Grab yourself a first edition pressing of the vinyl record while stocks last! Bandcamp purchases will be shipped within 3 days of release date, barring any unforeseen circumstances. Deluxe two-pocket, thick card stock, double gatefold with 8-page booklet, featuring illustrations by Shaun Tan.
NOTE: The Australian colour is translucent purple, not patterned as per the image.
Includes unlimited streaming of Signs of Life
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Grab yourself a first edition pressing of the vinyl record while stocks last! Bandcamp purchases will be shipped within 3 days of release date, barring any unforeseen circumstances. Deluxe two-pocket, thick card stock, double gatefold with 8-page booklet, featuring illustrations by Shaun Tan.
Includes unlimited streaming of Signs of Life
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea, because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast.
I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sing, dramatise and deny.
I do not believe that burning, murdering, exploding people, smashing their heads with rocks (to let the bad ideas out), drowning them or even defeating them will work to contain ideas you do not like. Ideas spring up where you do not expect them, like weeds, and are as difficult to control.
I believe that repressing ideas spreads ideas.
I believe that people and books and newspapers are containers for ideas, but that burning the people who hold the ideas will be as unsuccessful as firebombing the newspaper archives. It is already too late. It is always too late. The ideas are already out, hiding behind people’s eyes, waiting in their thoughts. They can be whispered. They can be written on walls in the dead of night. They can be drawn.
I believe that ideas do not have to be correct to exist.
I believe you have every right to be perfectly certain that images of god or prophet or human that you revere are sacred and undefilable, just as I have the right to be certain of the sacredness of speech, of the sanctity of the right to mock, comment, to argue and to utter.
I believe I have the right to think and say the wrong things. I believe your remedy for that should be to argue with me or to ignore me, and that I should have the same remedy for the wrong things that you think.
I believe that you have the absolute right to think things that I find offensive, stupid, preposterous or dangerous, and that you have the right to speak, write, or distribute these things, and that I do not have the right to kill you, maim you, hurt you, or take away your liberty or property because I find your ideas threatening or insulting or downright disgusting. You probably think some of my ideas are pretty vile, too.
I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win.
Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true.
Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.
credits
from Signs of Life,
released April 28, 2023
Words by Neil Gaiman, Music by FourPlay String Quartet
Produced by Lara Goodridge, Tony Buchen and FourPlay
Recorded by Matt Wiggins at The Church Studios, London
What do I say? I love Amanda. She's inspirational, not just her music but her whole personality! This album is fun, serious, heartwarming and inspirational spacehawk.mp3
This is just HILARIOUS
Everyone on it gave such an AMAZING performance
and Kevin's final appearance? Took me completly by surprise *cheff kiss* MarlaHectic
