In America they killed all the buffalo just to take away food from the natives,
made mountains of their skulls and posed proudly in photos
like they posed proudly in front of burnt bodies after lynchings in the south.

In Australia they stole the brown children and gave them to pale families
and watched their ancient civilization disappear into the toxic fumes of industry
like a sailboat into the mist.

In Israel teenagers play with buttons that cause explosions on screens
and look forward to the end of the Gaza operation
so they can leave and go play better video games.

In Gaza mothers clutch tattered pieces of flesh and clothing to their chests
and scream names that will never again be answered
and call out questions to the heavens that will also go unanswered.

And the ghosts of the buffalo roam through the ruins 
looking for their heads
while the people of Gaza comb through the rubble 
looking for their dead,
and the rest of us stare at screens and cry like babies
and ask our own unanswered questions 
of heavens clouded by the fumes of industry,
vanishing stars above a dying world
as the lights go out in Gaza
one by one.
_____________

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

As The Lights Go Out In Gaza

Nothing epitomizes the depraved manipulations of the US empire better than Antony Blinken. There is no better representation of that empire than Tony standing there on his mountain of corpses, covered in blood, telling you how sorry he is to learn of the unfortunate accidental deaths of the people he just murdered, staring at you with his cold dead eyes, playing remarkably soulless blues guitar under the light of a bright red moon.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Tony Blinken Is A Cold-Blooded Sociopath

"In the war of propaganda it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world's media and many European media," Putin replied, adding, "The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media are American financial institutions."

Reading by Tim Foley.

"In The War Of Propaganda, It Is Very Difficult To Defeat The United States"

In the case of suicide as we conventionally understand it, death is the goal. It is the both the means and the end, in and of itself. Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation was a means to a very different end: a free Palestine and the cessation of an ongoing genocide.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Aaron Bushnell's Death Can't Rightly Be Called An Act Of Suicide

Last year I put a Bruno Furlan track on our 10 year compilation without really knowing anything about him. But later that year I went to Brazil and met him in person. I have to say I rarely meet a young producer with so much pure, good-hearted enthusiasm as Bruno Furlan.  This young man is so happy and eager I found it impossible not to like him. (I even met his lovely parents…twice!) This always goes a long way at DIRTYBIRD but of course it still comes down to the music. 

Bruno Furlan has captured a very simple, VERY funky sound that is really special in my opinion.  The beats are huge yet nothing is over the top, everything is quirky and bumpy and very much what i like to play.  The  samples are all slightly odd and placed in very particular spots in the pocket so that the beats really ride. You can feel the funk oozing out of these tracks. I give it all high marks. The big track is “K.O.” but all of them have different charms for different situations. I urge you to please check out this new talent from Brazil!

Claude VonStroke

Delivered by <a href='http://www.label-worx.com'>Label Worx</a> on behalf of <a href='http://www.dirtybirdrecords.com'>DIRTYBIRD</a>

Bruno Furlan - Line Five [PREVIEW]

Dylan Hudson on Guitar.  

Mix/mastering: Peter Engisch

Ely Parker/Dillon Brown (A reels)

Get the sheet music here:

https://thesession.org/tunes/15259

Dann's Reel

Why you seem so sad all the time?
Ask and I won't lie
I've been disassembled for so long,
I can't remember, it's not right
But oh, I want to
Dance with you tonight

I'm shaking, can't I give the things I need?
I sow me like a seed because I want
Got so patient
I'm not crying 'cause you're gone

How's it when you wake every day?
Can you hear what I can't say?
I still need that match lit in my lungs
I'm not gonna make you stay
But oh, I want you

Ask me now why I want to go
Sunk my bones so low, they turned to steel
Strong and hollow
It's not time for how I feel

In June, let's have a bonfire
I'll throw off my poetic sleeves and bare my muscled arms
All the work that I had worn
Make me look into your eyes some way I've never done
Take me into shore there
Where I climbed back up the banks, into the land
The grass is only waist-high

Sound and fury
You slow down for me
Everything that I've tried
Construct a new morning
Or say that I'm weary
Come on, let's have a bonfire

Sow / Draft

Detroit protest remix of Bruno Furlan - Line Five. Please support the artist, support your neighbors, support your community.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Bruno Furlan - Line Five (No Justice No Peace rmx)

Violin, A/V production, and Bioacoustics
email: ridunculus@gmail.com

contact for free downloads!

Ely Parker/Dillon Brown (A reels)

Dunc