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Χαίρε ω χαίρε λευτεριά

Χαίρε ω χαίρε λευτεριά
Riccardo Venturi, 19-2-2019 15:58

A punk rock band originating from the island of Corfu in July 1994, formed by: Yorgos (vocals), Dimitris (el guitar), Doros (vocals, bass) and Alexis (vocals, drums); disbanded in 2002. ALT TC took part in a number of projects and issued 4 studio albums: this song is included in the 3d one, Ακόμα ζωντανός (“Still Alive”), released in 1998. “Hail, o Hail, Liberty!” (Χαίρε ω χαίρε λευτεριά) is an iconic verse from the Greek national anthem, the Ύμνος εις την Ελευθερίαν written in 1823 by Zante's poet Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857), first published 1825 in Missolungi including a translation in Italian verses by G. Grassetti and set to music in 1828 by Nikolaos Mantzaros; it was made Greece's national anthem in 1864 by King George I, and also the national anthem of Cyprus in 1966 (the only national anthem shared by two states in identical form). About twenty... (continua)
HAIL, O HAIL, LIBERTY!
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19/2/2019 - 15:58
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H-Block Escape

H-Block Escape
[2019]
‘Hovels Of The Holy’

25 settembre 1983: Fuga da Maze
Trentotto prigionieri repubblicani evasero dalla prigione di massima sicurezza di Maze, in Irlanda del Nord.
Una guardia carceraria rimase uccisa ed un’altra gravemente ferita durante l’evasione potrata a termine dai prigionieri dell’Irish Republican Army detenuti nella prigione vicino Lisburn.
I prigionieri fecero entrare di nascosto pistole e coltelli per sopraffare le guardie carcerarie prima di sequestrare un camion di trasporto del cibo, grazie al quale uscirono dal cancello principale di Maze.
38 in ‘83
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inviata da Dq82 18/2/2019 - 18:39
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What We Tell the Children

What We Tell the Children
Scritta, credo, da Ronnie Drew, pubblicata la prima volta nel 1992 nell'album "30 Years A-Greying"
Un richiamo alla responsabilità di fronte ai rischi di distruzione del pianeta
Which way will the branch bend
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inviata da piersante Sestini 17/2/2019 - 23:00
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Peace

Peace
I see you waiting for a sign
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14/2/2019 - 22:22
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Jag går med dej

Jag går med dej
I AM GOING WITH YOU
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inviata da Ceil Herman 11/2/2019 - 16:31
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Daniel

Daniel
I know it's not particularly inspiring or poetic--; but it shows that a verse that functionally works, at least can be written.

Shame on you, Bernie Taupin, for throwing your original version away, which I'm sure would have been far better than this--;
But at the least, you could have used your condensed version for the advance-release single, while using the full version on the album--;
Just as had already been done with other epic pop or rock songs, such as Don McLean's 1971 "American Pie," and probably Led Zeppelin's 1971 "Stairway To Heaven."

Thank You--.
Daniel had earlier come home from the war.
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inviata da Don Porter 11/2/2019 - 03:00
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Nadja

Nadja
Mikael Wiehe wrote on his website the following comments about his song Nadja:

Vintern 1993 var Sarajevo belägrat av serbiska trupper. Jag skrev sången när en granat från belägrarnas artilleri hade slagit ner på en lekplats mitt bland de lekande barnen.

Första gången jag sjöng den var i Grieghallen i Bergen på en konsert med Björn Afzelius och Åge Aleksandersen till förmån för ett barnsjukhus i Montenegro.

När jag 1999 sjöng den på Emausrörelsens europakongress i Orleans i Frankrike blev jag jämförd med Leonard Cohen. Ja, musikalisk finns det nog vissa likheter… (Kommentar från "Sånger i tiden", 2001)

In the winter of 1993 Sarajevo was besieged by Serbian troups. I wrote the song when a shell from the besieger's artillery fell down in a play ground among the playing children.

