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#MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE PODCAST 20 - Adam Kinner, Anarchist Mountains and Raz Mesinai
This edition of the program is a mix of music by artists involved in supporting the #MusiciansForPalestine project. Adam Kinner presents a solo saxophone track recorded on the floor at La Sala Rossa in Montreal. Anarchist Mountains Trio presents the piece A Free Palestine dream, out on @amekcollective in Sofia, Bulgaria and finally a series of tracks by Palestinian producer in NYC, Raz Mesinai, from a recently released an album of the Badawi project called "A Tale of Two Cities."
Accompanying artwork by Susanna Gonzo. -
On the 19th edition of the #MusiciansForPalestine podcast, we hear from Bocafloja, a groundbreaking hip-hop artist from Mexico. Bocafloja has long expressed solidarity across borders while speaking about specific struggles for justice in the context of Mexico, particularly articulating the urgency of listening to and supporting Black and Indigenous activist artistic voices in Mexico as important points of anti colonial resistance across the Americas. Bocafloja is a supporter of Musicians For Palestine.
Photo is of Bocafloja and accompanying music is by Bocafloja.
The interview with Bocafloja aired on Radio Alhara راديو الحارة in Bethlehem on Monday, June 5th at 5:30pm, that is 10:30am eastern time, live at https://www.radioalhara.net This interview is distributed by OTHER PEOPLE available for download and broadcast on other stations internationally. This interview was broadcast and facilitated by Stefan @spirodon Christoff. -
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On this edition of the monthly Musicians For Palestine podcast we hear from musician Jessie Stein on her involvement in helping to launch this project. Also Jessie reflects on the ways that the independent cultural scene and musician networks in Montreal created a context of community engagement and solidarity that opens doors to thinking about ways that musicians could act together to engage in international solidarity work and also to support local activism.
Jessie plays with The Luyas, you can listen to their music here:
https://theluyas.bandcamp.com
This podcast interview was recorded and edited by Stefan Christoff. -
Listen to a special edition of the #MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE podcast that was recorded live at an event at Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New York.
This event was co-hosted by Musicians For Palestine and the Interference Archive in collaboration with Radio AlHara. In the edition you can hear people who joined the collective zine making session and radio broadcast sharing their reflections about the meaning of solidarity in practice. Also you specifically hear from artist Kevin Caplicki speaking about a silk-screen print "Boycott Divestment Sanctions" that is distributed by the Justseeds artists' cooperative. Also you hear from musicians Devin Brahja Waldman who speaks about joining the Musicians For Palestine movement.
https://justseeds.org/product/imaging-apartheid-boycott-divestment-sanctions/
Music on this edition is Christian Carrière with the track Static, you also hear from Devin Brahja Waldman's ablum "Watermelancholia" and a couple of works from the Crépuscule album by Rêves sonores.
This episode was recorded and produced by Audio Interference, the podcast project of the Interference Archive. The program was edited by Stefan Christoff of Musicians For Palestine. -
A collective mix that revolves around the "Art in Action Across Borders" event that took place at the Interference Archive event in Brooklyn, NY, February 2023.
Below is a listing of the mixes contributed and also the individual tracks which all are by or feature musicians who support Musicians For Palestine. For more information on the project here: https://musiciansforpalestine.com
This mix was coordinated and compiled by Stefan @spirodon Christoff. Thank you to both the Interference Archive and Musicians For Palestine for this collaboration.
