Avi Sagild

Rotterne I Vietnam

1973 · Demos Demos 12 · Denmark

Artist
Avi Sagild
Title
Rotterne I Vietnam
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. 'The Rats in Vietnam', one of 28 Vietnam War poems recited by Skifteholdet on the LP; produced by Karsten Sommer.

About the artist

Avi Sagild, born 22 February 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died 19 September 1995 in Denmark, edited, arranged and directed the Danish theatre group Skifteholdet on this recording.

Themes

Anti-War · Anti-Imperialism · Anti-American

In collections

European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]