… keep on and on 'til the break of dawn …

They have recently released a 10" single, Alyo/Flipside, on the ever interesting Honest Jon's Records and a new album is due to be released shortly, (June 1st), also on Honest Jon's.

What's in a name? Think Cheltenham Road, Bristol, circa 1984. I'll say no more.

This album has been produced using only FOSS.

Henry Snowstorm gets the party started

therefore consider seriously what you ought to doe in this cause, now is the time to break the neck of tyranny, which if you do not, be sure that Tyranny will breake your neckes one day, because you had him in your power, and did not break his neck. I would not have you kill Tyrants, for then you might kill your selves, but first destroy tyranny in your selves, and then in others: first doe such things your selves, as you would have others to doe, for he that bids me do, and doth the good he bids, he leads me to the substantive, and leaves me not in quid.

Tyranipocrit Discovered, 1649

To quote the wikipedia entry:
The Menahan Street Band is a collaboration of musicians from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, El Michels Affair, Antibalas and the Budos Band, brought together by musician/producer Thomas Brenneck to record hits in the bedroom of his Menahan St. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of their other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield and Mulatu Astatke, the Menahan Street Band creates a unique new instrumental soul sound that is as raw as it is lush.

Make The Road By Walking takes it name from an organization named "Make the Road By Walking" which is located around the corner from Menahan Street (on Grove Street) which "catalyzes change for low-income New Yorkers by working in five Impact Areas: Expanding Civil Rights and Civic Engagement; Promoting Health for all New Yorkers; Improving Housing and Fostering Environmental Justice; Winning Justice in the Workplace; Promoting Access, Excellence and Opportunity in Education." It sounds like every community could do with an organisation such as this.

The "Make the Road By Walking" organisation, in turn, takes its name from the poem Proverbios y cantares XXIX by Antonio Machado (1875-1939):

Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.

Searcher, there is no road.
We make the road by walking.

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In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below.

From the author's preface:
In an essay on Spenser, Louis Adrian Montrose analyses some subversive statements that an Essex laborer named John Feltwell made about Queen Elizabeth, then comments, "The Rantings of a rural malcontent would perhaps be unworthy of such attention if they did not serve to make a point of larger significance about the relations of power in Elizabethan society." No doubt. But perhaps it's also true that modern theories of power in early modern society aren't worth much attention if they don't make a point of larger significance about ranting rural and urban and vagabond malcontents. Pretty often, these malcontents already have a theory of social power that we may have mistaken for mere ranting. After all, critical reflection wasn't invented last week by academic theorists. And sometimes, if we listen hard, they seem to be throwing their voices—ranting at us from a future that's better than theirs, better than ours, too.

In this book I talk about some seventeenth-century malcontents, what upset them, what they said about it, and what they did about it. I argue that the radical praxis of working people played a crucial role in the English Revolution, the first capitalist and anti-capitalist revolution, and that it can help us better understand that struggle and the struggles of our own time.
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Contents

PREFACE: Apology, Summary, and Thanks

PART ONE: HIERARCHY AND ASSOCIATION

1 Cornet Joyce's Commission

2 Historical Revisionism and the Perils of Chronism

Introduction

Con: A Prioris, Opposition, and Whiggery

Pro: Multiple Kingdoms, Religion, and Personalities

Revisionism as New Conservatism

3 Foucault, the New Historicism, and the Base Curiosity of the Plebs

Damiens's Remonstrance

Genealogy and Power

Structure and Subject

Change, Containment, and Subversion

Post-revisionism and Its Prospects

4 Class Struggle and the English Revolution

The Usual Suspects

Base, Superstructure, and the Hierarchies of Determination

Status and Class

Class Consciousness and the Public Sphere

Original Theft and the Transition

Small Producers and the English Revolution

Early Modern Studies and the British Marxist Historians

PART TWO: RADICAL PROJECTS

5 The Deference of John Felton

Introduction

Good Clients Gone Bad: Patronage and Tyrannicide

Buck, King of Game

"God Bless Thee, Little David!"

Felton at Colunus

Noble Felton Resolutions

6 New Model Soviets: The Agitators and the Martial Praxis

Armed Prophets

Something New: The Emergence of the Agitators

"No Courtesy!": Consensus vs Conflict at Putney

Possessive Individualism and the Expense of Blood

Contingency and Martial Law at Corkbush Field

7 The Public Spiritedness of Anna Trapnel

Handmaids Discovered and Revealed

Fifth Monarchy Woman

God's Handmaiden vs the Little Horn: The Prophecy at Whitehall

A Gazing Stock: Cornhell and Bridewell

Britomart II

8 Forlorn Hope: Edward Sexby and the Republic

Centrifugal Charisma

Strange Engines: Serial Conspiracy

Sardonic Ethics in Killing Noe Murder

Aftermath: Tyrannicide as Critique

9 The Diggers' Hortus Inconclusus

Rational Hunger

Paternalists, Improvers, and Fellow Creatures

Natural Law in Locus Parentis

Green Millenialism

Georgic Prophets and Pastoral Prophets

Common Futures: The Diggers and the Forest People

INDEX

Henry Snowstorm

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This record just arrived in the post, so I slapped it on the turntable and immediately the clouds parted and the sun began to shine, a feeling began to develop inside and a smile appeared on my face. Music rarely gets as good as this!

Here are the cover notes…

THE SONGS ON THIS RECORD ARE A PAIR OF FIGHT SONGS

"War" is pure battle sound from beginning to end; it draws your blood and attunes you to the conflict you face. Any master fighter can tell you the realest war is not the one flashing on your television or the one sparking in these streets; it's the one waged within. We dedicate this song to all our gutter people in the world that they be spiritually uplifted and psychologically prepared for the struggles that surround them.

The tones in "Mercury" are based on an ancient Chinese weather tactic whereby an emperor, having assembled his troops for battle, would call on a priest or shaman to send rainstorms over a rival's army. But while that idea illustrates the scope of military theater, the song's solos represent the ritual of warfare from the perspective of a faceless soldier thousands of years ago; the preparation for battle, the drama of the battle itself and finally, the joy and elation a man feels when he's won the battle and rejoins his family in the village.

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File it under beats, under hip-hop, under jazz, under funk, under leftfield, file it under whatever you want – it's an entirely instrumental, 27-track album.

… conflict is part of existence and nothing is gained without struggle …