Music stars from around the world took part in a film to pro­mote peace in Sudan. This week a state­ment from aid groups said that Sudan was close to resum­ing it’s civil war. Amnesty Inter­na­tional and Human Rights Watch orga­nized the drum­ming to kick off a cam­paign to call world lead­ers to action. From Sudan 365, comes this cool drum­ming music fea­tur­ing Nick Mason, Phil Sel­way, and Stew­art Copeland.

From Yahoo News, this AFP story explains the campaign.

Drum­mers from Pink Floyd, Radio­head and The Police are join­ing other musi­cians to drum for peace in Sudan as part of an inter­na­tional cam­paign to press world lead­ers to pre­vent more blood­shed in Africa’s largest nation.
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Celebrity drum­mers are tak­ing part in a “beat for peace” film that fea­tures a drum­roll start­ing in the war-wracked nation “and being picked up and passed like a baton between drum­mers in over 15 coun­tries” — includ­ing Brazil, Egypt, France, Japan, South Africa and the United States.

Drum­mers will include Radiohead’s Phil Sel­way, Stew­art Copeland of The Police, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, as well as Egypt­ian musi­cians Yehia Khalil and Mohammed Munir and Ghana’s Mustapha Tettey Addy.

Nine organ­i­sa­tions includ­ing Amnesty Inter­na­tional, Human Rights Watch and the US group Save Dar­fur have joined efforts to organ­ise the cam­paign along with the drummers.

Gath­er­ings are due to take place in a dozen cities across the world on Sat­ur­day when the film will be launched on www.sudan365.org and the front page of YouTube, organ­is­ers said in a statement.

“I wanted to be involved in this project because I think music is such a pow­er­ful way of bring­ing peo­ple together,” Sel­way was quoted as saying.

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