George Burdi

George Burdi (* 1970 in Toronto , Ontario ), also known under the pseudonym George Eric Hawthorne , is a Canadian musician and former music entrepreneur. He was active in the North American racist music scene, from which he later turned away.

Life

In his youth, Burdi had a German girlfriend whose father had a National Socialist view of the world and provided him with literature by authors like Ernst Zündel , who quickly fascinated him. This is where Burdi found his way into the neo-Nazi movement . Under the pseudonym Reverend George Eric Hawthorne , he founded the band RaHoWa in 1989 . The band name is an abbreviation for the phrase Racial Holy War (in German: Heiliger Rassenkrieg). RaHoWa was an important band for the scene in the 1990s.

The band received 3,000 US dollars from the French record label Rebelles Européens for the production of the first album Declaration of War - but the recorded album was returned immediately because the label's mailbox no longer existed. Then Burdi founded his own label Resistance Records , which is also home to other bands. In addition to music production, the company is also working on an Internet presence and a magazine. The record distributor sold almost 100,000 copies a year and the associated Resistance Magazine always reported up to date.

Burdi was sentenced to a year in prison in 1995 after kicking an anti-racist activist in the face at a RaHoWa concert in Ottawa in 1993. In 1997, police raided his home and Resistance Records offices. As a result, he got out of the right-wing extremist movement. In 1999, he told the Windsor Court that he regretted his previous activities. He was sentenced to one year in prison and two years of "community arrest" during which he was not allowed to engage in racist activities or have contact with Resistance Records or the other members of Rahowa. In 2001, Burdi sold Resistance Records to William Luther Pierce of the National Alliance for $ 250,000. His exit was classified as treason by American neo-Nazis, the band People Haters, for example, published a blacksmith with the title Dirty Burdi . His former companion also found it negative that Burdi's new girlfriend was of non-European descent.

Then he was a member of the band Novacosm, whose producer was African American and whose guitarist was Jewish. The last song released with this band was a new setting of the RaHoWa song Ode To A Dying People with largely unchanged lyrics. After that it became quiet about Burdi.

In 2017, a new album was released under the name Ueberfolk , which, according to Burdi, is not an official release, but a bootleg with demo songs from his new folk project called Überfolk. In 2019, the completed album entitled Music for Nations , which Burdi recorded with Cat Weiss, was released. Among them is a cover of the American folk band Changes with Waiting For The Fall .

Discography

With RaHoWa

• 1993: Declaration of War ( indexed October 30, 1999)
• 1995: Cult of the Holy War (indexed April 29, 2006)

With Novacosm

• 2002: Everything Forever

With Überfolk

• 2019: Music for Nations

Web links

• George Burdi's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} John Murdoch: Bye-Bye Burdi . In: Resistance . No. 12 , 2000, pp. 12 f . (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Quex: Interview with George Burdi. AryanMusic, July 23, 2006, accessed September 6, 2010 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Novacosm> Biography. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2010 ; accessed on September 6, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Federal Gazette No. 206 of October 30, 1999.
5. ↑ BAnz. No. 82 of April 29, 2006.