a bitter but beautiful struggle, by Speaker Music

a bitter but beautiful struggle

by Speaker Music

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noinoeso A more visceral and emotional companion to the incredible "Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry". I hope we can keep finding true solidarity amongst this bleak history. Favorite track: the tragedy of Black citizenship.

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pro-duplicated to cassette with imprinted graphics, housed in full color J-Card and Norelco case

Cassette shell design: Geng
JCard design: Ting Ding
Painting: Luz Angélica Fernández

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**Includes PDFs of essays by DeForrest Brown, Jr. ('How the Dance Music Industry Failed Black Artists – Mixmag – October 21st 2020') and Martin Luther King, Jr. ('The World House')

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Cassette shell design: Geng
JCard design: Ting Ding
Painting: Luz Angélica Fernández

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**Includes PDFs of essays by DeForrest Brown, Jr. ('How the Dance Music Industry Failed Black Artists – Mixmag – October 21st 2020') and Martin Luther King, Jr. ('The World House')

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	1.	World House––MLK Jr's Diplomatic Strategy for the Global Village 05:24
	2.	Black Compositional Thought––Torkwase Dyson's Evolving Theory of Environmental Liberation 06:56
	3.	Our Unfinished Sonic Revolution––Amiri Baraka's Afro-American Lyric 02:56
	4.	the tragedy of Black citizenship 20:01

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Rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown, Jr. (aka Speaker Music) presents the soundtrack "a bitter but beautiful struggle," an A/V film with cinematography and editing by his partner Ting Ding 丁汀 (HECHA / 做). Originally premiered at Somerset House in London, "a bitter but beautiful struggle" was filmed using a combination of web cameras, open source broadcasting software, and cinematic editing to create an extended multi-textural music video that corresponds with Brown, Jr's music, drawing upon the themes of in his 2020 album Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, created in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the four hundred year long history of African American music, community development and liberation movements. The film was also screened throughout 2021 at SónarCCCB, Rewire Festival, and Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneve.

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released November 6, 2020

Recorded and produced by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
Cover Design by Ting Ding
Painting by Luz Angélica Fernández

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