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Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2024

Keep On Keeping On

 


The world is changing faster and faster for the worse. Real wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, trade wars with China, a global arms race, the economy is in tatters, the cost of living is rising, healthcare systems are ailing and more and more people are losing their jobs, to name just a few things that are not going right. To be honest, I don't have any final solutions to offer either, but everything reminds me of the time 40 years ago when we faced similar problems.

At that time, a left-wing and ecologically orientated policy seemed to be the right way forward. It was precisely at this time that The Redskins came into the limelight with their first album. A buch of far left wing skinheads with a Trotskyist background that brought us only one album but a lot of powerful, catchy and danceable tunes mixing soul, rockabilly and punk to a unique sound.

They didn't changed the world but they let us dance and gave us hope for better days.



And as a bonus a footage of their last gig in Munich.



Montag, 1. Juni 2015

Algiers



Algiers released their first record these days. A friend recommended it to me and so I searched in the net for it. What I found was a very new and exciting collection of songs. Listening to their songs I thought by myself what a crazy combination of words and music. Franklin James Fisher formed Algiers with some white friends he knew from his childhood in the suburbs of Atlanta. After working in a French investment bank he quit his job to take some time out. In his music he combines the ambient doom of those post-crash days in banking and more recent unrest in Ferguson and Baltimore with a full-throated critique of the system responsible. Algiers puts its politics, Marxism and anti-kapitalism over industrial drum machine and Southern hymns and chants, finding common cause in the shouts and claps of punk and gospel. Sometimes it sounds like The Redskins make today's music. And that's not too bad at all.

Algiers - Blood
Algiers - Black Eunuch