The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World - Jóhann Jóhannsson

[@christinebeckett5511]

The late 20's, the Dirty 30's: In the face of world-wide privation, lives lost, dreams smashed, this historic footage shows how indomitable was hope in the human spirit. The solemn score is a moving tribute to the British brass band tradition, yielding to the organ at the entrance into the cathedral, the very space where this recording was done. In the background, high soft sustained notes evoking the keening of Northumbrian pipes.... We take for granted today so many rights and benefits that never existed before the labour movement. The struggle was long and hard and is not in fact over. We must stay vigilant not to lose our rights as the world grows politically darker yet again.

[@scifi75]

That was brilliantly worded.

[@GiggleHertz64]

I remember finding this video 10 years ago... alone and afraid, just a child. Now, 10 years later and somewhat the wiser, I return to this video and recognize the true weight of its message. I am still afraid, but I know that I am not alone. You have worded it so eloquently. Anyone living in a Democracy should know that the very system they live under and - as you say, take for granted - is fragile. Rights that were fought for with the blood, sweat and tears of the people, literally and figuratively, can be taken away with little to no decorum. I am afraid that history has come back to bite us. We have forgotten our strengths. Apathy and hate fester. May we remember what is worth fighting for. May we remember and once again come to respect community and unity. May we heal from what has been and will continue to occur - the division, the disparity, the grief of it all. Let us not despair.

[@comeonyouyellows]

I absolutely love this piece and it brings on an emotional reaction in me. The footage shown is from my local city and I go to the Miners Gala/Big Meeting every year. The pageantry and the bands, memories of how coal mining built our region and how it was decimated, leaving whole swaths of the North jobless and poor. We're still recovering from Thatchers time. The Miners Gala is a big get together of local people and those from further afield, in memory of those who built our economic strength, often at the hands of exploitative bosses and governments. It makes me immensely proud to see this tradition of trade unionism and community togetherness so strong in these days of uncertainty and strife. Long live The Durham Miners Gala - Solidarity Comrades.

[@22Ein]

The most sense I have heard in a while.

[@cl0n0v4n]

RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson

[@streetleveltech]

I'm from the US and I share this clip on my FaceBook page every Labor Day.

[@scifi75]

I am reminded of my father who worked at McLouth Steel back in the early 1980's. He and the union strikers formed a human chain to stop truck drivers from coming into the steel mill to take away the coils of steel that he, and the others, had helped forge.

[@VRSVLVS]

I agree with the title of the song.

[@mustachecrossing]

RIP. This song means more to me than I can express

[@REF10745]

This masterpiece is, for me, an excellent expression of the magnificent struggles and revolutions led by the revolutionary working class of the late 19th and early 20th century, which laid the basis of our social and economic well-being and enlightened us with important lessons useful for todays classwar. Even though the working class again and again suffered from defeats resulting from imperialism, neo-liberalism, social-democracy, fascism and last but certainly most disgusting from stalinism.

[@noelwilson5960]

Soul Wrenching. A score that resonates with generations, families and spirit. RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson.

[@colmoylan]

Devastating to hear the news. RIP Johann. Your music played a profoundly important role in this person's life.

[@longhairedbuck]

We owe so much to them, we really do stand on the shoulders of giants

[@oxfordambient]

We have lost a great composer....I love his work and it so sad there will be no more...this piece is just sublime..

[@PCSVieira]

That´s a true.

[@RussiaRugby]

This is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

[@Jokaanan]

agreed. it's like disintegration loops but with a positive energy

[@Insydnis]

This is amazing... i cried when i heard this.

[@armandoperezgutierrez1382]

Insydnis Reign I totally understand what you felt because although I didn't cry, I was about to.

[@DavidDavid-cv9sg]

Rest in peace, composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. Very sad news to hear of his death today, at just 48. I went straight to listen to this music when I heard - my favourite track of his.

[@bf1973]

a miner masterpiece

[@grasshoppersunny688]

RIP JOHANN 💖 CREATING BEAUTIFUL MUSIC WITH THE ANGELS NOW 💖 ( SOUL FREE ) X X

[@pittan86]

Beyond stunning. Even more powerful with the images. We miss you Johann.

[@Insydnis]

This song speaks to me, as a musician whose been through alot in his life. And whom wants to change and help the world with his music. It lifts my spirit, and its like a rally cry to raise your morale, to keep fighting and never give up.

[@federalGN]

I imagined a funeral to him using this song. It was him. The calm and humble artist he was.. (19.10.1969-09.02.2018)

[@jurgenczwienk1960]

Enormously delicate and a good piece to show how music really can carry silent footage. Great

[@cgenovesi1503]

Best comment: "The most sense I have heard in a while."

[@heikijv]

this melody has strenght and honor

[@JohnnyPlayGeetar]

What a great composer, truly one of my favorites! I feel like a Johann and Boards of Canada collaboration would be just breathtaking.

[@krystianluniewicz3881]

or JJ and PLAID...

[@JohnnyPlayGeetar]

Oh yes! They are very textural as well!

[@davebutchers6869]

shared this clip the day before the UK election, June 7th, but have only just read comments. YES! Johann and BoC, would really like that to happen

[@bovinedowie2803]

The industrial backbone of Britain was built upon the sweat of these men and women. The very life force of a nation owed its very existence to the toil and pain and so often death of organized labour who buried into the ground to force out the fuel that made Britain. There is no greater tribute than this track. The sound of mankind working for one cause.

