This tune is from the recently released third album, Let’s All Go to Mars, by the Australian independent rock band. Composed by band member Dean Lombard, he made the following statement concerning the jangly protest song: “I wrote this after the Manus Island Detention Centre was invaded by a violent mob after the Australian Government closed and abandoned it in October 2017. Their inhumane treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in the 21st Century was a stark contrast with the period up to the 1980s, when Australia welcomed people fleeing violence and seeking a new life. I was reminded of this contrast regularly, as I would often ride my bike past the mural of former PM Malcolm Fraser, commissioned by members of the local Vietnamese community in appreciation for Australia accepting so many refugees from the Vietnam War. We used to be the right place for people who needed a safe place to escape to, but not anymore.”

Daily Dose of Protest: Right Place, Wrong Time – The Phosphenes

(2025)
Album: The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right

(2025)
Album: Olympe

Auteurs : Frederic Goetzmann & Melissmell
Compositeurs : Melissmell & Matu

Les Filles de Zinovie

Chanson française – Les Filles de Zinovie – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2025

LA ZINOVIE
est le voyage d’exploration en Zinovie, entrepris par Marco Valdo M. I. et Lucien l’âne, à l’imitation de Carl von Linné en Laponie et de Charles Darwin autour de notre Terre et en parallèle à l’exploration du Disque Monde longuement menée par Terry Pratchett.
La Zinovie, selon Lucien l’âne, est ce territoire mental où se réfléchit d’une certaine manière le monde. La Zinovie renvoie à l’écrivain, logicien, peintre, dessinateur, caricaturiste et philosophe Alexandre Zinoviev et à son abondante littérature.

Épisode 275


Dialogue maïeutique

C’est le retour de Grand-Mère, dit Marco Valdo M.I., celle qui parlait toujours des filles de là-bas – la plupart du temps des filles d’Iran que le régime des vestales poilues, ordinairement nommées ayatollahs et autres mollahs, forçait à cacher leurs... (continua)

Musica di Gaetano Liguori
Il testo è di Anonimo (non è Tawfiq Zayyad né Mahmoud Darwish)


فلتمهلوا الأرضَ حَتَّى تقولَ الحقيقةَ، كُلُّ الحَقيقَةِ، / عَنْكُم/ وَعَنَّا..../ وَعَنَّا/ وَعَنْكُم!/ هُنالك مَوْتى ينامونَ في غُرفٍ سَوْفَ تَبْنونَها / هنالك مَوْتى يَزورون ماضَيهُم في المَكان الّذي تَهْدِمونْ/ هنالك مَوتى يمرّون فَوقَ الجسورِ الّتي سوفَ تَبْنونَها/ هنالِك مَوتى يُضيئون لَيْل الفَراشات، مَوْتَى/ يجيئونَ فَجْرًا لكي يَشْربُوا شايهم مَعَكُم، هادِئينْ/ كما تَرَكَتْهمْ بنادُقكُم، فاتركوا يا ضُيوفَ المَكانْ/ مَقاعَد خاليةً للْمُضيفينَ.. كي يَقْرأُوا/ عليكُمْ شُروطَ السّلامِ مَعَ المَيّتين! /

Let's give the earth enough time to tell/ The whole truth about us. / The whole truth about you. / In rooms you build, / the dead are already asleep. / Over bridges you construct, / the dead are already passing. / There are dead who light up the night / of butterflies, / and the dead who come... (continua)

(2025)
Album: Olympe

Auteurs : Frederic Goetzmann & Melissmell
Compositeurs : Melissmell & Matu


Olympe de Gouges, nata Marie Gouze a Montauban il 7 maggio 1748, fu una delle voci più coraggiose e lucide della Rivoluzione francese. Drammaturga e attivista, mise la sua penna al servizio della libertà e dell’uguaglianza, in un’epoca che concedeva ben poco spazio alle donne.

Nel 1788 pubblicò le Réflexions sur les hommes nègres, un testo con cui denunciava la schiavitù e difendeva la dignità dei popoli africani ridotti in catene. Tre anni dopo, nel 1791, scrisse la Dichiarazione dei diritti della donna e della cittadina, rivendicando per le donne gli stessi diritti politici e sociali degli uomini.

Il 3 novembre 1793 venne ghigliottinata per essersi opposta all’esecuzione di Luigi XVI e per aver criticato il Comitato di Salute Pubblica.

(2025)
Yves Jamait invite :

Sanseverino, Renaud, Gauvain Ser, Les Ogres de Barback, Guiz, Manu Eveno, François Morel, Gérôme Briard, Hélène Piris, Olivier Kikteff, Melismell, Aldebert, Lou Di Franco, Marion Roch, Yvan Le Bolloc’h, Mouss & Hakim, Nouchka, Lise Cabaret, Sam Garcia, Mario Cimenti, Christophe Alévêque, Jérôme Broyer.



Le 12 juin, au matin, alors que j’attendais le train pour me rendre à Paris, où je devais participer à la relance du festival de Saint-Ouen — qui honore le jazz manouche et la chanson française — et y retrouver l’ami Sansévérino, ainsi que Lise Cabaret, Leïla Duclos, Thomas Dutronc, Yvan Le Bolloc’h, Serge Malik, Thierry Garcia, etc.

Ce 12 juin donc, sur le quai de la gare de Dijon, une phrase tournait en boucle dans ma tête :
« C’était un joli nom, Palestine… »
Un début de chanson se profilait, mû par les atrocités et la violence d’une guerre sans précédent,... (continua)

2020
Batten Down The Hatches

I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water - Richie Havens - 1968

"I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water" is a song written / arranged by Austin Powell in 1939. The song was recorded by Powell's group The Cats and the Fiddle. Austin Powell's arrangement was based on a traditional blues-song.Most subsequent versions of this song follow the Austin Powell arrangement: Lou Rawls 1962, Aretha Franklin 1965, Electric Flag 1968 and Johnny Taylor 1969 to name a few.

Fonte:
Jopp’s Musical Flowers

Trascrizione soggetta a correzioni del testo della canzone, peraltro di dominio pubblico, “I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water “, attribuito a Woody Guthrie , come cantata da Richie Havens in occasione del Concerto Tributo a Woody Guthrie il 20 Gennaio 1968 alla Carnegie Hall di New York.

Note. La prima strofa riprende il ritornello del testo tradizionale.Un sentimento di delusione e rabbia ne è il tema. Nella seconda e quarta strofa... (continua)

Album: Pain to Power (2025)


Matt Buonaccorsi:

The four of us acutely understand this song, and you can say it’s in two halves. It’s a furious cry against the impact of late-stage capitalism and the wealth of the one percent on global society.

The first half is the narrator/us/the listener experiencing anger and frustration at the discourse right now. The lyrics refer to multibillionaires and oligarchical figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg. All these people have so much power and can control what we see in our lives.

The fact that these people have so much power and wealth has created a tension that’s boiling. A lot of the first half of the song alludes to that, along with war as well. That same type of greed can arise in our politicians who are, alarmingly, quite open with it. America is profiting from selling weapons to Israel who are butchering Palestine.

... (continua)