artist name / track
01. @bellacuts - Until Everybody Is Free
02. @alsarah & the Nubatones - Men Ana من انا
03. @asian-dub-foundation - Flyover
04. @dekalbworks - Interference Archive mix
05. Valkolak - Control
06. Mateo Correa @correasunshine - Interference Archive mix
07. @rashalpha - Amrat أمرات
(Joseph Sannicandro mix @thenewobjective)
08. The Roots - Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
09. Nicolas Jaar - Spectors Of The Future
10. Bob Ostertag - Arms And Legs (Original)
11. Rubbish Music (Kate Carr + Ian Chambers) - Re-use and Recycling Centre
12. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band – “there’s a river in the valley made of melting snow” (Live on Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
13. Ted Riederer - NeverRecords mix for Interference Archive
14. Elaine Mai @elainemai - No Forever (feat. MayKay @maykay316)
15. Xena ElShazli x Ouzzy - Paranoia زينة الشاذلي وأوزي - بارانويا
16. Ana Bogner @anabogner - I Have Forgotten
17. Melisa Del Be @melisa_delbe - Live improvisation at OCCii space in Amsterdam 1
18. Anima sola (@anima-sola-538589656) - Todas Mis Muertas
19. Sean Nicholas Savage - Harmony (via @arbutus-records)
20. Perestroika - Distraction - Xarah Dion @zodiaquemusique REMIX
21. Mark Trecka @mtrecka - Interference Archive mix
22. Lahd - Lemurian Eget
23. Anthony Sahyoun @asahyoun - Irhamna (Amulets Remix)
24. Whimm - Returnal
25. IRL @irlhuman - Drain in Heaven [IRL trem mix]
26. @nicolas-jaar - Mi Mujer
27. Reves sonores - Harken (via @youngbloods)
28. Amirtha Kidambi and Elder Ones - Decolonize the Mind
29. Brian Eno - 1/1
30. Taina Asili - Abolition
31. NONAME - YESTERDAY
32. Ana Tijoux - Río Abajo
33. The Halluci Nation - Sila (feat. Tanya Tagaq)
34. Spiritchild @xspiritmental - Don't Wait
35. Christian Carrière - Static
36. WOLFSHOOK - Alienized & Rejected Sewer Warlocks
37. Abrazos Army - Attica Again
38. The Ex - Soon All Cities
39. IRL - Drain in Heaven [IRL trem mix]
40. Ah! Kosmos - Quod Non Pertinent Hic
41. Anthony Sahyoun - Irham (Amulets Remix)
42. Anthony Sahyoun. @asahyoun - Jesuit Literature Drowning in the Mediterranean
43. Valkolak @valkolakvalkolak - Control
44. BLEAKNEY - RESTITUTION
45. Béa M. - Iyem Fadyeh
46. Archidi @archidi_1 - Alnokhor Alsonya (soundofnoize)
47. Black Noise - Born and Bred on the Cape Flats, Mitchells Plain (Emile YX?)
48. Melisa Del Be @melisa_delbe - Live improvisation at OCCii space in Amsterdam 2
49. Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, Federico Ughi - Canal Street
50. Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, Federico Ughi - 125th Street
51. @mettabbana Ft. Huda Asfour @asfoura - Encore (@derunmusic Remix)
52. @khyamallami - An Alif_An Apex - خيّام اللامي - ألفٌ_أوجٌ
53. Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski - Sunday Night (excerpt) -
A conversation with Jessica Ekomane about her sound creation process and compositions. This exchange looks into the importance of highlighting an anti colonial historical understanding of computer music, pointing to the Asian origins of math which are the foundation to contemporary computing. Jessica also speaks about the importance of finding connection across struggles for justice and on ways to express solidarity within the arts.
This interview was recorded by Stefan Christoff in Montreal, a special thank you to Nadah El Shazly for helping to facilitate the connection.
Broadcasting on Radio AlHara, Saturday the 7th of January at 3:00 pm (Palestine time).
Music on this edition is by Jessica Ekomane. -
A mix for Radio AlHara featuring Milwaukee and Montreal artists who support the #MusiciansForPalestine project
http://musiciansforpalestine.com
Milwaukee tracks:
01. Mood Migration @moodmigration - Son (Come Arising)
02. Apollo Vermouth @apollovermouth - He Sees You, He Loves You
03. Paper Holland @paperholland - Jazz
04. Jayne Joyce @jaynejoycemusic - Bikes
05, Curbsitter - Head Fulla Bricks
06. Dukalion - Imhotep
07. SistaStrings @sista-strings - Her Name Was
Montreal tracks:
08. Jeremy Young @jeremyroyaledit - Tiny Pine Cones (@joni_void remix)
09. Nick Schofield @nickschofield - Passing Place
10. Le Berger @leberger - your peg yo (outro)
11. Nick Schofield - Vitrola Era (Shalabi quintet remix)
12. Enfant Magique @eric-gingras - Apocalypse Ennuie
13 Anarchist Mountains Trio - A River Looks (Remix)
Art work by Susanna Gonzo. -
On this edition of #MusiciansForPalestine podcast we hear from designer and community arts organizer Josh MacPhee who has worked on a design to support the campaign. This conversation was recorded at the Interference Archive in Brooklyn and it revolves around the role that design plays in social activist movements. Also Josh challenges the idea that interesting design work is driven by 'new' concepts, instead Josh talks about design culture as really being rooted in sharing and remixing.
