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(Not Kerbaj, but I thought this might be a good thread to post other artists' responses to the war, as well.)
More music against the war in Lebanon: Chenard Walcker & Roy Chicky Arad - Street (Haifa-Beirut 2006)
Chenard is a French samplecore musician, Chicky is an Israeli poet - the poem The Street (English translation) is a street-level view of the destruction, and the commonalities between the dead in both cities, the "infrastructure workers" who are miles and lifetimes removed from the policy-makers (Both the deceased from Haifa and his mate from Beirut / Used to fish with a punctured bottle / They baited bread, the fish jumped around / In the saucepan it felt happy and sound), while the media calls for "sacrifice and tears" from the young soldiers.
The lyrics are spoken in Hebrew, and the music is classic Walcker - chunks of asynchronous guitar and harmonica samples over funky beats and noodley bass. Not as cohesive as some of his earlier work (in terms of being informed by the subject matter), but well listenable. The second piece, The Other Owl is, I think, an older protest-poem about the building of mega-malls (there is, apparently, a strong leftist slant to Chicky's work), and the vocal delivery is less restrained than the reflective tone of Street.
Response in the archive.org forums has been fairly negative, from people who admitted to not having heard the album or read the texts, but who were disgusted to see an Israeli poet ("so called") writing against the war. |
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