“The ecological catastrophe begins rehearsing in the Sixties”, writes Allen Ginsberg in the preface to Timothy Leary’s book Jail Notes in 1970 – and for more than half a century, political systems have been unwilling to counteract this development.
To mark Global Climate Strike 2022 on 23 September, we present 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
Playlist
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
Blending 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 Los Angeles. (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 LP Homage to Einstein by the Italian film composer. (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 that grapples with the status quo of ecological catastrophe. (1993, New Electronica)
Appleblim – Greenpeace
From a series with music based on Ian Urbina’s book The Outlaw Ocean, which documents lawlessness on the world’s oceans. (2020, Synesthesia Media)
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