Amplify Palestine – Unboundable BDS Mixtape
Amplify Palestine releases Unboundable to mark twenty years since the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions went global; as Gaza’s people continue to endure genocidal siege, bombs, famine, and fire; and as repression of Palestine solidarity rapidly escalates.
But this third volume in the BDS Mixtape series also comes as support for Palestinians’ freedom struggle surges, especially among artists.
As curator and contributor Sonny Singh declares: “It is our responsibility as musicians to get louder. We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide.”
In this spirit of urgent, liberatory defiance, he and fellow curator-contributors Huda Asfour and db set out to investigate improvisation as a practice that interweaves their work as musicians and activists.
Unboundable gathers over 20 celebrated musicians to engage this question on a double album with 13 improvisational tracks that braid jazz, Indian classical, and Arabic music (SIDE A) with experimental voice, avant electronica, and instruments from nature (SIDE B).
Unboundable: BDS Mixtape, Vol. 3 is out now on Bandcamp and other streaming services.
“Repression of Palestine Solidarity”……this seems like something, we the people, should not accept and rail against!
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.