The first time I sang it was in Grieghallen in Bergen at a concert with Björn Afzelius och Åge Aleksandersen... (continua)
NADJA
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inviata da Ceil Herman 8/2/2019 - 00:58
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Burn the Castle

Burn the Castle
[2016]
Nell'album "Winter"
Scritta da Justin Sullivan, Ceri Monger e Michael Dean
Testo trovato sul sito ufficiale della band
It’s like a great lord in his castle owns everything that we do
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inviata da Bernart Bartleby 6/2/2019 - 17:23
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Winter

Winter
[2016]
La traccia che dà il titolo all'album
Scritta da Justin Sullivan
Testo trovato sul sito ufficiale della band
Well I dreamed that I was running, through a wilderness of plenty
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inviata da Bernart Bartleby 6/2/2019 - 17:16
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Tak vás tu máme (Bratři)

Tak vás tu máme (Bratři)
SO WE'VE GOT YOU OVER HERE (BROTHERS)
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inviata da Edvard Sidoryk 4/2/2019 - 21:31
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Demokracie

Demokracie
DEMOCRACY
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inviata da Edvard Sidoryk 4/2/2019 - 21:30
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Dědicům Palachovým

Dědicům Palachovým
Millions of blind eyes, the snake's head on the coat of arms,
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inviata da Edvard Sidoryk 4/2/2019 - 21:29
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World Peace

World Peace
Title Track dell'album del 2003
We can't take another war
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3/2/2019 - 23:26
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Eternal Peace

Eternal Peace
1980
Album: Truths And Rights
Tell it to the world, tell it to the people
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3/2/2019 - 23:17
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Children Are Crying

Children Are Crying
1980
Album: Truths And Rights
The children are crying bitter tears
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3/2/2019 - 23:14
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South Africa

South Africa
singolo - 1976
Testo da Jah Lyrics

recentemente riproposta nella compilation "Reggae Mandela"
South Africa.
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3/2/2019 - 23:08
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Free Mandela

Free Mandela
Single - 1986
Oh give thanks and praise
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3/2/2019 - 22:47
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Mandela You’re Free

Mandela You’re Free
1992
Album: Turning Point
Woah yoee yoee yoeoh woah
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3/2/2019 - 22:41
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Le métèque

Le métèque
WITHOUT A WORRY IN THE WORLD
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3/2/2019 - 21:25
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Βάτραχοι (Χορός 1528-1533) [Le Rane, Coro 1528-1533 / Frogs, Chorus 1528-1533]

Βάτραχοι (Χορός 1528-1533) [Le Rane, Coro 1528-1533 / Frogs, Chorus 1528-1533]
Translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray from archive.org
Peace go with him and joy in his journeying ! Guide ye our poet
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inviata da Dq82 3/2/2019 - 20:22
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Preacherman

Preacherman
[2015]
Scritta da Melody Gardot e dal batterista Chuck Staab
Nell'album "Currency of Man"

Com'è che ci sono sfuggite fino ad ora questa bellissima canzone e questa grandissima artista americana?!?

Un capolavoro assoluto, musicalmente, ed un testo dedicato ad Emmett Till, a 60 anni dal suo brutale assassinio, un episodio che scosse la coscienza degli interi Stati Uniti d'America e che segnò una svolta epocale nel movimento per la libertà degli afro americani, allora ancora purtroppo ferma a prima della guerra di secessione, nonostante fosse passato già un secolo dalla fine della schiavitù...
(Ooooh ooooooh oooooh ooooooh)
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inviata da Bernart Bartleby 2/2/2019 - 21:58
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Stardog Champion

Stardog Champion
(1990)
Parole di Andrew Wood
Musica di Stone Gossard

I Mother Love Bone erano un promettente gruppo rock di Seattle, quando ancora il grunge non era ufficialmente nato, che avevano riscosso un notevole successo grazie alla voce e all'incredibile presenza scenica del cantante Andrew Wood. Purtroppo pochi giorni prima della pubblicazione del loro primo album Wood viene trovato nel suo appartamento riverso sul letto in coma da overdose e muore tre giorni dopo.

