An hour of music reflecting sounds of the greater muslim diaspora, plus other pieces that also create a sonic fortress of strength, resilience, and beauty.
Recorded By: @zamzam-sounds

Broadcasted on @radioalhara on the 30th of September 2021.
Curated by @ramseytdec

This Sonic Liberation Front has been orchestrated on stolen land. We pay our respects to the traditional owners of this land – the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and their ancestors, elders past, present, and emerging. We stand with our First Nations brothers and sisters in their ongoing resistance. Sovereignty remains unceded.

From Palestinians and allies in the diaspora, all the way in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), the United Kingdom, and the United States – we take charge through this electronic intifada. we raise our voices, we will not stop talking. We seek justice, for the death and oppression of human life. We unite through sound against the structure of segregation and discrimination towards minority groups. While they thrive in our lands and blood, we are here to resist alongside you.   

We demand oppressors address the colonialism of our homes, the apartheid, the blatant ethnic cleansing of our people, the violations of international law, state sanctioned violence, and settler-colonial invasion backed by imperialist machines against our people.

We are another cog to the well-oiled regime of systematic racism, apartheid, and exploitation that has bonded us together with our brothers and sisters around the world who suffer under the same fate. We stand together through sound to fight the system that has controlled the oppressed and taken our lives and lands.

Falastin, we refuse silence.
Falastin, we stand in solidarity.
Falastin, we stand in resistance.
We are not free until you are free.

No peace without justice.
No justice without return.
Resistance is existence.
We will win. 
Land back.

Sonic Liberation Front - Radio Alhara - ZamZam Sounds - 30/09/2021

Patch Notes: 2 x Tyso Daiko synth voices with a quantised melodic sequence from Pamela’s New Workout. 

First Voice: Raising the surface control adds a slower attack envelope to fade in the notes & using the tilt EQ darkens the tone.
Second Voice: Alternating it's triggering with the 1st Voice, patching a smooth random modulation to the fold amount adds subtle harmonic changes.

Additional snare from Akemies Taiko & complementary melodic sequence from the Akemie's Castle.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFI6LxUWq98
More info on the Tyso Daiko: https://busycircuits.com/alm031/

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Ambient Dual Synth Voices

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For the past few years we’ve been mesmerized by Elijah Minnelli’s output on his own Breadminster County Council label… a handful of hand-crafted 7”s that live at the foggy intersection of dub, outsider folk, and various strands of Eastern European and South/Central American musics. In hindsight it seems inevitable that he would join the ZamZam family. 

Firmly rooted in dub through its mammoth bassline, ‘Gradually’ is a shaggy, unhurried tune framed by melancholy, almost grieving squeezebox and gorgeous ensemble percussion that reverently recalls early cumbias. The tune is unique for Elijah in that it features fully-sung vocals. Themes of loss, despair, tragedy and coping circle and loop, ironically held in a musical matrix that spirals in deliberate repetition. 

In ‘Gradually Verzion’ the introduction of a minimal melodic figure and long echo trails signal a dramatic shift, going full dubwise steppers without compromising its warm center.  Elijah holds back the wheezy melody, deftly forwarding the percussion in time-honored echo chamber mode.

Our soundcloud clips are always recorded straight from the vinyl with flat EQ so you know exactly what you're getting. 

Strictly limited to 700 copies for the world. No digital, no repress. Art, design & screen print by Polygon Press. Mastered by Sam at Precise, Pressed at Third Man. Shipping early November, 2023.

Elijah Minnelli "Gradually" b/w "Gradually Verzion" ZamZam 93 7" vinyl blend

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