Info on Josh's work here:
https://justseeds.org/artist/joshmacphee
Music (No prisoners, by Badawi) on this edition is by Raz Mesinai @razmesinai
Interview recorded by Stefan @spirodon Christoff. Thank you to Aaron Lakoff for the technical support. -
On this edition of the #MusiciansForPalestine podcast we hear from musician and activist Seun Kuti. In this exchange we hear about the local struggles in Nigeria to overcome systemic police violence as manifested through the EndSARS campaign. Kuti also speaks about the ways that power structures within many African contexts are neo-colonial, linked to past western imperialist empires, but also to the African power structures on a local level that often were linked to elite structures that benefited from the transatlantic slave trade. Kuti also speaks about the climate justice movement and reframing our understanding of the climate movement as part of a broader struggle to decolonize systems of governance, economics and power relations globally.
Seun is one of the hundreds of musicians that joined the #MusiciansForPalestine appeal in Sept. 2022.
This interview was conducted by Frank Barat with editing by Stefan Christoff. For sharing through the #MusiciansForPalestine network and broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine. -
#MusiciansForPalestine mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة
Oct. 3, 2022
A mix highlighting works by artists who joined the #MusiciansForPalestine project in 2022.
Track listing (artist name / track name)
01. Badawi - Final Warning
02. @ana_quiroga - Prelude II
03 @valyakan - Burning Girl
04. YOKUBARI - I Hope We Can All Dance Together Someday
05. Sonny Singh @brooklynwala - Koi Bol Ram
06. Free Radicals - Checkpoint / Dompass / Hajiz, feat. Equality, @jitsmuzik, @ihaveadreamusic & Lindi Yeni
07. Lime Rickey International @limerickeyinternational - City & World -
#MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE x RADIO AL HARA
27/09/2022
900 + join #MusiciansForPalestine.
A solidarity mix with the Palestinian people. Streaming fully, or part, on stations globally + locals
Radio Raheem * n10.as * @radiockut * @cjlo1690am * @ckuwradio 95.9FM * @radiobeguin * NTS * @radioflouka * MAKTABA BOOKSHOP * Al-Jisser * Underflow Record.
HOUR 1
01 @esse-ran - Dripping Lights
02 @chantyxp - GRINGA CHAQUEÑA, MARICORE MIX
03 MESAFA @alsarah - Let Me Tell You About My Love
04 @nickschofield - Travertine Museum
05 Tamtam - INSAK
06 @adam-kinner - October 30, 2014
07 Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - The Deepest Breath
08 @estelle-schorpp - Sunrise (excerpt)
09 @amazinggaijin & Lighght- Cacophonie
10 @makimakkuk - Jazirat el Kanz
11 @philippebattikha - Reflections on a new question
12 @asahyoun - Requiem
13 OTTOMAN GRÜW @ottomangruw - Lost Voices (opening)
14 Eliel Sherman Storey, Dushon Mosley, Xris Copal - Speaking In Tongues
15 @umkubu - Ya Hazin, Prod. Bint7alal @bint7alal
16 Andrea-Jane Cornell - Requiem pour R
17 Alex Ginella - I'll Know You For A Time
18 DJ Plead @1djplead - Massari and Me
19 @whyredveil - pg baby
20 Tim Gowdy - Transcend II
HOUR 2
21 @faditabbal - Hotel Room
22 NP, @jad-atoui & Anthony Sahyoun - Marble Drop
23 @asahyoun – Irhamna
24 Marc Codsi @marc-codsi - Hangar #12
25 Daou – Sauldre
26 Julia Sabra & @faditabbal - All The Birds
27 @stellarbanger - Put Your Medicine In Your Banana Bag
28 Swaya @canhota - EXistence
29 Bob Ostertag - Heat Rises
30 @algiers - Dispossession
31 Ana Quiroga @ana_quiroga - Prelude I
32 Silience @momentofsilience - I Don't Wanna Know
33 @marslan - A Simple Question
34 Hsien - Come Ye Sinners
35 Harrga - Artaud
36 @raed-raees - Greekonos (excerpt)
37 @00970 - Over There
38 Naima Shalhoub - One (Remembrance)
(21-27 selected by Ziad Nawfal @ruptured)
HOUR 3
39 Sam I Am Montolla - The Fabric
40 Ian Kamau - Sleeping Giant
41 Amanda Irarrázabal @amandugen - Temperatura Efectiva
42 Five Eyes - On Knowing
43 GEOFF BERNER - Di Schvue
44 MIMI VIRUS - BloodRave (excerpt)
45 Bocafloja - Aire
46 Nomadic Massive - Bon Bagay
