This is my humble version of this beautiful Christmas song....   Translate into English by John Sullivan Dwight i think? And originally sung by Adolphe Adam...  Many great artists have also sung this wonderful Christmas ballade

Oh Holy Night

The painting is ‘The Course of Empire’ by Thomas Cole (1801 – 1848).

Say a prayer and don’t despair about the cost of living crisis 
Cos life’s not fair and they don’t care about the rising prices 
The millionaires and billionaires wield their wicked powers
they own the shares, they don’t pay the fares, they’re not working longer hours

  They contaminate, discriminate, and revel in their sleaze 
  the permafrost is lost, but we still have the wage freeze 

the bankers are all bigots, experts in exploitation 
oil tankers and their frigates reeking eco-devastation
while we reimburse the nurses with the joy of food banks 
and the curse of empty purses and our hollow huge thanks

  You’ll find that it’s impossible to get paid any less
  can’t save no money saving lives for the NHS

The CEOs who freely chose to bolster their careers 
They’re mosquitoes in tuxedos bloodsucking profiteers 
who smoke cigars with glowing hearts, toasting market forces  
They’re Oligarchs, they’re greedy sharks, they’re feeding on the corpses

  The ambulance abandoned us, so now we need a hearse
  Yes the times they are a-changing… but they’re changing for the worse

I blame the vloggers and the bloggers, I don’t “like” and I don’t “subscribe”
All that scrolling and a trolling, through soundbites and diatribes
and we fixate on the clickbait that seems to be hell-bent 
on dictating that the content fuels our discontent 

        All the species being ghosted, wiped out like dinosaurs
        While we’re busy being offended, and fighting culture wars

Shopaholic fashionistas with their selfies and their memes 
And reams of influencers beat us senseless by extremes
it’s a trash-bag full of hashtags, rubbish flowing in our streams
algorithms causing schisms and addiction to our screens

        We’re the masters of our destiny, but it isn’t as it seems 
        Who’s pushing who’s buttons? Are we slaves to the machines?

Narcissistic mystics with their conspiracy theories
Going viral in a spiral of Netflix mini series
And woeful social media, where profiles are a deepfake
It’s a form of schizophrenia, like a hollywood remake

      We make a virtue of our vanity, embracing the absurd
      with virtual reality, to replace the real world

Cost Of Living Crisis

Was listening to Thad Jones` A child is born  on the Album Consummation. Now, that`s putting some soul into a ballad. Recorded this a couple of years back with the DBroots Band. Not a patch on the original but uploaded for posterity.

A Child Is Born

travel diary 1 part

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unpasteurized

Feel It

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¡Ha vuelto la serie de dubplates de descarga gratuita!

Y esta vez lo ha hecho con un clásico del reggae digital de los años 80.

Al contrario que la última vez, en la que hice tres cortes de un tema, pero todos del mismo estilo, esta vez me he decidido por 3 cortes del mismo tema, pero cada no de un estilo diferente:

1) Una versión que respeta la esencia original del riddim.
2) Una lectura en clave dub stepper, cargada de bajos pesados y atmósferas expansivas.
3) Una reinterpretación explosiva en drum and bass, pensada para las pistas más intensas.

Este es un tema al que llevo muchísimo tiempo dándole amor (el archivo lo creé, para ser exactos, el 8 de septiembre de 2022), de modo que espero que todo ese cariño y esfuerzo se note cuando lo escuchéis en vuestras casas o en el dancehall.

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DESCARGA GRATUITA

Sleng Teng Riddim (Original Cut)

FUNK HAPPY DO BAD - Super Slowed

Troubled Artist

An idea is a complete thing. If you stay true to it, it tells you everything from beginning to end.
                                                          David Lynch "Catching the Big Fish"

non-human-machine algorithm

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