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Lullabies for the Revolution
by firefly frequencies
Lullabies to nurture emancipatory dreamworlds for children of all ages.
Episodes
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E11 - Gracias a la vida (Violeta Parra / Kacey Musgraves)
Kacey Musgraves rechanneling the haunting voice of Violeta Parra, to accompany our sleep into 2022.
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E10 - Inverno (All Strange Away)
Fabrizio De André's classic 1968 song returns in a hypnagogic version that crackles with underlying menace as it drifts towards a blizzard of noise. A lullaby for the everlasting Winter Years.
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E09 - Prosfigopoula (Rinyio Kyriazi)
Actress and vocal experimenter Rinyio Kyriazi interprets the Marika Papagika classic "Prosfigopoula", an ode to a young refugee girl. From the title credits of the film "Common Birds" (Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson) Sound recording: Mathieu Villien Mix: Thomas Fourel
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E08 - WRONG NINNA NANNA (Bifo, Lydia Lunch, Bobby Gillespie, Marco Bertoni)
Wrong Ninna Nanna is an avant-guard opera composed by experimental music producer and composer Marco Bertoni and Franco Bifo Berardi, co-founder of the famous “Radio Alice” in Bologna and an important figure in the Italian Autonomia Movement. We present here two tracks from the project: "The End…
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E07 - Berçeuse pour Chalva (Natacha Muslera)
This lullaby was written by Iliazd (Ilia Mikhailovich Zdanevich) in the invented Zaum language. Voice and percussion: Natacha Muslera
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E06 - L'Estaca (Les chansons d'Alix)
This is part of the lullaby project "Les chansons d'Alix", by Thomas Fourel & Co. L'Estaca was composed in 1968 during the dictatorship of General Franco in Spain. It is a call for unity of action to liberate ourselves from all fascisms. Si tirem tots, ella caurà I molt de temps no durarà Segur…
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E05 - Nana de esta pequeña era (María Salgado and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca)
“Nana de esta pequeña era / This little era lullaby” is a rewriting of the lyrics and music of Lorca & La Argentinita's 1931 recording of the popular “Nana de Sevilla” (Seville Lullaby). Lullabies tend to name a monster (el coco) or a terrifying danger to warn babies to protect themselves. When…
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E04 - Lullabye to Language (Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson)
"Lullabye to Language" originates from a double encounter. As part of our on-going project "common infra/ctions", researching into minor languages, non-communicative poetic strategies and possible ways of collectively unlearning codified, hegemonic speech-acts (of the kind that are instrumental…
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E03 - La Tabaccara (Donatella - Casa delle Agricolture)
Donatella is one of the key activists of Casa delle Agriculture - a militant land protectors' cooperative which has been existing for 10 years in the very south of Italy. Here, she is singing her grandmother's fav - "La Tabaccara" - the song of the tobacco field women workers calling each other…
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E02 - Les canuts (Les chansons d'Alix)
This is part of the lullaby project "Les chansons d'Alix", by Thomas Fourel & Co. "Les canuts" commemorates the Silk Workers Revolt of November 1831 in Lyons (France). Voices: Thomas Fourel, Nathalie Fandos & Alix Music and sound mix: Thomas Fourel
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E01 - Le temps des cerises (Les chansons d'Alix)
This is part of the lullaby project "Les chansons d'Alix", by Thomas Fourel & Co. "Le Temps des cerises" was written in 1866. During the Paris Commune (18 March - 28 May 1871), it became a revolutionary song when other verses were added. The "Time of Cherries" is a metaphor which imagines how…
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Lullabies to nurture emancipatory dreamworlds for children of all ages.
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