Pacific Islands Radio (Island Music) Newsletter

Jane's Pacific Islands Radio Newsletter (Island Music)
Vol. 7, Edition No.13/14, January/February 2007
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/

I N T H I S I S S U E ____________________________

Objectives
News and Views
Feature Artists
Notice Board
Coming Events
Pacific Islands Radio
Island Music Suppliers
Links
Letters
It's Time To Chat!

T H E V I E W _____________________________________
Pacific Islands Radio (Island Music) News and Views

HAPPY AND BLESSED 2007!

Welcome everybody to our first
Newsletter for 2007! Well, I must say
that it is just great to be back in touch
with everybody again and, as always, I
would very much like to take this wonderful
opportunity to sincerely wish everybody
good health, prosperity, happiness,
peace and harmony.

As this is our very first Newsletter for
2007, I would also like to wish one and
all the very best for the New Year, along
with my very sincerest gratitude and
heartfelt thanks for all your most valued
support which has contributed so much
to ensuring that our Newsletter remains
available to be shared in the New Year!

Thank you so very much indeed!

Once again, please join with me in
extending a very warm and sincere
Pacific Island welcome to the incredible
and fantastic number of new members
who have joined us since our last
Newsletter! No word can express my
warmest and deepest appreciation and
gratitude for your huge and most
welcome support.

I would most sincerely like to welcome
you on board! Please make yourselves
feel at home, relax and enjoy the music!
May you also find your stay and time
with us to be enjoyable, mutually
beneficial and most rewarding!

OBJECTIVES

This Newsletter is a listening guide to
the many wonderful listeners of our
Internet Pacific Islands Radio Stations.
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/index.htm

In addition, the Newsletter will focus on
issues relating to Pacific Island music. It
also embraces some of the exciting changes
taking place in the Internet Radio Revolution,
as well as updated information on our Pacific
Island Artists, Programming and Playlists.

NEWS AND VIEWS

In this, our first Pacific Islands Radio
Newsletter for 2007, once again, I
would like to take the opportunity of
wishing all, our valued listeners and
subscribers, all the very best for 2007.
In this edition, I am very pleased to be
able to discuss a little further about
some of the relevant issues that are
currently unfolding with regard to
International broadcasters using a
United States-based server. An
understanding of these issues is
considered to be extremely important
to ensure the ongoing viability of
Pacific Islands Radio in an ever-
changing and increasingly commercial
Internet broadcasting environment.

Broadly speaking, as I mentioned
in our previous Newsletter for
September/October 2006,
broadcasters are required to comply
with the requirements of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
which was passed by the United States
Congress and which details the rules
regarding Internet broadcasting.

Below, please find an abbreviation of
the rules contained in this Act which
are relevant to Internet broadcasters:

- A program must not be part of an
"interactive service". In this context,
this means that a broadcaster can not
perform sound recordings within one
hour of a request by a listener or at
a time designated by the listener.

- In any three-hour period, a broadcaster
should not intentionally program more than
three songs (and not more than two songs
in a row) from the same recording; a
broadcaster should not intentionally
program more than four songs (and not
more than three songs in a row) from the
same recording artist or anthology/box
set.

- Continuous looped programs may not
be less than three hours long.

Rebroadcasts of programs may be
performed at scheduled times as follows:

- Programs of less than one hour: no
more than three times in a two-week period.
Programs longer than one hour: no more
than four times in any two-week period.

- A broadcaster should not publish advance
program guides or use other means to pre-
announce when particular sound recordings
will be played. Broadcasters should pass
through (and not disable or remove)
identification or technological protection
information included in the sound recording
(if any)

And finally:

- Broadcasters should only broadcast
sound recordings that are authorized for
performance in the United States.

This final rule has now been clarified, with
a definition of what constitutes a sound
recording authorized for performance in the
United States now being made available. In
short, this means that all music service
providers operating from a United States-
based server will need to be licensed by
SoundExchange. SoundExchange is a
non-profit performance rights organization
jointly controlled by artists and sound
recording copyright owners through an
18-member board of directors with nine
artist representatives and nine copyright
owner representatives.

We have been designated by the U.S.
Copyright Office to collect and distribute
statutory royalties to sound recording
copyright owners and featured and
nonfeatured artists.

SoundExchange is dedicated to providing
exceptional service and advocacy for artists
and copyright owners to ensure the fair
compensation for the use of copyrighted
sound recordings.

