Name: To Marshall Allen on His 99th Arrival Day by Ángel L. Martínez
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Description: Spoken dedication to the Director of the Sun Ra Arkestra

Reading by Tim Foley. Full article with hyperlinks and sources here:
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-mass-media-will-never-regain

The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public's Trust

My orchestral take on Everglow's First. Full track on YT: https://youtu.be/tq58i6SUmHc

EVERGLOW - FIRST [Epic Orchestra Version] | Full on YT

David Hartsough began his amazing life of determined activism as a teenager joining the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama alongside Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, and kept up the struggle through more than 50 years of protest, organized resistance and nights in jail. The author of "Waging Peace"  was also the co-founder of World BEYOND War in January 2014, and he joins us for a wide-ranging interview in January 2023.

We Shall Overcome Was Not Just Words: A Talk with David Hartsough

Some people wonder why mental health conditions are so bad, while I marvel at the fact that they're not much worse. It's actually amazing anyone's functioning at all in a civilization that's ruled by exploiters and abusers who dominate the world using mass-scale psychological manipulation. It's a testament to human resilience that anyone is sane. When everyone's mind is always being pummeled with messaging that you're deficient if you can't thrive under our oppressive systems, that you're flawed if you don't look, think and act a certain way, that poverty is normal and acts of mass military slaughter are acceptable, it's a wonder we don't all snap.

When everyone's consciousness is being continually warped and twisted to suit the agendas of the powerful and keep us all thinking, speaking, working, shopping and voting in ways that advance their interests, it's surprising we're not seeing more suicides, more mass shootings, more substance abuse, more clinical depression and anxiety. In a totalitarian dystopia that's held together by mass-scale psychological abuse, it's entirely reasonable that people are finding themselves overwhelmed with despair, alienation, depression and anxiety.

Everything seems phony, meaningless and needlessly difficult because it is. This isn't a statement about human nature or life as it naturally exists, it's a statement about the artificially constructed systems we live under currently. Systems that were built by people and are being maintained by people. Systems which can be changed and restructured by people, too.

Reading by Tim Foley.

You're Not Deficient, You're Just Ruled By Assholes

This is what dystopia looks like. Like a bunch of thought-controlled automatons mindlessly marching toward ecocide and omnicide to a beat played out by screens who tell them every day and in every way that there is no higher purpose than this. Like military industrial complex-funded feminist rock operas about drone operators and Cookie Monster helping Samantha Power psychologically colonize Iraqi children. Like Bono coming home from singing a heartfelt number about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr to illustrate a cover for a war propaganda piece in The Atlantic.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Bono Is Doing Illustrations For The Atlantic Now, Because Everything's Fake And Stupid

Spoken dedication to the Director of the Sun Ra Arkestra

To Marshall Allen on His 99th Arrival Day

Listen to it, and you'll know what I think of NFTs and crypto.

Non Fungible Tchotchkes

A trilogy. The opening piece 'March of the Levellers' was the first Renaissance tune I wrote:  in its original form it was the opening track on my second album 'Sawdust and Empire' in 1983. Then the words of the first English Socialist, Gerrard Winstanley, leader of the Diggers, in 1649, set to an old traditional tune, and finally a version of Leon Rosselson's great song about the Diggers - the latter pair are the only covers we do. This and the other tracks on this page are all from the first Barnstormer album, 'The Siege of Shoreham' released in 1996 and still available from www.attilathestockbroker.com . In the late 90s we did quite a few gigs around the UK playing this kind of stuff. Then our lineup changed... 
We became a band who toured extensively in mainland Europe and hardly at all in the UK (I did my solo stuff here) playing melodic Clashy punk with the odd medieval tinge and releasing three more albums: 'Just One Life' (2000) 'Zero Tolerance' (2004) and 'Bankers & Looters' (2012) 
But now the band has reverted to what I always intended it to be - a punk band playing (home made) Renaissance and Baroque music. Touring the UK as of March 2018. 
It truly is the Renaissance of Barnstormer in ever sense of the word.
Now inspired both instrumentally and lyrically by the incredible, radical period of the English Revolution of 1649, we are currently rehearsing 11 new pieces I have written (songs and instrumentals) for a new album 'Restoration Tragedy' which will be released later in the year.

The Siege Of Shoreham

March Of The Levellers/The Diggers Song/The World Turned Upside Down

There have been two Poll Taxes in English history, and two Peasants Revolts against them ..in 1381 and 1990. I wrote this after the second one. (Obviously!) It brought down Thatcher...the first nearly brought down a king.

Tyler Smiles

Episode 1: Tolpuddle Martyrs Part 1

Robina's beautiful composition from the Barnstormer 1649  'Restoration Tragedy' album written and played on piano with myself on bass recorder and Tim O'Tay on treble.

To Marshall Allen on His 99th Arrival Day

Ángel L. Martínez

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