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H​é​ro​ï​ques Animaux de la Mis​è​re

by Harrga

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1.
Melilla 03:26
2.
Artaud 03:24
Primitive /Annoyed / Horror of things/ Unpardonable horror of things /I'm that primitive unhappy with the horror of things (words inspired by Antonin Artaud)
3.
War 03:45
Soldiers arrived in the area/ They were asking for IDs… At the beginning we didn't understand / On the first days, soldiers arrived in the neighbourhood/ they've started asking for IDs and patrolling all day/ On the radio, no one was talking about it, on TV, silence as well/ At the beginning, we didn't understand/ Soldiers were knocking on doors, asking IDs et neighbours were disappearing/ Then there was the silence at night...fear & your indifference !
4.
Lava 04:09
Europe sated / Let us in! (Lament ad aeternam)
5.
La Mer 05:12
“Bismillah ir Rahman ir Rahim”/ Hated, dreadful Sea spares our life! / Hated, dreadful, Mediterranean Sea spares our life/ Just a sea to cross before Freedom/ In the distance, I can see the European coasts/ My eyes hold on the skyline/ A sea to cross before freedom/ This sea is deadly.
6.
Desert Song 02:34
Each step, I'm born. Each step, I live / Dance burning Sun/ the caravan moves slowly forward dragging emaciated, thirsty, famished bodies/ slow agony/ Each step I'm born. Each step, I shout my slow agony/ Dance burning Sun/ the caravan moves slowly forward, leaving emaciated, mutilated bodies, collapsing, in agony/ Each step, I'm born. Each step, I survive the agony!
7.
Don't you know what I hear at night / don't you know that I'm fleeing from these shouts/ you don't understand what I'm looking for here/ you don't understand : forgetting these shouts/ Raped, beaten, sold & again/ Being treated like dogs, left with no rest (relentlessly) / our torturers wanted our heart wounded / Don't you know what I am looking for here? Don't you know that I want to forget/ Forget the shouts/ Raped, beaten, sold & again/ Find silence at night/ Find the night again/ and leave far away from me, these shouts.
8.
Oh Poet, who will find the words ? / abandoned so many times, we thought we'll loose our mind/ throwing our feet randomly on the roads with no other mean than save our lives/ Oh Poet, who will find the words to dress our burns alive, branded us, poor animals !/ Poet, where are the words ? Us, heroic beasts, in search of a shelter, some rest & an ephemeral peace far from pain & destitution, and soon, we'll see our flock growing / Oh Poet, tell me the words / Moor Mother's Words/ Our gaping wounds, we dance in the night & the fire burns us / we go in the night & the fire burns us / Oh Poet find the words to put out this violent indifference done to this humanity hand over all cruelties/ Heroic Animals of Misery/ We dance in the night & the fire burns us / We walk in the night & the fire burns us/ And yet, we love, and yet, we live! / Heroic Animals of Misery thrown on the earth we refuse arbitrariness and dance in the night while fire is burning us/ we dance in the night while fire is burning us !

about

Miguel Prado (Nzumbe) and Dali de Saint Paul (EP/64, Viridian Ensemble & DSC) are HARRGA (‘a burn’ in the Moroccan Darija dialect).

The project began mid-2017 as an outlet to create, without a motive or political intention. Soon though, the escalating Migration Crisis could no longer be ignored. They felt compelled to pay tribute to the ‘Harragas’ (people who cross borders illegally and must burn their papers, thus losing their identity.)

Héroïques Animaux de la Misère’s music is a meditation on the horror of that which crevasses borders. A great deal of state refugee policy is aimed at the silencing, repression or denial of the horrors of migration. The anxieties connected to and generated by refugee movement reflect the transgression of borders, including borders between the human and inhuman, as well as the failure of containment, borders and border walls as a response to crisis.

Turning white innocence in the Black Mediterranean into a survival horror show, Harrga tries to hijack the diasporic sound trajectories. The nomad war machine and all the Swarmachines from the liminal space of exchange and migratory fluxus.

Dali de Saint Paul mixes poetics and politics, singing in French, Darija and some English. She spits with fire and fury, though there is a tangible compassion in her pained lamentations. Paired with Miguel Prado’s singular, amorphous noise-design, they conjure a seething and thoroughly anomalous vision of contemporary industrial music

credits

released May 17, 2019

Dali De Saint Paul: Voice + Effects
Miguel Prado: Electronics
Moor Mother: Guest Voice

Recorded in Bristol 2018

Front cover photo by Olivier Jobard
Design by BKV Industrial.

In honor of those who burn the borders.

Thanks to: Adam Reid, Miles Opland, Laura Phillips, Howard Jacques, Kostis Kilymis, DM Withers, Alice Guthrie, Oliver Jobard, Simon Holliday, Pablo Electrocute, Kinlaw, Moor Mother, Cacophonous Sarcophagus, Schwet, Qu Junktions, Howling Owl, Oliver Baldwin and J&J studio. Our beloved ones Lionel & Patricia.

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