jueves, marzo 06, 2025

New Music: Speaker's Corner

           

Suzanne Vega will release this spring a new album called Flying With Angels. Her guitarist and longtime collaborator Gerry Leonard produced the record. According to Vega: "Each song on the album takes place in an atmosphere of struggle. Struggle to survive, to speak, to dominate, to win, to escape, to help someone else, or just live." Now shares "Speakers' Corner," an ode to the traditional public space where anyone can preach about anything. The people who actually take advantage of that are often disturbed and fringey types, but they don’t have power and they aren’t trying to sell you anything. In a press release, she has this to say: "That's something you don't want in democracy: the shutting down of the Speakers’ Corner where people get a say. This is a moment in time when people are saying a lot, but sometimes they’re not making sense or not telling the truth. People should be accountable for what they say. The song comes with an animated “Speakers’ Corner” video from director Michael Arthur.

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