Indokina kämpar även för oss
1974 · Befria BS-6 · Sweden
- Artist
- FNL-Grupperna
- Title
- Indokina kämpar även för oss
- Release
- Framtiden är vår, Sånger till Vietnam
- Year
- 1974
- Label
- Befria # BS-6
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- Genre
- Nordic Music · Progressive Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Swedish, post-war, anti-war. Collection of 14 Vietnam related folk / protest songs. Befria Södern # BS-6 Framtiden Är Vår - Sånger till Vietnam ("The Future Is Spring - Songs to Vietnam") (1) "Framtiden är vår" ("The Future Is Yours") "När avtalstexten torkat" ("When the Agreement Text Dried") - Nixon reference, about peace agreement "Vi hjälptes åt" ("We Helped Each Other") - reference to France and Diem Bien Phu "Visan om terroristlagen" ("The Song of Terrorism Act") "Basarbetaren" "Det ligger dollar bakom" ("There Are Dollars Behind") "Kambodja ska bli vårt" ("Cambodia Will Be Ours") "En vanlig kvinna i Vietnam" ("An Ordinary Woman in Vietnam") "Erkänn PRR" ("Recognise PRR") - PRR a reference to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam - those opposed to the government of the US backed South Vietnam. "Morgon över Vietnam" ("Morning Over Vietnam") "Kissingers fredsvals" ("Kissinger's Peace Waltz") "Ett helt lands framtid" ("A Whole Country's Future") "Indokina kämpar även för oss " ("Indochina Fighting for US") "Befria södern" ("Liberate the South")
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Song groups of De Förenade FNL-grupperna (DFFG / United NLF Groups), the Swedish solidarity movement with the Vietnamese NLF; active late 1960s to mid 1970s, releasing albums on the movement's own Befria Södern label. Based in Sweden (groups in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala). [Source: Wikipedia / Discogs]