In Raoul Vaneigem’s book “The Revolution of Everyday Life” he posits that because people are manipulated as docile "objects" and without the "qualitative richness" which comes from asserting their irreducible individuality - that we must create a life lived in the first person. Vaneigem equates with modern life - characterized by isolation, humiliation, mis-communication - and to reach freedom, individuals have to tend toward creating new roles that flout stereotyped convention. From this knowledge, perhaps the most radical act an individual can execute in our world is to manifest and engage is acts that bring joy and play to our world.
From this knowledge the Uncivil Society in association with Suburban Utopia Projects shares their sixteenth release “Everyday Revolution”. Paying homage to the passing of Neil Peart, Anon_73 reinterprets and reinvents Rush’s vast array of sonic templates and even goes so far to cover Freewill to implore individuals to think, feel and create their own conventions from their own experience.
1) The Insignificant Signified
2) The Sum of Constraints: Humiliation, Isolation and Suffering 3) Down Quantity Street
4) The Sum of Seductions
5) Power as Mediation
6) Abstract Mediation
7) Sacrifice
8) CSP: Creativity, Spontaneity, and Poetry
9) CounterArgument#7
10) Freewill
“Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.”
-Raoul Vaneigem
Essential to Situationist theory was the concept of the Spectacle, a unified critique of advanced capitalism and it’s rise of social alienation and commodity fetishism being intrinsically bound to every aspect of life and culture. Philosopher Guy DeBord in “Society of the Spectacle”, advocates counteracting the spectacle through constructing situations or moments of life deliberately manifested for the purpose of reawakening and pursuing authentic desires, experiencing the feeling of life and adventure, and the liberation of everyday life.
The Uncivil Society in association with Suburban Utopia Projects presents their fifteenth project “Spectacle Inc.”. Inspired the bands who developed the proto punk sound of the early 1970’s Anon73 synthesizes this sound with the big ideas from this seminal text.
All Tracks are FCC Clean:
1) Separation Perfectected
2) Commodity as Spectacle
3) Unity and Division in Appearance
4) Subject and Representation
5) Time and History
6) Organization of Territory
7) Consumption and Culture
8) Ideology Materialized
9) Counter Argument #5
10) Personality Crisis
“Where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.”
-Guy DeBord
All Songs Arranged, Performed, Recorded, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Anon73
Recorded from 6/2020 to 12/2020 at Normieville Studios
Suburban Utopia Projects
P.O. Box 1321
Gig Harbor, WA 98335
The Uncivil Society - "The Uncivil Songbook 2001-2021"
Anon 73. who has been producing fiercely independent projects for twenty years by consolidating the lyrics, and compositions that have accompanied each project in a limited edition hard cover book.
While preparing the project, Anon73 encountered “Plant A Seed” - a song written in 2004 yet never recorded. Understanding the gravity and challenges of being positive in the face of a global pandemic he recorded this song to express hopefulness and inspire others to celebrate their creativity, while encapsulating the essence of his character.
Track:
1) Plant A Seed_original (robot version) - TRT 2:41 2) 2) Plant A Seed_redux (animal version) - TRT 3:14
Arranged, Performed, Recorded, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Anon73 Recorded from 4/2021 at Normieville Studios