Alcuni componenti dei Mother Love Bone entreranno a far parte dei Temple of the Dog e poi del gruppo che ha fatto la storia della musica di Seattle, i Pearl Jam.

Dall'unico album dei Mother Love Bone proviene questa Stardog Champion che può suonare come un inno patriottico nel sound ma è invece tutto il contrario, il padre del protagonista è un eroe di guerra, e riposa in West Virginia...
Oh....oh yes...yeah, yeah
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2/2/2019 - 00:13
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I Never Picked Cotton

I Never Picked Cotton
1970
I never picked cotton
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1/2/2019 - 03:29
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Early

Early
Featuring BOOTS
Album Run the Jewels 2 (2014)

Testo da genius

Altra canzone contro le violenze e la corruzione nella polizia.

The song covers the topic of police corruption and brutality. It’s extremely relevant right now with the incidents taking place in Ferguson and NYC 2014.

Not only have they covered the topic in their music, but Killer Mike was actually interviewed by CNN about this in August.

[Verse 1: Killer Mike]
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30/1/2019 - 23:27
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Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck)

Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck)
(2014)
Album Run the Jewels 2
Testo da genius
Featuring Zack de la Rocha

I Run The Jewels si uniscono all'ex RATM Zack de la Rocha per un potente rap contro le violenze della polizia nei confronti delle minoranze, sia gli afroamericani che gli ispano americani. Il video ufficiale riprende un lungo corpo a corpo tra un nero e un poliziotto bianco.
[Intro: Zack De La Rocha]
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30/1/2019 - 23:21
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American Terrorist III

American Terrorist III
(2011)
Testo da genius

Con campionamenti da “Nightcall” di Kavinsky

Un veterano della guerra in Iraq o in Afghanistan torna in patria con un PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Ignorato da tutti, diventa un terrorista. O forse vuole sole rovesciare il governo che l'ha mandato in guerra?
Hello Gorgeous
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30/1/2019 - 23:07
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Mein Gefängnis

Mein Gefängnis
Riccardo Venturi, 29-01-2019 23:42
MY GAOL
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29/1/2019 - 23:43
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That's What I'd Like to Know

That's What I'd Like to Know
(1971)

dall'unico album di questa band inglese intitolato "Oh What a Lovely War!"
Who is he, this simple man, and absentee
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28/1/2019 - 21:25
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Lord High Human Being

Lord High Human Being
(1971)

dall'unico album di questa band inglese intitolato "Oh What a Lovely War!"

Credo che l'intero album, che si apre con la famosissima Six Days War ripresa recentemente in vari remix, sia un concept contro la guerra.
In darkened woods the smell of fallen showers all around
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inviata da Lorenzo 28/1/2019 - 21:22
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Le Drapeau Rouge

Le Drapeau Rouge
THE STANDARD OF REVOLT
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inviata da Paweł Dembowski 25/1/2019 - 19:07
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Little Bit

Little Bit
Album: If All I Was Was Black (2017)

“The song is a cautionary anthem of all the ways in which those regarded as suspicious have to weigh their actions just to survive day to day.”
Mavis Staples
This life surrounds you
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25/1/2019 - 15:08
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Tom of Bedlam (Bedlam Boys)

anonimo
Interpretata anche dagli Steeleye Span

This song is originally from Thomas d'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, published 1720, where it had the title Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom of Bedlam. It was in the repertoire of The Halliard at the end of the 1960's with a tune that was “mostly the work of the Halliard's Dave Moran with some small input from Nic Jones” (according to Julia Jones). However, they didn't record it until 2005 for their songbook and CDBroadside Songs.

Tom Gilfellon sang Mad Tom of Bedlam in 1972 as the title track of his Leader album Loving Mad Tom.

