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Video Rating: 4 / 5
Years of fight as well as exploitation have degraded most of Afghanistan’s healthy resources. But between a still rarely cherished resources is a lapis lazuli gemstone that has been mined in northern Afghanistan for 6000 years. The usually pristine source of a mill lies in Sar-i-Sang in a Kocha hollow of northern Afghanistan. James Bays creates a dangerous tour to a mines as well as finds group who risk their lives to get to these gems. To get to a world’s largest lapis lazuli cave – we have to go upon a tiresome journey. It takes some-more than twelve hours from a nearest locale by road, nonetheless there have been no genuine roads to verbalise of. These have been towering passes – a little them have been intensely fraudulent – as well as they can usually be navigated solemnly as well as intensely carefully. Finally, we dump down in to a Kocha hollow – as well as a mines during Sari-i-Sang, where a encampment has been built to residence a hundreds of group concerned in a poke for lapis lazuli. The gemstone – essentially a formidable vegetable done up of sodium as well as aluminium has been rarely sought after for thousands of years. The low sea blue stones have been upon sale as trinket as well as present boxes in shops in Kabul, though most of a lapis mined in Northern Afghanistan is smuggled opposite a limit to Pakistan. The encampment is a bottom stay for a rarely lucrative, nonetheless until not long ago a all illegal, business. You have been already during a tall rise here – prior to we begin rock climbing to a mines themselves. At this tallness we shortly get out of breath. Once inside a dim …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Love this song..Thank God the radio did not over play it and kill it!
Genius is right – he did everything on the original release of Soul Mining. I played the LP to death and it is still just a fresh, incredibly produced and as well mixed as Day 1.
Genius is right – he did everything on the original release of Soul Mining. I played the LP to death and it is still just a fesh and incredibly produced and mixed as Day 1
listen, all your troubles go away, listen and chill
always loved this , no waste ; )
great….just fantastic!
The story of my life…chillingly honest and haunting music,Still a fucking brilliant album unto this day.It’s totally unique filled with Matt’s personality and artistic vision.
Beautiful music, with meaning. Lets resurrect The The.
Matt Johnson and the geniality of his precious heart.
Like the sun came up and the world had dissapeared!
reminds me of a mis-spent youth in Hull – classic
good old memories !! tijdloos jeugdsentiment .
Wow, I listened to this song probably a million times and had not heard it for maybe 20 years. Reconnects with roots of pain… I am still floating in this little wooden box
@LimeyfruitNo3
Something always goes wrong when things are going right!
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nice one for this. Well written. Matt met god
this is as good as it gets – remember this from the time when i got drunk for the first time – 1985?
J’ADORE!!!!!!!!!
GENIAL Matt Johnson Quelle voix!!!!!
Awesome, good memories…
Gravitate To Me was so emotionally erotic . . . can anyone post it?
Yes they do!
Nice guys don’t drink.
I managed a bar in London a few years ago and had the pleasure of meeting Matt Johnson. I bought him a couple of beers and he was a perfect gentleman, a really nice guy.
thanks for posting this…still sounds amazing. I’d forgotten just how great this band/matt johnson was.
This takes me back. And wow doesn’t it still sound good. BTW, I’d put it on at partys, right at the end when everyones sitting around winding down. Perfect. Thanks for the post.
ITS THE PROPERTY OF MUSLIMS OF AFGHANISTAN AND FOR ALL MUSLIMS OF THE WORLD AND FOR PEACE FULL PEOPLES AFTER PERMISSION .THE FOREIGNERS … ITS NOT ILLEGAL AT ALL .
since it’s afghanistan, you should get out of there!
@Diamonddavej
LOL @ “women bring bad luck to the mine.”
why would someone flag the UNDESADSD as spam??? they are saying that the video was significant enough to be picked up by the United Nations and shown at their own seminar on Mining for educational purposes…! I personally think it is GREAT that this video is being recognized in this way…
Hi. FYI: One of our panelists is using this video? for illustrative purposes at a Seminar we are organizing on Mining -bit(dot)ly/bIWBTM . We’ve also added this to our Mining playlist on our youtube channel. Check it out. – United Nations Division for Sustainable Development.
I hope they can keep the money and not give it to the Taliban. USA supports the Afghan people, well at least I do…
Well said.
its a rock not a mineral
hay proud to be from afghanistan and espacially from this province i mean BADAKHSHAN …….and withs its LAPIS LAZULI
Dimond davej! juwelery are for women .,becuse they arebeutuful and exampleof love and peace.those women who study geneology they are smartar then some man miners andthey involvd
in different kind of sport too.
I love this mineral, I’m gonna get me a gold ring with inlade with lapis lazuli.
Sar-i-sang has been worked for 8,000 years, it is found in the jewelery of the Egyptian pharaohs. Women are not allowed near the mines, the miners say they bring bad luck.
Islam is the truth.. visual anomaly your condescending and critical attitude is what is extreme. These people want nothing to do with you and your ideas. They are Muslim and they are living their lives the best they can. May Allah reward them! Jazakum Allah Khairan
huh
I hope Al-jazeera could run a documentarty about yellow cake mining one day!
Fascinating piece…..uneducated men mining these mines….where do they turn when they aren’t given proper compensation for their work?…. In some circumstances they turn to Islamic extremist organizations….Here, they’re provided with a sense of belongingness and of empowerment through extremist beliefs that cast a veil of criticism and denouncement towards any alternative form of faith over their own….
tats my country
My stones can buy the world for me.. Proud to be AfGhAn