Michael Franti’s latest album reviewed
By Jimmy Cocking Socialist Party Melbourne
Michael Franti and Frontline. Everyone Deserves Music.
Michael Franti has become a cultural icon of revolution amongst a growing number of musicians who feel compelled to speak their minds about the current human situation.
Franti’s past albums include the acoustic Songs
from the front porch and Stay Human, an album dedicated to the abolition
>of capital punishment and state murder. His new work is focussed on world
>peace and the maintenance of love in this world of ever-growing fear and
terror. Singles from the album include Bomb the World and Everyone
Deserves Music.
Franti’s revulsion to the US-Administration’s nationalism
and blood-thirsty capitalism is evident in his lyrics, “Love just one
nation, and the whole world you divide” and “We can bomb the world to
pieces but we cannot bomb it into peace” give a small taste of the calibre
of this guy’s passion for the people.
Franti’s opposition to the war on
Iraq and the war on his people by the same ‘big corporations’ has lead to
his investigation and interrogation by the FBI and his name being
associated with the ‘resistance’. Do yourself favour, if you want to feel
good and hopeful about our future as revolutionaries, give this one
listen!
Available from all record stores. Michael Franti and Spearhead
are touring in August.
