4 WALLS is

Veryan Weston - piano

Luc Ex - bass

Phil Minton - vocals

Michael Vatcher - drums

The music of 4WALLS is not very easy to define.

The beauty and musical tension seem to be evoked out of the very logical combination of tightly rehearsed pieces and free improvisation.

4 Walls create their own intriguing world of noises and melodies, and at the same time they very well manage to balance between the different dynamic musical possibilities. You may hear beautiful, more melancholic or dark chords against fast and humorous pieces...more :

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• Harlan County directed by Barbara Copple

This film chronicles the bitter and violent struggle between coal miners and management during a 13-month strike that took place between 1973 and 1974 in Appalachian Kentucky, Harlan County, and a period of four years during which the entire story played out.

• History in Song

picks on history...

• Bloody Harlan

The attempt of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) to organize the coal industry in Harlan Co. in the 1930s, resulted in outbreaks of violence, drawing national attention to "bloody" Harlan.

Violence was rampant as Union men fought "company men."

Property was dynamited, tipples burned, and company stores looted.

In 1937 a U.S. Senate subcommittee began an investigation into allegations that workers' civil rights were being violated.

Further violence ensued. Governor A.B. Chandler sent the National Guard into the county to protect the mine property, and it was not until 1939 that the UMW was finally recognized as a bargaining agent for most of the state's miners.

Labor disputes and strikes have persisted; some are still accompanied by violence.

• The Ludlow massacre

pertains to the violent deaths of 45 people, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado in the U.S. on April 20, 1914.

• Molly Maguires

secret organization of Irish-Americans in the anthracite mining districts of Pennsylvania.

Its name came from a woman who led an extralegal, antilandlord organization in Ireland during the 1840s, and its membership was drawn from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish-American fraternal society.

For several years, especially from c.1865 to 1875, the Molly Maguires dominated the mining industry of E Pennsylvania.

The movement arose to combat the oppressive industrial and living conditions.

Since the police and the forces for law and order were entirely controlled by the mine owners, the Molly Maguires often resorted to intimidating or murdering the police.

Agents and superintendents were continually molested.

The Mollies reached the height of their power c.1875, when they managed to organize a union in a region otherwise virtually unorganized and to call a strike.

Franklin Gowen, president of the Reading RR, which had extensive mining interests, hired the Pinkerton agency to infiltrate the union, and the power of the Molly Maguires was finally broken by the spying activities of James McParlan, a Pinkerton detective.

Ten of the Molly Maguires were hanged.

McParlan's secret reports were released for study in 1947.