Hagen, Nina- Unity

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New Vinyl Record -Nina Hagen – Unity

“Unity” is a collaboration with funk visionary George Clinton. It is a wonderfully lightly flowing and cosmically glistening dub number that pays homage to the Black Lives Matter movement. The two of them wrote the song as an immediate response to the death of George Floyd. The synthesizer melodies swing like gentle waves to stuttering hi-hats while Nina and George sing against hate: “Positive vibrations surround the world’s nations!” The song “Atomwaffensperrvertrag” is explicitly political. In it, Nina Hagen remixes two sampled excerpts from speeches (one she gave in 2009 at the United Nation Freedom Festival at Brandenburg Gate and a UN speech from US politician Dennis Kucinich), creating a pulsing tour de force with country guitars, jumbled voices and frantic percussions.

• 1Shadrack
• 2United Women of the World
• 3Unity
• 416 Tons
• 5Atomwaffensperrvertrag
• 6Gib Mir Deine Liebe
• 7Venusfliegenfalle
• 8Redemtion Day
• 9Geld, Geld, Geld
• 10Die Antwort Weiss Ganz Allein Der Wind
• 11Opne My Heart (Dinner Time)
• 12It Doesn’t Matter Now