Surveillance Culture

by Bait

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1.	South Australia 02:55	info	buy track
2.	Thick and Thin 02:43	info	buy track
3.	We Become What We Create 03:23	info	buy track
4.	Surveillance Culture 02:46	info	buy track
5.	Ban the Bomb 03:10	info	buy track
6.	Daylight Sun 04:36	info	buy track
7.	Inner Melbourne Sudanese Blues 06:16	info	buy track
8.	Curves 03:26	info	buy track
9.	Tree of Life 05:04	info	buy track
10.	Jah Love 05:20	info	buy track

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'Surveillance Culture' by Bait, the title track from the 2018 album was written in response to an RTE television production of Samuel Beckett's play 'Waiting for Godot' in 2017 -- a climate of extreme surveillance of most all of our communication -- home alone and filled with fear of what words might come out of my pen & who might be watching; & the question of whether a philosophic absurdism like Beckett's bears true witness to this political world, that might be more corrupt than merely insane/inept/obscure. This therefore means that a united people have the power to force change to this 'order'...

credits

released January 17, 2018

All songs written, composed and produced by Bait 2018.
Bait are:
B1 - Guitars, Bass
B2 - Vocals, Drums, Keys, Occasional Guitar

Guests:
Terry McCarthy - Baritone Guitar on 'Ban the Bomb', Guitar on 'Curves'
Mario Genovese - Guitar on 'Inner Melbourne Sudanese Blues'
Nathan Farrelly - Bass on 'Inner Melbourne Sudanese Blues'
Johnny Tesoriero - Drums on 'Inner Melbourne Sudanese Blues'
Chuck Probert - Trumpet on 'Curves'

Mastered by David Briggs
Artwork by Denis Smith

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Bait Boonah, Australia

Formed in 2003 set amongst the Otway Forest, S.W. Victoria.
“Bait are rare exponents of the personal. They can easily perform traditional songs in all their glory with facility but they choose instead, through unique melodic & syntactical composition, to explore their own reality, a reality informed by (post)modernity and popular culture but not limited to their limiting assumptions.” G.Genovese ... more

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