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Sounds taking one to South Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.
Dub, fusion, beauty, high energy from down and over there.

Turns out Victoria, BC, Canada is closest even to west Indian cities via the Pacific Ocean. That has to be a long flight or boat ride.

A short distance via music.

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AajKal Punjab

Apolitical Intellectuals
(A Poem By - Otto Rene Castillo) 

One day 
the apolitical 
intellectuals 
of my country 
will be interrogated 
by the simplest 
of our people.

They will be asked 
what they did 
when their nation died out 
slowly, 
like a sweet fire 
small and alone.

No one will ask them 
about their dress, 
their long siestas 
after lunch, 
no one will want to know 
about their sterile combats 
with "the idea 
of the nothing" 
no one will care about 
their higher financial learning.

They won't be questioned 
on Greek mythology, 
or regarding their self-disgust 
when someone within them 
begins to die 
the coward's death.

They'll be asked nothing 
about their absurd 
justifications, 
born in the shadow 
of the total lie.

On that day 
the simple men will come.

Those who had no place 
in the books and poems 
of the apolitical intellectuals, 
but daily delivered 
their bread and milk, 
their tortillas and eggs, 
those who drove their cars, 
who cared for their dogs and gardens 
and worked for them, 
and they'll ask:

"What did you do when the poor 
suffered, when tenderness 
and life 
burned out of them?"

Apolitical intellectuals 
of my sweet country, 
you will not be able to answer.

A vulture of silence 
will eat your gut.

Your own misery 
will pick at your soul.

And you will be mute in your shame.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://soundcloud.com/ravana-tenheads feat http://soundcloud.com/banbasi

Apolitical Intellectuals - feat. Ravana

When The Levee Breaks

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
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artwork by:
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For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

Song: Ishq Nahi Aasaan K Jogi Banna Painda Ai
Singer: Jinder Jinda
Music: Mukhtar Sahota
Album: Jogi
Year: 2004

Jogi Feat. Jinder Jinda (Mukhtar Sahota)

New Delhi bass champion Nucleya delivers a slickly produced Mumbahton banger. Bant Singh's voice is harmonized, used as a lead, and transformed into an air horn above window rattling bass and a hard hitting dancefloor drums.

Nucleya is founded by Udyan Sagar, who started his musical journey towards the end of 1990's when he co-founded Bandish Projekt. Since then, he has released 14 Singles, two studio album including Bhor and numerous collaborations. There are 4 more international releases lined up for this year. Nucleya has frequently made it on the playlists of BBC Radio 1 -- UK and numerous other radio stations around the world. He has performed at numerous prestigious festivals and events around the world, like Glastonbury -- UK, Edinburgh Fringe Festival -- UK, Lille 3000 France etc.

He is currently based in Delhi, India and is very happy about the response he received for his album with HMV India. The album consists of bass heavy mash-ups of old Bollywood tracks, with collaborations featuring artists like Piyush Bhatnagar
(Ex- Deaf Bass Twins from India) and MC JD from Canada and Shivang Patel from Ahmedabad.

Over past many years, Nucleya has also composed and produced music for films. He has produced original sound tracks and background scores for feature films like "Dubai Return", short animations, as well as ad films. He has worked with brands like Tata and presently designing a background score for an animation film by a student of National Institute of Design, India. Nucleya will be playing at Electron Festival on 22 April, 2011 in Geneva.

Modern days slavery (NUCLEYA remix)

Vienna’s Dubblestandart build a context of soulful sub bass and live breakbeats for Bant Singh’s son Jagmeet to spit the chorus on. Synthetic Indian melodies are interweaved with evolving atmospheric textures that are both suspenseful and uplifting.

Dubblestandart started in the early 90s and chose dub music as their musical lodestar. Working for Dillinger, Lee Perry, Topcat, Lilian Allen or Ari Up as backing band, releasing productions since 1988 in the name of dub.Touring Austria,Poland,Czech Republic,Canada in summer 08 with Subatomic Soundsystem from New York city.
Ton loads of remixes & collaborations featuring Sly & Robbie, Dillinger, Mad Professor, Ken Boothe, Manasseh, Dreadzone, The Rootsman,Sounds From The Ground a.o.

