Sprout Head Uprising

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Today 43 years ago, Sprout Head Uprising released the debug single "Throw Some Water In". From the 1981 press release: "No-one's ever done [country] properly which is where [we] come in. I've never done anything by halves; I have an overdraft at 2 banks! sproutheaduprising.bandcamp.com/album/throw-so…

A fawn resting in a field of flowers

A review from 1981 🙂

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Thanks to everyone who bought our turquoise vinyl reissue of Wadada Magic for Record Store Day! It’s 40 years since the original 🙂. Let’s see some photos!

Check out our cover of 'Strange Boat', released on Arka Sound in 2019! Be sure to let us know if you enjoy it. sproutheaduprising.bandcamp.com/track/strange-…

"Before language became a formation of words, music was, and still is in other spheres, the means of communication between souls" - Michael Wadada All Souls' Eve 31st October 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=NdreuI…

WADADA MEANS LOVE Michael Wadada In Paradisum Greatly loved, deeply missed youtube.com/watch?v=-xuk-p…

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

Happy Birthday Michael... let your spirit shine on... love forever... youtube.com/watch?v=KSNZEn…

PRE-ORDER: 'Revenge of the Mozabites' by Suns of Arqa This incredible, Adrian Sherwood co-produced dub LP from the Michael Wadada-led group is getting a limited-to-500 reissue. Expect to hear ragas, Nyabinghi drumming, psych, and folk in these grooves. normanrecords.com/records/195692…

13 years on Twitter, 43 years in music… #MyTwitterAnniversary

Suns of Arqa - Tomorrow Never Knows (Gagarin Mix) "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream" This Beatles classic was first covered by Suns of Arqa in 1995 and features Wadada on vocals. This excellent remix by Gagarin was first released in 1998. sunsofarqa.bandcamp.com/track/tomorrow…

Sprout Head Uprising - Electric Animal. A now hard-to-find 7" single we released back in 1981!

Sprout Head Uprising are on Spotify! Give us a follow! New release coming soon! open.spotify.com/artist/6AiJn4b…

Sprout Head Uprising playing "Blanket on the Ground". Enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=nGBhb8…

Watch Sprout Head Uprising LIVE playing "Buena" at the Ukrainian Club, Prestwich, Manchester, England on 14th February 1990! youtube.com/watch?v=uo1O5Q… #prestwich #manchester #music #livemusic #countrymusic

Early Spring by Sprout Head Uprising bit.ly/2zd1W2Y via @sunsofarqa

Sprout Head Uprising - Strange Boat youtu.be/KSNZEn9X3UY via @YouTube AWESOME