In piena crisi economica e sociale,per la Grande Depressione che colpi’ gli Stati Uniti negli aa.’30, il protagonista, alla ricerca di un lavoro per poter sopravvivere, esprime il senso di frustrazione e delusione per le promesse non mantenute da parte delle istituzioni qui rappresentate dalla C.C.C. (Civilian Conservation Corp ) e dalla W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration).

Conclude l’ultima strofa sottolineando con drammatico sarcasmo che tutto ando’ bene,come lavoro, solo in occasione delle onoranze funebri in una casa funeraria.

Album: Infest the Rats’ Nest (2019)

“Planet B” is a heavy rock song with thrash-metal influences, departing from the band’s traditional style. Quite cynically, the band criticizes humanity’s role in destroying the earth, and society’s negligence to reduce further damage to the environment.

The opening track to Infest the Rats' Nest forecasts what will happen if humanity continues to ignore environmental issues. Earth becomes unsustainable, and humanity attempts to leave with no target world in sight.

(1985)
Album: Animosity

[2021]
Music Video Filmed On the Rosebud Reservation
Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Frank Waln for FDW Entertainment
First released as a video and single file
On the album "In the Key of Lakota" (2021)

' The impact of settler colonialism is still evident in America today, widely impacting Indigenous communities across the country. On the Rosebud Reservation alone, Waln says, poverty is rampant. Unemployment levels are over 80%, and violence and addiction have become a problem that desperately needs solving.

To continue experiencing the consequences of colonialism compounds the trauma experienced by both the old and new generations, Waln says.

“I use music to process this pain,” he said. “In my culture, we look at medicine from a non-Western perspective. And music is medicine, so I’m constantly trying to find new ways to keep making new and better medicine for myself and sharing... (Continues)

1994
Blunted on Reality

The song talks about the struggles faced by black people and their determination to break free from oppression and racism.

[2015]
On his first studio record, "The Bridge" [2017]
Lyrics by Frank Waln, with samples from Disney's 1953 "Peter Pan"

Lakota rapper and activist Frank Waln wrote this scathing satire of the song “What Made The Red Man Red?” from Disney’s 1953 film Peter Pan to criticize its broadly stereotypical portrayal of Native American tribes. Using audio samples from the original song, he lambasts the United States for its legacy of colonialism and genocide in what was originally Native territory as well as Hollywood’s whitewashing of the harsh history of U.S.-Native relationships.

The song was first released on Dec. 29, 2015, on KOYA FM, the local radio station for the Sicangu Oyate (Oyate is the Lakota word for nation). Place and date are significant: on that December day of 1890, about 300 Lakota were slaughtered by the US 7th Cavalry in what remains sadly known as the Wounded Knee Massacre.... (Continues)

FURÈSTA (2025)
Featuring Abdullah Miniawy

[2020]
On the album "Born Ready"

Many of Waln's songs tackle Native American social issues. In this particular song, introduced and concluded by spoken words by John Trudell, he put's the social issues in the larger perspective of a perpetuation of the historical "Indian Wars" in a still lasting "white war" against the identities, ways of life of the native people. As oppression has many ways, it needs a lot on both side to find a way out. Resistance on one side and apologies on the other won't do it alone. It needs deconstruction of the minds and decolonization of the memories. And the key is sovereignty. And the misunderstandings about it.

“Every time I perform, there’s people in the crowd who were alive when it was illegal for us to be Lakota. So, even though you know that history is in the past, it’s very much impacted our reality,”

Here the link to a CNN rewritten interview with... (Continues)

Album: Médine France (2022)

Médine ne se sent pas concerné par les paroles de La Marseillaise et a décidé de la remplacer par “un joli poème”. Ce qui l'oppose ainsi à l'hymne français, qui a pu être critiqué par son côté sanglant et guerrier.

Selon Médine, cette musique représenterait davantage la diversité de la France. Enfin, le clip vidéo démontre la volonté de Médine à réconcilier les français entre eux en les faisant poser sur une photo de famille.
Genius

2017

(2025)

Lyrics: SK
Produzione: Koodoo
Mastering: Riccardo Zamboni
Art work: Alberto Biffi (Nintai Studio)

2025
Addicted to the Violence

Album: For The People (2025)

A chiudere ci pensa One Last Goodbye. Una canzone che non chiede silenzio ma rispetto. È il saluto a Shane MacGowan, fatto col cuore in mano e un bicchiere che trabocca. In sottofondo, gli Scratch suonano come se stessero tenendo in piedi un ricordo collettivo. E tu, che ascolti, ti ritrovi a cantare anche se non conosci le parole. Perché tanto, le senti lo stesso.

