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01. The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like a Mighty Storm Suddenly and Furiously Sweeping Everything Away.
02. We Stood Transfixed in Blank Devotion as Our Leader Spoke to Us, Looking Down Upon Our Mute Faces With a Great, Raging, and Unseeing Eye.
03. Like the Howling Glory of the Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunder and the Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts and Clutching Our Innocent Awe.
04. A Message of Avarice Rained Down Upon Us and Carried Us Away Into False Dreams of Endless Riches.
05. "Annihilate the Sparrow, That Stealer of Seed, and Our Harvests Will Abound; We Will Watch Our Wealth Flood In."
06. And by Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent in Their Puddles, the Air Barren of Song as the Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, the Locusts Noisily Thanked Us and Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole.
07. Millions Starved, and as We Became Skinnier and Skinnier, Our Leaders Became Fatter and Fatter.
08. As That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us, We Knew That True Enemy Was the Voice of Blind Idolatry; and Only Then Did We Begin to Think for Ourselves. Código: FUCK YEAH NEW RED SPAROWES. Remember who rules you.
PS. the track names are super fucking long, so i'll paste the full track names
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Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun is an album by Red Sparowes to be released September 2006. The album follows the story of the Great Leap Forward, more specifically recounting the Great sparrow campaign - mass killing of sparrows (along with rats, flies and mosquitos), that were seen as pests, and fed on a portion of the harvest. Peasants were encouraged to bang pots and pans to scare sparrows into continuing flight, and eventually dying from exhaustion. Whilst the harvest of the year after the campaign was larger, there was a massive rise in locust numbers in the late 50s, as a result of the significantly lower population of sparrows, a major predator of the locust. This caused a widespread famine where, between 1959 and 1961, 30 million people died of starvation.
Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun is an album by Red Sparowes to be released September 2006. The album follows the story of the Great Leap Forward, more specifically recounting the Great sparrow campaign - mass killing of sparrows (along with rats, flies and mosquitos), that were seen as pests, and fed on a portion of the harvest. Peasants were encouraged to bang pots and pans to scare sparrows into continuing flight, and eventually dying from exhaustion. Whilst the harvest of the year after the campaign was larger, there was a massive rise in locust numbers in the late 50s, as a result of the significantly lower population of sparrows, a major predator of the locust. This caused a widespread famine where, between 1959 and 1961, 30 million people died of starvation.
Los Angeles based post-metal act Red Sparowes are comprised of Clifford Meyer and Jeff Caxide of prog-metal darlings ISIS, Josh Graham, Greg Burns and Dave Clifford, however they are far more than a mere side-project. Now on their second album they have accentuated the epic and decided to edge towards the most terrible of things, the concept album. ‘Every Red Heart…’ is based around the story of ‘the great leap forward’ in Maoist China, or specifically the time when there was a mass culling of Sparrows who were seen as pests and dealt with accordingly. Of course this was a hugely misjudged attempt and eventually led to widespread famine since the locust population went up. Each track on the album is a long passage detailing some aspect of the great leap forward, and so you could read the titles together like a story – not the best way to bat away the usual post rock criticisms. I admire the band’s pomposity though, don’t shy away from this kind of overblown excess – in the end this is what music is all about, and the story serves to give weight to the album’s instrumental epics. It would probably irritate me if the music wasn’t good, but Red Sparowes have come up with one of the finest post-rock albums of the year, and it’s eardrum-worryingly heavy to boot. Probably best compared with Hydrahead’s Pelican, who turned in a mind-numbingly essential album last year (‘The Fire in our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw’) this is post-rock music with an extra element of distortion, an extra nod to the metal bands of time passed. It could almost be metal, but just as ISIS have done in their short but acclaimed career, Red Sparowes inject just too much grandeur and too much emotion into their almost orchestral sound to be simply labelled as such. Even the term post-rock does the band little justice, although there are parallels to be drawn with Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky, Red Sparowes have a sound that puts them out on their own and just as Grails had our jaws on the floor with ‘Black Tar Prophecies’, now it’s Red Sparowes turn to throw our expectations out of the window. Majestic, cinematic and heavy – Red Sparowes have turned in a matchless collection of instrumental rock music, as challenging and diverse as it is listenable and well orchestrated. Just remember, this needs to be played very loud to be enjoyed to it’s fullest – so you might want to wait until the neighbours have left for work.
A band like Red Sparowes can be infuriating for a reviewer. A band that have so many elements worth writing theses on, yet none that can be summed up in a catchy phrase or even a short paragraph. It's no coincidence that the track titles of Red Sparowes' second full-length, Every Red Heart Shines Towards The Red Sun, consist of one hundred and ninety eight words; everything about Red Sparowes is almost-ridiculously overblown. Almost.
Indeed it would be easy to ridicule Red Sparowes, to dismiss them as nothing more than prententious post-rock copyists, and on the first listen it is very tempting. Then a second spin drags you in further, and you begin to notice the subtlety amongst the cloisters of noise in ‘Like The Howling Glory Of The Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous And The Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts And Clutching Our Innocent Awe’.
A third listen leaves you haunted by the calm after the storm in 'Annihilate The Sparrow, That Stealer Or Seed, And Our Harvests Will Abound; We Will Watch Our Wealth Flood In' and the wounded piano swells that introduce ‘Millions Starved And We Became Skinnier And Skinnier, While Our Leaders Became Fatter And Fatter.’; by the fourth listen, the jawbreaking powerchords of ’We Stood Transfixed In Blank Devotion As Our Leader Spoke To Us, Looking Down On Our Mute Faces With A Great, Raging, And Unseeing Eye’ will leave you grinning like a Cheshire Cat thrown into dementia by the thought of an eleven-dimensional universe.
