It Is Right to Rebel is an exciting and thought provoking new record from Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore and friends. The double LP consisting of 15 tracks are mostly rooted in the folk music tradition with the unifying elements of rhythm, group singing and acoustic music. Lyrically it deals with topics such as the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, political prisoners and environmental issues.
The central theme of the record is awareness. It Is Right to Rebel is a battle cry, a wake up call, an invitation to join the struggles of our time, a celebration of rebellion and social movements and a musical thumbs up to all the people that realize that big changes have to be made.
The double album comes in a gatefold sleeve with cover art made by graphic designer and author of The Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Josh McPhee, from the Just Seeds collective.
It Is Right to Rebel is a true product of internationalism. It is recorded in Switzerland by an American and a gang of Swiss musicians, the cover art is made by an American activist from Brooklyn and the record is released by a Norwegian leftist record label.
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I once read a book called, Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come, which connects the ancient with tomorrow by way of the apocalypse. For thousands of years, cosmos and chaos were held in timeless equilibrium by the State and its Priesthood. Change was not desirable or even conceivable until about 3500 years ago Zoroaster introduced the idea that "the world was not static, nor would it always be troubled." "The time would come when, in prodigious final battle, the supreme god and his supernatural allies would defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them once and for all."
– Norman Cohn, Cosmos, Chaos and the World To Come, Yale University Press, 1993 pg. 227
This is similar to the idea of Ernst Bloch who in the Principle of Hope writes of the millennium or the world to come as the spirit of utopia, alive in the hearts of the oppressed. Not for "pie in the sky when you die" but for paradise on earth.
The "Internationale," a song written in the great days of the Paris Commune, expresses the same vision: "'tis the final conflict, let each stand in their place, the Internationale shall be the human race."
– Mat Callahan
lyrics
Different Worlds
There are
Different worlds we live in
There are
Different worlds to come
There are
Different worlds colliding
And a
Different world's my home
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