Written by Florence Reece in 1931 to support a miner's strike, this song has been recorded by everyone from Pete Seeger to Ani Difranco. This arrangement is from the Rude Mechanical Orchestra.
Cette chanson parle de la Makhnovchtchina, ou armée révolutionnaire insurrectionnelle ukrainienne, qui au temps de la révolution russe a lutté sous la direction de l'anarchiste Nestor Makhno contre l'armé blanc du tsar et l'armé rouge de Lenin. Cette version vient de Tint(a)nar, nos camarades de Québec.
Oh, we do a little dance in the streets you know, it's the Smash-a-Bank polka! Where we air-mail a brick right to their offices, it's the Smash-a-Bank polka! Oh we sing and we shout and we all get our bailout while doing the Smash-a-Bank polka; a dance for everyone, smashing banks is so much fun we all get our bailouts today!
This is a traditional Palestinian song which talks about returning to the city of Ramallah. We play it in solidarity with the Palestinian people and particularly the Palestinian diaspora in our community.
Cette chanson, qui parle de retourner à la ville de Ramallah, est d'origin palestinien. On le joue en solidarité avec le peuple palestinien, especialement la diaspora palestiniene dans notre communauté.
Banda Roncati is happy if you want to play the Pinguina Innamorata song!
I’ll try to explain it a bit. It was born on a workshop Banda Roncati did in the community center for autistic and other mental issues “Le Cartole”. The song was registered and it appears among others song from “Le Cartole” in the cd La Pinguina Innamorata.
The lyrics are non-sense, they are mostly sentences or words that the youth at the center used to repeat, and they where improvised from Tommaso, an autistic guy passionate with music who stayed in the center at that time.
El Barzón is a banda song from Mexico written in 1936 by Luis Pérez Meza. The lyrics talk about a poor farmer who is being exploited by the landowner and wants to take action.
Amara Terra Mia is a song about the immigrant experience, and being forced to leave one's homeland. These are the lyrics as sung by Domenico Modugno. The recording is by Titubanda from Rome, Italy. Watch them playing it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLBrt601K1o
Sole alla valle e sole alla collina Nelle campagne non c’è più nessuno Addio addio amore, Io vado via Amara terra mia, amara e bella
