HARTES PORZELLAN’s subversive, psychedelic, post-Big Beat song “RICH” expresses both an intense solidarity for fellow humans navigating the depredations and compromises of late capitalism and a complete contempt for the system imposed on everyone everywhere. Throughout the song the conventional system of values are flouted and redefined as the songwriter questions what constitutes being “rich” for real and how that “virtue” is a contingent fact that can be overturned if people simply didn’t cooperate in the established system of assigning value and perhaps embraced valuing our own lives and dignity and the very time we’re allotted in life itself both individually and as a society. In the video we see people indulging in casual fun and dancing, simple pleasures, acts of creativity and rebellious acts of everyday luxuries while simply shifting perspective to live in a new world of transformed consciousness. Musically it’s reminiscent of something that might have been inspired both by the work of Jack Dangers and The KLF’s The Manual. Watch the video for “RICH” on YouTube.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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