It is perhaps worth mentioning that every
song that is played on an Internet station
contains two separate copyrighted works.
The first work is called the "musical
composition," which consists of the song's
music and lyrics. The second work, made
while the band played the song in a recording
studio or at a concert, is called the "sound
recording." U.S. law requires a broadcaster
to obtain permission from the copyright owner
of a musical composition before playing the
song. To do so, a broadcaster can request a
"public performance license" from a copyright
owner in exchange for payment of a license
fee or royalty. ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are
the performing rights organizations that issue
those licenses. Licenses for "sound recordings"
are issued and administered by the performing
rights organization - SoundExchange.

For further information about SoundExchange,
you are invited to visit:
http://www.SoundExchange.com/

At this point in time, SoundExchange is
understood to be negotiating with several
countries to collect and distribute
royalties for musicians from those
countries.

International broadcasters have been
advised that, in the longer term, Live365
may be forced to remove or restrict
listening to certain countries outside the
U.S. depending on the resolution of these
negotiations on a worldwide basis.

The situation as it relates to Pacific Islands
Radio is perhaps more complex in that
Pacific Islands Radio features music from
most countries across the Pacific Region,
many of which may not have the opportunity
of having royalties collected on their behalf
by SoundExchange in the United States. In
this context, Pacific islands Radio would
certainly support the concept of a central
agency to collect and distribute royalties on
behalf of the many talented musicians from
across the Pacific Region.

Perhaps, it should also be remembered that
the International genre of Internet radio has
a much greater role to play than simply
being some form of commercial jukebox
playing popular music from around the world.
It provides a valuable medium for the
preservation of the cultural heritage of Island/
Oceania people in the way that music has
done for generations over thousands of years,
particularly in the absence of a written
language in Oceania. It also provides many
Pacific islanders from around the world,
including soldiers serving in such places as
Iraq and the Sudan, with an opportunity to
listen to music, including traditional music
from their homelands.

In addition, the International genre of
Internet radio, also at this time, allows the
music of the indigenous people of the world
to be played free from political censorship.
In particular, this would relate to the
indigenous music from countries that are
under the control of others. In this context,
it is difficult to imagine, for example, that
the Government of Indonesia would allow
SoundExchange to collect and distribute
royalties for Melanesian musicians from
Papua (Irian Jaya), particularly when the
royalties may be used to further the cause
of Melanesian independence and to
preserve the cultural heritage of the
Melanesian people of Papua.Unfortunately,
these particular issues are not being
addressed in the development of the rules
for the International genre of Internet radio
as they are being applied in the United
States.

At this time, please be assured that Pacific
Islands Radio is continuing to monitor
developments in the exciting area of Internet
radio, and will continue to consider all
available options to ensure the ongoing
viability of the concept of Pacific Islands
Radio.

Finally, I would like to add that I would
have very much wished to have started
this beautiful New Year on a much better
and happier note with regard to our Pacific
Islands Radio. However, I thought it best
for us to discuss these rather complex
issues at this time so that we can all have
a very clear and better appreciation of
the possibly rocky road ahead of us, and
to ensure that, in the end, we shall
happily and successfully reach our rightful
destination. Thank you.

FEATURE ARTIST

MAMBESAK - BLACK PARADISE

Over the festive season, I took the
opportunity to listen, once again, to some
of our beautiful Pacific Island music and,
in particular, the music of Black Paradise
from Papua (Irian Jaya). Certainly, this
band has a sound that transcends all
International barriers, and the music seems
to take on an added dimension each time
you listen to it. With beautiful vocals,
harmonies and instrumentation, the music
provides some very easy listening which,
upon repeated listening, transports the
listener to the beautiful and ancient
homeland of the Melanesian people of
Irian Jaya.

Indeed, the music is a representation of
the cultural identity of the many different
indigenous groups within Papua. In doing
this, it allows the people of Papua to
retain the values, colour and identity of
each of the different indigenous groups
from which the music is derived. In this
respect, music and songs will continue to
be the substance that binds indigenous
groups together, as well as enabling
freedom of expression.

These things have been very much under
threat from the growing influence of
Christianity, the encroachment of global
culture, inappropriate and large scale
economic development and military
repression. The oral traditions of the
people of Papua have come under
pressure and changed form. In addition,
music, driven by global influences and
the growing commercialisation of
indigenous music, has tended to sever
the connection between the wonderful
people of Papua along with their
traditional culture and roots.

