I've really enjoyed listening to it.  Very powerful lyrics.  I can hear we have very similar thoughts and opinions about the state of our country. Great Songwriting as usual. 
- Kathy Forste, Music Director
KC Cafe Internet Radio
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Warning Bell, the new album by David Hakan, begins with the title track where the call to action comes from a reluctant voice who feels it might be better to “let go of the rope…” and watch “as the world goes by.” But like the prophet Jeremiah, he is called to be a voice in the wilderness and even when it seems pointless and he’d wish to reclude into the everyday, he is compelled to speak out. And in this case, as with Jeremiah, it is his own people that he speaks to. The US government has overstepped its bounds and seemingly no one wants to notice, let alone do something about it. 

This is the subject matter of  the album Warning Bell. At its best it is art being political. At it’s worst it is politics informing art, which is a dangerous and delicate balance. For to often the latter becomes “art” as political statement and propaganda. True art is not this. But Hakan overall avoids the ranting that beats us over the head with ideology and creates songs that open for further questioning and the possibility of dialogue and disclosure about who we are. And it leaves the question of what we should do, open as well. I really enjoyed the album.
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