ESCONDER MI CARA / IRE Split 10"Lp
€9.00
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ESCONDER MI CARA / IRE Split 10"Lp
€9.00
For more than 40 years, the international DIY punk scene has kept alive and organized a network of friends who interact with each other while not giving a damn about the established rules of business, money, professionalization and success. Through this network, we collectively experiment with another relationship to consumption, authority and autonomy. In reaction to this world which asserts hierarchies, competition, contracts, profits, monopolies, privileges, commercial relationships, specialists and so many other joyful things, the values we try to share and to oppose to it are trust, mutual aid, curiosity, non-profit, non-professionalism, communication, internationalism and solidarity. We have taken our music out of the capitalist grid and imperatives, starting from the simple principle that their world only exists because we adhere to it more or less consciously, and that it is therefore coherent, political and fun to try to bend to it as little as possible.
And no matter how we approach it - whether it's in a theoretical and political way, just as a simple thing to live, or a happy mix of both - our ways have laid a solid foundation that makes punk a place where we don't accept the world as it's imposed on us, where we try not to settle for ready-made slogans, and where - in the face of all the things we identify as toxic - we experiment with simple, effective, and unabashed alternatives.
All these attempts are not punko-centric and are not an expression of self-satisfied bourgeois luxury. Everything we experience here is reflected in our daily lives and impacts our existences and the world around us. DIY punk culture has always helped to reinforce the idea that the "personal" is "political", to make us go beyond slogans and put our lives in the balance.
Punk isn't perfect, and we've all had to deal with some of its limitations, contradictions and disasters. But, the more we learn together to decipher the mechanisms of power, violence and competition around which this world is articulated; the more we take pleasure together in doing things every day according to our rules, in supporting each other in our struggles and resistances, in maintaining our marginalities, our insubordinations and our solidarities, the more we loosen the stranglehold of social norms, of the spectacular-market society, and we give ourselves the capacity to go beyond our limits and our constructions in order to resist this world, and to dream of something else than capitalism.
Through this network of friends, the split 10" Esconder Micara / Ire is available.
Esconder Micara come from Santiago (Chile) and Ire from Toulouse (France). The record comes with a 28-page booklet with lyrics and texts about social movements that Chile and France have experienced lately. (Stonhenge)
