helicopters, they don't access all areas. Some places are just plainly inaccessible. Some things are not that easily solved by dollars and cents.

But if one were to donate, Red Cross is the way as they have a longer-term strategy. Teams will start to pull out soon. The real disaster is coming next...

The Chinese govt are really doing a lot at this time. I've not seen them move like this before. We can give one hundred arguments why they do it differently, but the fact is that they are moving. And they are moving fast.

But saying because of certain factors so we don't donate (while we can), what does that make us? Tell that to the face of the little child who lost his parents, or to the 8.5 months pregnant lady I saw 2 days ago who's going to give birth in the wilderness in a few weeks time with little medical care (because the hospital collapsed), or to the 8 local medical staff I met who had hardly been sleeping for the past week having to help the sick while having to bury their own feelings of lost relatives and homes...

Sorry about this. It's still fresh in me and I'm all emotional. I can psych myself to work hard when I was there, sleeping in tents. I can do it because I know soon I'll be back to civilisation and with my family. They can't. They have no choice and are stuck in their situation.

As what one of colleagues there told me, he helped because if the same were to happen to him, he hoped others would do the same. We could all help in any way we can. If one is concerned, there are "safe ways" (like Red Cross). But being able to help and refusing to help because of xxxxxxxxx reasons, sorry, I couldn't take that.

 

[pf]

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[ac]

I have seen the damages and displacement but i think this is still a valid consideration. pf, sorry, i'm not inclined to believe your assessment. For an international agency that goes all out to relieve human disaster - good job - and yet at the same time, the red cross is supposed to be borderless, but not the people looking in.

To put into perspective, let's say 1% of this trillion dollars is available. That would still amount to ... a lot of decimal places, but more accurately 1,528,000,000,000 minus 2 zeroes, or more locally relevant, a Minister mentor for 212 years.

The red cross's charter is such that they are meant to be neutral to the ability of the country to help themselves, but this cannot be said about the people who are not of this group.

 

[ac]

And while some things cannot be solved easily by dollars and cents, it can also be that other problems can.

 

[pf]

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[ac]

Have you not heard of liquidity ratio?

 

[Cheez]

Large foreign reserves...sure. However we are not talking about a country of 4-5 million people. We are talking about a country of 1.3+ billion people. And China IS moving large amount of money into the problem.

Not everything in hunky-dory in every country. Each has their "dark sides". But unless you've worked closely with them at the govt level, it's hard to appreciate the complexity of the issues. Most critics see from a tainted filter. They are not wrong in their opinions, but most of the time the criticism comes from a simplistic understanding of the socio-economic-politcal-cultural issues involved.

And we can go on arguing forever. That doesn't change the fact that people need help. To each their own. Give if you want to. Don't give if you don't want to. Our whole family is behind this. I want my children to grow up knowing they can give whatever little they can. I don't want their hearts to ever harden.

 

[SoNiCbRaT]

Give if you want to. Don't give if you don't want to. Our whole family is behind this. I want my children to grow up knowing they can give whatever little they can. I don't want their hearts to ever harden.

Cheez, I admire what you are doing for the people there. I hope I can do the same. I am a wuss. I can't put away my commitments here and just fly to China to help. Sigh... that's why I feel guilty about it.

It saddens me to read this thread. In any case, ac, for whatever reasons you may have, don't donate if you don't feel like it. Thank you.

Warmest,
s o n i c b r a t

 

[pf]

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[ac]

Large foreign reserves...sure. However we are not talking about a country of 4-5 million people. We are talking about a country of 1.3+ billion people. And China IS moving large amount of money into the problem.

Not everything in hunky-dory in every country. Each has their "dark sides". But unless you've worked closely with them at the govt level, it's hard to appreciate the complexity of the issues. Most critics see from a tainted filter. They are not wrong in their opinions, but most of the time the criticism comes from a simplistic understanding of the socio-economic-politcal-cultural issues involved.

And we can go on arguing forever. That doesn't change the fact that people need help. To each their own. Give if you want to. Don't give if you don't want to. Our whole family is behind this. I want my children to grow up knowing they can give whatever little they can. I don't want their hearts to ever harden.

That is true:To give or not to give is entirely up to the individual, arguments for and against and the will to act ultimately depends on the person. To take the same stance as your view on the complexities of the socio-economic landscape, i can also simply say donating money might also be a simplistic response to a complex problem. I definitely do not buy into the argument that it takes a trained expert to understand any situation. It's too much to defer critical thinking for someone else's opinion, which is why i'm offering an alternative view point on this disaster. This is not a critique on the groups involved, but an observation of the financial prowess of china.

 

[ac]

Liquidity ratio is a number, a tool for monitoring purposes. It doesn't mean anything in this case.

i'm pretty sure you're wrong.

 

[pf]

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