Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs - State Of The Union (The American Dream In Crisis 1967 - 1973) flac album

The sound of a country trying to work its way out of a crisis. On 24-track CD and 25-track 180g blue vinyl gatefold 2LP. By 1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. With urban riots, Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and ever-climbing divorce rates, the American way of life was under scrutiny from all sides. The nation’s youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but now the older, pre-Beatles generations began to look at the country and wonder what the hell was happening

Compiled by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, State Of The Union follows on from their highly acclaimed English Weather and Paris In The Spring compilations. With clear parallels between today's fractured country and the USA fifty years ago, this is a fascinating condensation of what Americans were thinking when they turned on the TV, or the radio, or simply walked down Main Street in 1968.

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By 1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. The nation’s youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but now the older, pre-Beatles generations began to look at the country and wonder what the hell was happening

State Of The Union: The American Dream In Crisis 1967-1973 (unmixed CD). Ace. Cat: CDCHD 1533. overlooked by the reductive forces of retro culture - a disenfranchised but rich zone in the early seventies after psychedelia, when although the '60s dream had faded slightly the atmosphere of melancholy and hope alike made for unclassifiable and evergreen music.

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs - Paris In The Spring. In the first instance, the spark that lit the revolutionary tinderbox in Paris in May 1968 was a demand from Nanterre University students that they be allowed to sleep with each other in their dormitories. It took no time at all for sexual frustration to become emblematic of a wider political oppression, and the resultant affray between students and riot police famously went up like a Roman (well, Parisian) candle – not least when a concurrent workers’ revolt fanned the flames, often literally.

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While recording the album Finisterre in 2002, Stanley, Pete Wiggs and frequent collaborator Paul Kelly made a film to accompany the record, also titled Finisterre, which was described by The Observer as a "cinematic hymn to London". It premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and was screened around the world by one dot zero. In 2016, he was commissioned by 14-18 Now as creative producer on a project to explore the impact of the First World War on the north-east of England.