2019
The Great Betrayal (Rojava)

Missouri State - Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
Fort Smith Jail
Cat. #1388 (MFH #254) - As sung by Joan O'Bryant, Wichita, Kansas

"Roger David Casement (1864 – 1916) was a humanitarian campaigner and an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist. He was a British consul, famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru and also for his dealings with Germany before Ireland’s Easter Rising in 1916. An Irish nationalist and Parnellite in his youth, he worked in Africa for commercial interests and later in the service of Britain. However, the Boer War and his consular investigation into atrocities in the Congo led Casement to anti-Imperialist and, ultimately, to Irish Republican and separatist political opinions. He sought to obtain German support for a rebellion in Ireland against British rule. Shortly before the Easter Rising, he landed in Ireland and was arrested. He was subsequently convicted and executed by the British for treason. His remains were buried in the yard... (continua)

Missouri State - Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
Hard Times in Jail
Cat. #0475 (MFH #254) - As sung by Mr. Alford, Delmar, Arkansas on February 2, 1960

(2016)
Album: 1984

Zunenshtraln
[1943]
Testo e musica / Lyrics and music / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel: Joseph Wulf
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Henryk M. Broder
From the Joseph Wulf phonograph records collection that Henryk M. Broder
donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002.
Piano: Friedrich Scholz (1926-2008)
Disques Pyral, ca. 1950

Nel 1943, Joseph Wulf, ebreo germano-polacco nato a Chemnitz nel 1912, è prigioniero a Auschwitz III (il sottocampo di Buna-Monowitz). Lui e la sua famiglia erano stati deportati dal ghetto di Cracovia, dove erano diventati amici di Mordechai Gebirtig e del pittore Abraham Neumann. Joseph Wulf era un perito agrario ed un esperto in studi ebraici (tanto che la famiglia voleva farne un rabbino). Joseph Wulf si unì al movimento partigiano ebraico; una volta deportato, decise di dedicare la vita alla rivelazione e alla denuncia,... (continua)

2015
Quello che resta

2023
Carico Residuale

2017
Hienas

2016
Canzoni abusive

2020

2021
Eitilt

2017
Itzulika

2024
Cast​è​ls dins la luna

Tout commence avec « 24 de Febrièr de 2022 », le 24 février 2022, début de l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie. On ressent distinctement le bruit des bottes dans cette chanson, grâce à la frappe puissante de la batterie de Dimitri. Le chant joue avec les blessures de l’âme slave en occitan. “Ce jour-là, je me suis dit, s’il y avait la guerre, je n’irais pas, et pourtant mon cœur me demande de défendre la démocratie – que se passe-t-il le jour où tu te réveilles en guerre ?” explique Paulin.

2022
Canzoni per adulti

“La guerra è iniziata” descrive l’Oscurantismo attuale politico e sociale scoperchiato dalla pandemia, la fertilità
delle destre e altro con cui fare i conti perché è in questo clima che invecchieremo nei prossimi anni.

Dyo ieréis, énas Theós kai i tsingána i Marió
[1973]
Στίχοι / Testo / Lyrics / Paroles / Sanat: Alexandros Devetzoglou / Αλέξανδρος Δεβετζόγλου
Μουσική / Musica / Music / Musique / Sävel: Alexandros Devetzoglou / Αλέξανδρος Δεβετζόγλου

Ancora dal blog di Alex Devezoglu, una canzone per la quale, se legge, chiedo l'aiuto di Alex stesso. Prendendo per assunto che sia ispirata a qualcosa cui Alex ha partecipato di persona (non credo possa essere altrimenti), occorrerebbe un po’ situarla, chiarirne il contesto e, in pratica, raccontarne la storia. Appare, come si dice dalle mie parti, come una “ribongia” in pieno stile anni ‘70 in una boîte parigina (che Alex traslittera fedelmente μπουάτ), ma con componenti di fratellanza nella lotta contro le dittature (la ragazza cecoslovacca e Jan Palach, il Politecnico…). La canzone è, del resto, del 1973. Un gran casino, con gente che vola in piscina,... (continua)

Unspoken features on Greg Harper's album 'In It Together' released in 2019.

Veterans from many wars, over time, have rarely spoken about their war time ordeals and experiences. Many kept everything hidden from their families until they themselves passed away.
How could you explain what you had endured, or done, to someone with no concept of the reality of war.
It remained Unspoken.

WW1 slang meanings.

White Feather:
Given by ladies to men who hadn’t signed up to fight, as a symbol of cowardice.

Pear Drops:
Clouds of Poison gas.

Goodnight Kiss:
The last shot of the day by a waiting sniper, looking for a careless victim at dusk.

For King & For Country features on Greg Harper's album 'Bricks & Dust' released in 2015.

Choose! women life and liberty
- Or man-made catastrophe
(For Narges Mohammadi)

Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but her children received it on her behalf. This courageous woman has been imprisoned in Iran by 'old male Imams' who are determined to crush dissent.

Capel-le-Ferne features on Greg Harper's album 'Well Spun Lies' released in 2011.

"At the beginning of July 2010 I visited the Battle of Britain memorial site, on the cliffs, at Capel-le-Ferne, near Folkstone, in Kent

It was just a couple of days before the annual ceremony, which was held to mark, and remember, the start of that battle in 1940.
As I stood there on the cliff edge looking out towards France, I tried to imagine what the remaining members of the' Few' might have been thinking, each time that they attended the event over the years. What thoughts did they have as the dignitaries spoke, as the band played, and the flypast went over their heads?
My song Capel-le-Ferne is what I imagine they might have been thinking, on that day, and maybe every other day, for the preceding 70 years.

Now in February 2024, 14 years after I wrote Capel-le-Ferne, Group Captain John Hemingway (aged 104) is the last remaining living member of the Few ."
Greg Harper

Album: Bricks And Dust (2015)

Just Waitin' is a short, but potent, anti-war song.
Only 8 lines long, under one minute in length, but everything that needs to be said is said in that short time.
The song was released by Greg Harper in 2015.
It features on his album Bricks & Dust.

2023
G̱al’üünx wil lu Holtga Liimi

La storia e le vicende dei nativi canadesi sono meno note di quelle dei loro omologhi statunitensi, ma non meno tragiche, piene come sono di episodi di violenza, sopraffazione, discriminazione fisica e culturale. E se sono passati più di 150 anni dalla dichiarazione/auspicio che a metà Ottocento fece l’allora Primo Ministro canadese John A. Macdonald: “uccidere gli indiani da bambini”, fino a tempi assai recenti la cultura e la memoria dei popoli indigeni sono state sottoposte ad una costante opera di distruzione e marginalizzazione.

Nel cercare di imporre i propri modelli socio-economico-culturali, il Canada “bianco” non si è peraltro fatto scrupolo di vietare le cerimonie tradizionali, di reprimere le manifestazioni che rivendicavano i diritti dei nativi sulla terra e sull’utilizzo delle risorse naturali, arrivando perfino a sottrarre i bambini indigeni... (continua)

1973

2019
Low Fuel

2022
Comandante Charlie

2023
Bagatelle

2023
Scangiamenti

autore anonimo
Musica di Luca Schiappacasse