[2015]
Lyrics & music by James Vernon Taylor
Album: Before This World

“Far Afghanistan is a song about a soldier preparing to fight, which is something I basically can't stop thinking about, how these guys prepare themselves to do this impossible challenge of going to kill or be killed..”

(January 2020)

1999

1987

[1972]

Singolo: Collina

[1973]

Singolo : Civiltà Dei Fumi

Solo un bellissimo 45 giri per questo gruppo di Genova, attivo tra il 1968 ed il 1973.
La formazione originale, comprendente, oltre a Carbone e Fognani, il chitarrista Piero Morielli, il tastierista Stefano Maragliano e il batterista Gino Delfino, venne modificata nel 1971 con l'ingresso di Barabino e Fantacchiotti, e il gruppo suonò soprattutto a Genova e Torino.
Il 45 giri ha uno stile che ricorda i Metamorfosi, con voce vagamente lirica ed ottime tastiere, e il testo di Civiltà dei fumi è tra i primi esempi di brani dedicati alla tutela dell'ambiente.
Il gruppo continuò con una nuova formazione fino al 1973, con Carbone e Fantacchiotti coadiuvati da Massimo Gori (chitarra, poi con Latte e Miele), Marco "Picchio" Piccardo (basso) e Luciano Puppo (tastiere). Questa formazione registrò dei demo ma senza arrivare alla produzione di altri dischi.

Italian Prog

[2020]

Testo e Musica Andrea Sigona

2022
Klandestino

Levél a hitvehez
[ 1944 ]

Vers / Poesia / A Poem by / Poème / Runo
Miklós Radnóti

1.Zene / Musica / Music / Musique / Sävel:
Ferenc Mocsári
Előadja / Interpreti / Performed by / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
Gabriella Mocsári

2. Zene / Musica / Music / Musique / Sävel:
Audionautix [Calm blue lake]
Előadja / Interpreti / Performed by / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
Jason Shaw

Quando Miklós Radnóti, poeta ungherese, ebreo, scrisse questa poesia nel lager di Heidenau nutriva ancora delle speranze. Mancava un mese al suo assassinio.
Si veda l'introduzione alla Hetedik ecloga per un quadro esauriente.

[Riccardo Gullotta] 

(Marzo 2020)

Come sempre, quella di Willie è un’analisi lucida e a tratti spietata, che non solo ci mette di fronte alla realtà senza indorare nessuna pillola, ma ci spiattella causticamente in faccia tutte le nostre contraddizioni e ipocrisie, dall’essere noi per una volta quelli dall’altra parte del porto, all’erigerci a fieri paladini di un tronfio e impavido giustizialismo privato a colpi di secchiate d’acqua dalla finestra e video-denuncia dal balcone pronti per essere caricati su Internet così da alimentare l’insaziabile macchina della gogna mediatica sempre alla ricerca di un nuovo colpevole per sentirci meglio con noi stessi:
Ogni giorno alle 18 vorremmo un freestyle di Willie Peyote - Rapologia.it

(2019)

“Looking for America” is a song Lana wrote on August 5th, 2019 regarding the mass shootings throughout the US, once she got back to L.A. The message of the song relies upon Lana dreaming of a better situation for American people, a topic she has sung before in tracks like “Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind” and “When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing.” Del Rey released the song via streaming platforms on August 9th, 2019 as a single.
Genius

(2017)
Album: Lust for Life

Una canzone che si domanda quale sarà il destino degli Stati Uniti dopo la vittoria di Trump, e ricorda che anche nei periodi più bui della storia recente, durante la Guerra del Vietnam e la Guerra Fredda, ci fosse un'importante controcultura protagonista dei movimenti pacifisti e hippie e del movimento per i diritti civili. E anche oggi non bisogna farsi da parte, ma continuare a ballare e a lottare.

"Spettri" è una canzone di Marco Laccone, contenuta nel cd/album/playlist "Niente Di Strano" , pubblicato a ottobre 2019 per conto di Empateya Edizioni.

