ANOHNI announces 'PARADISE' EP (listen to its title track)
ANOHNI announced a companion EP to one of our favorite albums of 2016, HOPELESSNESS. PARADISE is out on March 17 via Secretly Canadian/Rough Trade, and continues ANOHNI’s work with producers Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never. Its title track, which you can listen to below, fits in both thematically and sonically alongside the songs on HOPELESSNESS. ANOHNI wrote an artist statement asking for the intervention of women to alter our disastrous current political and ecological course, which you can read in full below.
“Paradise” is one of the songs that ANOHNI played at her few live shows last year, and the EP includes other songs from those shows, such as “Jesus Will Kill You,” “Ricochet,” and “In My Dreams.” Tracklist below.
ANOHNI also recently appeared on CocoRosie’s inaugural protest track, Smoke ’em Out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncCmDhMYBWg
Tracklist
1. In My Dreams
2. Paradise
3. Jesus Will Kill You
4. You Are My Enemy
5. Ricochet
6. She Doesn’t Mourn Her Loss
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My Mother’s Love
Her gentle touch
My Father’s Hands
Rest on my Throat“Our new leaders hope to crush our spirits and expedite ecocide in the name of virulent progress, consumerism and false security. Like Jihadis, many capitalists and Christians compulsively seek to facilitate a righteous “holy war”, or apocalypse.
For millennia, Men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance and war mongering.
But as Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing.
Mothers, your sons are trapped in a nightmare; they are not capable of responsibly negotiating the destructive agency that they now wield.
More profound even than a crime against humanity, fathers and sons now compulsively prepare to commit ecocide, in a final and irreversible assault upon creation itself.
Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species’ desperate course.”
– ANOHNI, January 2017
