Protest Possible by The Dorf

The production of protest possible from first steps of contacting authors and giving commissions to the finished product took something like three years, with a lot of steps in between.

The project started in a time where capitalism got just faster and faster and more absurd, without any possible vision that this spiral could be paused or stopped - which then sort of happened through Corona.

The first conceptual idea was to connect to the tradition of workers-songs/ protest-songs, songs that maybe could be sung by a lot of people together, accompanied by a guitar or something. But the times in Western Europe, where a refrain could easily be “death to capitalism” had gone, And the texts - as we have them here on this record - are filled with emotions of resistance, accusation and protest, but are also multidimensional and subtle in their meanings and strategies. The authors, involved here, are from various backgrounds and delivered some ultra strong work…

We don’t want to bore you with descriptions of the complexity to put all this together, the impossibility to really perform the music live before recording it and the impact all these circumstances have on how the music sounds.

But once again The Dorf, your favorite orchestra, releases a record, that is completely different from everything we have done before with music, this orchestra was not originally built for. Most of it recorded in the studio in May June 2020 with further home recordings added by the other musicians, this is the first real studio album, the dorf has released, using something like a proper click track and all that studio shit. I think it's not wrong to say that about 1000 hours of studio work went into this - plus all that mixing/editing/mastering by the fantastic Oliver Siegel.

Now let's talk about the finish… in total there are only 100 vinyls including a 12 inch, a 7 inch + a 12 page booklet.
all the cover are hand-painted and numbered from 1 to 100. If you dare it there is an instruction on how to cut up the cover and make a protest sign from it.
We also have some CDs in the making, which will sound great, look the same but are of course not quite that luxury product, a real protester should have in his collection.

As a bonus item, in case you have just the digital album out of the CD, we offer all the texts and instructions on how to build your protest sign in a little booklet.

So, purchase, practice and singalong!

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