We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

When These Hands Were Small, When These Fists Did Break

by Bueno Crusher

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
Bronson 01:16
You’re gonna need more back up to take me down. I’m counting the cops it takes like 45 plates. Bring me down. As you barrel in, I dare you, without your guns... you fucking coward, you fucking chump. http://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/30/a_conversation_with_death_row_prisoner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJLaN6uDkpY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR4LK7726VQ
2.
Jack Johnson 01:15
Gloves laced, dark skin, 1908, Jack Johnson takes the heavyweight. Let the plantation burn. Beat the bag ‘til it bursts. Who’s weak now when it’s just you and me? No lynch mob, ‘cept for this white mob glaring at me. Something ‘s changed in me. Beat the bag ‘til it bursts. http://books.google.com/books?id=7-hAXVT0t38C&pg=PT49&lpg=PT49&dq=peoples+history+of+sports+jack+johnson&source=bl&ots=JJpY46PK0X&sig=vkUowddX0dBwTItZwXd4Q-LwNnE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eFXQU4CMBIWuyASdl4LYCw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=jack%20johnson&f=false
3.
M.O.A.B. 01:24
In the bunker pale light, huddled side to side to side, we register like a CAT scan. A throb beneath the ground. You and I know we won’t survive, eyes on the walls, knowing they won’t hold. Our hearts betray us. We once shook the beams. My son kicks inside your womb. Bunker buster reach for me. http://electronicintifada.net/content/photostory-al-amiriyyah-baghdad-amiriyyah-south-beirut/6379 http://science.howstuffworks.com/bunker-buster1.htm http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/07/30/5125_print.html
4.
Six Hills 01:22
Six hills to home. At night he hung, leaking from skull crack to ground. See me in the ring. This is my left hook, drop. Exorcise from me, this child. Beat me from me for the things I’ve done when these hands were small, when these fists did break. Beat me from me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elp5rbsNfnI
5.
There are mornings I forget I am paralyzed-- push myself from piss and sweat drenched sheets to my chair, that’s where I need my mother’s arms to hoist me up the stairs. Sometimes I dream I’m Iron Man, withstanding bullets. Tank in my way. I open hulls like C-rations. If I could run, I’d weave through’em like Pele. The suit is on. What I want is a block to play with my friends without the gaze of snipers. Locked on, all lasers, punching walls, snatching cowards out their fucking towers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ3nUthorJI http://www.democracynow.org/2006/7/19/robert_fisk_in_beirut_israeli_assault
6.
Peleona 01:45
Peleona, sangre de indio, que viva su rabia. Peleona, frente ‘l microfono, gritando y gritando. Madre, me has enseñado ha usar, estos puños ‘papado con polvora. Ha quien apuntar estas letras de plomo caliente. Los afueras del cerro, flechas obsidianas, casquillos gastadas y su estomago lleno de lombrices listo a luchar. https://www.google.com/search?q=female+guerrillera&client=firefox-a&hs=1w8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=YlfQU6K4D5CzyASuj4DgDQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1424&bih=717
7.
La Toma 01:43
We found a better way. Fist up for the worker owned. We’re taking over. For so long, the bosses way of sneering down on us in the workpit-- the wage, every machine bit… We’re taking over. If I said your labor’s yours. The punch-in punch-out, assembly motions-- if I said the chained the doors… We’re taking over. For every striker’s demand, every casualty, we’re gonna occupy this factory. We found a better way of living, not just slaving way. To thrive, not just survive the day. Right now barricaded in our plant, every woman and man, slingshot in hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcostesK0Ik

credits

released January 24, 2015

KEITH GAVAZZI - Baritone Guitar
HENRY MILLS - Vocals
ROB WOLK - Drums

Drums were recorded with Kevin Bernsten at Developing Nations.
Everything else was recorded, mixed & mastered by Mike Walls at Audio Esoterica (2014).

Album photography and design by Jonathan Knobel (jonathanknobel.com)
Typography by Marissa Zarrabzadeh

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Bueno Crusher Maryland

A machete-core trio from Maryland.

The past year bore When These Hands Were Small, When These Fists Did Break.

An earlier incarnation released Haiku for the Headlocked, an homage to the social movements and violent uprisings that rocked the world during the 70′s and 80′s.

ex. mem. Army of Kashyyyk; Voyage In Coma
... more

contact / help

Contact Bueno Crusher

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Bueno Crusher, you may also like: