Red Bird Rising unveil their debut track “My Revolution,” which is an amalgamation of love theme and anti-war statement. The song features Ukrainian musicians Taras Kuznetsov on lead vocals and Ana Pshokina on bass. A broad group of instruments have been used in the song, and it has been accompanied with a music video that depicts how devastating war can be.
Watch the official video of “My Revolution” on YouTube:
Red Bird Rising is the musical alias of musician, songwriter, and producer Diedrich Donald Weiss. Diedrich Donald Weiss shares his thoughts:
“I have a world worn faith in the power of music to effect people’s lives positively. It’s from this place that inspired me to write ‘My Revolution’ in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It may be naive to think a song could in any way substantially effect something as dominating as this horror, yet it was my answer to the inner question, ‘what can I do?’
“I initially thought of the invasion as life or death. Soldiers, tanks, missiles, guns, blood. My mind touched the images and information coming in and it quickly separated to protect me from the intensity. It filled in the blanks with past wars in modern history. But the battle is not what this song is about.
“Connecting to Taras Kuznetsov to pursue fulfilling ‘My Revolution’ ported me into a day to day contact with a civilian experience unique to anything that has come before in modern war. This invasion is barbaric, highly personal, and specifically targets civilians to create terror and leverage surrender.
“‘My Revolution’ is about a man stuck against a force dominating his life, his dreams, and adapting his mundane but simple comforts into necessities in order to cope. And this man is not fictional. He is Taras Kuznetsov, a 32-year-old, full-time, remote, freelance vocalist, producer, arranger, audio engineer, drummer and pianist. The time of the scene of the song is March 2022, about six weeks after the first Russian military intrusion of sovereignty. The location is Odessa, the port city crucial to access to import and export of vital goods and artistic soul of Ukraine.”
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