Overflights

The CIA’s 2013 release of its book The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance 1954–1974 is a fascinating and important historical document. It contains a significant amount of newly declassified material with respect to the U-2 and Oxcart programs, including names of pilots; codenames and cryptonyms; locations, funding, and cover arrangements; electronic countermeasures equipment; cooperation with foreign governments; and overflights of the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and other countries.

They passed intelligence, intercepted communications, stole blueprints and mapped targets. But ultimately they drove the deep-seated paranoia and distrust that would forever change the course of history.

Their albums including the second Red Sugar (alt. vinyl / Sub Rosa), have been widely praised by critics (The Village Voice, Liberation, Pitchfork). When they moved to Flatbush - Brooklyn, they began writing this new album, South From Here. Their building is shaken by the block parties and the sound of the rap producers who celebrate and compose on every floor. Community parades and helicopter overflights are daily. So many sounds that find a voice in this new album. Recorded in Tel Aviv, Ruth's texts attempt to translate the blindness in which the Israeli society definitely sinks. The result of this long and painful process is a mixture of pessimism and acceptance that they sum up with these words: "Life is Beautiful".