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Voices In The Wilderness: Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of G​.​W​.​'s America

by Various Artists

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THE RED EYE AGENTS OF SATAN HAVE THE UPPER HAND (The Slow Poisoners) Once was an idiot king/Who set fire to everything around/Burnt it all down/gather round reconstruction/Back room handshake vultures landing/There's a fortune in the sand/Now that the red eyed agents of Satan have the upper hand/Who gave the monkey king his crown/Some already six feet under ground/Couln't make a sound/The suit is speaking on the hill/Waving billion dollar bills to pay/Your pennies to the man/Now that the red eyed agents of Satan have the upper hand/I dreamt I met George Washington/He spat on me and said what have you done/You foolish son/I'm sorry sorry George/I'm not the one/Responsible for what's become/There's trouble in this land/Now that the red eyed agents of Satan have the upper hand
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SOLDIERS' HEARTS (M.Sturm) Glory Glory Hallelujah/The killing don't get me/God bless those soldiers with their soldiers' hearts/God bless democracy getting a fresh start/Fighting ain't easy and with killing no one's won/But, yes!/We'll have elections when the pillaging is done/Bush Kerry, it's all the same/My life ain't really going to change/I've got my gladiator's game/My TV/MY DVD/My widescreen/My shopping spree/Hell, I'll wait and see if we burn out or get blown away/Glory Glory Hallelujah/The killing don't get me/God bless those soldiers with their soldiers' hearts/God bless democracy getting a fresh start
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POLITICAL COMPOSITION #1 (Bob Marsh) Bush, Cheney Rumsfeld/Now is the time to bring down the government/Blair, Bin Laden, Sharon/Now is the time to bring down the government/Exxon, Chevron, Shell/Now is the time to bring down the government/World Trade Organization (refrain)/Popes, Bishops, Ayatollahs (refrain)/Priests, Rabbis, Emirs (refrain)/Our leaders are not leaders (refrain) They push, pull and incite us (refrain)/Let us not remain silent (refrain)/Let us become responsible (refrain)/Let us stand against them (refrain)/The Multi-national enslavers (refrain)/Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas, Mid-east (refrain)//Blair, Bin Laden, Sharon (refrain)/Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld/Now is the time to bring down the government!
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INTRAOFFICE PSYCHOLOGIES (Marina Lazzara) Ya ready?/The world is getting smaller/Tomorrow may never come/Get ready/To stay just where you are now/Ya ready?/'Cause I am the President/And I am not surprised/And I will try to be/A god you can confuse me/ I'm I am I am I'm I am I am I am and you are not
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CONCEDING BEFORE THE COUNTLESS DREAMS (Aaron LaFleur) Once in a while the night surrenders its weak heart to the unpaved roads and innocent children, and people flood their homes with an invisible light, as song splits the sky or lips break under the crush of teeth. Before their feet touch the ground, before the satellites fall into a forgotten space and nervous digits empty, they remove - what is this they call back to life? articulated, pathetic, exhilarating, unreal . . . Wakefulness spreads over the aftermath. A nightmare shakes its head and renews its grit. The sky is not without a bloody countenance. but what is it? they ask. Is this the first blackened by fire? Is this the blank page staring back at us like a mirror in so many pieces? What do we inherit now when they clay no loner speaks?
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PERFECTHOOD IS GOING DOWN (Merlin Coleman) Perfect Sunset/Perfect phone/Perfect cheese/Perfect livelihood doorway water livelihood doorway water livelihood doorway water.........dream water water water water...../Perfect house pet/Perfect house pet/Perfect dream/Perfect dream/Perfect dream.../Perfect moron wife ad campaign picture/Perfect moron wife/Perfect moron wife moron wife.../Perfect wet dream wet dream/Perfect anti collateral damage unit in waiting to strike the target of insurgents faking death! in the face of perfect christian soldier perfect (stupid) perfect christian soldier/So perfecthood is not so perfect anymore, caught stealing a generation away and we'll all know a flaccid perfect hood is no perfect hood at all,/Perfecthood is going down down down down/Perfecthood is going down down down
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THE TOLL COUNTING (M.Sturm) Anser me./Is there an answer out there?/Tear drops flash props/The tanks of a real video game/The rules of the religious with no shame/I heard that they're dying/The letters not replying of suicidal soldier's taking their lives at dusk/We weave them into our minds's eye their horror not far behind the frozen street person too far gone for a refill of benzedrine, thorazine, Xanax, prozac, and all that/Days wander in, slide by/The scenery gets more grotesque, gray/Think about places to hide . . .who will hide us? who will help them? who will hide us? who will help them?/Days wander inside by . . .another four years of his smirks ands near/The toll counting defying all reasoning/Raise your hand if you would like to speak
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GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE (Dina Emerson) "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it Hemeispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." What I am against is quotes. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delicate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how it fits into what everybody else is saying, Their relative positions. But that's my position" Guns don't kill people; Guns are designed and manufactured for the purpose of enabling people to use gins to kill people."
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COLD BLOOD (Polly Moller) Blood they say he shot that unarmed man in cold blood well I've got news for them in war there's no such thing as cold blood you try and keep those guidelines in mind there's a pipeline being built to deliver cold blood but there's no cooling off the desert. how dare they defend their country?! don't they know those men across the waves with green ink in their veins are always right? they're drilling down, under heavy guard take a shot in the arm and transfuse that cold blood that's all I have to say except one thing you look pretty good to me but before we get all hot and bothered who did you vote for? you might be one of the 50 million people I never want to know
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Native American RESIDUALS (M. Sturm) Violence begets violence I must remember that...Violence begets violence I must remember that Stop fantasizing about a guerrilla psycho on the run killing the president for fun and when he started he couldn't stop like a kid in a candy store he needed the whole gang of Bush cronies (Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Sharon) to drop but violence begets violence I must remember that violence begets violence
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BANISH (Famous Last Words) And I dreamed we lost our way/And the people couldn't see/'Cause their eyes were closed by the fear that rose from a great catastrophe./And the fear was spread by leaders/With an agenda and a plan/We were easy marks and they took out hearts/We played right into their hands/And I dreamed the TV stations/And the print and radio/Had all lost their voice and their right of choice/And were hijacked in the show/And the shows were all for war/And the lies were piled deep/I'm not satisfied if the ones who died/Can't revive us from our sleep./In the shadow of the bomb/In the shadow of the end/They will waste our lives and control the skies/And they'll steal this land again./And I dreamed that all the people/Were just monsters underneath/Lift the face and show there's a skull below/That grins life and death for each/But I know we gotta choose/When I'm looking back at you/And my eyes meet yours and our mortal cores/Know the meaning that are true/And the meanings that are true/Will expose the lies and hate/We will banish those that we never chose/And from this dream awake
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about

