emma's revolution

I went to a Celebration of Women's Collaborations a few years ago and had the great joy of experiencing emma's revolution. Their official website is: http://www.emmasrevolution.com/

These two women make powerful, socio-political statements via their songwriting and singing. My favorite album of theirs is one x 1,000,000 = change (very appropriate and relevant to the mission of Zaadz!)

Just to whet your appetite to buy the album, here's my unofficial summary review of the playlist (FYI: you can dowload/listen to songs 1, 2, 3 and 9 for free):

1. bound for freedom - an empowering, inspiring call for individuals to engage in social action/activism…

2. this love - a beautiful plea for solidarity when one stands up for justice and the greater good (i have adopted this song as my own personal anthem!)

3. if i give your name - a song that makes me cry every time I hear it…about the discounted (and uncounted) victims of 9/11/01…

4. refugee - redefining the term “refugee” as those who are “silenced”, inadvertently or overtly, by an oppressive culture/system with a powerful, persuasive call to “speak out” despite the existing pressures to remain silent…

5. kilimanjaro - if Al Gore discovers this song, I am Certain that he would want these gals to participate in his efforts to increase awareness of our climate crisis…

6. nikki & carrie - you can interpret it as a story of a lesbian relationship or, you can explore it as I have done, as a story of the complexities of any type of female to female relationship…

7. silent spring - another environmentally relevant song re: the rachel carson story…

8. one by one - an anthem to close the torture institution known as the School of the Americas…another song that makes me weep whenever i listen to it…

9. peace, salaam, shalom - a fantastic piece, can be taught and sung as a round at protest rallies and/or peace marches or gatherings…you can download, for free, the sheet music for it here

10. seed - a beautiful, inspiring song about doing what you can with what you have…. Another Strong Candidate to be a Zaadz Theme Song!

11. i will be with you - my interpretation of this song is that it's about generational differences in women's struggles to live their lives as their own…it has helped me bridge the cultural and contextual differences between me, my own mother and my mother's mother…very healing for me in coming to terms with the recent passing of my maternal grandmother…

12. codePINK - honestly, my least favorite song on the album….it's about the women's organization of the same name…those of you who belong to it may enjoy it…

13. we are one - another song of Solidarity; poignant, plaintive and a perfect ending to a phenomenal album!