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    'Assimilation is Death' is a split with GUMMO (gummogrind.bandcamp.com) <3
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    Produced by GUMMO & JETSAM

    Co-produced by Minga Records, No Time Records, Here & Now Records, Loner Cult Records, Sleepy Dog Records, Sonic Bath Records, Crypt of Dr Gore Records, Coup de Couteau Records, Don't Trust The Hype Records, Wrecking Crew Records

    Artwork by Lucie Babayan - @luciebambibabayan

    Design by Antoine


    Jetsam side

    All songs written, performed, and recorded by Jetsam

    Intro to new colossus is an excerpt from the writings of Voltairine de Cleyre as quoted by Emma Goldman (theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-voltairine-de-cleyre)

    Mixed & mastered by Travis Mercredi


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    Recorded by Antoine et Mathieu
    Mixed & Mastered by Antoine
    Music by GUMMO
    Lyrics by Mathieu except "Bygotism & Evil" (Cristina) and "Caveman" (Théo).

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the spoken part at the beginning of the song is Voltairine de Cleyre, quoted by Emma Goldman (theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-voltairine-de-cleyre)

lyrics

“Have you ever watched it coming in, — the sea? When the wind comes roaring out of the mist and a great bellowing thunders up from the water? Have you watched the white lions chasing each other towards the walls, and leaping up with foaming anger, as they strike, and turn and chase each other along the black bars of their cage in rage to devour each other? And tear back? And leap in again? Have you ever wondered in the midst of it all, which particular drops of water would strike the wall? If one could know all the facts one might calculate even that. But who can know them all? Of one thing only we are sure; some must strike it.

They are the criminals, those drops of water pitching against that silly wall and broken. Just why it was those particular ones we cannot know; but some had to go. Do not curse them; you have cursed them enough”

crime and punishment
tangled cause and effect

give me your tired
give me your poor
give me your huddled masses

a broken promise
of a perfect world
disappear anyone
who gives the lie

give me all those who yearn to breathe free
acres of skin to fuel the machine

exploitation
desperation
persecution
obfuscation

another body to feed the machine
just one more body to feed the machine
send up a prayer to the mother of exiles
blessed are the persecuted

a sacrifice
at the altar
of cruelty and greed
in the name
of the powerful and ignorant

guilt or innocence
a convenient fiction
to maintain the lie
that we are free

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from Assimilation is Death (split with Gummo), released August 4, 2023

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Jetsam Montreal, Québec

three-piece powerviolence band from so-called montreal.

anarchiste, antifasciste, queer. trio punk de montréal. pas de guit'. pas de compromis.

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