BURNING BURNING - CitizenMofo

27th May 2017 17:33 - 9 years ago
Description : Written & produced by moi, vocals & guitar by Sunny War. This is on our protest album, BURNING. One of the 55 songs we completed in the Sunny Sessions. You can check them all out at thesunnysessions.com which I just created this week. Made a video of this song on youtube, please check it out here: https://youtu.be/vTXDOYVJMO0

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KarasAvian
KarasAvian 1st Jan 2018 06:56 - 8 years ago
I want this song!
CitizenMofo
CitizenMofo replied 15th Feb 2018 - 8 years ago
Sorry I've been so delinquent in my reply but thank you! I appreciate you! If you want to SEE the song, here's a video I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTXDOYVJMO0&list=PLwqrYdLC9-Z5qkDNGCjbM0_Q2RNZKwBeN
And if you want to get the song, all 55 songs that I made with Miss Sunny War are available at https://thesunnysessions.com/
If you do check out the site, and things don't work right, pls let me know. I am terrible about keeping up with things like that, and I really should get better. Anyway, thanks again.
Spivkurl
Spivkurl 3rd Jun 2017 19:48 - 9 years ago
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Orlando51
Orlando51 31st May 2017 18:29 - 9 years ago
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silverman
silverman 30th May 2017 19:55 - 9 years ago
Brilliant piece.
It reminds me of something from the 70's that I can't put my finger on and a voice I can't put a name too.
Nice to know protest is alive and well.
Protest is awareness in action.
I'm in the Anglo part of this dying Anglo American banking empire.
The most watched people on planet earth now.
Greed has taken over everything here.
The protests of the past in America are not happening because they learnt from Viet Nam that a comfortable and well off populace are powerful.
But when you're reduced to fear poverty uncertainty you won't be protesting hence the lack of mass protest.
This is very professionally put together and should be on the radio everywhere.
CitizenMofo
CitizenMofo replied 30th May 2017 - 9 years ago
Thank you, Silverman. You made my day. Dylan defined a great song as one that seems like it's been around forever, so reminding you of the '70s is all right with me.

Protest is hope, and hope is in short supply these days. How absurd hope looks in the face of such enormous government corruption and general hatred. When there's no hope then out of hopelessness comes random acts of violence, and these are increasing on a daily basis. I fear that now any protest risks being a violent clash between the people and the government or between the people of one view and the people of the opposite view. We've had a house this divided before, and guess where it led? 620,000 dead. Ah, music. Can it make any difference?

Jeez, I wish I knew how to get things on the radio or to get any success at all, beyond the intense soul satisfaction that I'm feeling at the moment, having completed the project. But I'm working through the necessary steps, and maybe I can make something happen this time. Thanks for your comment, it gave me a boost.
theHumps
theHumps 30th May 2017 13:48 - 9 years ago
Pretty tumultuous times we are living through in America these days. I last saw this mayhem when the Watergate scandal was going on, even though I was young I can remember watching the news and being shocked. It's amazing the similarities to what's going on today but this is even worse. Where has the civility gone in our society?

I'm glad to hear protest music in something other than folk music. Punk always has seemed to have protest music. Good to hear more electronic based protest music being made. The electric git adds a nice touch to accent the vocals, they have a cool tone and the two tracks playing opposite each other works good. I like the effects on the vocals, big reverb, haunting. With the descending piano in certain parts sets a darker feel. Lyrics are good too. Drums have a Trent Reznor feel to them in my opinion.:)

55 songs in a session? Wow!

Wayne
CitizenMofo
CitizenMofo replied 30th May 2017 - 9 years ago
55 songs in multiple sessions over 5-1/2 months, not just one session...

Thanks for the comment and feedback!

Yeah, these are ridiculous times. When Watergate was going on, which I remember well, we had just come out of the turbulent '60s, the protests, the Civil Rights movement, the riots, the assassinations, Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News with the nightly body counts, the Kent State killings, etc. Nixon had just kicked off the unconstitutional and illegal "War on Drugs" in order to target first Vietnam protesters and then blacks, and here we are, 46 years later, still waging that suicidal mission against ourselves. Having been alive for a long sweep of history, I look back and it's pretty clear that that's where the slippery slope really started which has landed us at this low point of moral degeneracy and sheer insanity as a country. I can't even begin to process the scope of our degradation and lack of understanding of the most basic, basic aspects of democracy, freedom, and decency - not to mention the ability to differentiate good from evil. It's no surprise that the stunning violence of Americans on Americans is growing every day. As hopeless as it is, all I can do is make songs as my witness to the insanity and my criticism of the bs. Otherwise I'd go crazy. Thanks for listening and for your thoughtful comment, I really appreciate it!
srob1234
srob1234 29th May 2017 04:02 - 9 years ago
Really love the tone of the vocals. Niece work!!!
CitizenMofo
CitizenMofo replied 30th May 2017 - 9 years ago
Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment!
kingmadi
kingmadi 28th May 2017 02:33 - 9 years ago
Nice work! Love the aggressiveness.
CitizenMofo
CitizenMofo replied 30th May 2017 - 9 years ago
Thank you. We've done some harder guitar-driven stuff on the BURNING album too so stay tuned... It's all on thesunnysessions.com though. Thanks for the comment!
Cyberliam
Cyberliam 27th May 2017 20:27 - 9 years ago
nice work u done here! track and a video! good job!
CitizenMofo
CitizenMofo replied 27th May 2017 - 9 years ago
Thank you, I appreciate that!

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