“The ecological catastrophe begins rehearsing in the Sixties”, writes Allen Ginsberg in the preface to Timothy Leary’s Jail Notes in 1970 – and for more than half a century, political systems are unwilling to fight that development.
On the occasion of this week’s Global Climate Strike, here are 45 minutes of protest – uttered between 1969 and 2020 by Appleblim, Diane Di Prima, Leslie Winer, Piero Umiliani and others.
Featured cover art: Gary Clail / On-U Sound System – End Of The Century Party
Gary Clail & On-U Soundsystem – Privatise the Air Part 1
music against the neoliberal doctrine of Thatcherism (1989, On-U Sound)
Diane Di Prima – Revolutionary Letter No. 16
mixing utopian anarchism with ecological awareness (1969, Giorno Poetry Systems)
Sue Ann Harkey – The Greenhouse Effect
approaching the greenhouse effect whith fragments from media (1985, Auxilio De Cientos)
Dennis Dragon – 25 Years at the same Spot
observing changes at Malibu Beach, west of L.A. (1982, Freeway Records)
Leslie Winer – 5
addressing power structures (1990, Transglobal)
The Evolution Control Committee – Pollution
polluted air is all around (1996, self released)
Piero Umiliani – Apocalisse Atomica
dystopian miniature from the Italian composer of film scores’ LP Homage to Einstein (1976, Omicron)
Allen Ginsberg – A Tale of the Tribe (from the preface to Timothy Leary’s Jail Notes)
the ecological catastrophe begins rehearsing in the Sixties (1997, Mercury)
Florence – Off Balance
melancholic techno from the Netherlands, addressing the ecological catastrophe’s status quo (1993, New Electronica)
Appleblim – Greenpeace
from a series with music based on Ian Urbina’s book The Outlaw Ocean that chronicles lawlessness at sea around the world (2020, Synesthesia Media)
