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Sharrif Simmons

Musical revolution(s)

  • 1 You can´t take my fingers | Translations: de
  • 2 Musical revolution(s)
  • 3 This is a Movement
  • 4 One thousand pieces | Translations: de
  • 5 Blades | Translations: de
  • 6 Workers for the pearl | Translations: de
  • 7 The motherearthfuckers are now on mars | Translations: de
  • 8 She was | Translations: de
  • 9 69
  • 10 Windows
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Musical revolution(s)

You can feel it
when it happens:
a sort of depression
in the hidden places
when conjured thoughts
become louder than mountainside echoes

The wind is almost always blowing
leaving room
for other musical feats
a world feast of Masekela rumbles
leaves the door open for burning beat drummers
occupied with little else than
channeling the message to you

Music
in it´s evolving state
in midst of revolution(s)
spinning at 33

Split threes attached in different directions
makes the heavy 8 split like
four to the floor
four to the floor
at the core of the present illusion
musical revolutions spin
tipped over the wax
it spins in circles
large enough to catch
the next generation
who´ve been cast into fearing life without listening
to lovemaking music
than making lovemaking music
Adobo the pepperfunk
and join the band
that never ignores what people say

Speech was sent to them
by those same weeping angels that
brought you

Brick
                            Slave
Mandrill
                            Little Blind Wonder
Little Miss Ripperton
                            Chic
Sweet Taste of Honey

Breathing blood pressure into
brainy voodoo children with machine guns
voodoo children with machine guns

those same weeping angels
who let poems   
long forgotten be
re-issued
re-titled
re-understood
regurgitated like Bird food
for the youth

The musical revolution is attached to
anything uncertain
camouflaged from greed shooting bandits
left stranded over the jaded rocks
under Gory Island
to be dealt with
later

I suppose there won´t be anymore heroes
for our seedlings
no more music with ten thousand meanings
Behave!!
you tortured souls
music lives in revolution(s)

When it happens
many doors open
leading to marble chambers

Keep tossin´ your pebbles into the still waters
you´ll see the spiral ripples spread
like sound waves that
sex an open nation under a groove
getting down for the survival of it
revivals of it
in cycles of thirty
from be bop
to hip hop
to rootz bop
to musical revolution(s)
You can feel it
when it happens:
a sort of depression
in the hidden places
those same weeping angels
who brought you the beginning
now bring you
the change

© Sharrif Simmons
From: Fast cities and objects that burn
New York: Moore Black Press, 1999
ISBN: 0-9658308-2-9
Audio production: 2001, M. Mechner, literaturWERKstatt berlin
Categories: music, popular culture

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Sharrif Simmons

photo © gezett.de
* 08.03.1969, United States
lives in: Atlanta, United States

Sharrif Simmons wurde am 8. März 1969 geboren und wuchs in Afrika auf. Er zog in den 80er Jahren nach New York und arbeitete nach dem Studium im 'Liberation Bookstore' in Harlem.

Nachdem er schon früh zu schreiben begonnen hatte, entschied er sich im Jahr 1991 als Freier Autor zu leben.

Im Laufe der 90er Jahre entwickelte sich Simmons zu einem der wichtigsten Vertreter der Spoken-word-scene in New York.

 photo © gezett.de
Simmons war viele Jahre Redakteur der Literaturzeitschrift African Voice und Organisator des Festivals Rhymes, Rhythms and Rituals in New York City.

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  • Fast cities and objects that burn.

    New York: Moore Black Press, 1999

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