Steeleye Span learned Boys of Bedlam from The Halliard via the Farriers and Tom Gilfellon. They recorded it in 1971 for their album Please to See the King, and this track was later included on the Martin Carthy anthology, The Carthy Chronicles. Martin Carthy and Maddy Prior share vocals, starting singing into the back... (continua)
For to see mad Tom of Bedlam
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inviata da Dq82 25/1/2019 - 10:49
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Get Your Rights Jack

Get Your Rights Jack
(1961?)

Nuove parole sulla musica della celebre "Hit The Road, Jack" scritta da Percy Mayfield e interpretata da Ray Charles

Testo e illustrazione ripresi da Sing for Freedom - The story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs, edited and compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan (1990)
Get your rights, Jack
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22/1/2019 - 23:21
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Mr. Lonely

Mr. Lonely
1962
Roses are Red

Vinton began writing the song while serving in the Army. The song describes a soldier who is sent overseas and has no communication with his home. The singer laments his condition and wishes for someone to talk with. The single of Vinton's recording was released just as the Vietnam War was escalating and many soldiers were experiencing a similar situation
Wikipedia
Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
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22/1/2019 - 05:46
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Ich hab kein Heimatland (Jüdischer Tango)

Ich hab kein Heimatland (Jüdischer Tango)
I HAVE NO HOMELAND
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inviata da B.B. 20/1/2019 - 15:30
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Истребитель

Истребитель
THE FIGHTER
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inviata da Donatella Leoni 15/1/2019 - 22:19
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Bobby Cortez

Bobby Cortez
(1982)
Album: This Movie Is For Real

The lyrics recall Page's friend from his high school who dropped out of school and was killed in Viet Nam. The tombstone at the school has the names on it of those who fell in the war. Bobby Cortez is number 4 on the list.
Bobby Cortez was a friend of mine back in the days of old
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inviata da Ceil Herman 12/1/2019 - 22:19
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Señor Martínez Mondragóns bekännelse

Señor Martínez Mondragóns bekännelse
Lyrics by Björn Afzelius and music by Jim Page.

Björn Afzelius wrote the following notes in his 95 Sånger (95 Songs) book:

"Jag satt en dag på stranden i Italien och läste Herald Tribune. På sidan sju redovisades ett förhörsprotokoll från Nicaragua. En Contrasoldat hade fått nog av sin egen verksamhet och frivilligt överlämnat sig till Sandanistregererigen i Managua. När jag läst artiklen frös jag som en hund i solskenet. Jag lämnade stranden och gick hem och skrev texten direkt ur tidningen. Offret i sången Ar bara två av de femtiotusen dodade nicaraguanska bönder, vilkas liv Ronald Reagan har på sin samvete - om han nu haft en sådant."

"One day I sat on the beach in Italy and read the Herald Tribune. On page seven was reported an interrogation minutes from Nicaragua. A Contra soldier had had enough of his own activities and freely surrendered himself to the Sandinista regime in Managua.... (continua)
We left our camp
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inviata da Ceil Herman 12/1/2019 - 21:57
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The Things We Do to Each Other

The Things We Do to Each Other
2018
All that Reckoning

Una canzone che sembra scritta per i potenti: "la paura non è così diversa dall'odio, e se spingi la gente alla paura basts un piccolo passo per cambiare marcia" e ancora "non si può controllare l'odio, se non per poco, e poi quando perdi il controllo..."
Fear is not so far from hate
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inviata da Dq82 11/1/2019 - 19:24
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Kämpens väg

Kämpens väg
Dimitri Petrenko, from his YouTube video.

