Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun (2006)

Red Sparowes is a Los Angeles post-rock band comprising current and former members of Isis, Halifax Pier, Angel Hair and Pleasure Forever. Josh Graham of Neurosis, although a founding member, has recently left the band. Their sound is characteristic of soundscape-influenced experimental rock, with an otherwise uncommon extensive use of a pedal steel guitar.

Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun is the second studio album by post-rock band Red Sparowes.

Despite having no lyrics, the album is said to follow the story of the Great Leap Forward in Mao Zedong-era China, more specifically recounting the Great sparrow campaign, a mass killing of sparrows (along with rats, flies and mosquitos) that fed on a portion of the harvest and were seen as pests. Peasants were encouraged to bang pots and pans to scare sparrows into continuing flight, eventually killing them from exhaustion. Whilst the harvest of the year after the campaign was larger, there was a massive rise in locust numbers in the late 1950s, as a result of the significantly lower population of sparrows, a major predator of the locust.

este disco es hipnotico la verdad, te pone a trabajar la cabeza como no tienen una idea, es muy dificil de digerir, al igual que muchas bandas, pero al final diras.. lo pondre de nuevo.. no pasa desapercibido!


1. Red Sparowes - The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like A Mighty Storm Suddenly And Furiously Blinding Our Senses (8:10)

2. Red Sparowes - 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 (10:01)

3. Red Sparowes - 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 (11:24)

4. Red Sparowes - A Message Of Avarice Rained Down And Carried Us Away To False Dreams Of Endless Riches (7:56)

5. Red Sparowes - Annihilate The Sparrow, That Stealer Of Seed, And Our Harvests Will Abound; We Will Watch Our Wealth Flood In (8:07)

6. Red Sparowes - 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 Kill (1:45)

7. Red Sparowes - Millions Starved And Became Skinnier And Skinnier While Our Leaders Became Fatter And Fatter (10:41)

8. Red Sparowes - Finally As That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us Did We Know That True Enemy Was The Voice Of Blind Idolatry; And Only Then Did We Begin To Think For Ourselves (45:28)

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