European bass guerrilla cuts driven by political awareness and spaced out sounds. Expect hi-energy live shows and smoothened out studio productions all based on a strong commitment to original reggae and dub. Currently in the studio with Ariup & Lee Scratch Perry producing their forthcoming longplayer Return To Planet Dub.

Into the fire (DUBBLESTANDART remix)

Slowed down vocals of "Modern Dayz : Slavery" collide with the beat from "Comrades" over a bed of tribal percussion. The result is raw, gritty, and potent. Subatomic Sound System takes us for a ride through his electronic dub laboratory with analog filters, distortions, and delay effects.

For over a decade Emch has been the producer, selector, and musician behind Subatomic Sound System and the head of the Subatomic Sound label. Founded at the turn of the millennium, NYC's Subatomic Sound System has built a reputation worldwide for explosive shows, genre bending production, and breaking down barriers with their unique adaptation of 1970's Jamaican sound system culture and dub reggae studio techniques to all types of bass heavy electronic
music genres, current technologies, and live performances. Emch hosts Subatomic Sound Radio airing on http://www.facebook.com/l/2f6c09KVCyo9GMJ0uzYBXlooOLw/BrooklynRadio.net and KEXP's Mo-Glo broadcast on Radio New York, 91.5fm, reaching a footprint of 11 million terrestrial listeners in the New York City area.

As a record label, Subatomic Sound released Grammy winning, dub reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry's first dubstep tracks plus eclectic collaborations with icons like filmmaker David Lynch, Prince Far-i, and punk pioneer Ari Up of the Slits as well as new school torchbearers like Anthony B, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Elephant Man, Dubblestandart, & Subatomic Sound System. Subatomic Sound System has toured throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2008, Emch was
recruited by Vienna's top ranking live dub band, Dubblestandart, to play guitar and melodica on tour worldwide with Grammy winning reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry, playing for capacity crowd shows from New York's Central Park to Europe largest reggae festival, One Love in Poland.


Modern days slavery (SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM remix)

Dr Das's massive of a remix stars a filthy swerving bass . Relentless Indian percussion, reverberated drum hits, and synth-ska stabs circle around the voices of Bant Singh and Delhi Sultanate in a dub-noise tornado.

Dr Das is a bassist, performer, composer, producer, remixer and programmer. He was one of the founder members and original bassist of Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) where he established his reputation for playing deep, melodic and cyclical basslines.

Since leaving ADF in 2006, he has returned to his roots in experimental dub. His sound, combining dub with noise, takes its inspiration from the distorted rhythms of Muslimgauze, the percussive minimalism of 23 Skidoo and the dark funk-noise grooves of 70s Miles Davis. The work of Scientist and earlier more abstract On-U Sound recordings are also an inspiration as well as more recently, Rhythm & Sound and UR/Intersteller Fugitives.

http://soundcloud.com/dr-das

Into the fire (DR DAS remix)

Gathering Of Strangers

The Broken Circle Breakdown - Wayfaring Stranger

Theiyye is a folk song that has been re-composed and arranged with Indian ethnic percussions,spanish style guitar and odd yet groovy beats.The deep bass line just adds to the dark character of the song.The track features.Resmi Sateesh,a very unique voice from Kerala,India.The track also has Finix Ramdas on Violin and Shovon Mukherjee on guitar

Theiyye

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Sinister Yogi - Yoked To The Sun - 01 Wandering Incognito

Singer:Vattan Sandhu
Music:Xtatic
Lyrics:Kanwar Warraich
Video:Visual Art

Dad Vs Son - Vattan Sandhu

Naag Reggae Remix



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iTunes, Beatport, Juno release date 13/04/15


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Joi - Asian Vibes - Skeewiff Remix

Uploaded on 16th August 2011 to commemorate the 14th anniversary of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s death.

'Dub Qawwali' the album is London-based producer and composer, Gaudi’s ode to one of the world’s greatest Qawwals (singer of Qawwali music). This is my remix of one of the tracks from that album released on Six Degrees Records.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was & still remains a source of inspiration and pleasure for musicians and listeners, even 14 years after his passing !!!!

Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Bethe Bethe Kese Kese (Pathaan's Heavenly Remix)

Subhanallah

This song features Rohini Ravada on vocals. All other instruments were performed and recorded by Shankar Tucker. This song was originally composed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy for the movie Luck by Chance.

Don't forget to like and share this track, and subscribe to TheShrutibox! Your support of buying the MP3's is what makes these recordings possible. 

"Sapnon Se Bhaire Naina" - Shankar Tucker ft. Rohini Ravada

Taken from the Monsoon Malabar Remixes EP and remixed by our very own Garry Hughes!

Monsoon Malabar Dub Remix

News clips and a soundbite from Orissa’s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik introduce the themes of violent struggles plagueing such large swathes of India, contemplated by Delhi Sultanate's fiery and indignant lyrics. Chris McGuinness' deep and innovative riddim samples Bhanwre Ne Khilaya Phool, from the 1982 Raj Kapoor film Prem Rog, infusing the tune with a menacing and tense atmosphere.

LYRICS

I heard the news several days ago
It made me want to blaze arrow
upon dem
the sword of zorro
bandalero
reduce dem ina zero

I heard the news several days ago
It made me wanna blaze arrow - on them
the sword of zorro
bandalero
reduce dem ina zero

badang bang ba biddy bang - skeng
badang bang ba biddy bang biddy bang
badang bang a biddy bang - skeng
some youths turn warrior the state execute them

badang bang ba biddy bang - skeng
badang bang ba biddy bang biddy bang
badang bang a biddy bang - skeng
youths fight for freedom the state execute them

people tell me how does it feel
dont have nothing and they make your skin peel
authorities seize you and the truth get concealed
nobody nah do nothing even when it gets revealed
some youths a get desperate 
resort to the steel
rather buss back than continue to live weak
some will get mad and clap off the heat
so bullets start to beat and raise from the concrete

badang bang ba biddy bang - skeng
badang bang ba biddy bang biddy bang
badang bang a biddy bang - skeng
some youths turn warrior the state execute them

badang bang ba biddy bang - skeng
badang bang ba biddy bang biddy bang
badang bang a biddy bang - skeng
youths fight for freedom the state execute them

Gunman put their guns into the air
and lick shots like they just dont care
when badboy put them tools into the air
and lick shots like they just dont care
I hear these things from me eye them a mi knee
eye them a mi knee
Yes from my eye them a mi knee
I hear these things from me eye them a mi knee
man turn badmen fighting to get free now

gun vs sword

have the license have the title
they give tribal youths the rifle
and now life gets stifled
because money is their idol
government gunmen come pillage your villages
Koya commando start killing kids
PR agent have their clean images
but they all bring death
they run it like business
now ey
the whole of them a run racket
big money man and government a run profit
draw for the (auto)matic unlock it cock it and clap it
and big politicians are in their pocket
say a we?
public enemy number one
say a them
cause they worship destruction

I heard the news several days ago
It made me wanna blaze arrow - on them
the sword of zorro
bandalero
reduce dem ina zero

I heard the news several days ago
It made me wanna blaze arrow - on them
the sword of zorro
bandalero
reduce dem ina zero

Dantewada sufferers
Chattisgarh sufferers
Jungle sufferers
raise up guns like?
Orissa sufferers
Kashmir sufferers
Posco sufferers
raise up the guns like?

badang bang ba biddy bang - skeng
badang bang ba biddy bang biddy bang
badang bang a biddy bang - skeng
some youths turn warrior the state execute them

badang bang ba biddy bang - skeng
badang bang ba biddy bang biddy bang
badang bang a biddy bang - skeng
youths fight for freedom the state execute them

Word Sound Power - Badang

I have done the production, mixing, engineering and mastering. 

Imran Aziz Mian - Akh Largai (Co-Produced/Mixed/Mastered by Kashif Ejaz)

Bassline, co-production, engineering, mixing and mastering by me. 