Red Sparowes' slow-burning recipe of quiet-through-loud is anything but original, but the way the ingriedients blend is totally unique and gradually bewildering. It's obvious that some ideas - the burning walls of guitars and the insistence of clear melody even in chaos - have been taken from the band member's other projects (including Isis, Neurosis and Halifax Pier), but everyone brings something fresh to the table, and it is this that sets Red Sparowes so high above the rest of the post-rock crowd. This is claustrophobic, driving instrumental music that will appeal as much to fans of Henryk Gorecki, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Ennio Morricone as it will fans of those parenthesis-ed parent bands.
It is almost impossible to carve a niche in a genre as restrictive as post-rock, but with their Heaven-sent melodies and their plunging riffs of brimstone, Red Sparowes have drilled a planet-sized chasm. Pretentious as it might be, Every Red Heart… is a work of (knowlingly) epic proportions, looking boldly past any restrictions or expectations into a star-filled midnight sky. It's thrilling stuff, but in the end, if the truth be told, words really fail to describe it.
There are of course two sides to every story; And one needs to look no further than two separate reviews of the most recent biography on Mao in order grasp the incredible subjectivity of historical perspective. As the New York Times so often does, there were twin reviews of the aforementioned book, one by perennial softy Nicholas Kristof, and the other by the wicked witch of book reviews, Michilko Kakutani. Predictably, Kristof gave the volume the highest acclaim because it spared no expense in damning the despot and his brutal practices. Equally as predictably, but with substantially more critical insight, Kakutani panned Mao for its lack of threadbare facts and narrative context. It is this split between those who bought into the People's revolution while they were in college and those who no nothing of China and it's history, preferring armchair criticism from their ivory tower of hindsight, that peppers the enigma that today is China.
Now, you ask yourself 'what the hell does a biography on Mao have to do with the new Red Sparowes disc'? The answer is simultaneously everything and nothing. You see, The Red Sparowes are apparently a running discourse on Mao's reign over China... apparently. As they will so readily point out, everything right down to the band's namesake is intertwined with post-war Chinese history. 'Red Sparowes' is of course a reference to everybody's favorite wikipedia tidbit: during Mao's dictatorship he asked that all citizens coax the omnipresent bird into prolonged flight so that its feeble little heart would eventually give out, ridding the vermin of the countryside so that crops could prosper. Millions of the bird were killed, but of course, the plan backfired, wrecking the symbiosis of natural order so that a flood of locusts in Moses-sized proportions could ravage the crops. This, allegedly, became a disastrous tipping point, leading to one of the greatest famines in modern history.
Ok, now you’re asking yourself what LA-based post rock circa 2006 has to do with the Chinese communist revolution. The answer is that this is where the 'nothing' comes in. One could suppose that Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun can be seen as a sort of music for the silent film that is the western perspective on Maoist China. This disc does indeed display the typical narrative overtures of the oeuvre, right down to the overly longish and meandering guitar meditations, which have always been (unfortunately) equated with film score music.
But if Every Red Heart is a soundtrack for a make-believe film, it is most certainly a film penned by the naïve hand of a Kristof. In line with the corny nature of the concept, even the album title is a reference to Maoist rhetoric, as are all of the preposterously long song titles, which leads one to become a bit suspicious of The Red Sparowes' motive in producing such a work.
One could venture a guess that this is then more of a homage to the bizarre beauty found in violence than it is the critique of oppression that it states it is. Beauty is born out of odd juxtaposition, like that of a mighty nation having to preposterously kill sparrows in order to survive, only discover that the little bird’s absence will usher in their ultimate doom. But there is little of that sort of tragic beauty to be found in Every Red Heart.
All in all, The Red Sparowes' paper thin understanding of Chinese history serves as nothing more than an insulting gimmick for an otherwise banal collection of overwrought post-rock. For all of its darkness, musically, there is little in terms of the sort of innovation that is echoed from the band's vague historical thesis. There is not a single moment on this offering that evokes an image as powerful as that of a sea of tiny red birds suddenly falling from the sky. Red Sparowes thus instead becomes not a stirring image, but the sound of the same old rhetoric broadcasted to the masses over and over again.
Red Sparowes is made up of several multi-talented musicians with many familiar associations outside of the band. What are they? Now, via a promotional film that deconstructs the concepts behind its latest opus Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun, we not only get to better understand the rich complexity of its music, we get to hear directly from its members.
The Red Sparowes decided that being a good post-rock band wasn't enough for them. So despite garnering accolades out the ying yang for their debut, At The Soundless Dawn, which was a much more ambient, melodic affair, laurels would not be rested on. So in the tradition of one uppance, the guys have decided to rival peers and brothers ISIS and Pelican and darned if they haven't given the vets all they can handle. Their new 62 minute opus, Every Red Heart Shines Toward A Red Sun, tackles a much more heavy vibe while piling on layers of melodic progression. So give it a spin and you will definitely be reeling from the swirls of texture and the thick doom lingering overhead.
 Banda en la linea de: Neurosis, ISIS, Pelican, Jesu, Mono, Don Caballero, Tortoise, Explosions In The Sky, Russian Circles, Mogwai, Don't Mess With Texas, God Is An Astronaut, Cave In, Mare, Grails, Cult Of Luna, Botch, Old Man Gloom, Sunn 0)), A Silver Mt. Zion, 65 Days Of Static, Do Make Say Think, Envy, etc..
para quienes aun no lo vieron aca les va el regalo de santa claus.. promo film  Red Sparowes
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