A recording created as part of the Golden Record carried into space by the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Story here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/10/murmurs-of-earth-sagan-golden-record/

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The Sounds of Earth (The Golden Record)

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“A grand, funky number”
— NME Magazine

“So interesting, so original.”
— Dave Rowntree (Blur, XFM)

With a nod to 1970s jazz funk greats the inspirational and humanitarian musings of the enigmatic Bruce Lee are backed by breakbeats, bass, guitar, shakers, 3 piece horn section and a haunting vibraphone melody. All recorded using real live instruments and in order to preserve a natural groove no click track was used during the recording.

On May 22, 2014 Dave Rowntree of Blur made it his record of the week on XFM calling it "so interesting, so original." Both Don Letts and Gideon Coe have been spinning it on BBC 6 Music along with WFUV's Kara Manning in New York and numerous local stations across the UK.

Be Water My Friend will be issued on new Leeds imprint All My Friends as a split 7” with label mates Invisible Hands &amp; their debut single Just.

http://all-my-friends.bandcamp.com/album/be-water-my-friend-just
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Written by Fold (PRS / ASCAP)
Produced & mixed by Ed Heaton & Seth Mowshowitz
Mastered by Hippocratic Mastering

Brass arrangements &amp; Tenor Saxophone: Emma Johnson
Trumpet: Ciaran Diston
Trombone: Peter Johnson
www.hornsforhire.co.uk

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LYRICS

[Spoken & authored by Bruce Lee]

Empty your mind
Be formless, shapeless
Like water

When you put water into a cup
it becomes the cup
when you put water into a bottle
it becomes the bottle
when you put it in a teapot
it becomes the teapot

Now water can flow
or it can crash

Be water my friend

Running water never goes stale
so you gotta just keep on flowing

Be water my friend

Its very slow and you push it out
but all the time you are keeping the continuity going
bending, stretching everything
I suppose you know you just keep it moving
see the idea is running water never grows stale
so you gotta just keep on flowing

Be water my friend

To express oneself honestly
not lying to oneself
and to express myself honestly
now that my friend is very hard to do
and you have to train
you have to keep your reflexes
so that when you want it its there

When you want to move you are moving
and when you move you're determined to move
not taking one inch - not anything less than that
If I want to punch
I'm gonna do it man

Be water my friend

Here I am you know as a human being
How can I express myself totally and completely?
Its a process of continuing growth

Empty your mind
Be formless
Shapeless

Be water my friend

You what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because - I mean, I don't want to sound like 'as Confucius say...' but under the sky, under the heavens man, there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.

Buy on 7" vinyl

Fold - Be Water My Friend (Single)

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Kurt Vonnegut in 1973 and Mary O’Hara in 1957 feature on this track that reflects on coping with death and grief through the use of excerpts from the former’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five narrated by the author himself. The excerpts are worked into a song based on Mary O’Hara’s version of an old Irish song called Eileen Aroon. The hook of the song is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself which may well be the only known recording of him singing. He sings a couple of lines from an old song cited in Slaughterhouse-Five called That Old Gang of Mine.

<b>Lyrics</b>

So long forever, old fellas and gals
So long forever, old sweethearts and pals
God bless ‘em

Robert Kennedy, whose summer home is 8 miles from the home I live in all year round, was shot 2 nights ago.
He died last night. So it goes.
Martin Luther King was shot a month ago. He died too. So it goes.

So long forever, old fellas and gals
So long forever, old sweethearts and pals
God bless ‘em

And every day my government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. So it goes.
My father died many years ago now, of natural causes.
He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut too.
He left me his guns. They rust.

So long forever, old fellas and gals
So long forever, old sweethearts and pals
God bless ‘em

So it goes.

Everything is alright and everybody has to do exactly what he does.

Fold - So It Goes (ft. Kurt Vonnegut)

a world where cybernetics has advanced to a stage where it allows a return to the balance of nature and an elimination of the need for human labor.
All thirty-two of the poems in this collection were republished in The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster.

Richard Brautigan reads aloud his poem "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"

As Dr Martin Luther King Jr states so eloquently 'I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.' This was as valid 4 decades ago as it is today – and not just for the USA. 

Fold - A Revolution of Values (ft. Dr Martin Luther King Jr)

"I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems...But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam...A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death...This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru...They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Excerpted from, Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence

Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City






















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Richard Brautigan reads aloud his poem "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"

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