Imran Aziz Mian - Sanwariya (Co-Produced/Mixed/Mastered by Kashif Ejaz)

CD Available in Japan
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Skipping

This tune is originally composed for Drum Kit. 3/8 time with some poly rhythm.
Arranged again with some Japanese traditional arts-like Noh, Gagaku or Taiko sensed. 


Yaugah

BBR another ver.

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"Letter" from EP "Wandering" OUT NOW.
from First Word Records.

bandcamp
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iTunes
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Letter

Sami yusuf - nasheeds mp3 - -My Ummah- 2

Zamin Say Zamir Tak

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE www.dubkirtanallstars.bandcamp.com

Mumbai India 2013 - you've stepped into a Dubstep club in the heart of the crowded and sweltering city. But instead of the usual Gangsta Hip Hop samples, the voice of Chaytanya emanates from the speakers enveloping the crowd with her emotive invocation of the Divine. The beats are heavy and the Sub is set for the heart of the dancefloor.

from Subsonic Devotion EP, released 27 February 2013
Written by David Starfire and Caitanya Riggin, lyrics traditional
Sitar - DVine1
Produced and mixed by David Starfire
Additional Production by Darin McFadyen
Mastered by Dan at www.Finyltweek.com 

Radhe Govinda feat. Chaytanya - FREE DOWNLOAD at www.dubkirtanallstars.bandcamp.com

“Salu, please sing us a song about how life changed when the company came here”
 
Salu Majhi is a blind bard and is one of the few living kui dundka singers in the area. His improvised songs are treasures of the oral history of kui and the challenges that his community have faced through centuries. Among several things that he sings about, some of the recurrent themes are the lives of kui people, the plight and joys of being a kondha, their gods, and the territory that kuis have inherited from their ancestors. He composes songs using the one string dundka, borrowing generously from the singers before him and the rich singing tradition of the kui people. His songs acquire a mythic life of their own, as he sings about a past that resonates vibrantly with contemporary times - a time when the community struggles to find its place as the extractive giant of Utkal Alumina initiates its operations.

LYRICS

DELHI SULTANATE

try and decline politely
when strange men first come round and declare say dem waan displace me
waan come make me like Europe and America - go away - that kind of talk can’t bait me
go away –  but them come back again with a new talk to motivate me
them bring a little bit a money to pay me
she dem waan educate and a compensate me
 
please go away – 
dem come back again with a few thugs persuade me
police start to intimidate
violate the sanctity - and house and doors them break it
 
go away!
talk soon turn barking
black wind my people dishearten
soon di guns dem come barking
earth turn to ashes and skys dem darken
 
extermination
earth start burn when the tide turn lately
within two generation youths dem forget our strength and we fade out daily
can’t bear to face it
they have a new poison that makes my people lazy
can’t cope with the stress nuff get depressed - too many men drunk and crazy
and now the bitterness raise me
it’s a brave new world try face it bravely
remember the days of slavery
one strength to the mothers who try raise their baby
remember Laxman Nayak and all the warriors who fought for the cause
that was 1940
but it really all started in a 1830
white men them first came around and vampires them extract them taxes
 
in the Ghumsur wars now a days companies follow the same old tactics
police and soldiers all working for them
media media is working for them
the laws them bend are working for them
and nuff nuff money is working for them

Blood Earth - Go Away

“Tell them about our struggle” 
“About the demon who came from the outside and ate our world”

Like many in Kucheipadar, Lima Majhi joined the movement as a young boy. Unlike Bhagbana, he does not come from a family of dhundka singers. Lima is very popular in the village and a good mobiliser among the womenfolk and the youth. He dedicated his life to the struggle and when the movement was at its height, he was a part of the core group that decided on the course of action and organised events.

Lima’s song, Zamin Chori ba nahi is one of two songs written by Bhagbana Majhi. Movement songs were not only sung by a few specialists, but had become part of a common voice. This song, originally written in the primary phase of the movement, asserts that unity is strength and that people must be unified across the villages. One of Lima’s lines that reads, ‘immortal nectar will be turned into poison’, can be interpreted on many levels. Bauxite rock formed over 40 million years can be demolished and turned into aluminium within decades.

