Les Fantômes militaires

Chanson française – Les Fantômes militaires – 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 263


Dialogue maïeutique

Avec le temps, commence Marco Valdo M.I., à force de faire la guerre, on finit par perdre du matériel et énormément de gens. Ce sont ces gens-là que désigne le titre sous le vocable de « Les Fantômes militaires ».

Ah, dit Lucien l’âne, c’est assez... (continuer)

"Black september" was the name of a palestinian movement (stamped "terrorist") in the beginning of the 70's, which took its name in remembrance of the slaughters perpetrated by the Jordanian army against palestinian fedayeens in September 1970.
The song says "Septembre Noir assassin, Djemila, ton seul droit c'est de crever en silence" : "Black september murderer, Djemila, your only right is to die without a word"...This tragic background is softened by the words of love Brigitte and Areski keep whispering to each other, among several nonsensical jokes of which they have the secret.

Sarcastic song about the delights of being conscripted

1972

This song could also be put under "Brigitte Fontaine", since she sings half of it...
Areski probably wrote the amazigh part, being of berber origin. I couldn't find any written text of the lines in amazigh, only the french part. Would love to read it here !

Album: "Vous et nous" - Brigitte Fontaine

I was about to enter the song under "Brigitte Fontaine" name, since it is found in the album "Vous et nous", but then realized that it was completely written and sung by Areski Belkacem, Brigitte's eternal artistical romantic partner, co-writer and "muse"...So I thought it would be time that Areski had his own entry.

[2011]
Single file
Poema e musica di Joy Harjo
This America - Joy Harjo

Quale America? Questa America!
Un bellissimo poema ambientato in una musica suggestiva. Un volo tra aquila e terra. Un invito a ricordare l'essenziale, ciò che presiede alla vita. Il cielo, le stelle, il sole, la terra. E noi, siamo solo la sua pelle. Però questo "noi" include tutto ciò che vive, anche il vento, le acque. E tutto questo crea un sentiero di memoria. Un sentiero in cui nessuna impronta va mai dimenticata. È tutto costitutivo di un percorso in corso di scrittura .
Gli antenati guardano alla scrittura dell'America. Cosa fare di questa America, con la sua storia di colonizzazione delle nazioni indigene e della natura? Distruggerla in nome di questa storia? Oppure produrre una luce di speranza, ritrovando il senso di comune appartenenza alla terra d'America.
In opposizione al senso di appartenenza della... (continuer)

2021
Esperanza

2021
Caça Maior

Album: Terror Regime (2013)

Come si potrebbe intuire dagli ultimi inserimenti mi sono imbattuto in questa lista: 100 Heavy Metal Protest Songs - The Ongoing History of Protest Music. Ma il metal, soprattutto quello più estremo tipo death metal, non è proprio il mio genere quindi per ora mi fermo qui...

Album: Dark Flag (2017)

(1991)
Album: Victims of Deception

(1989)
Album: Horrified

[1975]
Inez Garcia · Bev Grant and the Human Condition
Released on: 1975-01-01
Written by Bev (Beverly) Grant
On the compilation, What Now People?, Vol. 1, 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1975 Paredon Records
The Human Condition performed this song as part of a Channel 13 WNET show called “Woman Alive,” broadcasted in 1975.

The Rape of Inez Garcia by Wood, Jim: Very Good Hardcover (1976) Not Stated - Oddball Books

The Human Condition are:
Bev Grant: vocal and guitar
Peter Farnese: drums
Gene Hicks: violin
Jerry Mitnick: bass

Bev Grant wrote the song “Inez” shortly after hearing about the story of Inez Garcia, who was convicted of murder for killing a man who raped her.

The legal case of Inez Garcia - who was convicted in 1974 of murder for killing a man who participated to rape her - became symbolic in the women’s movement, underscoring women’s right to fight back against... (continuer)

[2016]
Dee Snider's Standing Rock Music Video "So What"
On the album "We are the ones"

"This music video documents the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest at Standing Rock. While capturing the police brutality and human rights violations against peaceful Water Protectors, the filmmakers were tear gassed, targeted and shot with rubber bullets in an unconstitutional suppression of free press.
Special thanks to The American Indian Movement, Graywolf, Pony, the Indigenous People and Water Protectors everywhere."

End credits:

"On November 20th 2016, a thousand unarmed peaceful Water Protectors were assaulted by police on treaty land. For nine hours, they were attacked with flash bang grenades, tear gas, mace, rubber bullets and water cannons in subfreezing conditions.

Hundreds were treated for hypothermia and other injuries, including 21 year old Sophia Wilankski, whose arm was blown apart by... (continuer)

[2016]
September 2016, first video version
January 2017, updated video version and audio file
Lyrics: Prolific The Rapper
Music: A Tribe Called RED (Original Song: Stadium Pow Wow, June 2016, with a beautiful video too and the allusive presence of the black snake)

Beyond Standing Rock: Seeking Solutions and Building Awareness at Tribal Colleges

What is the black snake in the Standing Rock?
There's an ancient Lakota prophecy about a black snake that would slither across the land, desecrating the sacred sites and poisoning the water before destroying the Earth. For many Indigenous people gathered near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, that snake has a name — the Dakota Access pipeline.

What is Turtle Island?
Turtle Island is a name for Earth or North America, used by some American Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a creation... (continuer)

1970
The Travellers

[2016]
Song produced by Printz Board as a video.
Written by Taboo

Video directed and edited by Johnny Lee, filmed by Baxter Stapelton and includes actress and Divergent series star Shailene Woodley; artists: TABOO of Black Eyed Peas, Tony Duncan (flute), Perry Cheevers (intro/native chant), PJ Vegas (hook), Kahara Hodges (hook), Emcee One (2nd verse), Drezus (2nd verse/pos-hook), Supaman (bridge) Gerald Danforth (bridge), Spencer Battiest (last verse), Doc Battiest (last verse), and MyVerse (verse), Martin Sensmeier, Bethany Yellowtail, Lehi Thunder Voice Eagle, Shalene Joseph, Temryss Lane, Gina Tiger, Indigenous Enterprise, and Jukasa Media Group. Additional footage provided by Heather Rae, Stacey Thunder, Ben Dupris, and Cody Lucich - Thank u all for Standing Up 4 Standing Rock.

"Stand Up / Stand N Rock” is a collaborative project between the People’s Climate Music and Hip Hop artist... (continuer)

Children are murdered daily in Palestine, but genocide is like that. It is appalling that so many people in the comfortable west seem not to care. While we might be frustrated by our impotence on this issue, surely our consciences demand that we not remain silent.

This song describes the horror of a young boy appearing on our screens stuffing his mouth with sand. The sand was a substitute for the flour which has vanished from Gaza.

Israel closed the northern border to genuine aid from the UN and relief agencies, while hypocritically instituting a so-called humanitarian organisation with US support. There was no safety at these distribution points, which were nothing more than yet another arm of Israel’s genocidal campaign, where aid seekers became easy targets and hundreds were slaughtered.

During the American war in Vietnam, the image of a naked girl whose body was burnt with napalm... (continuer)

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... (continuer)

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.... (continuer)

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... (continuer)

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.