If I may add, Mambesak's Black
Paradise is certainly a remarkable and
touching album which provides great
listening enjoyment, as well as showcasing
the distinctive indigenous music and song
of Papua to a worldwide audience. It
also encourages the people of Papua and,
in particular, the young people of Papua,
to love and preserve their beautiful cultural
heritage as an integral part of their lives.

It may be possible to obtain a copy of this
CD from the following:
http://www.mana.com.au/blackparadise/Default.htm
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NOTICE BOARD

OCEANIA MESSAGE FORUMS

I am very pleased to be able to say that,
in addition to our main Oceania Guest Book,
additional Forums have been introduced to
all Web sites of the main islands and islets
of the Pacific, as well as personalities,
along with our Pacific Islands Radio Web sites:
http://pub47.bravenet.com/forum/4004922603

As you are no doubt aware, these Forums
have been most beneficial in bringing together
many people with an interest in and a love of
the beautiful and enchanting music of the
Pacific Islands. You are cordially invited to
share your valuable and important thoughts
and opinions with us all.

Recent additions also include the Web
sites for Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa, Republic
of Nauru, Republic of the Marshall
Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Easter Island,
New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Papua New
Guinea, Cook Islands and Pitcairn Island,
Niue, as well as our Oceania Postcards
and Picture Galleries - and many more!
Thank you.

COMING EVENTS

WORLD EVENTS GUIDE
PACIFIKA POLYNESIAN FESTIVAL
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
9th March 2007 - 10th March 2007

A feast for the senses, Pasifika Festival
reproduces the sensation of wandering
among Pacific Island villages, close to the
heart of Auckland. In an extensive park
and Lakeland site, musicians and artists
give an insight into the traditions of the
islands with performances such as Niuean
dance, Cook Island drums, Samoan Siva,
Tongan war chants, Fijian love songs and
many more examples of Pacific Island
heritage. Over 200,000 people and hundreds
of performers attend this popular one day
festival, where the performances are spread
over many acres and cross the spectrum of
film screenings, poetry readings, opera,
serious jazz and soul funk bands. Pasifika
hosts over 350 stalls selling a variety of
products from fresh coconuts and tapa cloths
to hats, music and ice cream. As a warm-up
to the main event, an opening night music
concert is given on the Friday evening.
http://www.worldeventsguide.com/event.ehtml?o=2084

POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, HAWAII

The Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii will,
during 2007, offer two new events highlighting
the beautiful culture and dance of the Pacific
Islands. Firstly, a Polynesian Arts Festival,
celebrating the work of Island artisans who
create traditional crafts, clothing and decor,
will be held during the month of July 2007 -
between 2nd July and the 31st July 2007.
Between 21st September and the 22nd
September, a Tongan Festival will be
featured, which will showcase the
harmonious voices of singers and the
syncopated dances of the people of
Tonga.

The Polynesian Cultural Centre will
also continue with many of its signature
events, such as the World Fireknife
Dance Competition (16th May to the
18th May 2007), now in its 15th season,
and the popular Te Mahana Hiroa'a 'O
Tahiti (6th and 7th July 2007), which
features Tahitian dances to the exciting
rhythms of the tamure drums.

MICRONESIA COMING EVENTS

10 May Constitution (Federated States of Micronesia) Day
1 Jun* Tree Planting Day (Yap)
6 Jun* Malem Memorial Day (Kosrae)
20 Jul* Utwe Memorial Day (Kosrae)
8 Sep* Kosrae Liberation Day
11 Sep* Pohnpei Liberation Day
23 Sep* Chuuk Liberation Day
1 Oct* Chuuk Constitution Day
24 Oct United Nations Day
3 Nov Independence (Federated States of Micronesia) Day
8 Nov* Pohnpei Constitution Day
11 Nov Veterans of Foreign War Day (Pohnpei)
15 Nov* Kosrae State Fair
29 Nov Thanksgiving (Kosrae and Chuuk)
24 Dec* Yap Constitution Day
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"Coming Events" outlines some of the
many events on our musical and dancing
calendar throughout the year hence the
inclusion in our monthly Pacific Islands
Radio Newsletter (Island Music).

As valued members of our Pacific Islands
Radio Newsletter, you are invited to share
any of your most welcome thoughts and
great ideas about Pacific Island musical
events/festivals, etc. that you feel should
be shared and enjoyed by all our members.
I humbly feel that our members would
greatly appreciate your kind gesture in
sharing this very useful information with us.
Thank you so much!

