General Ky's Drøm
1973 · Demos Demos 12 · Denmark
- Artist
- Avi Sagild
- Title
- General Ky's Drøm
- Release
- Vi har den samme fjende
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Demos # Demos 12
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Danish
- Country
- Denmark
- Songwriter
- see notes
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Poetry
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
Whole LP is a 28-poem Vietnam War spoken-word/sound-poetry record. Texts by: Armando Tejada Gómez, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Che Guevara, Chính Hữu, Chế Lan Viên, Ebbe Kløvedal Reich, Erik Knudsen, Giang Nam, Ho Chi Minh, Jesper Jensen, Le Tan Loi, Mette Krag, Nam Ha, Nguyễn Đình Thi, Noel Cobb, Otto René Castillo, Thanh Hải, Trieu, Wolf Biermann. Producer: Karsten Sommer; recorded by Freddy Hansson at Rosenberg Studio. Voices: Avi Sagild, Eva Krogh, Ida Krag, Jens Nordsø, Jesper Milsted, Klavs Nordsø; vocals incl. Anne-Marie Nielsen, Hanne Betzer, Leif Monnerup etc. Electric guitar: Kim Sagild, Mikkel Nordsø. Cover: Jens Nordsø. Made in Denmark. One of 28 Vietnam War poems recited on the LP Vi har den samme fjende, with texts by Brecht, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Wolf Biermann and Vietnamese poets.
About the artist
Danish theatre group Skifteholdet, directed by Avi Sagild, who was born 22 February 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died 19 September 1995 in Denmark.
Themes
Satire · South Vietnamese · Anti-American · Anti-War · Anti-Imperialism
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]