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THE CHILDREN WHO WERE NEVER BORN (Sterilized Vocal Mix)

from WHIRLWIND OF THE WHISPERING WORLDS by Todd Tamanend Clark

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"THE CHILDREN WHO WERE NEVER BORN" is an industrial waltz that laments the forced sterilization of indigenous women throughout the western hemisphere. Dorothy Moskowitz Falarski from the 1960s pioneering electronic rock band The United States Of America provides the background vocals.

Synthesizer: Korg KRONOS 2-88. Guitars: Epiphone LES PAUL, Ernie Ball Music Man SAINT VINCENT, Fender AMERICAN JAZZ BASS, Fender TELECASTER. Guitar Effects: Death By Audio EVIL FILTER, Death By Audio GHOST DELAY, Death By Audio ROOMS. Amplifiers: Blackstar HT STAGE 60 MKII, Orange TERROR BASS, Rocktron TABOO 100.

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"THE CHILDREN WHO WERE NEVER BORN"

Winona went to sleep fertile! Winona woke up sterilized!
The doctors had done far more than she first realized!
She never got pregnant for the rest of her lonely life!
Future generations were eradicated with a scalpel's slice!

Imagine all the things never done
By the children who were never born!

Maria went to sleep fertile! Maria woke up sterilized!
To these brutal butchers, native babies were nearly never prized!
She was one of many thousands who now could not carry a child!
Against churches or the state, charges were quite difficult to file!

Imagine all the things never done
By the children who were never born!

They sterilized indigenous women in South Dakota!
They sterilized indigenous women in Oklahoma!
They sterilized indigenous women in California!
They sterilized indigenous women in Canada!
They sterilized indigenous women in Peru!
And I have no siblings because they sterilized my mother, too!

These genocidal eugenics were crimes against humanity!
They nearly erased the people that the system kept in poverty!
It was covertly designed to confiscate our land, anyhow!
The legacy of American apartheid still lingers with us now!

Imagine all the things never done
By the children who were never born!

[Copyright 2021 Todd Tamanend Clark. All rights reserved.]

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from WHIRLWIND OF THE WHISPERING WORLDS, released August 1, 2020
TODD TAMANEND CLARK: Voice, Synthesizer, Guitar Solo, Electronic Percussion; DOROTHY MOSKOWITZ FALARSKI: Vocals; RICHARD BRIOLI: Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar.

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Todd Tamanend Clark Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

TODD TAMANEND CLARK was born on August 10, 1952 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania. He was deeply influenced by Native American cultures, owl ornithology, the Monongahela River, 1950s science-fiction cinema, silver age comic books, beat poetry, space jazz, and the American psychedelic music of the 1960s. He was an early pioneer of adding synthesizers and effects processing to a punk rock aesthetic. ... more

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