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from Pronounced: FATE by F8

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This closer is not a song, but a reflection.

Within this minute, someone is being raped, a loved one murdered, a child, spouse or slave labourer abused, people starving, freezing, neglected, abused, contracting HIV... There are 60 minutes in an hour, 1440 in a day, 43200 in a month... you can do the math... what are you going to do about it?

When there's a tragedy, we observe a minute of silence. That means we should be doing so all day long...(!)
Each minute that slips by is gone forever and within those 60 seconds, unheard of atrocities play itself out around every corner while we stand by and watch (or silently ignore, having our own problems to deal with).
Humanity gets sucked further down the freaking tubes and it is up to us to make a difference.
The sound of this one minute thunderstorm is fraught with metaphors which you can formulate for yourself (depending if you're a glass half-full or half-empty personality).
Let this minute be one yielding more positivity than negativity - If every day we take a minute to think about our planet and fellow inhabitants without getting on our high horses of condemnation, maybe one day we can discard having to stop for a minute's silence.

Originally this was a completely silent track, but when a thunderstorm cloud burst hit in the midde of a ape Town drought, it seemed very apt to record and use it in stead of no audio (which will blow over the listener unless this info is read, or have someone think the track's defective).

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No lyrics - audio of a thunderstorm

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from Pronounced: FATE, released March 1, 1998
Thunderstorm recorded by Paul Blom in Cape Town, South Africa

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F8 Cape Town, South Africa

in 1997 V.O.D drummer Paul bought a bass guitar while the band was touring Europe (with Katatonia and In The Woods). On returning to South Africa he started creating music on his own terms, with no restrictions. Anything goes. Coining the term Tekno-Grind for this solo project (which only utilizes bass guitars), the initial intention for what it would sound like resulted in an eclectic beast! ... more

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