47 @the-mighty-avon-jnr - Rapture Me Now
48 @toumbaa - Sareer (master 1)
49 Azraq, Kam Franklin @kamfranklin, Kareem Samara @kareemsamaramusic - Baby Please Dont Go
50 @walashi - Qabil Babel (edit)
51 Sappy Songs - Tom Cole Stomp
52 @miserablenoiseclub - Candle Shaped Glaviers
53 @noursokhon - Woman Like a Sea (soundtrack excerpt from Eating The Copper Apple)
54 @aimlow - Tacit Approval (excerpt)
55 Riad Abdel-Gawad - All People / Regarding their Origin / Originate in Equality
56 Beny Esguerra and New Tradition Music - TO DA ONES
HOUR 4
57 FKA twigs - Honda w. Pa Salieu
58 STORM, (Latest mix)
59 @ciarrablack - Unreleased
60 @ecormusic - Homeland @rola-milad-azar remix (excerpt)
61 Mo Khan featuring. Saabik Poetry - Life of a Refugee
62 @byjayr - Nahji
63 Limbea (Stephanie Castonguay, Stefan Voglsinger) - Live à Lindabraunn (excerpt)
64 Lamia Yared - Bir Hoş Hırâm Tâze Civan Aldı Gönlümüz (Arr Didem Başar)
65 @climatecollapse ft. @user-valeda - Feels Like
66 Zaina Arekat - Eden
67 Whitney K. - Hard To Be A God
68 @sapropelicpycnic and Pekka Airaksinen - Syzygy For Pekka
69 Mustafa Said - Rast (excerpt)
70 @doldrumss & @jordanchristoff - Melting Bicycles. (@crashsymbols)
71 Badawi - The Best Of Badawi Vol.1 - 15 Tired Soldiers (1999)
72 @clarissa-bitar - Homeland Security
73 Kübra Selçuk - İnsan Kelimesi
74 Abdul-Wahab Kayyali - Burkaan
75 Nick Walton - Long Way Down
76 Mike Khoury - Jenin Vol. 1 (excerpt)
77 @excentrik - Synth Drone
HOUR 5.
78 @kelly-mcmichael - New Life Coming
79 Banda POPolare dell'Emilia Rossa & Modena City Ramblers - LEI
80 Badawi - Final Warning
81 @lazyrosario - My Revenge
82 @xenaelshazlii - Circus
83 nø-man - pray
84 Sunforger - Jump In
85 Your Other Needs - Migration Three
86 47SOUL - Sghar El Balad
87 Badawi - The Conquest of Constantinople
88 @nicolas-jaar - Mi Mujer
89 Caterina Barbieri - Fantas
90 @revessonores - Svalbard -
On this edition of #MusiciansForPalestine podcast musician and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi speaks about the interconnections of struggles against colonialism as expressed in different musical traditions across the world. Amirtha also speaks about her trajectory as an artist from the Bay Area to New York and to experiences singing devotional music from India as a youth in California.
This is the 13th edition of #MusiciansForPalestine podcast. The interview was conducted during the Suoni per il Popolo festival in 2022 by Stefan Christoff for the Musicians for Palestine interview series.
All music on this edition is by Amirtha. Accompanying photo by Acudus Aranyian. -
This #MusiciansForPalestine podcast features the voice of Palestinian artist and singer Maya Alkhaldi who speaks about her recent album عالم تاني - Other World, now out on Tawleef label in Palestine. Maya speaks about the importance of sustaining Palestinian culture in the face of the colonial violence of the Israeli state. Also Maya speaks about the various folk traditions, both musical and social, which inspire her work. Finally Maya speaks about the importance of musicians globally acting in solidarity with Palestine.
This interview was conducted by Jessie Stein, and edited by Nicolas Jaar and Stefan Christoff.
All the music that you hear is from Maya's album, which you can listen to here:
https://tawleef.bandcamp.com -
On the 11th edition of the Musicians for Palestine podcast musician and cultural worker Sharif Sehnaoui speaks from Beirut, Lebanon, on the ways that alternative musical spaces and festival slowly took shape in the decade after the military aspects of the Lebanese civil war ended. Sharif speaks about the founding of Irtijal festival and broadly on the ways that Israeli colonial state violence has impacted the festival, associated projects and broadly the cultural landscape in Lebanon. Sharif @sharif-sehnaoui also offers some brief reflections on the process of improvisation within maqam musical structures.
This interview for the Musicians for Palestine podcast was recorded, edited and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff.
