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From Desert Songs (EP) out on January 15th 2016, via Beating Drum in Europe and via Six Degrees in America.

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Between takes whilst recording the EP Desert Songs, the two songwriters Dawn Landes and Piers Faccini found inspiration for the songs they were writing together by walking in the stark and beautiful mountain scenery around Piers’s studio in the Cevennes region of the south of France. Chatting as they walked, they swopped tales of desert mystics and seekers that would inspire them to write the songs for their collaborative EP. Dawn and Piers wove the arrangements together using the rich collection of instruments in Piers’s studio, a Malian Kora, a 1930’s National resonator guitar, West African percussion and an Indian dulcimer and tampura. 

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Dawn Landes & Piers Faccini - Heaven's Gate (From Desert Songs)

“The Awakening” feels like a point of no return in Juan's musical journey, as he's coming up with original techniques, colors and ideas that deeply reflect his vision on life and existence, while also channeling personal thoughts and feelings on where contemporary music should go in the next decades.

2016

The Awakening

Shakedown

This land is your land, This land is my land

Though it has often been co-opted as a benignly patriotic campfire sing-a-long, "This Land Is Your Land" was actually written by Woody Guthrie in 1944 as a subversive protest song in biting response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." At my sister Samra's urging, we recorded our version in 2004, during the George W. Bush presidency, in an effort to re-establish it as a song about social justice.

Ironically, when Woodie Guthrie resided in Coney Island in 1950, his landlord was none other than Donald Trump's father, the infamously racist real estate mogul Fred Trump, about whom Guthrie composed his poem "Old Man Trump," including the lines:

     I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
     He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
     When he drawed that color line
     Here at his Beach Haven family project 

Using a dark re-harmonization of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as an intro, the Dap-Kings re-arranged "This Land" as a rough blues-y march, setting the tone for Sharon to tear into the lyrics of the song with the fiery gusto of a revolutionary. However, it was the inclusion of Guthrie's rarely-heard original verses that really enabled Sharon to reclaim the song as an urgent and unambiguous demand for equality and human dignity in a nation rife with social injustice and patriotic hypocrisy.

Today, as we inaugurate a rapacious billionaire to the highest office in the land, those original verses resonate with us as loudly as the day they were written:

     There was a big high wall there
     That tried to stop me
     The sign was painted
     Said 'Private Property'
     But on the backside
     It didn't say nothing
     This land was made for you and me

     One bright sunny morning
     In the shadow of the steeple 
     By the relief office 
     I saw my people 
     As they stood hungry
     I stood there wondering 
     If God Blessed America for me

We are grateful to Woodie Guthrie and to Sharon Jones, two friends of the people and bitter foes of the Trumps, who have given us an essential soundtrack to our struggle. When times get dark, let us not crumble in fear and bigotry. Let us honor the unbreakable spirit of those tireless fighters who have fallen before us. Let us rise to the fight, and let us help each other never to forget this noble truth:

    This land was made for you and me.

-Gabe Roth

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "This Land Is Your Land"

Small short  Ambient Track performed with GarageBand and Moog Animoog

on an iPad Pro 10.5

Galette des rois

First Blues

Some people can make horrific actions in the name of a god.

Today I'm very happy
Cos you return from a long voyage
But now that I show signs of age
It's important for me
That you see
That I need you near me
I want to keep you with me
Feel you beside me.

But the man that I see
In front of me
Speaks a langage
That I don't understand
He tells me with nervousness
About holly commandments
And all I can say
Is that it appears stupid to me
So he says that I'll be condamned
For eternety.

Hey you !
What have you done
To me and my son ?

How many lifes
Have you killed in his name ?
Why put this world in flame ?
Is this really your role to blame ?
Don't you feel ashame ?

Remember your true name.
Comme on !
Oh, please comme on !
Remember your name my son !
Please comme on ...

Paul LEONARD

For the love of a god (click to see lyrics).

Are you there ? (Demo not yet finished ... Instrumental)

Fragile mind

Now
You are mine
You will obey
What I say
Everything you have
Belongs to me
All that you are
Belongs to me
Forever ...

You wont' break me anymore
Cos I'm stronger than before
My body is abused
But my mind will never give out
In this hell where you hold me
I wait patiently
For the moment to escape
Far from you.

You are under my will
Any hope is far
Let me feel your thrill
I will always keep you with me
I possess you
Don't you see ?
Forever ...


You wont' break me anymore
Cos I'm stronger than before
My body is abused
But my mind will never give out
In this hell where you hold me
I wait patiently
For the moment to escape
Far from you.


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