the masher sez ABOLISH WORK. end Employment now!

by Jim McHugh

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1.	The Soil for the Seed 02:47	lyrics
You will be the soil for the seed You will prove More useful as fertilizer not hog food As your scarred and hateful hearts start to bleed Out come the survivors to reclaim our streets You will be soil for the seed You will be the corpse that sings The end of white supremacy We alight the ashes in your wind We destroy the statues of your men We reject the racist ire of your laws And we dance with joy and light at the death knell of your cause You will be the soil for the seed You will be the soil for the seed You will see: In the ashes in the fires In the fragments of the spires In the ruined municipal mires In the anguish rising higher In the cries of the tyrants As they enter the death quake: You will see the free and boundless future Which you died to help us make
2.	Abolish Work 03:56
3.	Song for the Gone 03:49

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The second in a series of quarantine-induced home recordings from Jim McHugh, written(practically in real time) in response to some of the most crucial social issues surfacing today. Whereas the first of the series - the two-song 'For Big Floyd' - borrowed from other artists, this collection contains all original compositions.

McHugh's folk and punk leanings are as present as ever, as is a deep reverence for his sonic heroes. Here they range from Albert Ayler to Peter Laughner, from Leadbelly to Sonny Sharrock to his great-grandmother Ada Mitchell, a gifted instrumentalist on guitar, banjo and harmonica, which she taught Jim to play. The day before her death she presented Jim with her harmonica, having had a premonition of her passing - thusly sealing his fate as a musician by age six.

BLACK LIVES MATTER NYC and BLACK LIVES MATTER NASHVILLE will receive all funds generated by the sale of this release. Proceeds from all JM/Centripetal Force collaborations benefit grassroots organizations committed to radical change in the name of equality, liberation and the end of capitalism. This is true whenever the music is sold -- not just when Bandcamp waives its profit share.

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released July 3, 2020

Home recorded in BK, NY.

All instruments and vocals by Jim McHugh except:
-Viola on "Song For The Gone" by Jeanann Dara
-Drums on "Abolish Work" by Brendan Allen, whose unsolicited gift of them via text message inspired the tune by making manifest the collaborative largesse central to the tenet named in its title.

-Photo by Rebecca Bengal, shot during a BLM Solidarity March to Occupy City Hall which was led by an ad-hoc radical Second Line band mobilized by The Blacksmiths, a coalition of organizers committed to using the arts to support direct action in service of Black Liberation & Equity.
@wearetheblacksmiths on IG and @werblacksmiths on Twitter.

Love and Gratitude to all comrades involved directly, intrinsically, and materially.

WE MUST CONTINUE TO RESIST THIS RACIST SYSTEM; IF WE DO NOT OPPOSE THE ANTI-HUMAN SYSTEM OF CAPITALISM, WE WILL NOT SURVIVE

"The Soil for The Seed"

You will be the soil for the seed
You will prove
More useful as fertilizer not hog food

As your scarred and hateful hearts start to bleed
Out come the survivors to reclaim our streets

You will be soil for the seed
You will be the corpse that sings
The end of white supremacy

We alight the ashes in your wind
We destroy the statues of your men
We reject the racist ire of your laws
And we dance with joy and light at the death knell of your cause

You will be the soil for the seed
You will be the soil for the seed
You will see:
In the ashes in the fires
In the fragments of the spires
In the ruined municipal mires
In the anguish rising higher
In the cries of the tyrants
As they enter the death quake:
You will see the free and boundless future
Which you died to help us make

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Jim McHugh Brooklyn, New York

Guitar, electric phin, saz. Alliances include:
Sunwatchers; Eugene Chadbourne;
Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network;
Drunken Foreigner Band;
Jonathan Kane/February; Drunken Foreigner Band; KATIEE & Poor Historian.
THE FUTURE IS OPEN. ... more

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