Music on this edition is, "Sharif Sehnaoui - Gibson Les Paul Smartwood Studio," and a "Karkhana" track.
Accompanying photo taken by Tony Elieh.
Information on Sharif here: http://www.sharifsehnaoui.net
For information on #MusiciansForPalestine visit: https://musiciansforpalestine.com -
On this edition of Musicians for Palestine Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) speaks on the sound of space. KMRU's music often incorporates soundscapes from cities around the world and in this exchange we hear about the layers of social, political and personal reflection that is involved in the musical process.
KMRU @kamarujoseph speaks about listening and space in relation to awareness and in this context outlines the importance of unlearning colonial narratives that attempt to normalize systemic oppression and injustice. In this light KMRU speaks about the decision to join Musicians for Palestine.
Stefan @spirodon Christoff recorded and edited this interview, all the music is by KMRU.
Accompanying photo taken by Isabelle Stachtchenko. -
On the latest #MusiciansForPalestine podcast Brian Eno speaks on creativity and the ways that music can create collective spaces within historical moments.
Brian also speaks about the current realities facing Palestine, expressing support for Palestinian human rights while addressing the systemic colonial violence of the Israeli state and the ways that the current militarized reality is not sustainable for all.
This interview was facilitated by Frank Barat (@frank-barat) as a collaboration with the Musicians for Palestine project.
Music on this edition is by Brian Eno.
Audio editing by Stefan @spirodon Christoff.
Please watch the full interview recorded by Frank here:
https://youtu.be/A-UKaPyMsbE
Information on Musicians For Palestine here:
https://musiciansforpalestine.com
Thank you Brian for participating and Frank for the collaboration. Also thank you to Nicolás Jaar and Tanha Gomes for the support toward finalizing this edition. -
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson joins the Musicians for Palestine podcast on the 8th edition.
In this episode, Leanne speaks on creating music as an Indigenous musician, reflecting on the process of rehearsal, the connection of presenting to live audiences and repetition in group practices as a meaningful space for reflection and new meanings to emerge.
Leanne also speaks on overlapping solidarities between struggles for freedom across the world, from #BlackLivesMatter, to #LandBank, while speaking directly about engaging with the Musicians for Palestine project.
Info on Leanne's work here: www.leannesimpson.ca
This interview was conducted for the Musicians for Palestine podcast by Jessie Stein from The Luyas, with sound editing by @nicolas-jaar
Leanne has a book coming out soon, jointly written with Robyn Maynard who authored the book Policing Black Lives. Info :
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living
Information about Musicians for Palestine here: musiciansforpalestine.com #FreePalestine -
Listen to the reflections and words of artist Damon Davis on the 7th edition of the #MusiciansForPalestine podcast.
Damon speaks on the #BlackLivesMatter uprising in Ferguson, Missouri, in response to the police murder of Michael Brown. In 2015, Damon's work, All Hands On Deck, a participatory street art project projecting the hands of Black community members who participated in the uprising, resonated all around the world.
In this interview, Damon also speaks on creating music (heard in this podcast) and also many ongoing projects, including Filling In The Crack (2020), that has been described like this: "Through the use of concrete—emblematic of the hardness of Black life—Davis’ practice suggests that however resilient it may be, masculinity is not without kinks, vulnerability, and abrasion."
Damon is a signatory and supporter of the Musicians for Palestine initiative.
Information on Damon here : https://heartacheandpaint.com
Interview by Stefan @spirodon Christoff, sound editing by @nicolasjaar -
In this episode of the #MusiciansForPalestine podcast, listen to Narcy (Yassin Alsalman) reflecting on living, creating, existing, and resisting. Narcy speaks about his work with #MusiciansForPalestine and places it in the context of decades of work supporting the Palestinian people. As an Iraqi in the diaspora, Narcy speaks about his experiences of watching the Iraq war unfold and joining the anti-war and pro-peace movement.
Interview by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and editing by @nicolasjaar -
#MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE PODCAST 5
Listen to the voice of Palestinian singer Reem Kelani.
Reem shares reflections on how her work has been shaped by music cultures from around the world, while also speaking to the realities she faces as a Palestinian singer in the West, who voices support for Palestinian freedom. Reem speaks about the influence of Islamic culture on music around the world, from spirituals born in slavery in the Americas, to the relation of musical tones in music across the Mediterranean Sea.
Reem is based in London and is one of the signatories of the second wave of #MusiciansForPalestine signatories that will be shared soon.
This interview was recorded by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and was edited by @nicolas-jaar.
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