But there is a tinge of aloneness to it that conveys the desire to fill one’s absence with far more than physical companionship. When The Relax’s Andrew Panopio announced last month that he was releasing “Hey I” on April 4th, it was under drastically different circumstances, one where the song was, I suppose, meant to be experienced with company. One of my favorite writers, Zadie Smith, wrote in an essay, “Writing, like dancing, is one of the arts available to people who have nothing… The only absolutely necessary equipment in dance is your own body.” This has always given me comfort: in both writing and dancing I have parlayed from nothing and from loneliness. This sense of daring in the midst of, or because of, sentimental isolation is the premise of The Relax’s debut single, “Hey I,” a song that relays unfettered desire through dance. I find it quite strange that the world made figuratively smaller by technology now exists in a period where we are now literally confined in our own, tiny spaces on earth, liable to connect but stripped of contact. It’s a miracle when someone from a bad post code gets anywhere, son. We live now-for our instant, hot, fast treats, to pep us up: sugar, a cigarette, a new fast song on the radio. You must never, never forget when you talk to someone poor, that it takes ten times the effort to get anywhere from a bad post code. It was composed by Walter Schumann for the radio show, and was also used on the subsequent television series and later syndication of the TV series under the name 'Badge 714'. That’s why the present and the future is for the poor-that’s the place in time for us: surviving now, hoping for better later. 'Dragnet' is an instrumental theme from the radio and television show of the same name. We don’t want to be reminded of our past, because it was awful: dying in means, and slums, without literacy, or the vote. No classical music for us-no walking around National Trust properties or buying reclaimed flooring. That’s why the poor are seen as more vital, more animalistic. That’s why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they won’t vote. When the poor get passionate about politics, they’re fighting for their lives. Politics will always mean more to the poor. “When the middle classes get passionate about politics, they’re arguing about their treats-their tax breaks and their investments. This week on New Music We Love: we’ve explored new songs from Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, and the Philippines-the last of which have mobilized its artists to work, continues to unleash the anger and frustrations of its citizens through latest songs from Catpuke, Gnarrate, and Razorback with Raymund Marasigan.
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