LYRICS

LIMA

brothers and sisters we will come together
we will make unity our weapon
and lead the heroic struggle
we will call people from all the villages
and hold meetings in the sacred meeting places by the water
to discuss our joys and sorrows
we will form committees in all the villages
we will mobilize everyone in the country
we will maintain peace in our country
this alien government has come
to snatch away our motherland
and set up a factory here
our air and water will be poisoned
it will take immortal nectar away in exchange for poison
it will harrass us
 
 
DELHI SULTANATE

queen of England East India company
nowadays twenty more company come for me
names like Utkal - Norsk and Hydro
Aditya Birla and Larsen Toubro
death – terrorise we community
blooshed - police – beat with impunity
shot a bust – fi scatter we strength and unity
remember – them beat woman with a rifle butt?
 
meet me the upon the beautiful river
bloodstains wash regroup and recover
news I hear deliver the spine shiver
poison pill – a mek mi blood turn bitter
 
because you see
the courts nah hear we plea
and policemen threaten to shoot you
plant informers in every family -  they want to eat the roots to
 
you see
2004 was the year
flag marches in every village square
colonial army dem a try spread fear
and too many innocent youths them disappear
 
LIMA

brothers and sisters we will come together
we will make unity our weapon
and we will maintain peace

Blood Earth - Poison

This song is a Word Sound Power reworking of ‘dongora chadiba nai’. The original song in Oriya was composed and written by Bhagbana Majhi who comes from a family of dundka singers and is one of the most charismatic leaders in the anti-mining movement against Utkal Alumina. The song was first penned down in the mid-nineties and quickly became very popular. It was sung at meetings, gatherings and rallies. Bhagbana often laces his speeches with movement songs. At the young age of twelve he immersed himself in the movement, mounting posters in several villages and accompanying the activists as they visited villages to mobilize people. One of his favorite activities as a teenager, he recalls, was to  grade activist speakers who were giving rousing speeches with marks from 1-10. Small wonder he learnt the ropes through observation and emerged as one of the most articulate speakers that south Orissa peoples movements has produced. Bhagbana is a charismatic performer and has the ability to hold audiences spellbound through his speeches and songs. His songs speak about the unity of peasant communities in the area, their history, their strength and the threat of foreign companies. His songs are full of optimism and a strong will to survive such adversity. Today as the area braces the company, and the people uncertain of their future, hope against hope, that they may secure a ‘decent life’, the voice of Bhagbana transcends as the conscience-keeper of the community.

LYRICS

BHAGBANA

leaders and ministers have sold our land to the company
eating bundles of money they are fattening their bellies
they are tormenting us
they are tormenting us

the leaders will become rich
the company will become rich

our world will be ravaged and destroyed
our ways and our future will be doomed
oh brother
we shall not leave our mountains

our world will be ravaged and destroyed
our ways and our future will be doomed
oh brother
we shall not be dislocated
we shall rather die but we will not be scared
for our mother earth
oh brother
we shall not leave our mountains

we shall rather die but we will not be scared


DELHI SULTANATE

unity is our strength sister persist no matter what
they try to set up the trap and them launch di attack
when some fat belly rat destroys your crops and set up shop
unify all of the youths dem around the block
 
hmmm
 
when your face with the fact – pact with the devil attack we life source
dispossessed and disposed try to force it down we throats
can’t run go in the courts?
cuz them nah show no support
organize - all of my people draw close
 
hmmm

bulldozer them come closer -  send in the central reserve police force
i don’t know what made them so - but some of them kill without remorse
greedy for the earth greedy fi di most 
them greedy fi di most
 
them tear up the earth - build mines, rail lines and roads to ports upon the coast
send off to overseas to build weapons and cell phones
them build prisons for our people and more police posts
some lose heart and start embrace what dem impose

hmmm

over the years some took money and turn informer – stray from the course
some choose to stoop low; we can’t afford to lose hope
it’s a heavy load walk the rocky road
stay strong my people find a way to cope 

Blood Earth - Unity

A few months prior to our arrival, a police shooting had taken place in Basangmali, about 30 kilometers from Kucheipadar. A fact finding commission later confirmed, that the police had opened fire on a number of boys and girls who were part of a cultural troupe, who were visiting the nearby villages, performing revolutionary songs and dances. While the group was associated with the Naxal movement, they had clearly not been involved in any armed activity. No warnings or calls to surrender were given. In total, nine people, five of them minor girls, lost their lives.
 
