LAST IBEX demo - Persuading The Pope

Original Music by Avi Amon for Mlima's Tale, by Lynn Nottage. Directed by Shariffa Ali at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, May 28-July 11, 2021.

http://www.repstl.org/events/mlimas-tale-program/

Mlima, a majestic and powerful African elephant, is murdered for his tusks. From beyond the veil of death, Mlima’s spirit follows the path of his tusks on a moving, lyrical journey through the dark world of the international ivory trade. From Lynn Nottage, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of SWEAT and RUINED, Mlima’s Tale is a captivating and haunting fable come to life.

Vocals - Ezioma Asonye, Kambi Gathesha, Will Mann, Joe Ngo
Add'l Vocals and Instruments - Avi Amon

(c) 2021 Avi Amon - www.aviamon.com

Even The Night Has Ears

What is this thing called love

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Iron & Wine - Thomas County Law

This was a tune I mixed and performed guitar on that is featured in a new musical called "Goblins and Gates", written by my friend Gonzalo Valencia.

I Mix Potions (Musical Theater)

Music, lyrics, and arrangement by Emily Johnson-Erday.

Paper People

So many fair children in the shadow of a tree
Holding up signs for the POC
But our god has been violence
Our song is their silence 

So many steps, so many long days
They walked it before us in so many ways
And we met them with violence
We heard them in silence

How do you get it out of your head
How do you get out of your bed?
A man kneeling on another man’s neck
How did you get it into your head
Something dumb that your daddy said?
A man kneeling on another man’s neck
I guess I should have expected it

We’re all wearing masks on the little TV
We’re all posting stories you really should read
But it hides all the violence
We’re speaking our silence

My little child is blonde as the day
The whole damn world is gonna get out of his way
His innocence is violence
It feeds on our silence

How do you get it out of your head
How do you get out of your bed?
A man kneeling on another man’s neck
How did you get it into your head
Something dumb that your daddy said?
A man kneeling on another man’s neck
I guess I should have expected it

He called for his mama
Again and again
He called for his mama
Again and again
World without end

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Hey friends, 

This Friday, 6/19/2020, Bandcamp will be donating 100% of their profits to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund as part of an effort to help fight the brutal, systemic racism in this country. 

We’d like to add our voice to this, too and we’ve recorded a song that we’ll be releasing on Friday. Any profits we ever make on this song will be donated to a Black Lives Matter charity. (We’ll start with BLM Chicago for the foreseeable future.) You can listen here on SoundCloud and the track will be available for purchase starting Friday over at Bandcamp (https://mattlenny.bandcamp.com/track/silence or click the "Buy" link). We are asking for $1, but please consider giving what you can. 

I had actually originally planned on releasing a different set of songs just to try and help out in some way, but the songs had nothing to do with the subject matter and it ultimately just didn’t feel right. Then this song came to me in a mad rush last Friday night. Written and then recorded in a single take between 12:07 - 1:45am. The band overdubbed their parts Saturday and Sunday, and I did the final mix on Sunday night. 

This is, ultimately, a song that attempts to speak to and somehow comprehend the vast set of privileges that I live with everyday as a white man in this country. 

White folks, this is a time...it's PAST the time...to think hard about hard things. It's not enough to personally "not be racist", if that's even a thing. And it's not a time to be intellectually lazy (surprise surprise, a person can have real problems or disadvantages in their life and STILL have privilege). I can't recommend How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi enough for how he makes clear that it's our actions and the policies we support that tell us if we're being racist or anti-racist in that moment or in that stance. All of us.

I hope this song is a help. I hope I didn't get it totally wrong and I hope you'll tell me honestly if you feel that I did. 

And I hope we can all stop being such fucking idiots and learn that people are people, regardless of the color of their skin or a million other differences that don't add up to anything when it comes to reckoning the value of a human life. (Myself included...it shouldn’t have taken the deaths of George Floyd for me to finally make this a real priority in my mind and in my heart. So many countless others should have already made it clear.)

Black Lives Matter BECAUSE all lives should matter. But, until we start acting that way and our institutions behave that way, we cannot claim that “all lives matter" because so many lives - black and brown lives - aren't being protected. 

I hope we can open our eyes, see that, and do something about it.

With love,

Matt Lenny (& The Breakdown)

Silence (Full Band)

Still can't wash away the shame? 

Well lucky for you, Apocalypstick is here! #28 Quarantine Edition... Taking you on a cleansing that doesn't just push the dirt around. Things haven't been easy folks, but we can still have a good time within our bubbles. Tune in and turn up, there's nothing to it, anyone can do it! 

Setlist:

1. ‘Bikini Bottom’  by Electrocute From Spongebob Squarepants The Movie

(Background Voice Over) - ‘Enter Sandman’ - Cooking on Three Burners from Lab Experiments Vol. 1: Mixin' on Soul Messin 'Records

2. ‘Toxic’ - The Surfrajettes from Part Line on Hi-Tide Recordings

3. ‘Bored Bored’ - Chris Spedding from Guitar Graffiti on RAK Records

4. ‘Moses & Me’ - Tommy James The Shondells from Travelin’, on Roullette

5. ‘Like That’ - White Fence - from - For Those Recently Found Innocent - on Drag City Records

6. ‘Mind Flowers’ - Ultimate Spinach from Behold & See on MGM Records

7. ‘Green Sugar’ - by Kikagaku Moyo from House In The Tall Grass on Guruguru Brain 

8. ‘Chills & Fever’ - Fabienne Del Sol from No Time For Sorrows on Damaged Goods

9. ‘Like A Ship (Without A Sail) - Pastor TL Barrett and the You For Christ Choir on Mt. Zion Gospel Productions

10. ‘I Want More’ - CAN 7” Single on Virgin Records, also released elsewhere

11. ‘Take My Time’ - Skinshape from Life & Love on Dloaw & Co.

12. ‘Dizzy’ - Nancy Sit from Obladi Oblada on Life Records

13. ‘California Shake’ - Margo Guryan from 25 Demos on Franklin Castle Recordings

14. ‘Votre Côté yéyé Memmerde’ - The Limiñanas from a Self Titled 7” on Nasty Product

(Background Voice Over) - The Budos Band - Origin of Man on Daptone Records

15. ‘Shaving Cream’ - Benny Bell from a 7" Single on Vanguard Records 

16. ‘Lydian Theme’ - Morgan Fisher from Cherry Red Singles Club 1978-1979 [Explicit] Cherry Red Records

17. ‘A Livin’ Man (Tiré de La Riviére du Hibou)’ - Henri Lanoë from the film by Robert Enrico ‘A Hanging at Owl Creek’ from The Twilight Zone, narrated by Rod Sterling, Premiering at CANNES Film Festival

Apocalypstick! #28 Quarantine Edition

Original songs that combine the whimsy of Raffi with the lyricism of Iron & Wine. 

LAST IBEX demo - Persuading The Pope

Joel Knopf

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