MANIFESTO:
NABOA
MUSIC IS A CONGLOMERATE OF
LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MODERN MODEL OF
POP MUSIC. IN AN ATTEMPT TO BYPASS THE CORPORATE MONOPOLY OF MUSIC OUR
GOAL IS TO ELIMINATE EVERY COMPROMISE TO THE CREATIVE PROCESS, I.E.
MONEY MENTALITY, ADVERTISEMENT, MERCHANDISE, ANYTHING YOU SELL/BUY,
ENDORSEMENTS, SPONSORSHIPS, ANY FRANCHISE, OLIGARCHY, FRONTS, POSERS,
RECORD LABELS, RUPERT MURDOCH, COMPARTMENTALIZED OPINIONS, MEDIA
PROGRAMMING, AND SHAMEFUL PROPAGANDA. THE FINEST OF ART IS AN UNABASHED
EXPLORATION OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE, THE COMPLETION OF WHICH - IN ITS MOST
PLATONIC STATE - IS IMMEDIATELY TAINTED BY ANY MEASURE OF THE
AFOREMENTIONED. YOUR HANDS HAVE BEEN SOILED BY THE CAPITALIST SPIRIT
AND CAN NO LONGER DELIVER THAT ELUSIVE ARTIFICE KNOWN AS CREATION FOR
THAT WHICH YOU SOUGHT TO CREATE HAS BECOME COMMODITY. AS A SUMMATION,
NABOA IS AN HONEST ATTEMPT TO PROPAGATE INDEPENDENT ART. FOR LOVE OF
THE PROCESS OF MAKING, GIVING AND SHARING MUSIC AMONG MUSIC LOVERS. WE
SEE THE DIGITAL ERA AS A REVOLUTION: ONCE A RECORD EXECUTIVE COULD
DETERMINE EVERY FORM OF MEDIA CONSUMED BY THE PEOPLE ESSENTIALLY
SHAPING THEIR MUSICAL TASTES TO COINCIDE WITH CAPITALIST AGENDAS. THE
RECORD INDUSTRY NO LONGER HOLDS THIS POWER NEITHER CAN IT CONTINUE TO
SUCCESSFULLY PRODUCE AND MARKET MEDIOCRE MUSIC, POISONING THE EARS OF
MILLIONS. FURTHERMORE, THEY ALIENATE THEIR VIEWERSHIP THROUGH A GROSS
MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE NEW MEDIA DEMONSTRATED BY THEIR PRIORITIZATION
OF MONEY ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE. SO FUCK THE MAN AND LET THEE PEOPLE
UNITE IN CELEBRATION OF INDIVIDUALITY AND ARTISTIC FREEDOM.