Released September 19, 2006 Length 61:37 Release date 15 September 2006 Genres Post-rock, Post-metal | Recorded April—May 2006 Artist Red Sparowes Label Daymare Recordings | |
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Producer Red Sparowes, Tim Green Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun
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Red sparowes every red heart shines toward the red sun full album
Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun is the second studio album by post-rock band Red Sparowes, released in September 2006.
Contents
Despite having no lyrics, the album (by way of its song titles) follows the story of the Great Leap Forward in Mao Zedong-era China, more specifically recounting the Great Sparrow Campaign, a mass killing of sparrows (along with rats, flies and mosquitoes) that fed on a portion of the harvest and were seen as pests. Peasants were encouraged to bang pots and pans to scare sparrows into continuing flight, eventually killing them from exhaustion. Whilst the harvest of the year after the campaign was larger, there was a massive rise in locust numbers in the late 1950s, as a result of the significantly lower population of sparrows, a major predator of the locust.
Along with other programs in the Great Leap Forward, the Great Sparrow Campaign caused widespread famine where, between 1959 and 1962, 45 million people died of starvation or were beaten to death.
Personnel
Songs
1The great leap forward poured down upon us one day like a mighty storm - suddenly and furiously blinding our senses7:00
2We stood transfixed in blank devotion as our leader spoke to us - looking down on our mute faces with a great - raging - and unseeing eye8:55
3Like the howling glory of the darkest winds - this voice was thunderous and the words holy - tangling their way around our hearts and clutching our innocent awe10:08