Barbez - Mexico City Impressions/ Somebody Get Rid Of The King

This 7" is limited to 400 copies and was designed, signed and numbered by Barbez's Dan Kaufman. These two intense numbers were inspired by both a pleasant trip through a small historic neighborhood in Mexico city and the detestable Iraq war. Cover art was inspired by the abuse of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Look for the next Barbez record sometime soon on Tzadik. These two songs were recorded and mixed by the great Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Swans) They were mastered by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes) at Avatar Studios. Somebody Get Rid of the King, is an angry lament that comes out of a great fury at the Iraq War and especially at the cruelty of the United States towards the detainees it holds in Guantanamo and in the tortures it perpetrated at the Abu Ghraib prison. The subject was close to my heart as I spent several years working as a researcher with famed journalist Seymour Hersh on his book, Chain of Command, which detailed these outrageous war crimes. The song begins in a slow and mournful vein only to transform into a punk-rock blowout full of rage.

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