from Oannes *

Το Blues For The White Nigger είναι ένα κόνσεπτ άλμπουμ. Θέμα του η χρησιμοποίηση “σημαινόντων” της μαύρης κουλτούρας, προς χειραγώγηση των λευκών ακροατηρίων, και ο ρόλος της τεχνολογίας σ’ αυτό.
Αν η youth culture λειτούργησε εξ αρχής σαν “πολιτιστική” βιομηχανία παραγωγής ηρωοοποιημένων, αυτοθαυμαζόμενων και αυτοπεριθωριοποιημένων losers, η διαδικασία ολοκληρώνεται σήμερα, χάρη στον αγελαίο αυτισμό που καλλιεργείται μέσω διαδικτύου.

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Blues For The White Nigger is a concept album. It’s dealing with the use of “signifiers” of black culture for the manipulation of white audiences, and the role in this of technology.
If youth culture operated from the start as a “cultural” industry promoting glorified, self-important and self-marginalized losers, the process is being completed nowadays, thanks to organized autism cultivated through internet.

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❝ Painted ceiling, artifacts and precious flair
Sacred feeling, damages beyond repair
I‘m dealing with an innocent man
– cannot be blamed for what he ‘s made of
I’m dealing with an innocent man
– cannot be kept from what he claims to be ❞

❝ Can’t you see there’s
No turning back
You tricked yourself in vicious games
Made an angry face against the stars
Traveled so far, moving down the alien trail
The chance is here but you‘re now burned out
Can’t you see there’s
No happy end
No one to catch you when you fall
Sparkling saviors built to make the sale
Made a fool of you, the promise they gave you cannot hold
The chance is here but you‘re now burned out
Easy come but
So hard to go
You‘re drowned in debts you cannot pay
Gazer running out of empty hope
And there ain’t no insult that you cannot take
The chance is here but you‘re now burned out ❞

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Enjoy!

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* For my friends who didn’t know, or first timers here, Oannes [aka Socratis Papahatzis] is my husband, partner in life and music and the one with my undying admiration. Together we have a band MK-O [the music of Marina Kanavaki & Oannes]. So, it’s my pleasure to share with you his [and sometimes mine] musical selections. • Do visit his site. He has my highest recommendation!