1000 Grandmothers
[2009]
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “We Came to Sing”, con il duo Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries e Sandy O)
My fantasy is that one day we all will just lay down whatever it is we are doing and we refuse and the reality is that all over the world and throughout history, small groups of people have stopped what they were doing and refused. Happens all the time... just not all at the same time.
(introduzione al brano dal sito dell’autrice)
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “We Came to Sing”, con il duo Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries e Sandy O)
My fantasy is that one day we all will just lay down whatever it is we are doing and we refuse and the reality is that all over the world and throughout history, small groups of people have stopped what they were doing and refused. Happens all the time... just not all at the same time.
(introduzione al brano dal sito dell’autrice)
Send in a thousand grandmothers
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/8/19 - 11:26
Listen to the Voices
[2009]
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “We Came to Sing”, con il duo Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries e Sandy O)
A big part of singing is listening. Singing in harmony is good training for living in the world. The drone you hear under the voices are actually voices. Sandy and Pat's voices were sampled and "electronically enhanced" to create this low foundation for the song's harmony.
(introduzione al brano dal sito dell’autrice)
Parole e musica di Holly Near
Nell’album “We Came to Sing”, con il duo Emma's Revolution (Pat Humphries e Sandy O)
A big part of singing is listening. Singing in harmony is good training for living in the world. The drone you hear under the voices are actually voices. Sandy and Pat's voices were sampled and "electronically enhanced" to create this low foundation for the song's harmony.
(introduzione al brano dal sito dell’autrice)
Listen to the voices of the old women
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2015/8/19 - 11:24
Silent No Longer
[2005]
Scritta da Sandy O e Pat Humphries
Nel disco intitolato “Roots, Rock & Revolution” pubblicato nel 2007
Birmania, Burma, Myanmar… mica solo riso, ma anche oppio, legname pregiato e soprattutto petrolio e gas naturale, di cui la Birmania ha il più grande quantitativo di tutto il sud-est asiatico… Sarà per questo che in quella regione la democrazia non ha mai avuto vita facile, specie dagli anni 80 in qua, e sarà per questo che pure la leader dell’opposizione Aung San Suu Kyi oggi siede accanto ai generali che l’hanno sequestrata per anni…
Scritta da Sandy O e Pat Humphries
Nel disco intitolato “Roots, Rock & Revolution” pubblicato nel 2007
Birmania, Burma, Myanmar… mica solo riso, ma anche oppio, legname pregiato e soprattutto petrolio e gas naturale, di cui la Birmania ha il più grande quantitativo di tutto il sud-est asiatico… Sarà per questo che in quella regione la democrazia non ha mai avuto vita facile, specie dagli anni 80 in qua, e sarà per questo che pure la leader dell’opposizione Aung San Suu Kyi oggi siede accanto ai generali che l’hanno sequestrata per anni…
We moved in silence with our children
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart 2013/7/5 - 10:23
Silence and Lies
Came home from school to the war on TV
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart 2013/7/5 - 09:53
Refugee
[2002]
Parole e musica di Pat Humphries e Sandy O
Nel disco intitolato “One x 1,000,000 = Change”
Parole e musica di Pat Humphries e Sandy O
Nel disco intitolato “One x 1,000,000 = Change”
Women in search of safety
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart 2013/7/5 - 09:34
Not My War
[2011] Lyrics & Music by Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
Album: Revolutions Per Minute
"My father joined the Army when he was 15. His mother had died when he was a child and he signed up for the same reasons most young people do: to get an education, find a job, to do something that would make his family proud. US wars have always been waged on and fought by the poorest people in the world. I’ve never seen a recruiting billboard in a rich neighborhood. This is for the resisters. ivaw.org. veteransforpeace.org"
Album: Revolutions Per Minute
"My father joined the Army when he was 15. His mother had died when he was a child and he signed up for the same reasons most young people do: to get an education, find a job, to do something that would make his family proud. US wars have always been waged on and fought by the poorest people in the world. I’ve never seen a recruiting billboard in a rich neighborhood. This is for the resisters. ivaw.org. veteransforpeace.org"
I will not fight
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2012/5/31 - 08:12
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Lyrics & Music by Pat Humphries & Sandy O
Album: One [2004]
"We were moving from the New York City area to the Washington DC area over September 11th, 2001. Sandy and I were in Maryland for a festival at the time. I watched the wall to wall coverage on TV and noticed how quickly the rhetoric moved toward war and retribution. Feeling hopeless and shocked we walked around as if we had been in New York that day.
Two days later the words "Peace, Salaam and Shalom", [Peace in English, Arabic (السلام), and Hebrew (שלום)] started playing round and round in our heads.
We wrote the words into a song and singing it broke through our despair and shouted down the voices calling for war. As the images of violence receded to the background we both regained the sense of hope that fuels our peace and justice work.
We went back up to New York City as soon as the bridges and tunnels opened... (Continues)