Asian Dub Foundation | 2024. júl. 17.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPoeHrAk4hofTF6oZ1IWqOw

Lyrics :

A scream a shout far in the distance
Maybe the first or second floor
Curtains colouring the windows
Never see behind closed doors
A silent siege behind politeness
Domestic harmony for show
Lost in the mirage of a marriage
Outside a world she'll never know

HOOK
And as I see through the real you
I'm falling straight into
A Thousand broken Mirrors
I can't hide

And outside the bright lights
Can't hide the pain inside
And I've broken a thousand mirrors
Now it's time X3

Loving her children with a passion
Protecting them at any cost
Taking the only course of action
There's no more bridges left to cross
Who are the ones that are the guilty?
Who are the ones that bear the scar?
We must not leave our sisters bleeding
We sing this song for Tsoora Shah

HOOK X2

Lyrics by Steve Chandra Savale 2003

Asian Dub Foundation are thrilled to announce the release of our remastered single "1000 Mirrors" featuring the legendary Sinéad O’Connor and Radiohead’s guitarist Ed O’Brien - produced by the great Adrian Sherwood. Originally recorded in 2003, this new ADF30 master is part of our 30th anniversary celebrations.
Band leader Steve “Chandrasonic” Savale recalls the origins of the song:
"Sinead O’Connor was our generation’s Nina Simone. Like Nina, she wasn’t afraid to put her career on the line in by speaking truth to power. Like Nina she was an excellent songwriter and innovative collaborator. Again like Nina she was one of the greatest ever interpretive singers. Any song she chose, from folk standards like“Cockles and Mussels” to Prince’s “Nothing Compares” would take on an entirely new meaning, as she exposed a song’s innermost beauty and power. So imagine how we felt when she said she wanted to sing one of our songs. The song started with the lead guitar riff that I jammed onstage over a loop provided by Pandit G. The song took shape after I heard about the case of Zoora Shah, a woman wrongly imprisoned for being forced to take action against a deeply abusive husband. I was moved to write the lyrics after hearing a speech by her daughter, Naz, now a Labour MP. I wrote the chords in a downtempo jazz style influenced by The Specials’ third album though of course Dr Das’ bass and Adrian Sherwood’s production took the song to new heights, along with Sonia Mehta’s soaring Alaap vocals. It was Adrian who played mine and Sonia’s original demo to Sinead. I still can’t believe she’s gone."
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Zoora Shah közel tizennégy évet ült életfogytiglani börtönbüntetéséből, mert megölt egy férfit, aki erőszakkal irányította őt.

A Southall Black Sisters vezette Zoora kampányát, a Justice for Women támogatásával. Zoorát életfogytiglanra ítélték Mohammed Azam, a bradfordi bűnözői alvilágból származó férfi megöléséért. Azam tizenkét éven keresztül szexuálisan, fizikailag és gazdaságilag bántalmazta és kihasználta Zoorát. A nő 1993-ban halálos adag arzénnel ölte meg Azamot. A Leeds-i koronabíróság 1993 decemberében gyilkosságért ítélte el. Zoora 20 évet kapott.

Az eredeti tárgyaláson Zoora nem említette az elszenvedett bántalmazást, mivel nem akart szégyent hozni a családjára. Az ítélet ellen benyújtott, de elvesztett fellebbezése során Zoora elismerte, hogy azért mérgezte meg Azamot, mert az bántalmazta őt. 2000 áprilisában az akkori belügyminiszter, Jack Straw tizenkét évre csökkentette a 20 éves büntetését. Zoora lányai, Naseem és Fozia Shah továbbra is a szabadon bocsátásáért kampányoltak. A leedsi Justice for Women rendszeresen látogatta és támogatta Zoorát, szorosan együttműködve a Southall Black Sisters-szel, miközben életfogytiglani börtönbüntetését töltötte Yorkshire-ben. Zoora végül 2006-ban szabadult, miután két évvel többet ült, mint amennyit a csökkentett büntetéséből kapott.

https://www.justiceforwomen.org.uk/zoora-shah

https://www.npr.org/2007/01/09/6756344/1000-mirrors-affirmation-and-accusation