Please be careful. Handle with care. This song is 40 years old. A song like this hasn't been written for a long time. It's 40 years old, but it might be well be 140 and have been translated into French and sung by Émile Zola while the striking miners' wives were seizing the greedy grocer fallen from the roof and snatched him his cock. This song states, through a survey of the entire history of Mankind, concepts that have been declared dead, and even worse than dead: failed. Its author, a Swedish-speaking Finn called Dan Berglund, disengaged completely and even sold his guitar, decided not to write and sing anything more. Instead, we repropose this outdated, 40 or 140 years old song, that is dead or, who knows, more alive than ever. And, when the song is over, if you don't stand up raising your fist, you have a heart of stone. Or you are dead. [RV]

Note.... (continua)
THE PATH OF STRUGGLE
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 11/1/2019 - 13:46
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La città vecchia

La città vecchia
Dennis Criteser, De André in English, 2014


"La città vecchia" is set in old Genoa where De André spent much time, with its little back alleyways, bars, prostitutes, and the hard lives of the poor people and criminals who lived there on the margins of society, the opposite of what De André experienced with his own upper-middle class upbringing. The song was inspired by a poem of the same name by Umberto Saba set in the port zone of Trieste. And the first two lines are quite similar to lines from a poem by Jacques Prévert, "Embrasse moi": "The sun of the good Lord doesn't shine on our parts/It already has too much to do in the rich quarters." Throughout his songwriting career, De André regularly took inspiration from and borrowed from other works of literature and music. (Translation notes: 1. "Giunone" is "Juno," but "By Jove!" is the common English expression. 2. In Italy, pensioners receive their checks on the 27th of every month.) - Dennis Criteser
THE OLD CITY
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 11/1/2019 - 00:46
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The Streets of Lahore

The Streets of Lahore
2015
Another Man's Ground

On 26th May 2014 Farzana Parveen was murdered by 4 members of her own family in broad daylight outside the High Court of Lahore for marrying without their consent. Days later her grieving husband admitted to strangling his first wife in order to marry her. It has been estimated that 1000 women are the victims of so called ‘honour’ killings every year in Pakistan.
The sun shone on the face of Farzana Parveen
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inviata da Dq82 8/1/2019 - 10:04
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The I.C.I. Song (the Chemical Worker's Song)

The I.C.I. Song (the Chemical Worker's Song)
The poor safety and health conditions workers endured in the chemical industry are the theme of "The ICI Song", also known as 
"The Chemical Worker's Song" and "Process Man".  The song was written and recorded in 1964 by Ron Angel in Cleveland, UK, an 
area known for its chemical industry.
Recorded a few years ago by the Canadian group, Great Big Sea on their album "Up". Lorre Wyatt recorded it on his Roots and Branches for Folk-Legacy. Recorded also by The Young'uns
A process man am I and I'm telling you no lie.
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inviata da Dq82 8/1/2019 - 09:42
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The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
[1981]
Testo e musica / Lyrics and Music / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel: Frank Zappa
Album / Albumi: You Are What You Is

Dice l'Anonimo Toscano del XXI Secolo:
Cari sorelli, care fratelle, oramai passate (olééééé!!!) le sante festività natalìzzie (con due “z”), e sentendomi per questo infinitamente più buono (mentre durante le suddette festività mi sento, invero, cattivissimo), vi prego di accettare questo mio modestissimo contributo consistente in un vecchio brano del rev. Francesco Vincenzo Zappa, che pur essendo originario di Partinico (Palermo), scriveva canzoni, ohimé, in inglese americano (a parte una santa laude intitolata, come tutti sanno, Tengo 'na minchia tanta). Si tratta di un brano, come è possibile constatare, dalla profondissima e incontestabile moralità, instillatore di autentica pace e, a modo suo, ispirato da una enorme religiosità (quella cosa che è caratteristica... (continua)
...Work the wall
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inviata da L'Anonimo Toscano del XXI secolo 8/1/2019 - 07:24
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La rosa bianca

La rosa bianca
A white rose is grown
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inviata da Caterina Cavallarin 7/1/2019 - 18:00
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Bertolt Brecht: Die Lösung

Bertolt Brecht: Die Lösung
This famous poem written by Bertolt Brecht in mid-1953 but first published in 1959 in the West German newspaper Die Welt, is a critical comment on the uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
THE SOLUTION
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inviata da Juha Rämö 6/1/2019 - 13:33
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Joe Glenton

