The second Peace Not War album redefines protest music for the twenty-first century: non-stop funky beats on one disc and fat guitars on the other, with deep and inspiring lyrics throughout.
Tracks : CD1 - 19 / CD2 - 18 : Track Listing
Playing Time : CD1 - 76:47 / CD2 - 75:09
Album ID : PNW2CD
Executive Producers : Mudge & Kelly
Mastered By : Duncan Cowell
Distributed By : Shellshock / Mordam
Release Date : 4th October 2004
£9.99
THE PAST THREE YEARS HAVE PROVOKED THE MOST PROLIFIC PERIOD OF PROTEST MUSIC IN HISTORY, widely heard thanks to computer and Internet technology - first designed by the American military and now crucial tools used by activists to organise globally. The hundreds of anti-war song submissions for this new compilation demonstrate the power of "bedroom studio" technology. Some of the low-budget recordings blew away the producers and were selected for the compilation ahead of "signed" musicians.
THE DOUBLE ALBUM WAS PRODUCED IN LONDON BY A FEW MUSICIANS AND ACTIVISTS with a small but international network of volunteers. The lyrics are radically critical of the Bush-Blair-Howard war machine, but consistently insist on peaceful forms of resistance. THE CD COVER IS PURPLE AND GREEN - THE COLOURS OF THE GREENHAM COMMON WOMEN'S PEACE CAMP – TO SYMBOLISE NONVIOLENCE. "We need to get creative in our resistance and perhaps do nonviolent direct action. If the 2 million protesters in Hyde Park on February 15th 2003 had gone to US bases instead – sitting on the runways at Fairford or damaging radars at Menwith Hill - we could have perhaps stopped the war. The UK, more than any other country, has the power to create peace."
Paris
05 : What
Would You Do?
Rawdog, Taskforce
& Braintax
06 : Arrest the President
Freeland
10 : We Want
Your Soul
Son Of Nun
15 : Fight Back
The Unpeople
18 : Later
Will Be Greater
Brad
Postlethwaite
03 : Welcome
to the Occupation
Karma Sutra
09 : In The Run
To The Tap
Ghetto Priest
12 : Masters
of Deception
