Field Recordings ~ Vol. 2: One-two, Zero-one, Toil to the Beat

Field Recordings is a series of self-published mixtapes, part of Songs of Flax, a research project by Liza Prins and Marie Ilse Bourlanges
July 2024

As a series of mixtapes Field Recordings explores the radical potential of (work) song practices. The three volumes in Field Recordings build on archival and reinterpreted material, in the full confidence that people have always and everywhere rejected their marginalized positions, and that they have always and everywhere had a political imagination at least as developed as our own. For centuries, people have been escaping into (songs full of) love and desire to forget about a tough workday; for centuries, this escapism has also contained or mutated into (songs of) political consciousness. This second volume contains 18 carefully selected excerpts of conversations and songs that provide space to listen to labor rhythms and their rendering in music from working class folk. Not every thing on this mixtape is fugitive, but there are moments when the songs and rhythms become something other than what supports assembly-line and capital. 

_{every [one who] is not fugitive is lost.}

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Contribution by Marie Ilse Bourlanges here
Sound mastering by Bergur Anderson
Reinterpretation of song nº1 by Joana Guiné

Printed in riso at Terry Bleu, July 2024
Edition of 50 copies
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Thanks to André Avelas and Hugo Rocci</sup>