"In
the Dogon, Yoruba, and other West African cultural
traditions, the process of nommo - naming things,
forces, and modes - is a means of establishing control
over the object of the naming process. Menacing problems
are ferreted out from the isolated individual experience
and reconstructed as problems shared by the community.
As shared problems, threats can be met and addressed
within a public and collective context."
Slovo’s debut album nommo is out now. 
|
|
Saaba dave
randall: guitars, programming Saaba is an Arabic word meaning 'hard'. I met Elham in the Palestinian city of Gaza in the summer of 2000. She had lived in Palestine for 70 years and told me that now, more than ever, life was hard: very hard.
|
 |
 |
Frank
and Harry
(music Dave Randall, words Anthony DeMore) dave
randall: guitars, programming
|
lyricsKilling
Me (music & words Dave Randall) dave
randall: guitars, programming
|
 |
 |
21
Today dave
randall: guitars, ting Since
the second world war the US government have bombed
21 countries.
|
Weebles
Fall dave
randall: guitars, programming
|
 |
 |
Di
Wengi Sane
(music Dave Randall & Max Roach. words Anthony DeMore, Maezah & Charlie Chaplin) dave
randall: sitar, guitar, programming The sung vocals are in the languages of Togo and Cameroon. Charlie Chaplin's speech is taken from his 1940 film 'The Great Dictator'.
|
Voice (music Dave Randall, words Woody Guthrie) dave randall: lap steel & guitar Woody Guthrie's poem is read in the Kurdish language 'Kurmancî' by Ismail Taha and in English by Afuá Chebueze.
|
 |
 |
Hound
Dog dave
randall: guitars, programming The late, great Hound Dog Taylor's voice is taken from his live album 'Beware of the Dog'.
|
Come
Down dave
randall: tenor & acoustic guitar, programming,
miniature music box |
 |
 |
Back
to Peace anthony
demore: vocals
|
Whisper (music & words Dave Randall) dave
randall: guitars, programming |
 |
 |
Sertão
Blues dave
randall: guitar, kalimba, psaltery |
Produced and mixed by Dave Randall & Andrew Phillips.
Recorded at Andrew's house, London and on location in Gaza & New York City with Dave's mini-disc machine. Vocal for Frank & Harry recorded by Pete Miser at his place in New York City.
Mastered
at Denis' house, Frimley - countrymasters.com, except Hound
Dog &
Sertão Blues mastered by René @ Galaxy Studios, Belgium.
"The struggle between people and corporations will be the defining battle
of the twenty-first century. If the corporations win, liberal democracy will
come to an end. The great social democratic institutions which have defended
the weak against the strong - equality before the law, representative government,
democratic accountability and the sovereignty of parliament - will be toppled.
If, on the other hand, the corporate attempt on public life is beaten back,
then democracy may re-emerge the stronger for its conquest. But this victory
cannot be brokered by our representatives. Democracy will survive only if the
people in whose name they govern rescue the state from its captivity." George
Monbiot