Free on bandcamp:
https://unsanitarynapkin.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-of-shit
"Displeasure is the digital subsidiary of Unsanitary Napkin. Vortex of
Shit deals with the swirling mess of scaremongering bullshit rearing its
increasingly ugly head in political discourse in Aotearoa. In the year
2022, things have reached the point where disgruntled science-denying
farmers are teaming up with perverse public toilet-obsessed transphobes,
raging anti-vaxxxers and evangelical megachurch despots in a horrific
whirlpool of shit ideas manipulated by white supremacists and alt-right
trolls - with all of their delusional social media outrage pumped by
cynical algorithms to swell the profits of hypercapitalist billionaires
and their colonial space-fantasies. Vortex of Shit highlights the
absurdity of this dystopian trajectory, and stresses the urgency of
solidarity in dismantling the extractive capitalist core driving the
whole enterprise. Vortex of Shit was recorded and mixed by Vanya Vitali
at Slimebag in Te Horo.
“The world you are being handed is one in turmoil, with an uncertain
future. Truth be told – this trajectory of peril has been set for some
time now, but never before were we able to access proof of that peril,
expose it, and speak out to it, as we have been now, and it is taking a
lot of work – much of which you too will have to bear. I wish it wasn’t
so, I wish we could have taken care of so
much more, but nevertheless I take heart that we have progressed enough
to make the extreme right very, very anxious – and it’s important to
understand that the global rise of the right, with all their hate and
violence, is a direct reaction to social rights progress over many
generations now – resulting in you, and the powerhouse you are […] focus
on the sites of accountable power, and continue to articulate, with all
your beautiful, passionate, eloquent, powerful voices, what true
justice looks, sounds, and feels like. Remind those sites of accountable
power that it is their responsibility to deal with the violent and
hateful extremities of their own colonial political ideologies.” - Tina
Ngata, ‘A Note for Our Rangatahi Resistance’ "
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