Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun explained

Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun
Type:Album
Artist:Red Sparowes
Cover:Redsparowes.redheart.jpg
Released:September 19, 2006
Recorded:April - May 2006
Genre:Post-rock
Post-metal
Length:61:37
Label:Neurot Recordings
Producer:Red Sparowes, Tim Green
Prev Title:At the Soundless Dawn
Prev Year:2005
Next Title:Oh Lord, God of Vengeance, Show Yourself!
Next Year:2006

Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun is the second studio album by post-rock band Red Sparowes, released in September 2006.

Despite having no lyrics, the album (by way of its song titles) follows the story of the Great Leap Forward in Mao Zedong-era China, more specifically recounting the Great Sparrow Campaign, a mass killing of sparrows (along with rats, flies and mosquitoes) that fed on a portion of the harvest and were seen as pests. Peasants were encouraged to bang pots and pans to scare sparrows into continuing flight, eventually killing them from exhaustion. Whilst the harvest of the year after the campaign was larger, there was a massive rise in locust numbers in the late 1950s, as a result of the significantly lower population of sparrows, a major predator of the locust.

Along with other programs in the Great Leap Forward, the Great Sparrow Campaign caused widespread famine where, between 1959 and 1962, 45 million people died of starvation or were beaten to death.[1]

Track listing

Bonus Tracks

Personnel

Red Sparowes
Additional

References

  1. News: Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'. The Independent. 17 September 2010. Akbar. Arifa.