Liberty

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“Liberty” is the second album from Beltaine’s Fire. You can buy either the digital or physical version at from the online store on this website. CDs’s are also available at all shows.

Liberty takes Celtic Hip-Hop to the next level with a boldly unique fusion of Scottish and Irish rebel music and rap. The music combines the passion and deep roots of resistance embodied by the rebel bards of the Celtic Diaspora with the directness and relevance of politically conscious hip hop in a truly seamless fusion that is both deeply rooted in tradition and history and brand new.

“Liberty” was released Sept. 12 2008, the seventh anniversary of the US Government’s current War on Freedom. The new album keeps the same razor-sharp political slant that fans of the band have come to know and love – the album tackles issues ranging from the inequalities caused by neo-liberal globalization and structural imperialism to the long history of support for dictators and despots around the world by both Democratic and Republican administrations. It’s not all doom and gloom, however. As Emma Goldman famously put it there’s no point in having a revolution if people can’t dance to it, and even their most serious tracks boast infectiously danceable rhythms. Throw in a few up-tempo tracks like Reclaim the Streets, 1234, and Kilted and you’ve got the perfect soundtrack for a revolution near you.

Bard Poet, Rapper, Scribe
Liberty
To Condemn the Ocean
I Have Seen the Enemy
Desert Sunrise
Darkness
The Glasgow Reel (Instrumental)
Kilted
The Falls of Richmond
None of the Above
1234
Reclaim the Streets
Fisherman’s Favorite / Dunmore Lasses / Jenny Dang the Weaver (Instrumental set)

Darkness

A metaphorical journey through darkness, depression, and the struggle to make the world a better place even when all hope is lost.

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Fun fact: Many people don't know that JRR Tolkein, author of the Lord of the Rings, was a lifelong Anarchist. In the story many of the defenders of "good" are tempted to use the awesome power of the Ring as a weapon against Sauron, but because of the nature of that power any good it was used to achieve would be corrupted. The ring, and the violent coercive dark power it represents, is an allegory for the violence of Authoritarian State power. Frodo's quest to destroy the ring and keep its power out of the hands of "allies" who secretly desire it is thus a metaphor for the Anarchist quest to abolish coercive State power instead of seizing it for themselves as Marxists and other leftists aim to do.

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