Befri Syden [B12]
1973 · Demos Demos 12 · Denmark
- Artist
- Avi Sagild
- Title
- Befri Syden [B12]
- 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
- Vietnamese Patriotic
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. Danish recitation of 'Liberate the South' (Giải phóng miền Nam), closing side A of the 28-poem LP Vi har den samme fjende; repeated as B12. Cover of Giải phóng miền Nam – Lưu Hữu Phước.
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
Vietnamese Patriotic · North Vietnam Patriotic · Reunification · VC · Anti-Imperialism