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My piano ate the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle

from My piano ate the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle by Antioquia

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This is the title track of Antioquia's 2010 album. With lyrics and melody by frontwoman Maddy Streicek, the song expresses the influence of mainstream media and technology over-saturation on the human creative potential and calls for personal triumph over the temptations presented by media a la Murdoch.

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My piano ate the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. Hammered up the pages like so much wheat under the sickle. Digest the front page daily? Well, I’d rather eat a pickle! // A film shrouds my vision, news fed to my bloodstream. I can’t close my eyes like I’m in Ludovico’s chair. Vectors pierce my skin from every direction to the CPU within me. I can’t remember when my soul was last aware. My pores are pixels. My veins are wires. I can dare to call it names, or try to speak against it. I can ban it from my home & heart, but the fact remains that I’m constructed from it. My body is not relevant when actions spew from input of the diet I’ve been fed. // My bones are moved by puppet strings attached to wings of things called satellites. Out orbiting there in the sky & broadcasting into my eye. But I have my own knowledge stored in a secret hard drive. My own Alphabet Soup survived the poop that Rupert Murdoch’s fed me all my life. Yeah, the Inspiration in me is somewhere playing dead... I gotta wake it from it’s sleep before the mud gets too deep. The Creativity in me is somewhere playing dead. I gotta jolt it from its slumber before my brain gets any number... TURN OFF YOUR TV! Is anybody listenin to me? It’s killin your humanity! We gotta jolt it from its slumber before our world gets any dumber!

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from My piano ate the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, released April 3, 2010
Written and performed by Antioquia (Paul Martin, Craig Miller, Maddy Streicek & Adley Penner) with guest percussionist Ben Isaacs.

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Antioquia [an-tee-OH-kee-ah] plays music. The music they play comes from the universe. It is filtered through progressive rock, funk, hip-hop, traditional rhythms from Latin America and West Africa, and pretty much anything they hear and see and feel. And smell. And taste. The band began in Antioquia, Colombia and was incubated in San Francisco. They continue to grow wings in Oakland, CA. ... more

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