Joy Is A Weapon: Solo Guitar

by Alex Griffiths

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1.	Bella Ciao 02:00	buy track
2.	Euoi! 01:09	buy track
3.	The Chartist Anthem 01:43	buy track
4.	Close/Open 02:31	buy track
5.	Tory Majority Blues 02:59	buy track
6.	Levellers and Diggers 02:44	buy track
7.	Sugarbutties!!! 03:20	buy track

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"And yet it does not go away, this estatic possibility. Despite centuries of repression, despite the competing allure of spectacles, festivity keeps bubbling up, and in the most unlikely places...The capacity for collective joy is encoded into us almost as deeply as the capacity for the erotic love of one human being for another. We can live without it, as many of us do, but only at the risk of succumbing to the solitary nightmare of depression. Why not reclaim our distinctively human heritage as creatures who can generate their own estatic pleasure out of music, color, feasting, and dance?"

- Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

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released April 30, 2023

Alex Grifiths: guitar, effects, synth

All songs by Alex Griffiths except 1,3 and 6*
All arrangements by Alex Griffiths

*Track 1: Traditional
Track 3: Ben Boucher (1847)
Track 6: Gerrard Winstanley (1649)

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Alex Griffiths Berlin, Germany

Liverpool born, Berlin based musician.

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