Joe Glenton
(2012)
Album: The Last Bird To Sing

One of the songs from my new album, ‘The Last Bird to Sing’, is about the ex-soldier and conscientious objector that I got to know ; Joe Glenton. Not only is his story inspiring but it occurred to me it’s one that has been told, in one form or another, in traditional folk songs through the ages. The theme of war has been a constant in folk songs going back centuries, whether the soldiers’ travails or the women left behind struggling and lamenting. But war still is a constant in our society. In fact, short interludes aside, we have been at war now since I was a child. This, and the experiences of it from ordinary people’s perspectives, I think deserves to be sung about.

interview - Folk radio

Una delle canzoni del mio nuovo album, ‘The Last Bird to Sing’, parla di un ex soldato e obiettore di coscienza che ho avuto modo di conoscere: Joe Glenton. Non... (continua)
He joined the forces when he was young
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inviata da Adriana e Lorenzo 6/1/2019 - 12:36
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Thank God

Thank God
(1969)
Album: Foolish Fool
For every one man who cries for war
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inviata da Pierluigi Avorio 5/1/2019 - 12:10
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Colors of the Wind

Colors of the Wind
1995
Pocahontas O.S.T.
Music: Alan Menken
lyrics: Stephen Schwartz

Colors of the wind, che fa parte della colonna sonora di Pocahontas, ha vinto l’Oscar come Miglior canzone originale nel 1996. Scritta da Alan Menken e Stephen Schwartz, mostra un conflitto da Smith e Pocahontas, ovvero tra europei conquistatori e indigeni d’America. Pocahontas reagisce duramente quando si sente definire “selvaggia”.
In alcune lingue la canzone è interpretta da due diverse interpreti, una per il film e una per la colonna sonora.
La canzone è stata registrata in due versioni in lingua inglese, una cantata da Judy Kuhn, l’altra da Vanessa Williams. In lingua italiana invece è eseguita da Manuela Villa.
You think I'm an ignorant savage
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inviata da Dq82 5/1/2019 - 11:06
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Screwed

Screwed
(2018)
dall'album Dirty Computer
Featuring Zoë Kravitz

Testo tratto da Genius

Screwed ha qui un doppio senso: "fottuto" nel senso di essere rovinati dalle scelte che i governi e i potenti fanno per noi a cui Janelle contrappone il significato di "avere scopato": fate l'amore e non fatevi fottere dal potere.

La canzone contiene anche le parole "We'll put water in your guns", trasformare le vostre armi in pistole ad acqua, che è una bella versione moderna del "mettete dei fiori nei vostri cannoni".
I live my life in a magazine
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4/1/2019 - 20:51
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Дальше действовать будем мы

Дальше действовать будем мы
WE'LL TAKE ACTION FROM NOW ON!
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4/1/2019 - 13:37

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock: A mio figlio

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock: A mio figlio
Riccardo Venturi, 4-1-2019 11:29

It is included in “Extras” because it's a poem, not a song; as far as I know, I am the only one who has “set to music” and sung a poem by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (but I'd love being contradicted). I think the above mentioned page shows well which kind of relationship I have had with Juan Rodolfo Wilcock since my teenage years; the page also includes, in a ”little afterword” (even translated into French by Marco Valdo M.I.), another poem by the Argentine who wrote “in a sort of Italian” (as he used to say) hidden between the Roman nebulae and Lubriano, in the province of Viterbo. That poem, originating from some year in the 60's, is included in a bunch of poems called: “For the cat”, also including the following poem. Juan Rodolfo Wilcock must have had a son, and I have none. So to say, I have run the risk of having a couple of children, and, hearken!, from two... (continua)
TO MY SON
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4/1/2019 - 11:30
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Dendrocronologia

Dendrocronologia
Riccardo Venturi, 4-1-2019 08:37
DENDROCHRONOLOGY
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Travelling