Voices In The Wilderness was created out of the anxiety and disillusionment of Bush's reelection on November 3, 2004. This composition of twenty-six artists transcends music genres and ideologies with the common purpose of dissent towards the havoc and bloodshed cause by Bush and the U.S. military's dominance. This collection of political protest music spans experimental, rock, free-improv, electronic, folk, field recordings, and spoken word. This CD is ultimately a reminder and wake-up call that we can not be silent during these times.

After the election results were in and Kerry asked the American people to get behind Bush, we became highly aware that there may be no stopping this Empire's atrocities. We were even more screwed than we thought. That understating frightened us and still does. This sense of powerlessness to the Bush regime's primitive tactics is ongoing for many of us. With incredible humility, the artists on the CD have offered their work. Some of it has been edited down. All of it out of its' usual context. Collectively, it is against the grain of traditional music aesthetics. We chose to include every "voice" that was invited and then offered to this composition (more than we expected) with an intention of creating a document of dissent, a plea for peace, and a push against that can envelop us. Ultimately, this is a reminder to not be silent during these times. --M.S. & ED-I, February 2005, San Francisco, California

credits

released April 4, 2005

Voices in the Wilderness:
Marcos Fernandes - field recordings; Bonnie Kane - saxophone & electronics, Ray Sage drums & percussion; The Slow Poisoners: Richard Trott - keyboards (guitar, drums), Andrew Poisoner - songwriter (singer, guitar); Neshama Alma Band: Ernesto Diaz-Infante - vocals, 4-track 7 acoustic guitar, Marjorie Sturm - lute, lyrics &voice, with Kate Thompson - voice; 99 Hooker - sound montage with Ron Anderson guitar samples; Cornelious Cardew Choir - large vocal performance ensemble; Cheryl E. Leonard - viola, Tim Blue - violin & percussion, Susan Charette - percussion, A.L. Dentel - cello, Patty Liu - violin, Felix Macnee - erhu, Matthew Sperry - contrabass; Marina Lazzara - vocals & guitar; David Slusser - beats, electronics, bass clarinet, flute, oud, tenor sax & Slussomatic; Andre Custodio - electronics; United Satanic Apache Front: Reverend Steven Johnson Leyba - voice, Monique Lorraine Everhurt - voice, Lx Rudis - music, production & editing; Ernesto Diaz-Infante - solo acoustic steel string guitar; Blaise Siwula - field recording; mJane: Molly Sturges - conduction & vocals, CK Barlow - sampling & live sampling, DJ Ultraviolet - turntables, Mustafa Stefan Dill - Oud, Jefferson Voorhees - drums with guest bassist Matt Deason; Merlin Coleman - voice; Dave Tucker - sound montage; Jess Rowland - sound montage; Matt Hannafin - voice, percussion, Persian star & field recordings; Lance Grabmiller - laptop; Dina Emerson - voice & effects, engineered by J. Segel; d. Elder - electronics; Pablo St. Chaos - electric guitar & field recording; Robert m - electronics; Phillip Greenlief - tenor saxophone, Myles Boisen - recording, mixing & effects; Polly Moller - flute & voice, Will Grant - electronics; Aaron Bennett - soprano saxophone, John Finkbeiner - electric guitar; Stephen Flinn - percussion, Ron k. engineer, Famous Last Words: Jeff Zittrain - words & music, Kate Burkart - additional words.

Produced by Marjorie Sturm & Ernesto Diaz-Infante
Executive Producers: John Lee, 99 Hooker, Jeff Zittrain
Edited and mastered by Marjorie Sturm at Next Door to the Jefferson Airplane Studios, San Francisco
Cover art and other drawing by James Sturm
Design by Tohru Kanayama

Part of the profits of this CD are being donated to the War Resisters League

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In 1997, San Francisco composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante began the Pax Recordings record label which is dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and contagion of music from the margins of our culture and psyches. He and filmmaker Marjorie Sturm run Pax Recordings. ... more

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