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Various Artists - People of Eternity: BDS Mixtape vol. 1 '2023

People of Eternity: BDS Mixtape vol. 1
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Album name People of Eternity: BDS Mixtape vol. 1
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Date 2023
Genrejazz
Play time 85 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 550 MB
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This album is dedicated to jaimie branch.

LINER NOTES

To the people of eternity
The national anthem of Palestine calls out repeatedly to “my people, the
people of eternity.”
The songs on this album are presented here in service of their liberation. In
listening, you will deepen your knowledge of the fact that music is a powerful
site for a freedom that’s both specific to an occupied place and
voluminous in reach. You find yourself turning, turning around inside many deep
strata at once. Dancing maybe, aligning your breath with a hundred different
intertwined rhythms.
There are sonic references to realities of life under siege and occupation
– the regular intervals of shudders of gunfire punctuating Dakn’s
track, the rumbling of embattled voices shouting. Voices, aggrieved or battle
ready, emerge from under near the end of Speaker Music’s Holosonic
Rebellion.
jaimie branch’s trumpet breaks onto a moment of the American military
dirge Taps – the triplets of America – military – death so
involved – in the middle of a vibrant polyphonic home that Anteloper
created in Hideouts. There’s no way not to be physically moved by that
track. The album as a whole is also dedicated to the memory of breezy –
jaimie branch – who in the recent past was so alive, playing tambourine
at a protest for Palestine.
Noise, rousing beats of varying style, aggression, and gentleness are nestled
next to sounds that can only be described in shades of beauty, such as the
entirety of Amir ElSaffar’s Reaching Upward. ElSaffar, a brilliant jazz
trumpeter, builds on ancient Iraqi forms of music like maqam, creating warmth
and contemporary complexity. Meditations here take multiple forms –
sparse, driving melodic and warm, steady staticky bass as a voice repeats
variations in the present tense / The present / The presence / The presences
– the present is … And there’s a calm, hypnotic cavern to be
found in tracks like Marcy Angeles’ A Human is a Human is a Human, and so
too, deep attention presented in a more up-tempo way, in Baraari’s Juwa
El Ard – a journey from air to land.
In reciting Apologies, an abundant noise takes over. Deep into Intramaterial, a
faint melody appears under pillows of static sound. Another track (you’ll
listen to find out which one) ends with the surprise of a short human gasp.
You can no more pin a genre on so many calls to freedom than anyone can contain
the promise of liberation with campaigns for erasure. In compiling this album,
Sanna Almajedi and Gavilán Rayna Russom – each connected to this
struggle by proximity of birth and strength of commitment – looked to
artists doing radical things with musical structure. As Rayna has put it, the
resulting tracks echo a resistance to colonization in their resistance of
structure, in the very essence of their radical rhythm. The music expresses
solidarity through deep and deepening means that transcend categorization or
geography. The musicians sent in work from all over, and many participated for
the first time for an album for Palestine. Why did Mercury Symbol, from the
Bronx, Rayna asked in reflecting on the album you’re hearing now, want to
make a track in support of BDS? She answered that he’s a person with a
strong sense of community who believes in liberation. And who, like you, knows
music is a way in and forward. Rhythm is a transmitter of information: a
speaking of truth to a set of powerful realities occupying the present.
In a way, listening to the tracks compiled here mirrors the experience of
hearing stories of and from Palestine. You cannot listen once without being
changed. And you can only ever know them by returning, return, again, again
…
“Carried by the ocean waves we will rise, we will rise,” Amirtha
Kidambi sings on Dance of the Subaltern. “Buried by the ocean waves we
will drown, we will drown …” The same waves can carry or drown the
people of eternity, and in the ways that we’re connected, all of us.
Jumping in headfirst to survive walls of water, or more crucially, to topple
heavy concrete, requires the power and freedom of boundless rhythms. And they
will be sounded together.

- Kaye Cain-Nielsen


Tracklist:
1.01 - Anteloper - Hideouts (10:28)
1.02 - Baraari - Juwa El Ard (1:22)
1.03 - 400ppm - Your Wait in Water (5:10)
1.04 - Dakn - difa3an 3an nafs (2:18)
1.05 - Maria Chavez - Ridiculous Circularity, 2022 (2:08)
1.06 - Gavilán Rayna Russom - Meditating on the Present (6:45)
1.07 - King Vision Ultra - hex code (2:06)
1.08 - Marcy Angeles - A Human Is A Human Is A Human (3:57)
1.09 - Dynoman - Take Action (3:53)
1.10 - Mercury Symbol - Apologies to All the People in Lebanon (6:03)
1.11 - Rat Porridge - Intramaterial (4:54)
1.12 - Speaker Music - Holosonic Rebellion (5:27)
1.13 - Amir ElSaffar - Reaching Upward (13:29)
1.14 - lawd knows - tree ball (workout) (5:48)
1.15 - Sunk Heaven - 2X4 (2:47)
1.16 - Elder Ones - Dance of the Subaltern (9:24)

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