Travelling
Riccardo Venturi, 4-1-2019 06:53



“Putting things in a cosmological time scale is significant in that it should definitely make us realize and acknowledge our responsibility for the environment we live in”, writes Juha Rämö as a companion to his Finnish translation of this song (as far as I know or can remember, this is the first Finnish translation he made directly from Italian and I find it really great). Deproducers have issued in 2017 an entire album, “Botanica”, dedicated to plants and to the vegetal world: I think Juha Rämö's observation may find in this album still more force. Unfortunately, no lyrics are available and I'll have to cope with, at least for one piece exemplifying well what I am saying. For my English translation, or rendering, of this song, I have chosen to include a video by AMNH on the known Universe, also a song in itself.
TRAVELLING
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4/1/2019 - 06:53
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Water Cannon

Water Cannon
In 2007 the government of New South Wales bought a water cannon. That it had never been used by 2019 shows that the purchase was unnecessary. The money could have bought two fully equipped emergency ambulances. The water cannon is a toy of the police state. The tune is Rosin the Bow.
It’s away with your batons and tasers
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inviata da Tony Smith 3/1/2019 - 04:42
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Americans

Americans
(2018)
dall'album Dirty Computer

Testo e note tratti da Genius

Il razzismo è sicuramente il bersaglio principale della canzone che chiude l'ultimo album di Janelle Monáe, ma vengono toccati molti altri temi tra cui sessismo, omofobia, libertà sessuale, politiche migratorie e violenze da parte della polizia. I luoghi comuni e la mentalità razzista e discriminatoria vengono sovvertiti in questa canzone dove lo Zio Sam bacia un uomo e Jim Crow risorge come Gesù.
Hold on, don't fight your war alone
(continua)
2/1/2019 - 18:57
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Bullet

Bullet
(2018)
Parole e musica di David Byrne e Brian Eno
da American Utopia, il nuovo album solista di Byrne uscito a 14 anni di distanza dal precedente.

A rigore non sarebbe neanche una canzone contro la guerra. È la descrizione di una pallottola che attraversa il corpo di un uomo, uccidendolo. Niente viene detto sul perché, né chi sia la vittima: un soldato, un passante ucciso per sbaglio, un civile ucciso in una guerra, un detenuto giustiziato, né chi sia l'assassino: un terrorista, un poliziotto, un criminale, un militare, un boia, un marito tradito in cerca di vendetta?

Una sola cosa è certa. La pallottola ha attraversato organi vitali ponendo fine a una vita, ai suoi pensieri, ai suoi sentimenti, ai baci che non potrà più dare, alla pelle che nessuna donna più toccherà. Ed è questo alla fine il risultato di tutte le guerre.
The bullet went into him
(continua)
1/1/2019 - 23:28
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They Come at Night

They Come at Night
(2015)
Scritta da Marianne Faithfull e Mark Lanegan
Pubblicata nel 2018 nell'album Negative Capability

Scritta subito dopo gli attacchi terroristici a Parigi nel novembre 2015 che hanno fatto 130 morti tra cui 90 al Bataclan durante il concerto degli Eagles of Death Metal.
Ogni 70 anni i nazisti tornano sotto qualche forma... a 70 anni dalla fine dell'occupazione tedesca ecco i nazisti islamisti dell'ISIS a seminare il terrore a Parigi.

Questo pezzo è stato presentato per la prima volta proprio al Bataclan un anno dopo la strage.
Oh now Mama, don't you hear my plea?
(continua)
1/1/2019 - 23:04
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Pushed

Pushed
Historians have barely begun to document the terrible effects on Aboriginal people of the European invasion of Australia since 1788. One problem is that the European approach to evidence relies heavily on written documents. Indigenous memory on the other hand is found in oral narratives. This song tells the story of a massacre in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales and of the conflict over what counts as evidence. It is time we abandoned our patronising attitudes and acknowledged the validity of Indigenous epistemology.
Some young men escaped
(continua)
inviata da Tony Smith 29/12/2018 - 22:20




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