From the Ashes is an album consisting of 10 songs I wrote between November, 2024, and January, 2025.

One of the songs is about a historical event -- the burglary of the FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971 conducted by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI that revealed Cointelpro to the world.

The rest of the songs are about recent, or ongoing, events, including Israel's genocide in Gaza, riots in Amsterdam, fires in LA, an assassination in Manhattan, the death of Cornelius Taylor, Antony Blinken's last press conference, and Trump's second inauguration.

The woman singing with me on many of the tracks is Kamala Emanuel.  Other than the guitar or mandola I'm playing, all the other instruments are from Chet Gardiner in his studio in Hawai'i.  The process is I record at home, or if on the road with Kamala, in a random location with a smartphone, and then send that recording to Chet, to work his magic.

Cover photo also taken with a smartphone, by Jeffrey St Clair.

From the Ashes

UNICEF says 35 children per day on average have been killed by Israeli bombs, snipers, or other such means since October 2023.  Now the numbers will grow exponentially in the ongoing famine Israeli forces are imposing.

35 Children A Day

There were some ugly scenes in Amsterdam that went down while Kamala and I were in the Netherlands in early November.  Pretty much the entire mainstream western media completely distorted what actually went on, unlike this song.

In Amsterdam

On March 8th, 1971 antiwar activists in Pennsylvania burglarized an FBI office, ultimately revealing to the world the Bureau's long-standing campaign of disinformation, infiltration, dirty tricks and assassinations known as Cointelpro.

The Citizens' Commission To Investigate the FBI

Delay, deny, depose.  A song for Luigi Mangione.  New remix from Chet Gardiner's studio in Hawai'i. #FreeLuigi

So Many Ways to Kill a CEO

Merry Christmas to all my fellow canceled people.  If you're in the club, you'll probably identify with most of the lines in this song, I'll wager -- if you get a chance to hear the song in the first place, that is.

Canceled

In what has been standard operating procedure since the Palestinian Holocaust began in October, 2023, during the last few days of 2024 the Israeli occupation forces systematically destroyed and then burned every inch of a massive hospital complex that used to serve the needs of the population.  Once destroying the building, the standard procedure is they arrest and torture the staff, which is what everyone is certain is now happening to the hospital director, as happened to hospital directors, doctors, and other staff at every other hospital in Gaza that the Israelis have systematically eliminated in the course of their genocidal war against the people, which the western media misrepresents (when they mention it at all) as a "war between Israel and Hamas."G

The Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital

Ashes of LA

Cornelius Taylor was killed by a municipal vehicle while sleeping in his tent, across the street from Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the day after Martin Luther King's birthday, as the Department of Public Works was tidying up the neighborhood in preparation for MLK weekend events.

Across the Street from Ebenezer

Last Thursday, at Secretary of State Antony Blinken's last press conference, journalist Sam Husseini asked such pointed questions that they had to drag him out of the room.

Blinken's Last Press Conference

Moving on from the frying pan to the fire.

Trump 2.0

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.

From the Ashes

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