with SLOW FACTION, MINDFRAME,REFUSE/ALL, HEADJAM.
at the: the Hand in Hand
Enjoy the music and the messages by this amazing band from the land of the high mountains.
About Nunatak,this amazing magazine is dedicated to stories,cultures and social struggles from the mountains,all the past issues of this magazine are available as free download here.
Interview taken from Nunatak issue 33/34
Nunatak– Judging from your last album’s title, one would say that to you the concept of mountain is tightly linked to freedom. To you, how important is the reference to a territorial context such as the mountains, in your living and thinking anarchy?
Rai Ko Ris-We started to reflect on the importance of the geography one lives in during the armed conflict here (1996 till 2007). We saw the farmers of the mountains and the hills defeat the Nepalese national police and army easily even if the army was well armed by India,US, UK, Israel and the EU. It helped us realize that the STATE and its authoritarian/punitive/repressive apparatus was pretty useless in difficult terrain such as the Himalaya. We also see around, in India, Pakistan and Bhutan that it is very difficult for a centralised capitalist government to impose its laws in a place that is difficult to access.
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>> Hello Sareena and Olivier, I’m writing to you because we’d like to have an interview with Rai Ko Ris on our magazine called Nunatak >> (magazine of hiostories, cultures, struggles of the mountain). We left >> our questions to a comrade of the Villa Occupata (where you played in >> Milan), but finally he told us that they have problem with the >> recording of your interview, so we send directly te questions now!>>
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>> – Judging from your last album’s title, one would say that to you the >> concept of mountain is tightly linked to freedom. To you, how >> important is the reference to a territorial context such as the >> mountain, in your living and thinking anarchy?
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