Rebirth of a Nation, by DJ Spooky w/ Kronos Quartet

Rebirth of a Nation

by DJ Spooky w/ Kronos Quartet

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John Cratchley I hesitated for a while...to call something a "masterpiece" you have to be sure (there's so much at stake)...but this is a masterpiece, I think...highly apposite at this precise moment too..."cometh the hour..."

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1.	The Broken Compass (Intro Theme) 01:28	buy track
2.	A Nation Divided 05:16	buy track
3.	North isn't South 02:58	buy track
4.	The Most Dangerous Woman in America 03:26	buy track
5.	Stoneman 03:14	buy track
6.	Cameron 04:23	buy track
7.	The Parallax Waltz 04:43	buy track
8.	Gettysburg Requiem 04:34	buy track
9.	What would Moses Say? 06:12	buy track
10.	Lincoln and Booth Get Acquainted 05:50	buy track
11.	Dixie as Anti-Utopia 04:12	buy track
12.	Blackface (We are All Sharecroppers Now) 05:45	buy track
13.	Getting Biblical 03:32	buy track
14.	The Election and Results: The New Montage 03:39	buy track
15.	Gus, Elias, Silas and The Klan 06:02	buy track
16.	Black Militia 02:06	buy track
17.	Ride of the Klansmen 06:12	buy track
18.	The Next Election 03:41	buy track
19.	Ghost of a Smile 02:03	buy track

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Paul D. Miller is probably most well-known under his “constructed persona” as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. He has recorded a huge volume of music and collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and composers, among them Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kronos Quartet, Pierre Boulez, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore and many others.

Conceived as a remix and reimagination of director D.W. Griffith’s infamously racist 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, Rebirth of a Nation, recorded with Kronos Quartet, is a controversial and culturally significant project that examines how “…exploitation and political corruption still haunt the world to this day, but in radically different forms.” Originally commissioned in 2004 by the Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Weiner Festwochen, and the Festival d’Automne a Paris, the project was Miller’s first large-scale multimedia performance piece, and has been performed around the world, from the Sydney Festival to the Herod Atticus Amphitheater, more than fifty times.

“We need more than ever to see the context that early cinema offers us," Miller says. "As my old friend Saul Williams likes to say: Another World Is Possible. A remix of a film as deeply important and problematic as The Birth of a Nation reminds us that many of these issues still linger with us at every level.”

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released August 28, 2015

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