[@scherf56]

What excellent music. Thank you Johann !!

[@ciaronrobertson8141]

HISTORY IS A WONDERFUL THING.....

[@karmlol]

This is sickeningly beautiful. Bitterly so, but in all its realistic glory, the way the world is. Wow. Wow, wow, WOW.

[@ABitOfTheUniverse]

I've already liked this video before, but I'd like to _thank you_ again for sharing it.

[@Stratman389]

I love driving to this. R.i.p.

[@Stratman389]

This piece of music is amazing

[@Stratman389]

Two years of listening to this and I never tire of it

[@suzannedixon8277]

Thank you for posting. Sorry to say I did not know of the documentary before. I'm now spreading the word.

[@PlazaMoon]

Absolutely stunning. I showed this entire film in my film studies class today, and people were crying at the end

[@stevoofd]

All-encompassing brass. When I hear this music my mind gets taken on a journey through human history, wandering from the WWII era to as early as the Roman Empire, to arrive at a place where this fraction of time seems so small in the grand scale of things. Then I visualise our planet earth in the midst of a cosmic theatre as the universe unfolds.

[@PCSVieira]

Very great music.

[@artworks76]

Fantastic video, beautiful music, makes me so proud of my heritage! :)

[@Stratman389]

I am a child of the miners strike 1983

[@scifi75]

Jay Bod Over in the States, 1983 was a bad year for the steel industry. It was not as bad as what happened to those miners, but it never recovered. I can relate.

[@Adrhodes442]

Why isn't this as popular as "Time" by Hans Zimmer?

[@smithsonben]

absolutely amazing !

[@tailendcharlie]

awesome music

[@kostpoll]

R.I.P. maestro.

[@CheckdaFlow]

Very much so. Intense and uplifting.

[@CheAtila]

Great song and great editing! It was a good choice of Bill Morrison to rely on Jóhann Jóhannsson.

[@scifi75]

I do believe that history has it's cycles, and that the renewal of the labor movement will be one of those cycles.

[@InVeritos]

Absolutely incredible

[@peterpozman6972]

It's heartbreaking to watch this knowing that Durham and Yorkshire have just given an upper class scoundrel a massive mandate to do exactly what he wants to them. The North doesn't remember. The North Forgets

[@Reddimus82]

Fantastic music. It suits the video very well. There is also a version with The Formalist Quartet. I can imagine a version where on one side you have the brass playing parts of this piece and strings on the other side alternating eachother... oh well...

[@foreststarr6879]

The rapture hits my soul to its roots. I come out of it revitalized, assured of things hopeful ahead.

[@Gedco45]

All power to the workers

[@harrihiltunen1244]

making wonderfully music...

[@itibz]

RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson :(

[@nicholasbujalski4339]

Happy May Day, comrades!

[@tar0286]

lost forever in the mists of time

[@KL0098]

This is from a movie? I had no idea! How magnificent!

[@faithful5361]

Rest in Power, comrade!

[@Loomyer]

Icelanders cherish their youth , that's why they become so creative.

[@DavidLunney]

Like bjork

[@lukedaxon5713]

RIP Johann

[@Didgaraya]

I believe the song was called this way because the author noticed how people work in hope of bringing a positive change. Hence, the hope is why people keep on working. It's my personal interpretation.

[@jacobsarvathayaparan2337]

"The cause of Labour" referred to here is socialism

[@happymuseum]

awesome

[@Dumpstermuffin1]

Happy Labor day

[@theyruinedyoutubeagain]

RIP

[@hhhhhhhuh]

Anyone have a score for this?

[@LondonCorkSean]

Genius.

[@Shub-Nagruth]

Glory for men ! glory for Joe Pera !

[@Stuie299]

Andy Kaufman would approve.

[@cj11tt]

voted labour today

[@spencerallen2111]

So amazing.....Side note, is the brass in this influenced/possibly even sampled from Malo's song Nena?

[@Staajun]

even better than the rocket builder.

[@DJhongAmp]

R.I.P

[@CharlesVeitch]

If only the working classes today displayed such solidarity, honour, loyalty as they did then. A whole generation bought out by benefits, X Factor, sun-beds and beer.

[@Loomyer]

Nothing wrong with benefits. we need Universal Basic Income.

[@Axgoodofdunemaul]

Yes, they fought for the benefits.

[@Axgoodofdunemaul]

The two things that have destroyed the labor/consumers' movement: stupid populism and racism.

[@MattMolloy20]

Hard to find solidarity, honour, and loyalty when the thing that holds your community together gets destroyed with nothing but desperation, poverty and a lack of work replacing it.

[@benremembermusic6441]

still...

[@kengoodey]

You can still enjoy this music, whatever your political beliefs might be

[@tar0286]

Amen brother that is the power of a masterpiece

[@sunchasashkin4618]

This movie does not exist in Russian at all... ((((

[@jppmccrea]

you guys sound like a bundle of laughs...........just enjoy the damned thing!

[@Bonzulac]

"The Cause of Labour Is the Hope of the World." "Is" is neither an article nor a preposition, and should therefore be capitalized in titles.

[@joolsdd]

Disagree, Billy Bragg

[@jeffreyalford702]

Rest in Peace Jóhann.

[@divisivecottonwood]

RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson

[@Sepharite]

RIP