Angolan National Anthem (dedicated to Idi Amin)
Here's a gem from the archives, dedicated to everybody's favorite military dictator and killer-clown, "Idi-I'LL KILL YOU!!-Amin" (Hey.....The Schmo is flooded.....).
I know that Amin (The "Amin" administration.....I love it!!) was Ugandan but I like the word "Angolan" better as it is more colorful and fits better with "anthem". I like the choral "call and response', worthy of a drum and bugle core cadence. I was a drum major for "The Khyber Rifles" when I was a missionary student in Tanzania at Olduvai Gorge. Gorgetown University.
Hey, if Mountain could dedicate "Nantucket Sleighride" to Owen Coffin (whoever the hell that is/was) I can dedicated my shit to whoever I want! Oh, Owen Coffin was cabin boy aboard the whaler Essex, which was destroyed by a sperm whale in 1819. Well pardon me!!
I should've received a big, fat commission check for this baby!
Instrumentation is bass (with some keyboard squalling), guitarsynth and drums. I also like the ghostly playback of the pitch-bending on my Roland D-50 and effects laden bass on the Echoplex tape at the end of the piece. Recorded in 1988.
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8/10/2008 9:05:33 PM
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