FWR036

Debut album from Johnny Charmer's RED ORKESTRA. Features Johnny Charmer, Neil Leyton (bass), Loaf from the Pariahs, Devin Stoneham (drums), and other Fading Ways family guests (like George Bettencourt and Jim Clements).

This a historic CD not just because it is RED ORKESTRA's debut, but it was also the first CD ever to be released commercially and distributed internationally with a CREATIVE COMMONS license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) allowing fans who bought the album to copy, share and p2p the music.

Now Magazine says:
MAY 6 - 12, 2004
AFTER THE WARS
RED ORKESTRA
(FADING WAYS RECORDS)
Rating: NNNN
Named for the Soviet spy ring that successfully infiltrated Nazi-occupied Europe, the Red Orkestra's debut album is a brilliantly dystopian take on urban folk. Frontman Johnny Charmer (formerly of the Charmers) wrote the album's music and lyrics and combines disparate influences from Blue Rodeo to Bragg, from the Smiths to Lightfoot. And like the best of urban folk, the album carefully navigates between intimate tracks and political polemics with ease while constantly maintaining a theme of struggle and resistance. The title track is a melancholic yet hopeful meditation on life after the current world order of perpetual conflict and imperialism. Hear, hear.

RED ORKESTRA - After the Wars

1. Still Waters
2. Looking for my Life
3. Wide
4. Days of Gold
5. Awake
6. Love & War
7. All this is a Dream
8. Sail for Home
9. Settle an old Score
10. Sweet Hereafter
11. After the Wars
12. For the World (live bonus track)