FC Apatride UTD - Third Worldism (Earth Works Outernational)

For this long player, the Serbs collaborated with Dutch Earth Works Outernational and took to their Earth Works Studio in Amsterdam, where the entire recording process was filmed and put on YouTube as a mini documentary. The recording sessions yielded 10 new tracks in which vocalist Abdelraheem Kheirawi, in his almost parlando singing style, speaks out against our hypocritical attitude towards asylum seekers and foreigners in general (opener 'Ah Come'), the capitalist western system that continues to leech on Africa ('Parasite State') and the attitude Africans would do better to adopt in this matter ('Black Against Empire'), the Israeli occupation of Palestine ('Belly Gun Button'), the ongoing police violence mostly affecting the black population of the US ('Ferguson', referring to the race riots that erupted in the town of the same name in Missouri after Michael Brown was killed there by policeman Darren Wilson in 2014), and the oppressed in this world, whether they'd be living in the Brazilian favelas or trying to survive in the townships of South Africa (closing track 'Sing Ye'). Yours truly has never hidden his leftwing sympathies, but we'd never heard of so called 'Naxalites'. They turn out to be the supporters of an extreme-left Maoist movement in India, named after the town of Naxalbari in the West Bengal district of Darjeeling, where an armed peasant uprising took place in 1967. Listening to FC Apatride UTD is always a learning experience! That being said, some of Abdelraheem's lyrics almost read like poetry, and those of opener 'Ah Come' (with accompanying video clip recorded in the snowy Serbian hills with the cooperation of some Sudanese refugees) we didn't want to withhold: 

"Once mighty race so sonorous majestic Row the boats across the stormy sea Hypothermal dwellings of hope Risk our lives to reach the shores of Europe   Who survives the dolphin company Gets to live in shark society With no love of a man over man Just profit and capital Accumulation   Fingerprinting, photography Restricted movement and residence Isolation, deportation Welcome to the Promised Land   Ah come, ah come, ahoy we go History backfires Right in your home Ah come, Ah come, ahoy we go We trod through Spain We chant down Rome   You say we munch your social benefits Take advantage of your generosity Link your crime rate to our violent genes Portray our woman as lazy Welfare queens   Ignorant, politically illiterate You have no idea how your system operates All the goods you use, clothes, drink or food Come from exploiting The Third World   Occupation, subordination Growing of global inequalities So we'll take our compensation For five hundred years of your privilege!   In Belgium Germany Inna Greece Hungary Inna UK Netherlands We chant down Rome We chant down France"   In closure, we'd like to mention the artwork for the cover of 'Third Worldism' is an adaptation of a photo British photographer Jimmy Nelson, who dedicates his work to immortalizing disappearing cultures, took in southern Ethiopia's Omo Valley back in 2011.   FC Apatride UTD, reggae revolution, hasta la victoria siempre!