Y allí afuera no hay nadie, todo lo diría si lo preguntáramos en voz alta; y si se nos escuchase preguntarlo; o si se consintiera en recoger esta absurda pregunta. Nadie, salvo el reflejo difuso de todos los rostros en los vidrios intactos empavonados de nadie. / Fragmento de: La pieza Oscura , Por: Enrique Lihn
1-Speed Bike is the DJ and mobile soundsystem alter-ego of Aidan Girt, drummer for Montreal-based bands Exhaust and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Making his first appearance remixing tracks on an ancient 12-bit AKAI sampler for Exhaust’s debut record, 1-Speed Bike went on to build a large sample bank sourced from his own live drumming and made a full-length album (with full 16-bit resolution) for Constellation in 2000. He has also moshed things up at numerous street actions and benefits over the years, and has gone on to release a series of records on Broklyn Beats. Aidan was a member of the Montreal Anarchist Bookstore collective and lived in Amsterdam for a while before settling into a cabin in the woods outside Montreal, where he continues to speed things up and slow things down at his home studio.
The so called new one of attention for you!, does it know to what I recount?, he must be full of sauce laughing the damned drunkard, and the one who catches the printing of the private scene?, "I believe that absolutely nobody", it is important that intentions turn in the way, ideal cultural that they forge a stamp of which we can communicate tolerantly and not to commit acts of nonchalance here, COMMENT YOU!, it is a time still to shake the powder that squashes the breathing, it knows that they hide the half day, sees in your portrait the same figure of your face?.
Un nuevo llamado de atención para usted!, sabe a lo que refiero?, debe estar lleno de salsa riendo el maldito borracho, ¿y quien capte la impresión del escenario privado?, "creo que absolutamente nadie", es importante que giren propositos en el medio, ideales culturales que forjan un sello del cual podemos comunicarnos con tolerancia y no cometer actos de indiferencia aquí,COMENTE USTED!, es tiempo todavia de sacudir el polvo que aplasta la respiración, ¿sabe que esconden el medio día, ve en su retrato la misma figura de su cara?.
Bakunin's Bum
Bakunin's Bum is the newest 'beats & strings' musical/spoken word collaboration between Norman Nawrocki & beat meister/drummer Aidan from 1 Speed Bike, Exhaust & Godspeed You! Black Emporer.
Their first recording is a benefit CD for the radical Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). It features excerpts from a speech given by two OCAP members in Montréal in December 2000, which Aidan & Norman have set to original music. Aidan provides the beats, Norman plays violin, viola, cello & odd instruments.
Author, actor, violinist, sex advocate, educator, Norman Nawrocki is a Vancouver-born, Montreal-based, internationally-acclaimed cabaret artist known for his provocative and topical work.
Aidan is a long-time Montréal activist/musician & member of the city's anarchist bookstore collective, The Librairie Alternative. His first solo album, 'droopy butt begone!' (on Constellation Records) is a sampling of his own live beats mixed with many melodic elements, slogans & rants. It's garnered rave reviews in the music press around the world.
bakunin's bum, "FIGHT TO WIN! (A benefit for The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty)"
released october 9, 2001 g7 welcoming committee records (g7021)
How far are you willing to go?
And the cops just go 'fuck'
A front, a middle, a back
What is OCAP?
Real 'Peace'
By any means necessary
It's too late for concessions
People already know
There's a place for everyone
We don't have 'show trials'
Hope, Pride & Dignity in fighting back
bakunin's bum is aidan on drums and norman nawrocki (rhythm activism and da zoque!). as the subtitle suggests, this is a benefit album for OCAP. the music is very similar to that of 1-speed bike (using some of the same loops in places), but also features spoken word speech by two anti-poverty activists that has been edited to the music.