Vinyl - Matt Sedillo & Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara - Grito de Los Dos de Los - Numbered edition

The voice known by the name of Subcomandante Marcos proclaimed that our words are weapons, parts of an arsenal that we may need at any time. On this album, Matt Sedillo and Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara arm the people of Los Angeles and the people of the world with words in rhythm and rhyme, words shouted and whispered, words that wound and words that heal. They speak about stolen lands and stolen lives, about longing for love and losing it, about dangerous dreams and deadly desires. In a world ablaze with hate and hurt, they give us words that can be weapons for struggle, that can provide ways to overcome fear, that teach us, as Guevara says, to stoke the fires of hope and despair and to kiss the flames of acceptance, redemption, and salvation.
-George Lipsitz

MultiMedia Militia is proud to announce the release of our latest project, a split poetry album by Los Angeles Chicano heavyweights, cultural icon Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara and revolutionary poet Matt Sedillo. The album features 15 tracks with 2 tracks that were written and performed by both poets. Album will be released on limited edition 180 gram vinyl with digital download and includes an insert with text of all poems, illustrations by Roque Torres and liner notes by George Lipsitz, Paul Ortiz and Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona. Album produced by Michael Beserra, recorded at Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, Mastered by Deeskee at Weightless Audio and executed by MultiMedia Militia. Only 300 copies on planet Earth. Preorders are available now at Diggers Factory.

MATT SEDILLO
Hailed as "the best political poet in America" and "poet laureate of struggle" by acclaimed historians and journalists, Sedillo has spoken at over a hundred campuses across the United States and on three continents. He is the author of Mowing Leaves of Grass.

RUBÉN FUNKAHUATL GUEVARA
Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a multifaceted native Angelino Chicano rock & soul
musician, singer, songwriter, and bandleader with Ruben And The Jets (cofounded with
Frank Zappa), record producer of Chicano rock and Rock en Español compilations,
performance artist, poet, playwright, fiction writer, author, and activist. His
memoir, “Confessions Of A Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer”, (University of California
Press, 2018), was a finalist for the 2019 International Latino Book Awards for Best
Autobiography in English. In 2021, the KCET/ PBS arts and culture program, Artbound,
premiered “Con Safos,” a documentary based on six decades of his work. It was
nominated for an Emmy and won two LA Press Club awards (“Lively and inspiring” -LA
Times).