It’s the truth
Danny Schechter, the “News Dissector” is a blogger, a documentarian, and an author. More importantly (at least to me), he was the co-creator of one of the most urgent pieces of “pop” music I’ve ever heard.
The track was “Revolutionary Situation” on the anti-Apartheid Sun City album in 1985. It mixed real voices, screams, gunshots, African music and chants over a rap backing track, with rap provided by some guy named Miles Davis. Along with a little of that trumpet thing he did.
Even separated from the immidiacy of the situation as it was in 1985, it’s an incredible piece of music put together by Schechter and Keith “Malcolm X/No Sell Out” LeBlanc. Then, it was revelatory.
At any rate, I tell you all this to lead into this link to a blog piece of Schechter’s, and to explain why to this day his name is a flag to me.
And if you ever get a chance to hear that Sun City album, do it. It remains, to me, one of the rare examples of a “charity” record that can still be listened to for pleasure rather than a sense of resigned duty.
