{"id":80049,"date":"2023-02-17T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=80049"},"modified":"2023-02-17T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:24:01","slug":"red-bird-rising-are-starting-my-revolution-with-new-single-featuring-taras-kuznetzov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2023\/02\/red-bird-rising-are-starting-my-revolution-with-new-single-featuring-taras-kuznetzov\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bird Rising Are Starting ‘My Revolution’ With New Single Featuring Taras Kuznetzov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Musician, songwriter, and producer, Diedrich Donald Weiss knows that the best writing comes when we most need it, and it’s proven to be his motivation in much of his music. Writing under the alias Red Bird Rising, Weiss’s latest single, ‘My Revolution’, is testament to this, and the love song and anti-war statement features Ukranian husband and wife team Taras Kuznetsov<\/a> and Ana Pshokina<\/a> – who know quite a lot when it comes to urgency – on lead vocals and bass respectively. <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Speaking about the track, Weiss says,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have a world worn faith in the power of music to effect people\u2019s lives positively. It\u2019s from this place that inspired me to write\u00a0‘My Revolution’ in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It may be naive to think a song could in any way substantially effect something as dominating as this horror, yet it was my answer to the inner question,\u00a0\u201cwhat can I do?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I initially thought of the invasion as life or death. Soldiers, tanks, missiles, guns, blood. My mind touched the images and information coming in and it quickly separated to protect me from the intensity. It filled in the blanks with past wars in modern history. But the battle is not what this song is about.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

All these elements should make the song moving enough, but Red Bird Rising takes it one step further with a music video that includes footage filmed in Odessa, Ukraine, while they were under the threat of Russian missiles. Once again, creativity shows that it cannot be silenced, and is at its greatest when under the most harrowing of circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of ‘My Revolution’ is very personal, having been written about Taras Kuznetsov himself. Taras is a 32 year old full time remote freelance vocalist, producer, arranger, audio engineer, drummer, and pianist. In short, a very talented man. The song is set in March 2022, a mere 6 weeks after Russia first invaded Ukraine, and the location is Odessa, the Ukrainian port city vital to the import and export of that country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In ‘My Revolution’ we hear Tara singing of the decisions he has to make. He sings in the opening verse, “passport be damned, take all I can, get out now like I should”. Sense tells him he should flee: as a man he’s unable to legally leave the country, but that’s certainly not stopped those who’ve escaped to places like Poland and Turkey. He gets access to a gun, for his own personal safety, and that of his family. \u201cI was given a gun, I can take out some Russians, bring those reptiles down\u201d. It’s a harsh reality and made all the more potent in the music video, as we feel the tension of the situation. Taras has choices to make, and if the Russians were to invade Odessa, he would use the gun – but until then – he and his wife Ana work in their studio, doing what they do best – creating music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all the horrific backstory, ‘My Revolution’ is nonetheless a very enjoyable song to listen to, with a rock soundtrack that will have you bopping out as you contemplate the deeper meaning of the lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch the official music video for ‘My Revolution’ here<\/a>, and stream it on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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