PACIFIC ISLANDS RADIO

I would like to mention, in response
to some of the e-mails and messages that
I have received, from those wonderful
people who would like to listen to our
beautiful Pacific Island music, but
unfortunately are unable to actually
listen to the music.

Basically, it is quite easy to access and
enjoy Pacific Islands Radio. Once you
have accessed the page, it is most
necessary to firstly log on, in order to
be able to listen to the music. The process
of being able to log on can be achieved
by providing your username and password
before clicking on the yellow 'Play' button
provided on the centre of the page.
Good Luck and Enjoy!

In addition, the many listeners who would
like to purchase the music played on our
Pacific Islands Radio Stations, in CD
format, can obtain details of recommended
suppliers by clicking on Artists' Profiles
on Pacific Islands Radio Home Page:
www.pacificislandsradio.com

Pacific Islands Radio continues to offer a
range of broadcasting formats in order to
allow a wide range of listeners to enjoy
our beautiful island music.

STATIONS

Our Pacific Islands Radio Stations play the
enchanting music of the Pacific Islands 24
hours daily.
www.pacificislandsradio.com
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/index.htm
http://www.janeresture.com/radio/index.htm

TWO FREE INTERNET RADIO STATIONS:
(See News and Views August/September 2006)

Pacific Islands Radio
http://www.live365.com/stations/janeresture

Radio Melanesia
http://www.live365.com/stations/janeres

VIP PREFERRED MEMBERS -
PAYING MEMBERS
(See News and Views August/September 2006)

Pacific Music Radio (mp3PRO)
http://www.live365.com/stations/drjaneresture

Micronesia Music Radio
http://www.live365.com/stations/jane_resture

PACIFIC ISLAND MUSIC SUPPLIERS

The following are some of the main specialist
suppliers of our music from the Pacific
Islands, which are now being used and are
highly recommended by Pacific Islands Radio.

KING MUSIC -
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

Kingmusic offers a wide selection of Pacific
Island music which is available on the Internet.
http://www.kingmusic.co.nz/

ISLANDMELODY.COM

Pacific Islands Radio would like to recommend
Islandmelody.com for a selection of traditional
and contemporary music with an emphasis on
Micronesian music.
http://www.islandmelody.com

BWANARAOI MUSIC SHOP -
TARAWA, REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

For Kiribati music, along with music from
other Pacific Islands and elsewhere, you
are invited to contact the following
exclusive distributor:

Bwanaraoi Music Shop
Republic of Kiribati
Phone/Fax (686) 28236
E-mail: angirota@tskl.net.ki

LINKS

MUSIC OF THE PACIFIC ISLAND
NATIONS

General

The Pacific Ocean covers a third of
the earth's surface and contains the
deepest waters in the world. It is also
a region with deep musical traditions,
too, buffeted by the regular currents
of colonists and explorers and now
undergoing dramatic changes.You
can hear music ranging from ancestral
navigational chants and glorious
polyphonic singing to laments about
nuclear testing. The ethnic cultures of
the Pacific can be divided into three
main areas - Melanesia, lying mostly
south of the equator, Micronesia,
north of the equator above it, and
Polynesia, spread over a huge area
to the east.
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/sass/music/musicarchive/PacificInfo.html

WELCOME TO THE MUSIC
ARCHIVE OF THE PACIFIC

The Music Archive for the Pacific has
been established by the Southern Cross
University, Lismore, Australia. for the
main purpose of providing a collection
of recordings of indigenous music, related
books, journals, musical instruments and
art works to interested persons for
research purposes.

The archive covers the music of the
indigenous people of Australia (incl. Torres
Strait), Papua New Guinea (incl. Bougainville),
New Zealand as well as the nations of the
Pacific Islands - Cook Islands, Easter Island,
Fiji, Hawaii, Nauru, New Caledonia,
Rarotonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti,
Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/arts/music/musicarchive/ArchiveHome.html
MUSIC ARCHIVE FOR THE PACIFIC
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/arts/music/musicarchive/ArchiveArchive.html

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LETTERS

The following are extracts from a few
interesting and most welcome letters that I
have recently received about our four Pacific
Islands Radio Stations, our artists and music.
In this respect, it is my great pleasure to be
able to share these letters with you all as I
find them to be most uplifting, supportive,
motivating and encouraging. They also provide
much needed feedback in order to continuously
monitor and enhance the quality of the service
provided by Pacific Islands Radio.

