AUTHOR: TRAX 0983

TITLE: ANTHEMS

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TRAX 0983
ANTHEMS

After over a quarter of a century, some materials produced as part of the modular project TRAX, promoted from 1981 to 1987 by Piermario Ciani, Vittore Baroni and Massimo Giacon, are now made available as free downloads in RMEDL Web Editions. For each work a limited Collector’s Edition on cd, with more multimedial materials, will be also produced. The first release in this new series of reprints - following the double cd Notterossa / Rednight appeared in 2007 on Small Voices - is the concept album Anthems originally appeared in september 1983, with 21 new, ironical and provocative versions of national anthems from real and imaginary countries, created by musicians from various nations. The concept was issued in two different editions, as a vinyl LP (in 1000 copies) and as a cassette with booklet (500 copies). This reprint contains all the anthems included in the two TRAX products, plus a double unpublished anthem dedicated to All Frontiers, created for the occasion by Gianluca Becuzzi, who also skillfully remastered all the tracks from their original supports. I hope that these compositions so diverse in style and conception, a testimony of a particularly lively and creative period in the international underground scene, may still instruct and entertain: you have a chance here to listen to a young Masami Akita in one of the rare musical works in the huge Merzbow catalogue, as well as to discover gems from the fantastical nations of Naon and Akademgorod. For sure, Laibach enjoyed their participation in the project, since they appropriated the very same idea in 2006 for their Volk album.Heartfelt thanks to all the collaborators old and new: enjoy this planetary networking experience! Vittore Baroni, February 2010. The Winzip file include a Radical Matters package, ready to be print, cut and assemblated. Burn a cd-r with this tracks and make yourself the package.

Content list:

01 - Gianluca Becuzzi [Kinetix] - All Frontiers Anthem [a]
02 - Naif Orchestra - Fratelli d’Italia (Italy)
03 - Deficit Des Annees Anterieures - La Marseillaise (France)
04 - P16. D4 - Aktion: Leer. Korn; Bier (Germany)
05 - Van Kaye & Ignit - Wilhelmus, part 1 & 2 (Netherlands)
06 - Renaldo And The Loaf - Then At Iona Lanthem (United Kingdom)
07 - Bene Gesserit - La Brabançonne (Belgium)
08 - La Otra Cara De Un Jardin - The last minutes of everyday (Spain)
09 - Laibach - Hej Sloveni (Yugoslavia)
10 - Henryk Gajewski - Jeszcze Polska nie zginela (Poland)
11 - No Night Sweats - The Gundalai Coolabah (Australia)
12 - Merzbow - Kimigayo (Japan)
13 - Olho Seco - Botas, fuzis, capacetes [a] (Brazil)
14 - Spirocheta Pergoli - Munrovia Sunrise (Liberia)
15 - 001011011100… Cancer - Hodors Walley (Naon)
16 - Prhemm - UrsSA (USA/USSR)
17 - The Gerlovins & Charlie Morrow - The Russian American Anthem (USSR/USA)
18 - Olho Seco - Castidade [b] (Brazil)
19 - Monty Cantsin - Catastronics (Akademgorod)
20 - Oxomaxoma - Si es que asì se la puede llamar (Mexico)
21 - Culturcide - The Star-Spangled Banner (USA)
22 - The Haters - No Canada (Canada)
23 - Gianluca Becuzzi [Kinetix] - All Frontiers Anthem [b]