a Song for Con
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star.
It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” – Haruki Murakami
a Song for Con
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
a Song for Con
a Song for Con
― Martin Luther King Jr.
a Song for Con
a Song for Con
“A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” ― Brian Jacques
a Song for Con
Critique of 2020 #5
Supreme piece of roots from the mighty ‘Cocoa Tea’. SERIOUS critique on the crony capitalist ‘shitstym’
“Stop it, white collar executive, stop run racket,
’cause if you check them pocket,
Things you wouldn’t believe, them bwoyyyy them got it..
There ain’t no love inna the city, they treating the people without pity,
No love in the country, all about we are dying for mercy…”
foooookin, CRAPitalist blooodclaaaaaaaat fools with their destructive ‘explosion’ ideology.
BIG, important and pioneering 1936 piece of Chicago Blues and Rhythm from one of, if not THE first vocal groups ‘assembled’ solely for the (still emerging) recording business.
From the 1920’s through to the 1940’s it was Jay Mayo ‘Ink’ Williams who wore the producers crown. An astute and pioneering cat who deserves the credit for being a MAJOR player in shaping the music, (and the business), that we know today.
Before settling on the music business ‘Ink’ was a pro American-footballer who along with the mighty Paul Robeson played in the first season of the NFL.
Ink remains the ONLY man to be inducted into both the National Football Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame.
This song, (written by group member Kansas Joe McCoy), is the songs original form, (later modified by Kansas for Lil Green and recorded as the famed ‘Why don’t you do right’).
Recorded in Chi’ during that 10 year ‘window’ between the ‘Great Depression’ and the fallout that went on to influence/produce World War II.
A scathing critique of colonialism from master Peter Tosh. His vocal cut of Tommy Mc Cook and the Destroyers ‘Ah So’ released by Joe Gibbs on his ‘Shock’ Label in 1971.
A cut of The legendary Abyssinians ‘Satta’ Rhythm, (originally recorded at the home of Jamaican music Sir Coxsone’s imperious Brentford road powerhouse … Studio 1)
The Abyssinians purchased the master tapes from Coxsone and released ‘Satta’ on their own ‘Clinch’ label in 1971 and the rest is Reggae history.
‘Satta’ was in itself a loose version of Carlton (Manning) & his Shoes ‘Happy Land’, (the Abyssinians consisted of Bernard Collins and ‘Shoe’ two brothers Donald and Lynford).
HEAVY funk cut featuring the vocal skills of Zilla Florine Mays. Singer, Radio Dj and respected community leader out of Atlanta GA. The FIRST african-american female radio announcer in GA and only the THIRD in the United States. This piece is a 1968 version, of an Allen Toussaint song. Recorded and released on the BIG mans Tou-Sea label.
“The object before us, to begin with, material production….
Individuals producing in society, (hence socially determined individual production), is, of course, the point of departure.
In this society of free competition, the individual appears detached from the natural bonds etc. which in earlier historical periods make him the accessory of a definite and limited human conglomerate.
The more deeply we go back into history, the more does the individual, and hence also the producing individual, appear as dependent, as belonging to a greater whole: in a still quite natural way in the family and in the family expanded into the clan [Stamm]; then later in the various forms of communal society arising out of the antitheses and fusions of the clan.”
– (Karl Marx 1857-8)
Carrying on with the ‘theme’. This cut is courtesy of Boogie, MASSIVE tune. HEAVYWEIGHT lyrics and one of my favourite cuts of this year.
“Its hard to put on war boots when you’re walking on egg shells”
BIG, personal, cut from, (for me), the master of ‘expressionist ambient’, Scott Morgan, aka Loscil. Hold this MAJESTIC cut from 2014. (the Start of a new phase).
HARD funk tune. .’BURIAL’ selection.
essence, consciousness, and bliss
“Of late there has been a new spirit manifested in the youth which is growing up with the depression. This spirit is more purposeful though still confused. It wants to create a new world, but is not clear as to how it wants to go about it. It has not yet realised that it must save itself. The young generation has not yet learned that the problems confronting them can be solved only by themselves and will have to be settled on the basis of social and economic freedom in co-operation with the struggling masses for the right to the table and joy of life.” – Emma Goldman
“That’s how I can grasp my mourning. Not directly in solitude, empirically, etc.; I seem to have a kind of ease, of control that makes people think I’m suffering less than they would have imagined. But it comes over me when our love for each other is torn apart once again. The most painful point at the most abstract moment” . . . (Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary)
You lit up EVERY aspect of life. . x
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