Volume 4#1 - Last Update: March 18th 2005 | News - Concerts - Biography - Music - Shop - Mail |
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THINGS HAVE HARDLY CHANGED |
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Also freshly written for the urban gispy album. Here as well the song talks about racism and all the prejudice we have in live, saying things haven't changed that much even though society and technology has advanced. The world has become smaller, but we still have people that have these ideas that should be redundant today. It's just a social statement, I'm not trying to be a politician, just reflecting on how society is today, how far we have come and how far we still have to go. It's he most political and African song on the record. Cuz at the end of the day, I'm still an African. The Njava sisters sing on it, who are from Madagascar and made it really even more african. There's also a bit of humor in there: fishes in the stream, they're lifes aren't safe, so are the ones in the pond... This is where Fred, very young (20), |
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away from home and being wild, doing a gig in flanders and afterward going nuts throwing rocks in a pond... He reminded me about when I was that age and just did crazy stuff. A young man will always be a young man, no matter who it is. |
It's one of the songs of which we have a lot of success live, actually. ... and it's something totally different as well. It's a nice song which I play a lot with the quartet and with Eric as well. I hardly play it when I play solo concert cuz it's not an easy song to play. |
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