« There’s A Riot Goin’ On » Project

There’s a Riot Goin’ On is a missing piece from Sly and the Family Stone’s 1971 eponymous album. Simply mentioned on the album cover, it suggests, by its silence, a riot without a manifesto, seemingly appearing only through interstices.

The project “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” that I am proposing to you today consists in a dispersed “cover version” of this missing track. If you feel like participating, you would have to insert the title “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” in the track list of one (or several) of your forthcoming albums. A plain textual addition, a simple anonymous insert alluding to the discreet slogan. The reference would only concern the album cover and/or booklet, without any other form of explanation, nor credit mentioning the project.

Insert published in Volume !, n° 9.1, 2013 ; Revue et Corrigée, n° 95, March 2013 ; Wire, n° 352, June 2013 ; Metallian, n° 78, July 2013 ; Wax Poetics, n° 56, August 2013 ; Nero, n° 33, fall 2013.