New Party Systems was formed when four musician friends - Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio), David First (Notekillers), Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy, Guardian Alien) and Bernard Gann (Liturgy) all ran into each other the same day at Zuccotti Park, early on during the Occupy Wall Street occupation. Out of that fateful meeting came the decision to form a music collective inspired by and supporting the movement. The video produced by Anna Franquesa features people from all over the world, including musicians Martin Bisi, Kid Millions (Oneida), Bob Ostertag and the students who were involved in the UC Davis pepper spray incident. The chant at the end of the video was recorded during the November 17th March on Wall Street in lower Manhattan.
From the upcoming Occupy this Album
http://musicforoccupy.org/category/album/
We Are
We are the dawn's electric rise
A gathering of consciousness creating
We are an overwhelming tide
Of heat and light and sound to break the chain
Time to take the keys back to our kingdom
It is time to move the rules to fairer ground
Equality and justice so the masses can breathe free again
The workers and the players have to take this world and turn it all around
We are the dawn's electric rise
A gallery of consciousness creating
We are an overwhelming tide
Of reason and rights endowed to change the game
And to those who think that nothing ever happens
When peaceful forces speak the truth to power
Watch the water carving through the mountain's heart of stone
How simple winds increase until they topple every tower
And we love to see you
Stepping up across the lands
And we love to be with you
As you make your righteous stand
And we love to hear you
Shouting out your desires
And we love to cheer you
As you join the expanding choir
We are the dawn's electric rise
A galaxy of consciousness creating
We are an overwhelming tide
The heat and light and sound they can't contain
http://newpartysystems.bandcamp.com/
http://newpartysystems.org/
Music Lyrics by David First ©2011 Silent Graph ASCAP
The video was directed by Toni Comas and produced by Anna Franquesa Solano
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