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The Red Microphone - The Proof is Overwhelming

from FREEFORM by various artists

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BTW--this is free improvisation against spoken word---I recited a statement by John Howard Lawson he wrote as part of his defense against the House UnAmerican Activities Cmte.

It is part of our CD 'The Red Microphone Speaks!' (Dissident Arts, 2013). The music is a free improvisation based around prose I am reading; the prose is by John Howard Lawson, something he prepared to read at his House UnAmerican Activities Committee hearing in 1948, but was stopped by the exasperated neo-fascists who comprised the Committee before he could complete it. Lawson was a celebrated screen writer and playwright, the first president of the Writers Guild. He was also a leader of the Hollywood cultural branch of the Communist Party USA, a tireless fighter for workers' rights, racial equality, peace and a more just society.

For this track please credit the band as follows:

John Pietaro: vibraphone, percussion, frame drum, spoken word
Ras Moshe: soprano saxophone (left channel), bells
Rocco John Iacovone: soprano saxophone (right channel), ocarina, rasp
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic: bass

And please be sure to include www.DissidentArts.com

Photograspher is Joan Sommermeyer.

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from FREEFORM, released March 25, 2014

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