With the peaceful democratic movement being suppressed, there is now some Naxal presence in the area. This has made it much easier for anyone, who is associated with any form of dissent, to be branded as a Naxal and thus Bhagbana has also been accused of being linked to rebel guerrillas.  In villages like Barigaon, Peepalpadar, Sunger and others, the paramilitary is known to have entered homes, threatened families with guns, taunted them and accused the well-built youth among them of being naxals, without the slight of evidence. This has severely affected freedom of movement and the ability to exercise their rights for peaceful political resistance. The possibility of arrest or worse, has become ever present. 

Among the many who had been falsely accused and had to spent time in prison was Maharaj Majhi - a dignified school teacher who walked from village to village in the early days and was instrumental in starting the movement. 

The song also mentions Shivram whom we met in a nearby village called Maikanch. Shivram had been present at the notorious 16th December shooting of 2000, when police opened fire on unarmed protesters for the first time. He escaped wounded, but later spent 13 months in prison on trumped up charges. Like many, he has been accused of being linked to the Naxal movement and police harassment and possible arrest have become a fact of life for him. Halfway through our meeting an informer disrupted our conversation and started an argument. We came to know that police had been informed of our presence and decided to leave in order to not cause further trouble to Shivram. 

LYRICS

back against the wall again
see my brother back against the wall again
back gainst the wall again
I wish we could come rise and stand tall again
wish the battle crys would call again
rise and stand tall again
my brothers are back against the wall again

my brothers get done in Naxalite cases
fabricated and we know they are baseless
but now the feds have the excuse and have the license to come in and come erase us
company killers and we know they are faceless
some of them must be dads I wonder how they face kids
nuff (many) youths got locked up ina Iron braceletts
Maharaj Mahji got locked up ina Iron braceletts
 
well a war report
give me some current news
Bhagbana what happened in Kashipur 5 months ago? tell the world

5 months ago there was encounter
went for a meeting it ended up in a slaughter
the feds tracked the movement then set up a trap at night time they opened fire
Uma Shankar  they had been after
and that day Kashipur lost 5 daughter
18 years old never get older
big up all my real andolan soldier
 
one strength to the family - hold it together
Bhagbana Majhi - hold it together
big up Maharaj Mahji - hold it together
big Ramma Bhai - hold it together
Andolan Soldiers - hold it together
black wind blow - we must endeavor any weather
things get tough - we must endeavor any weather
company hawa blow - we must endeavor any weather

remember Shiv Ram in Maikanch take a bullet for the struggle
then the feds locked him up for three months
this was one instance in 2000 before they roll out operation green hunt
now they swarm we like ants - set up ina camps
carry sixpants (revolver) and shoot from distance
youths dem a struggle fi get assistance and the company cut you down just like tree stumps
 
ey salu maji
sing me a song about how life used to be before the company came in
sing me a song about life

remember
everything was clean
used to drink water straight from the stream
used come eat jackfruit drink salab drink Judum earth supply everything that you need
how dare them tell me bout development
think about it
it just no make sense
own my own house never pay rent
earth supply my life needs and keep me content
them build more barrack and police station
give me hospitals and schools for education....

Blood Earth - Back Against the Wall

ALI PRIMERA - COMANDANTE AMIGO

Word Sound Power - The Bant Singh Project - 02 - Intifada - Shaheedanwali Manzil

Bant Singh, Delhi Sultanate, Chris McGuinness.

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02 - Intifada - Shaheedanwali Manzil (Delhi Sultanate, Bant Singh, Chris McGuinness)

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Word Sound Power - The Bant Singh Project - 01 - Comrades

Bant Singh, Delhi Sultanate, Chris McGuinness.

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