Il brano racconta un sogno che si trasforma in incubo (da qui le musiche nell'introduzione). Nell'incubo il protagonista segue una "guida sicura" per sfuggire agli "esseri marcianti" che gli fanno paura, salvo poi ritrovarsi a farne parte. Gli esseri da incubo sono una sorta di vampiri che "danzano nel sangue" e non hanno paura di guardarsi allo specchio, perché questo non ne riflette più l'immagine.
La canzone denuncia il rischio dei conflitti causati dalla crisi di cultura e valori che portano alla nascita dei "pannazionalismi" di vario tipo ("i fiumi in secca, quando il fango affiora"), dal dimenticare il passato ("per ogni lacrima dimenticata"), dall'accondiscendenza e dall'indifferenza verso quello che accade intorno.
In questo modo, tutti noi siamo potenziali "spettri" che marciano insieme lungo una "notte senza fine".

1969

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Milete wrote many songs for famous performers, including Elvis Presley. He avoided the draft during the Korean War, and did a stint in jail as a result.

The song "I Wonder If Canada's Cold" (Poppy # 69-0101) took a peace / anti-war perspective. The first person narrator set out for Canada in order to avoid the draft because of his moral opposition to war. Later released in 1970 on RCA Victor # 1909. Featured on the 1969 album Shirl Milete.

Vietnam War Song Project

[2008]
Music by Michael Saxell
Lyrics by Keith Reid, outside Procol Harum
Album: The Common Thread (The Keith Reid Project)

As lyricist for Procol Harum, Keith Reid wrote the words to their hit "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" and many other nice songs. He moved to America in 1986, and in the mid-'00s started writing songs for what would become The Common Thread, the new multi-artist album which was issued in August 2008 under The Keith Reid Project banner.
He wrote this song with the Swedish songwriter Michael Saxell, who handles the vocals.
The song is about a woman whose husband is killed when he is sent overseas to fight a war.
Says Keith: “That song I wrote in Sweden. But it felt American to me. The military guy, to me it was an American. I think the characters, although I actually wrote it somewhere else, it felt like an American situation. The idea for that was, 'even the floorboards... (Continues)

5 Prayers of Afghan Women
[ 2006 ]

Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel :
Fun-Da-Mental

Album: All is war

Sulla band Fun-Da-Mental

L’intenzione di proporre canzoni contrarie alla guerra ci fa vincere le perplessità che ruotano inevitabilmente attorno alla band inglese Fun-Da-Mental e al suo leader Aki Nawaz , aka Propa-Gandhi. La band non ha mai nascosto la sua militanza, la sua prossimità all’Islam politico, ossia al fondamentalismo islamico, a partire dal nome.
La band ne ha fatto un motivo di orgoglio. Si è ritenuta legittimata al percorso intrapreso a causa degli elementi costitutivi della civiltà occidentale percepiti come antislamici e razzisti. Nello stesso tempo ha affermato di dissentire da chi fa uso delle bombe.
Che una serie di critiche siano fondate non sfugge a chicchessia animato da una qualsivoglia onestà intellettuale. Quando... (Continues)

(1975)

1974

Smog / Chissà chi, chissà che

Band veramente valida e dotata di un ottimo cantante, forse il pezzo migliore dell'intera collection.

Verso la Stratosfera - Collection 45 Giri Rari Prog Rock Italiano - Vol 20 (Christmas Gift Special n. 2)

[2003]
Lyrics by Keith Reid
Music by Gary Brooker

Lorriane Schneider (1925-1972), a doctor’s wife, mother of four and printmaker, created one of the most emotionally charged posters of the Vietnam War era out of concern that her eldest son would be drafted into the army. At the time, given Lyndon Johnson and General William Westmoreland’s increased troop build-up, one need not be a fortune-teller to predict the inevitable consequence. But when the poster was issued in 1967, few could foresee that Schneider’s petition for peace would become the ubiquitous anti-war icon it was then or is today, almost 40 years later.

In 1967, Schneider entered a small print titled “Primer” to a miniature print show at Pratt Institute in New York. The only entry criterion was each submitted work could not exceed four square inches. With the war uppermost on her mind, Schneider made what she called her own... (Continues)

[1972]

Singolo : Il Corpo Di Una Madre

[1971]

Singolo : È il mio mondo/Ragazzi che scappano

1969

Reco and Laurel Aitken

dall'album Scandal In A Brixton Market - Girlie And Laurel Aitken

(1969)
Testo incompleto
dall'album Thinking Of What They Did To Me

La Suffragette

Chanson française – La Suffragette – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2020

Scènes de la vie quotidienne au temps de La Guerre de Cent mille ans.
Histoire tirée du roman « Johnny et les Morts » – du moins de la traduction française de Patrick Couton de « Johnny and the Dead » de Terry Pratchett. (1995)


Dialogue Maïeutique

Par le grand Onos, dit Lucien l’âne, une suffragette.

