Ghost Station Records is pleased to announce the release of
Occupy Ears NYC, a 100% volunteer benefit compilation album, and birthday
present, for the Occupy movement to be released 09/17/12 (the day the first US
occupation began on Wall Street). A benefit record release party and birthday
party for the Occupy Movement will be held at Death By Audio, 49 South 2nd
Street between Wythe & Kent, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY on 09/17/12: https://www.facebook.com/events/459745274059658/
Five of the artists on the album - Morgan O'Kane/Ezekiel Healy, Melanie Moser, DE///LION, and Rude Mechanical Orchestra, will be playing the release party. Occupy Ears and participating New York City recording artists and other participants (sound engineers, visual and graphic artists, attorneys, etc) have created Occupy Ears NYC as a way of promoting and supporting the Occupy movement, while offering an opportunity for music consumers to Occupy both a listening experience and a music purchase.
Contributions range from very much of the Occupy movement - several participating artists were often to be found at the Zuccotti Park Occupation - to Brooklyn bands brought in by Ghost Station Records, to projects formed specifically for the album. At 10 artists, 41 minutes, the album reflects the inclusive platform of the Occupy movement itself.
*Father Of This Disaster* - a thoroughly modern
indie pop rock take on ragtime era protest songs directed at thieving banksters
- by Summer Come Yelling, M. Geldof's (formerly of Jigsaw Soul) new band.
Summer Come Yelling would sooner direct your attention to the folk singers,
blind ragtime guitarists, minstrels and modern day subway performers who have
seasoned the immense musical multiplicity of these and days gone past.
Legendary Brooklyn based banjo master Morgan O'Kane's
version of *Mole In The Ground* is a solo rendition in one man
band mode (kicked suitcase, stomped tambourine, voice and banjo) of the classic
coal miner's song. Mr. O'Kane will be performing at the release party...
*You Were There* by Melanie Moser Band is a
lovely psych/country original on the subject of being given a Mickey Finn but
rescued by friends, penned by a beloved, veteran Williamsburg performer with a
killer band of Brooklyn-based ringers. Ms. Moser will be performing at the
release party...
*Spent Cartridges* by Of Water And is a post
punk meets Midnight Oil meets Ten Wheel Drive exposition on the subject of
military/industrial economics, with sassy brass...
The Glass Half - a collaboration between French producer Matmat and New York singer and instrumentalist Jonah Byrd, delivers a psychedelic sound collage of hip-hop, rock, jazz and Brazilian music in *A Welcome Departure*.
The Glass Half's *A Welcome Departure* -
video: http://youtu.be/uDdWCetk5lU
*Egomaniacs ('cause That's What They Really Are)* by DE///LION is an indie rock ode to the 1% from Israeli activist singer/song writer Ariel De Lion.
DE///LION's *Egomaniacs ('cause That's What They Really
Are)* video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MouIdgtx6c&feature=relmfu
Brooklyn Dobro virtuoso Ezekiel Healy plays with a glass slide on a seventy year old metal guitar. He is influenced by American, Irish, and Indian musics. He and his band perform *The Preacher and the Slave (Pie in the Sky)* Joe Hill's famous parody of the Salvation Army hymn *In the Sweet By-and-By* w/ a sly inside joke.
(pending final clearance arrangements) NYC based gigantic radical marching band collective Rude Mechanical Orchestra have updated Florence Reece's famous civil rights song *Which Side Are You On?* in a blistering rendition:
RMO will be performing at the release party...
*Police State* is Flower Mob's punk rock rant
against injustice.
*Obsolete Power* by Old Solar is a beautifully produced and brooding epic art rock incantation/exhortation...
Mastering for the album was donated by Chicago mastering
luminary Carl Saff: http://saffmastering.com/
Album cover art donated by the wood block artist Eric
Hagstrom, of Madson WI
Graphic design consultation: Kyle Evans
Soft release of the album, with the (again hopefully
temporary) exception of Rude Mechanical Orchestra's *Which Side Are You
On*: http://ghoststationrecords.bandcamp.com/album/occupy-ears-nyc
All proceeds after out of pocket expenses will be donated
via one of several 501C3 orgs who are providing non-profit status to various
arms of the Occupy movement, to be distributed only to specific, verifiable orgs.
Accounting will be completely transparent.
Occupy Ears is an imprint of Ghost Station Records, a new record label formed by Brooklyn based sound engineer, music producer, and recording studio owner Chris D. Butler and Manhattan attorney Peter L. Herb, for the purpose of releasing the Occupy Ears NYC benefit album, as well as future benefit albums for the Occupy movement.
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