Album: For The People (2025)

Album: For The People (2025)

Bury the Bones, con i Mary Wallopers, prende il folk irlandese e lo portano dritto nel pit. Mandolini e banjo non servono a far colore. Sono armi. Emblemi di appartenenza, sudore, risate condivise in mezzo alla merda. E quando parte il ritornello, lo senti: quella roba lì non è nostalgia, è sopravvivenza.

[1986 / 1997]
On the 1997 album "Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century" by Joy Harjo & Poetic Justice
Lyrics [1986] and Music by Joy Harjo

The song honors the spirit of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, a Mi'kmaq activist who dedicated her life to help Indian people everywhere, organizing social care, involved with educational projects and participating to protests. She was involved with the American Indian Movement (AIM), participated in the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973, became the higher-ranked woman in the AIM. She disappeared in December 1975 and was found murdered in February 1976. She was 30 years old. (For further details, see the accompanying notice to the song "Anna Mae" by Larry Long)
At the time Harjo wrote the poem/song, the murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash was still a cold case.

(2023)
Cartoline dall'esilio

Il Volume III del progetto discografico "CARTOLINE DALL'ESILIO" contiene 9 canzoni di guerra. Contro la guerra, of course.
Pubblicato a ottobre 2023. Mi ci hanno costretto gli anni che stiamo vivendo. Invero non ho fatto molta fatica: ho drizzato le orecchie, mi sono messo in ascolto, e le canzoni erano lì, soffiavano nel vento.
Ne propongo una.

Due ragazzi (un giovane uomo e una giovane donna, anche il canto è a due voci) che per motivi diversi entrano in quel tritacarne - e tritacoscienze – chiamato guerra. Siamo in Ucraina, oggi, o in altri luoghi e altre epoche? I due sono dalla stessa parte? Su fronti avversi? E chi lo sa, in fondo non ha molta importanza saperlo.

L’esperienza del conflitto li accomuna, e forse li distanzia allo stesso tempo. Citando gli Afterhours, è la fine la più importante: come rispondi alla domanda “ dimmi se basta a cancellare... (Continues)

Loveless C.C.C. - Herman Beemans - 1937

Le Fossoyeur désenchanté

Chanson française – Le Fossoyeur désenchanté – 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 262


Dialogue maïeutique

Sais-tu, Lucien l’âne mon ami, ce qu’est un fossoyeur ? En as-tu déjà rencontré ?

Oh oui, répond Lucien l’âne, j’en ai souvent rencontré et un peu partout dans mes pérégrinations. Ce sont des gens parfois un peu taiseux ; d’autres fois, intarissables ;... (Continues)

(2011)

(2020)
Album: Untitled (Black Is)

This refers to the killing of Breonna Taylor as she slept at home by police officers in the US. The song Wildfires, much like most of SAULT’s work focuses on black-centric issues, such as the 2020 BLM Protests

[1868]
Film / Movie / Elokuva:
Jack Gold

Musica / Music / Musique / Sävel:
Johann Strauss Sohn
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald / Storielle del bosco viennese / Tales from the Vienna Woods / Histoires de la forêt viennoise / Wienerwaldin tarinoita

Il noto valzer di Johann Strauss figlio fa parte della colonna sonora del film Fuga da Sobibor del 1987, non a caso. La musica mette in evidenza la contrapposizione tra la Mitteleuropa e l’universo concentrazionario , le spudorate falsità di facciata della propaganda nazista da un lato e il sistema di morte dall'altro.

Il campo di sterminio di Sobibor, Polonia orientale, fu attivo dal 1942. Il 14 Ottobre 1943 alcuni membri della Resistenza tra gli internati del campo di sterminio di Sobibor si rivoltarono contro gli aguzzini delle SS, i Sonderdienst, collaborazionisti ucraini, e i Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, paramiltari tedeschi... (Continues)