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''Chants for Socialists'' is the eleventh solo studio album by British singer/songwriter Darren Hayman. It was released by WIAIWYA (Where It's At is Where You Are) Records on 2 February 2015. ==Background== ''Chants for Socialists'' is an album based on the 19th century protest poetry of "Victorian polymath" William Morris. Hayman found a copy of Morris' ''Chants For Socialists'' pamphlet in the William Morris Gallery and decided to set it to music, stating to ''The Quietus'': "I loved how immediate and divisive it seemed. And I liked the idea of seeing it in a record shop. It seemed to set an agenda. And it reminded me of that time when I started buying records." The album was recorded in situ at three of Morris' houses, the William Morris Gallery, Kelmscott House and Kelmscott Manor; Hayman playing Morris' piano on "The March of the Workers". Most of the songs on the album feature a choir recruited from Hayman’s local fanbase, whether they were musical or not, in order to give the vocals "a lack of polish". In keeping with the Morris-influenced Arts and Crafts movement, Hayman used the Kelmscott Press at Kelmscott House to hand-print 500 record sleeves.〔 This is the same press that Morris used to print his own books as well as the Kelmscott Chaucer, which is now housed in the British Library.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kelmscott Chaucer )〕 ''Chants for Socialists'' was made available as a free download, or pay what you want, in keeping with the socialist ethos of the project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Darren Hayman - Chants For Socialists )〕 It was also released on CD and red vinyl, including a limited run of 100 double vinyl copies (one red, one green) that came with an additional dub version of the album, called ''Dubs for Socialists''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chants for Socialists」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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