#2324: Program #2324

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
With the election season in full swing, there's some more food for thought served up in songs with sociopolitical texts on this New Sounds program. Some, like David Byrne’s sly pro-American torch song “Empire,” take a stab at the recent savagery of American neo-colonialism. Others, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian’s “World Citizen,” redirect focus away from the national towards the global. Plus, in advance of next week’s New Sounds Live concert with Phil Kline, hear some of his Zippo Songs, art songs for rock band, with texts lifted from inscriptions by American GIs in Vietnam on army-issue Zippo lighters.

PROGRAM #2324 Airs of War and Lunacy (Wed. 9-22-04)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Philip Glass

The Fog of War

The War To End All Wars [1:30]

Orange Mountain Music #00100** www.orangemountainmusic.com*

Phil Kline

Zippo Songs

Been To Hell [2:30]
Ours Is Not [4:30]
If I Had A Farm [2:30]
3 Rumsfeld Songs : That Many Vases [1:30]

Canteloupe #21019** www.canteloupemusic.com*

Philip Glass

The Fog of War

Why Are We Here? [2:30]
Unilateralism [2:30]

See above.

Ryuichi Sakamoto (w/David Sylvian)

Chasm

World Citizen [5:30]

Warner Music Japan #10072 www.sitesakamoto.com *

David Byrne

Grown Backwards

Empire [4:00]

Nonesuch #79826** www.nonesuch.com

Carla Bley Big Band

Looking for America

Step Mother [3:30]

ECM/Watt #31**

Charlie Haden

Ballad for the Fallen

Els Segadors [4:00]

ECM #1248** www.ecmrecords.com *

Ryuichi Sakamoto (w/David Sylvian)

Chasm

World Citizen – recycled [5:00]

See above.

Various artists: Robb Johnson

Peace Not War, Vol 2

The Day The World Said Stop The War [4:30]

Peace Not War Music Project** www.peace-not-war.org

Philip Glass

The Fog of War

The Fog of War [3:30]

See above.

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