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How lucky we are to know GREAT COMPANY!
Above, I'm a happy fella with Madame Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul in Little Haiti, Miami, January of 2023. after Maryse and I brought computers and JAMBARS for students in Haiti. Photo by Maryse.
Mme. Franck Paul, Maryse's aunt, now 87, is founder and Principal of College Canapé-Vert in Port-au-Prince. Click to visit our Partners in education at stickingupforchildren.com. Again, many are those who do good ... without an iota of A.I.!
Leftward, lights are strung about a Live Oak in New Orleans City Park by a Park volunteer, Christmas-time of 2022. We make these freely adorned lights Symbol for the TRACK-A-DAY feature that's staring on July 30. 2023. Over 100 songs and poems for music have come to me since 1988. What better can I do than give back from the brilliance that partner musicians have delivered?
First track offered on the Sticking Up For Children (SUFC, don't-cha-know?) Jukebox is "Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way)" from Roger Lewis' album ALRIGHT!. We start with three excerpts from Roger, Herlin Riley and Kirk Joseph of the Rivers Answer Moons band and then. come Wednesday July 2, "Bobee ..." with Herlin and me on vocals.
Happy as we may be to enjoy great families and friends, wherever we live, we know by now, July of 2023, that we, the working-class and middle-class people of the world, are under Global
Attack. Those Corporations that lack conscience (the 100 Strategic Partners of the World Economic Forum for prime examples) have embarked from 9/11/01 into " 'COVID-19' " forward
on programs to use Big Lies and 21st-century technologies (technologies that are our classes' inventions) to reduce our freedoms more into mass enslavement or mass 'Sudden Death Syndrome'. Our genius, however, rebels and re-arises with irresistible compassion and creativity. My pieces in the Flipping the Script blog over on the WeAreRevolutions website and pieces on the Stands the Human Being blog and Substack are offerings that combine with many, many--millions unto billions--who REALLY 'Improve' humanity through their insights and resistance.
ALBUMS. Three from I/R Records are among the top 25 Jazz albums charted by Roots Music
ReportS for the year 2022. Listen on Bandcamp and Download in full fidelity there.
The World Economic Forum and its 100 Strategic
Partners among especially exploitative Corporations of the Neo-Colonial world are waging a War Against Humanity that has accelerated over the past four years under covers of " 'COVID' " and " 'Climate Change' ". Call it the WEF WAH for short.
The series of WEF Files profiles, offered here through my Stands the Human Being blog and Substack presents leading Agenda Contributors to the WEF as extremely driven and energetic individuals ... who have become pathological imbeciles in their services to the WEF's global Techno-Fascism, the WEF's 21st-century 'New World Order' of enslavement by Banks of the Northern Hemisphere.
Among the profiled are J. Michael Evans of Ali Baba (and once of Goldman Sachs), Helen Hai of Binance and the United Nations, and more obvious subjects such as Bill Gates, Chrystia Freeland, and Justin Trudeau.
"Prosecute 'Em!", cataloging crimes against masses of
humans during our " 'COVID-19' " era, is part of my
'Stands the Human Being' blog and Substack.
You are one / Light among / Many Lights, / Ever-changing, / Invaluable, / And meant to shine / Ev'ry moment of our lives.
"Ev'ry Body"
"Ev'ry Body" is another collaboration with Dhyani Dharma. Dhyani's background in the Gabon--where he lived with his wife
after moving from Mediterranean France--brought the Highlife
opening. The song then goes to Rap Funk rhythms circa 1990.
It owes a lot, as so many Suspect Many tracks owe, to George Cremaschi's lines on his fretless bass. James Henry and Kenny Blackman I remember, too, in San Francisco's then Olde West
studio, Peter Eckart engineer, south of Market on Howard Street.
James in his Cubs baseball cap returned again and again to overdub percussion. Richard Howell's tenor, Mike Rose's trumpet, and Steve Fundy's guitar you may hear in my backward-mixing of them in the most jamming of this song's parts. What a great band, each of the Suspect Many groupings!--as David Farrell remarked in our remastering of tracks 1 and 13 of this 'Meld', New Orleans, 30 years after the recording in San Francisco.
"Ev'ry Body" was of course a response to the Parents Music Resource Center and other councils' efforts to decide from 'on high' what people should know and do as regards their bodies.
"Ev'ry Body", "Love Is The Main Flame", and "When That Evening Sun Goes Down" were the first tracks on which I got the
inestimable help of Joi Joi. These three women singers, led by
Louise Robinson, co-founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, brought
so much sensitivity, artistry and fun to whatever they touched.
Michelle Jacques and Darlene Spears completed Joi Joi.
Dhyani Dharma beside the Mediterranean.
George Cremaschi is now a principal in the
Prague Improvisation Orchestra.
Michelle Jacques, Louise Robinson, and Darlene Spears--Joi Joi--as we recorded tracks
for Love Is The Main Flame.at Olde West in San Francisco. Feel the sensitivity, artistry, fun and light. Photo perhaps by the fine oud-player Claude Palmer.
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