Oui, dit Marco Valdo M.I., une suffragette. Ce n’est pas tous les jours qu’il y a une chanson pour vanter les mérites d’une suffragette.

Pourtant, dit Lucien l’âne, souvent, elles les méritent ces mérites.

Surtout, continue Marco Valdo M.I., quand ce sont des suffragettes émérites comme Sylvia Liberty, une fille carrément célèbre qu’on célèbre ici dans cette chanson. Comme on le sait, une suffragette est une femme, une demoiselle, une dame qui, en sus de sa vie ordinaire, se consacre à la revendication de droits... (Continues)

[2015]
Lyrics & music by Lee Shapiro
Album:

A plea to stop the gun violence, bombings and wars around the world. Hatred, religious and cultural bigotry, power and money drive the violence and divide us all. And divided we shall fall...

Platoon [ Adagio for Strings ]
[ 1986 ]

Film / Movie / Elokuva:
Oliver Stone
Platoon

Music / Musica / Musique / Sävel:
Samuel Barber

Chris Taylor voice-over

I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days, as I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called possession of my soul. There are times since, I've felt like the child born of those two fathers. But, be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

Voce fuori campo di Chris Taylor

«Io ora credo, guardandomi indietro, che non abbiamo combattuto contro il nemico... abbiamo combattuto contro noi stessi. E il nemico era dentro... (Continues)

[2003]
Songwriters: Ebben/Birchmeier/Linsmeier
Album: Kill The White Man Dead

The War in Afghanistan followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of 7 October 2001, when the United States of America and its allies successfully drove the Taliban from power in order to deny al-Qaeda a safe base of operations in Afghanistan.

The war in Afghanistan continues destroying lives, due to the direct consequences of violence and the war-induced breakdown of public health, security, and infrastructure. Civilians have been killed by crossfire, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), assassinations, bombings, and night raids into houses of suspected insurgents. Even in the absence of fighting, unexploded ordinance from previous wars and United States cluster bombs continue to kill.

Hospitals in Afghanistan are treating large numbers of war wounded, including amputees and burn victims. The war... (Continues)

Srebrenica (Never Again)
[ 2008 ]

Testo e musica / Tekst i muzika / Lyrics and music / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel
Genocide

Album:The Psy-op Mixtape track #10

2012
Ночной Пилот

1986

Written By Patrick Leonard & Madonna
Album: True Blue

2016
feat. Anders Sunna
Album: Orda - This Is My Land

WE ARE STILL HERE! Collab with singer Sofia Jannok and artist Anders Sunna, both residing in Sápmi, resisting the ongoing colonization, persisting to remain.
"Swedish State calls us "Lapps", questions us as a people, claiming: You have not been here historically, you have no rights.
We say: We are still here. We have every right to be. We ARE Sápmi!"


Intro (Excerpts from the State Attorney’s intervention during the hearing in the court case between the Sámi reindeer herding community Girjas - from whence Sofia Jannok’s grandmother came - and the Swedish State. Gällivare Lapland District Court, June, 2015.):

“From the onset on, it is of importance to state that:
The Sámi have not been subjected to discrimination by the State.”
”The question then is what is meant by the concept of ethnicity, if it is to be claimed that the... (Continues)

[2020]
Lyrics & music by Lee Shapiro

In 2020 (Part 2) is about the year of a CoronaVirus pandemic, systemic police racism, the BLM movement, riots, face masks, politics, and, of course, Trump making everything worse..

“When I wrote "In 2020 (Part 1)", back in February, it was basically a personal story about my medical issues and my continued anger and frustration of Trump. When it was written and posted online, none of the major issues that were facing this year had even begun. No pandemic, no riots, no protesting, no confederate flag protests, no Wall Street crashes, no face masks, no self-quarantining and no Trump making all of this much worse. So I had to write a second part of this song, to include everything that happened since I wrote the first part. The music is similar (with a faster tempo and some changes), but different enough to make it an entirely new song”.