Vinyl - James Composervist - Trump Portrait

Tracklist

Face A
1.
I. The Prologue
James Composervist
02:00
2.
11. Eyes Wide Open
James Composervist
04:13
Face B
1.
III. The Grift
James Composervist
03:57
2.
IV. The Deceit
James Composervist
03:10

Informations


  • Artiste : James Composervist
  • Label : Little Beck Music
  • Format : 1 x 12"(140g)
  • PaysÉtats-Unis
  • Genres
  • Date de livraison estiméeseptembre 2025

Description

Trump Portrait
As a composer, your main expression is through the arrangement of harmony and melody—to provide context for your inner self and thoughts that shape your everyday core values.
When Aaron Copland composed “Lincoln Portrait”, he gave voice to a nation’s conscience. He called upon the words of Abraham Lincoln not merely to remind us of who we were—but of who we might become at our best. He offered a soundscape of hope, humility, and civic dignity.

This work— A Trump Portrait—is not that.
This is a portrait in negative.
A musical response to a very different kind of president: one who governs through fear instead of faith, division instead of dialogue, spectacle instead of substance.
It is not a biography. It is a symptom.
Here, the orchestral fabric does not rise—it corrodes.
There are no Folk themes to unify—just themes that unravel.
The narrator does not inspire—but implicate.

Activist Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is quoted to say “I am not thinking about the future. I am afraid to think about the future. I am afraid even to talk about the past.”
In the tradition of composers such as Shostakovich and Aaron Copland who encoded dissent within symphonic structure, this piece is not protest with slogans—it is protest with music in harmony, distortion, and fracture. It is what happens when leadership abandons the moral compass we all cherish and once held aloft.
We are not meant to leave this piece comforted.
We are meant to leave it alert.
Because art cannot repair what is broken in a nation,
but it can hold a mirror to the breaking.

James Composervist
July 4th, 2025

https://youtu.be/v_KCF4-uzGs