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Lest We Forget explores the grief, shock, tension and momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The collection of emotive compositions is accentuated by field recordings, news broadcasts and public video clippings. It traces the summer from the spread of the original video documentation of the murder, through protest actions around "#Blackouttuesday" and Juneteenth, to the shift in collective attention towards the widespread wildfires across the West Coast. Lest We Forget stands as a visceral document of the moment, intended to serve as a reminder of the intensity of the collective experience, and a motivator to continue working for change.
The cover artwork, by longtime collaborator Austin Redwood, mirrors the quest for structural change by quickly applying violent techniques to printed transparencies created from images from the protests. By fusing, ripping, tearing, poking, applying chemicals, burning and otherwise damaging the transparencies, Redwood achieves ekphrasis regarding the illuminated to reveal the content and historical process of the whole document, along with the composition's incompleteness. By letting the light of "what is coming into being" through, the image becomes a snapshot of a past, a relative present, and a future as yet uncertain, but that is certain to come, just the same.
Proceeds of this album will be donated to Critical Resistance, an Oakland-based organization working to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex.
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released October 29, 2021
created using guitar, bass, electronics, harmonium, clarinet, field recordings, and found sounds.
amar does not claim ownership of any sounds from news broadcasts and other publicly-available videos, nor will be profiting from their use. 100% of proceeds from this album will be donated to critical resistance, an oakland-based organization working to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex.
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