All proceeds from our June 5, 2020 Bandcamp Friday sales will go to Black Socialists of America.

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: The 7 Cheaps affected by free trade to make the world inexpensive and safe for capitalism. By integrating green theory with the traumatic past of colonialism, indigenous movements, slave revolts, and other insurrections and uprisings, this album endorses a radical way to understanding the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century and reclaim it.

Since 2017, Seth Andrew Davis & Michael Eaton have been organizing and playing together in Second Nature Ensemble and Social Ecology Project, exploring group improvisation and composition. With “Symbiotique”, Davis & Eaton play as a duo. “Symbiotique” consists of 8 tracks where Davis & Eaton explore each other's compositional and improvisational voices, ranging from free improvisation to heavily processed electro-acoustic explorations.


“Symbiotique” is the inaugural release of Davis & Eaton’s record label Mother Brain Records. Mother Brain Records is a Kansas City based label focusing on improvised and experimental musics.

There are no jobs on a dead planet...

Humanity has come to the Capitalocene, a time of existential crisis. The capitalist system is responsible for extreme climate change and for the Earth's sixth mass extinction event, contributing to enormous ecological suffering. We now face head on the catastrophe of global warming. Misleading information can be directly traced to particular special interest groups. Corporations, including Exxon Mobil, have known since the 1970s that burning oil and gas could cause climate change and global warming, but nonetheless they fund disinformation efforts. The crossroads we face reveals how deeply social and economic issues are interwoven with ecology. The most disadvantaged members of society are directly affected by climate change and suffer the most. The never-ending war of imperialism and undermined democracy is considered the norm. There is systematic hostility towards refugees; racial and gender violence run deep; and the wealth gap grows larger everyday . We need rapid, systemic transformation that tackles the stratification of wealth and power, placing decarbonisation and equity at the forefront. A sustainable future requires social ecology and ecosocialism.

There are no jobs on a dead planet...

Purgatory - a place or state of temporary suffering or misery. Purgatory can refer to any place or situation in which suffering and misery are felt to be sharp but temporary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_economic_inequality

The U.S. mass media is a powerful and large political structure that serves a system-based propaganda role, dependent on market forces, centralized perceived and self-censored ideas, and without transparent repression.

Research shows that increased inequality hinders economic growth and that disparities in land and human capital decreases productivity more than income inequality.

The propaganda model for the manufacture of public consent defines five filters that manipulate the editorial content of news reports in mass media:

1. Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation:
The mainstream media outlets are large-scale profit-based businesses and must therefore serve the financial interests of business owners including shareholders and controlling creditors. The size of a media company is a result of the investment in the mass communications technology necessary to reach a mass audience of spectators, listeners and readers.


2. The Advertising License to Do Business:
Because the bulk of income of major media outlets comes from ads, advertisers have gained a "de facto licensing authority." Without the funding of marketers, media outlets are not commercially viable. Therefore, news media need to tackle their advertisers ' political views and economic desires. It, for example, has undermined the press from the working class and describes the volume of publications that is destructive.

3. Sourcing Mass Media News:
Through contributing to the the media's costs of procurement and distribution of content, the large bureaucracies of the wealthy subsidize the mass media of specific exposure. The large entities offering this service have access to the windows and become' routine news sources. The arbitrary decision of the gatekeepers must be ignored by non routine sources of access. The editorial distortion is exacerbated by the media's dependence on private and government news sources. For situations where there is downside from the origins for a certain newspaper, television station, magazine, etc., it is implicitly ruled out. To mitigate this financial risk, news media outlets editorially manipulate their content to support corporate and government agendas and remain in business.

4. Flak and the Enforcers:
"Flak" refers to negative responses to a media statement or program. Flak can be expensive to the media, Flak may be costly because of the lack of advertisement sales or because of expenses in the protection of the public image of the newspaper. Powerful private interest groups can be grouped into Flak. The threat of flak may dissuade the publication of certain facts or opinions.

5. Anti-Communism:
The "War on Terror" has been the main tool of social control since the end of Cold War anti-communism.

For his sophomore album, pianist Brad Whiteley delivers Presence, a set of artfully textured originals tailormade for his top-flight band featuring Michael Eaton on tenor saxophone, Tom Guarna on guitar, bassist Matt Pavolka, and longtime drummer Kenneth Salters, who also played on Whiteley’s debut, Pathless Land. That album, an Editor’s Pick for DownBeat in June, 2014 in which critics dubbed Whiteley “an exciting young artist to watch” set the stage for the pianist as a composer and improvisor. Presence takes Whiteley’s artistry to a new level, demonstrating his ability to incorporate a world of influences into a warm, engaging whole, led by his hooked-filled writing and fluid pianism. The album is also somewhat of a Destiny Records family affair. Eaton, Guarna, and Salters have each released their own albums as leaders on the label, and Whiteley has filled the piano/keyboard chair on five Destiny albums aside from his own. Recorded at the world-renowned Avatar Studios (now the Power Station at BerkleeNYC) by Destiny’s own George Shalda, the outstanding musicianship of Presence shines with impeccable warmth and clarity.

This EP contains additional material from the sessions which produced Darkness Made Light.

Thank you for your consideration. I hope you enjoy the music, we enjoyed making it.

We Are Legion is an immersive chamber work inspired by the hacktivist collective, Anonymous.
Represented at the core of this work is the group's mission to uphold freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Anonymous actively fights against corporate, civic, and religious extremism and oppression.

We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.