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Greetings All,
This is a friend of mine in England who travelled to Iraq and is a right on
guy - give him a listen or buy this album when it's released! It sounds great,
and what a list of reviewers!
thanx, Jenn Joos
Just to let you know that MP3 excerpts from the
forthcoming album THE FIRE THIS TIME are now posted at the supporting web site:
www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk
The album, which deconstructs the 'official' history of
the Gulf war and the impact of sanctions on Iraq, is due for release as a double
CD at the end of May, with Disc 2 featuring instrumentals and extra tracks. The
official web site for the album will open simultaneously, and the URL will
be:
Feedback on the MP3s are welcomed, and please pass
this message and link on to anyone you feel would be interested. Reports of any
faulty links or download problems are appreciated.
Many thanks,
Grant Wakefield.
THE FIRE THIS TIME audio project
REVIEWS of "THE FIRE THIS TIME" as at APRIL 2001 "Powerful, eye-opening,
blood-boiling stuff; succinctly, honestly and impartially explaing the lead up
to the Gulf war in context, in a way that no news agency, including the BBC and
CNN, ever managed to, either at the time or since. Essential
listening."
- IAIN BANKS,
author 'The Wasp Factory' and others
"When U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, confronted with the
estimate that the sanctions policy had resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi
children, asserted that this was '...worth it.' The admission and horrifying apologia for the
mass killing of children was greeted in the Western media with almost complete
indifference. Hopefully, this brilliant album will
alert people, especially those in the United States and Britain, to the fact
that a huge crime is being carried out, pressed even today by their leaders, who
are mainly responsible for this policy and tragedy."
- EDWARD S. HERMAN, co- author 'The
Manufacture of Consent' with Noam Chomsky
"THE FIRE THIS TIME puts the ongoing American war against Iraq in historical perspective, and confronts us powerfully with the human consequences of the sanctions policy." - HOWARD ZINN, author 'A People's History of the United
States'
"THE FIRE THIS TIME is an unusual album in
that it mixes some excellent pieces of music by a diverse range of artists with
a large amount of spoken word taken from news pieces and dialogue concerned with
the Gulf War. The album movingly charts the downward spiral into war, the
manipulation of news reports to the advantage of the west and the terrible
consequences that ordinary Iraqi people suffered and still suffer to this
day.
Bravely tackling a very heavy duty subject that many people would normally shy away from, this album, by cleverly mixing well crafted and atmospheric music with hundreds of cut up sound bites both educates and stimulates thought on the terrible realities of political propaganda and modern day warfare. In a time of vacuous consumerism, where most music projects steer as far as possible from any kind of political comment or stance, this album stands out like a beacon for a time gone by, when music was considered a positive force for change. I challenge anyone to come away unmoved or unchanged after listening to this album." - MICHAEL DOG, founder PLANET DOG
RECORDS
"This is a moving and powerful statement of
the case for justice for Iraq, and an end to the bombing and
sanctions."
- TONY BENN, British Member of
Parliament
"This is a powerful artistic statement of electro
/ info fusion, depicting the anarchy of the events of the 1991 Gulf War in an
inferno of pulsating soundscapes and intense narration." - GEORGE GALLOWAY, British Member of Parliament, and founder of 'The Mariam Appeal'
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