Please join with me in thanking these wonderful
people for sharing their kind thoughts with us
all.
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Dear Jane,
What you are doing with your Internet
presence and radio broadcast is of
immense importance. I have been all
over the world, but in my estimation
the heart of civilization rests firmly
with the peoples of Polynesia as things
presently stand. I am but an infrequent
visitor to your site and yet I feel fully
at home whenever I do so, it is like a
homecoming every time. This is the
highest compliment I can offer a host.
My heart is filled with gratitude for the
initiative you have taken to create such
an international presence and I hope
you are being largely rewarded for
doing so.
Yours Sincerely,
San Francisco

Hi Jane,
I have just tuned into this radio station online.
My name is Guy Moore I was born on Nauru
in 1969 and left with my family about 4 years
later. We moved to Australia and I have never
been back to Nauru but when I came across
your site I was able to show my wife and kids
just where I came from.They are surprised to
see how far away my place of birth is. I was
hoping you might be able to send me some
photos of the island so they can see what it
looks like as they can't imagine what life
was like back then on the island.

Dear Jane,
Way way cool!
Just a quick note to let you know that I
really love your Internet programming. I
live in Tennessee now, but I grew up about
30 miles from a Pacific Island (Santa
Catalina in California) and hearing this
great music bring me to a place where I
can feel the spirit of the ocean I miss so
much. Thank you, and please let me know
if you ever come to Nashville! At your
service...

Hi Jane,
Here's a Holiday greeting and a note to
tell you how much I enjoy listening to your
music here in Sonoma, California; the heart
of the Valley of the Moon.
Best regards

Hi Jane,
Listening to your good music, our daughter
just finished her studies at Wollongong,and
is somewhere on the Cook Islands enjoying
the beach before coming back to Canada.
Here it's very cold and lots of snow. She
might be listening also...

Hi Jane
Just discovered your website and Radio
station on the Internet. Enjoying your
broadcasts! Mike

Hello Jane,
We are from Germany and listening to your
music.We are extremely relaxed, sitting in
our living room with an open fireplace (it is
wintertime) and really surprised, that we
can hear you so far away. It's magic!
Do you have any German songs which you
can play for us? We wish you a Happy
New Year 2007!

Hi Jane,
My name is John Rimmer I'm a 38 year old
sales manager in Manchester in England and
I was watching a programme about the Island
and it has caught my imagination about how
life must be living on the island I would love
to know more about what it is like actually
living there and whether or not I could visit
the island and how you go about that??
Please get back to me and let me know as
much as you can in regards to these matters.
Thanks and kind regards

Hello Jane,
My name is Vince Falzone and my latest
album "Out of Time" has been released. I
would like to submit my tune "Time In A Jar,
The Sound or Don't Wake Me" for rotation
on your Radio station. You can hear my
material on either of the links listed below.
I prefer to e-mail the *.mp3 file's over for
direct upload...

Hello Jane,
My name is Christine Hundleby and am a
half Malaitan Solomon Islander, half European
woman residing in the Gold Coast, Australia. I
am a musician/performer and teacher and I
was wondering how I could get a hold of some
traditional sounds of the Solomons and any
other Pacific island "kustom" song or footage
of traditional dance. I am particularly interested
in some of the older archival songs and dances
as they have not been tarnished by western
influences, but I am also open to any modern
mixes that you might know of. I know that on
your web page, you have a link to the Pacific
Islands Radio stations.
Is there any way that I can get a hold of some
music that I can use for education purposes?
Do you know of other resources and areas in
Queensland or any other place within Australia
that might have resource material that I could
draw from and use as part of a workshop
whereby I could teach people Solomon Islands
culture?
I would appreciate your help with these few
questions and even if you don't have direct
sources, maybe you could put me onto
someone you know that might have some.
Thankyou for your time Jane---
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IT'S TIME TO CHAT

Our Chat Rooms are always available for
online chatting between parties and can be
accessed via Jane's Oceania Home Page:
http://www.janeresture.com or the URLs:
http://pub18.bravenet.com/chat/show.php/1489671900
http://pub32.bravenet.com/chat/show.php/2702076781

COMMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Your valuable contributions and comments
are always most welcome and they can be
sent to me at:
jane@pacificislandsradio.com

Thank you so much everybody for your
very kind support and for being such
important and valuable members of
our Pacific Islands Radio (Island Music)
Community.

As always, let us all hope for continuing
greater peace and harmony, good health,
prosperity and happiness, for everybody!
I wish you all the very best and please
take care!

May our God bless us all and, as usual,
I look forward to the pleasure of your
company next time!

Jane Resture