Year 6 by Kumoguma

SARS-CoV-2 — and the resulting disease, COVID-19 — is very much still out there, and very much still a problem.

Conceived, composed, recorded, and released in the 5-day window from the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization's declaration of COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and the third Long Covid Awareness Day.

What began as planned single, dark ambient instrumental to convey the dread of living in a world that has thoroughly given up on this (and related) issue(s) quickly evolved into an album that sits somewhere at the crossroads of art, science, politics, and journalism. I deliberately didn't agonize over editing to reflect the rawness of the topic.

Instrumental elements still meaning to be disconcerting, they also serve to underscore prominent spoken clips from key people behind the unfolding of these events:
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Director-General of the World Health Organization);
Maria Van Kerkhove (COVID-19 Emergency Manager and Technical Lead, WHO);
Anthony Fauci (former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, & Chief Medical Advisor to the president),
Rochelle Walensky (former Director of the US CDC); &
Joe Biden (former President of the US).

The sources of the clips (which have been arranged & edited only for the purpose of impact and to align with Fair Use/Fair Dealing etc.) are all available on each track's individual page. I recommend listening for yourself, as well as reading the article from which the fourth track is read: Reveal News' "31,000 & Counting" - and "Let Them Eat Plague!" by Comrade Dremel (if it's totally new to you that the COVID response was insufficient).
Mia Mingus' "You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths" is also essential (if you think COVID was bad but getting your 2-3 vaccines was license to go "back to normal").

I would rather people educate themselves and spend their resources of whatever kind on praxis for a safer world than pay for this record, so it is free with the option to support. Sadly money runs the world, and we all need a certain amount ti live. But sharing this and your learnings with people in your life would be better payment, both in the long run and for people other than me.

A collection of cells which sometimes cooperate enough to do stuff (but often don't).
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