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Swidden
by Blackbird Raum
1. Valkyrie Horsewhip Reel
2. California/Fetid Adder’s Tongue
3. Rubicon Drawn
4. Silent Spring
5. Witches
6. Greymare
7. Story from Strawmouth
8. Woodwose
9. Shot Coplifting
10. Unregistered Firearm/Ravachol in Valhalla/Crom
11. A Rat in My Dream
12. Still Sick (years after the draft)
13. Honey in the Hair
14. Coal
15. Germinal
16. Everyone up to the Wall
Blackbird RAUM’s second album that’s faster, darker and tighter than the first. Again utilizing the clawhammer banjo, accordion, singing saw and more. the scratchy five part harmonies make good on the bleak promise of their first album, more explicit of an incredibly dim view of world affairs. Subjects ranging from war to ecological collapse and all the bright space in between. RAUM has grown up into something extremely paranoid and in haste. sounds like Leonard Cohen and Nausea team up to start a bluegrass troupe or perhaps the Minutemen go french musette.
CD – $10.00
Under the Starling Host
By Blackbird Raum
1. turning away
2. catherine’s wheel
3. lucasville
4. all turning backs in the meadow and wait while bones are thrown
5. to the barricades!
6. william
7. the helm of ned kelly
8. crumbs
9. snare
10. ensemble suicide11. old one eye 12. conquest of bread 13. a rat in my dream 14. path of raven
An all acoustic pre apocalyptic dance party taking cues from the last great depression to ring us gloomily into the next one. Utilizing banjo, singing saw, washboard, accordion, mandolin, not to mention vocal cords tarred with train grease, Blackbird RAUM somehow manages to combine 1920s american string band music with anarcho-punk, grunge and undeground metal, into a sound that culminates in scathing banjo/washboard gymnastic two-steps and depressive waltzes. They have performed anywhere from condemned warehouses and broken down docks to main stage at Northwest Folklife, playing tunes that are perfect for coup d’etats, end of the world parties and funerals. This is punk folk, not folk punk man!
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
by Oh-Toh-Kin
This 1992 essay was originally published in the revolutionary indigenous newspaper OH-TOH-KIN. It is a historical chronology of the colonization of the Americas – and the resistance to it. It finishes with the decade defining Mohawk resistance at Oka and reads as a prelude to the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994. It is as relevant, and timely, as it was a decade before. Perhaps more so. $3.00
The Animal Liberation Movement: Its Philosophy, Its Achievements, and Its Future
By Peter Singer
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?” – Jeremy Bentham Over the last few years, the public has gradually become aware of the existence of a new cause: animal liberation. Most people first heard of the movement through newspaper articles, often on the “what on earth will they come up with next” variety. Then there were marches and demonstrations against factory farming, animal experimentation or the Canadian seal slaughter; all brought to an audience of millions by the TV cameras. Finally there have been illegal acts: slogans daubed on fur shops, laboratories broken into and animals rescued. What are the ideas behind the animal liberation movement, and where is it heading?
$2.00