female:pressure curated an awareness and solidarity campaign for the cantons of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality. Background info here: http://www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html

With a series of music, media and sound art to listen, dance and fight to, we would like to send our love and strength to these women and spread a positive message in support of their efforts.

Press results: https://femalepressure.wordpress.com/press-review/


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Made on legendary Martin Luther's King speech "I have a dream" and symbolises the idea that sometimes you need to fight for peace.

01 Warrior

#piano #contemporary  #femalepressure for #rojava #revolution #solidarity

Unnecessaryactions(war)

hiT͟Hərˈto͞o   -  ANAGRAMS [2016 Berlin]

THOREAU / KOMATIK HAI
@hithertoo

"We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature’s. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this." D.H. THoreau

The concept of the project Anagrams is following; track names are generated by shuffling letters of the names Akkamiau and Hithertoo, two inner personalities of the artist. Anagrams generated various new meanings in a melting pot of human psyche, directed anima and animus in their last act - hiero gamos. Track Thoreau \ Komatik Hai is reviving the message of American philosopher and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

Sounds for track Thoreau \ Komatik Hai arose from the improvisation session Anagrams, broadcasted on Frission radio in January 2016.

THOREAU / KOMATIK HAI

http://www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html

In the revolution of Rojava, a practical defense of women’s rights and the safety of women is ensured through the YPJ (People's Protection Units). The Daesh (or I.S. for Islamic State) has from the very beginning of this war addressed its attacks on regions where Kurds mainly live, such as Schengal, Mosul, Raka, Heseke, Serekani, Kobani and Aleppo. Kurdish women, on the other hand, have taken on a leadership role in the defense against these attacks. With their identity as women of many ethnicities, the women have been present in all areas of the fight in Rojava. Women have also jointly begun a revolution socially and politically in Syria and Rojava and expand this more every day.
     To understand the revolution in Rojava and the role of women in it, one has to be aware of the history of Kurdish movement and especially of the role of PPK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) in Kurdistan. What's happening there is based on more than 30 years of ideological work in both theoretical and practical aspects. Apart from a justified, self organized, armed struggle of women in Kurdistan against colonizing, oppressive regimes in this area (Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria), they have also done the same political work on a societal level to create awareness of the importance of the women’s role in the revolutionary discourse.
       Rojava is a chance for the whole world, especially for women and white feminism, to finally understand that the fight for women is nothing else than the struggle for revolution and justice, and the women there are a role model for us. They are building a society where women even write their revolutionary history, a history that until now has ignored the power of women. They have their destiny in their hand. Let us look to Rojava for getting hope for our lost world, and energy to continue our fight for a better life.

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Sky Deep and Hevî are friends from two completely different worlds yet somehow, this song is a result of our worlds and passions combined. This song was born from the internal journeys that happen within the external environments that we endure everyday of our existence.  It is a special moment when two people come together with intersecting journeys that result in art PLUS activism.   We work towards freedom every day.  This song is a piece of our soul. Hope lives in these frequencies.

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Woman & The Gun ( feat. Hevî )

“A country can’t be free unless the women are free"

www.ctm-festival.de/festival2016/20…ressure_rojava

Women and men are equals in the kurdes democracy. Not like we think it is equal in Europe. The roots of this society are not based on the patriarcal system we live in, but a complete equality. An utopia which is in danger.

That’s why I support Rojava
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female:pressure is launching an awareness and solidarity campaign for the cantons of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.

With a series of music, media and sound art to listen, dance and fight to, we would like to send our love and strength to these women and spread a positive message in support of their efforts.

We are calling for participation and submission of works. The work must be related and critically deal with the topic of #Rojava; otherwise there are no restrictions. Everybody is welcome!

The final publication is planned for International Women’s Day on 8 March 2016. 

http://www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html

Free download: https://kritzkom.bandcamp.com/track/inner-march-for-utopia

Inner March for Utopia

Traverser sa manche

FR.
Il y a les chhhhh,
Xchhh', qui s'expriment difficilement
Puis des parois qui nous tunnels
des bruissements salissants

Un mot tente de s'extirper,
frotte frotte, 
glisse - l'anicroche - glisse
puis s'écorche,
s'écorche en corps

Puis finalement s'extirpe. 

Sortie - Fin - Début d'une autre manche - 

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EN.
Sleeve Crossing 

Do you hear these "shhhhhrrr" ,
Xchh ', difficult to articulate in your mouth 
A mouth as many walls, 
A mouth as many tunnels
dirty rustlings
A word attempts to extirpate
rubbing and rubbing,
sliding 
 - hitch - 
sliding
 - hitch -

skinned,
body flayed 
Then finally
Oozes out.


Exit - Ending - Beginning of another race -

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Crédit 
Réalisation : Anne Lepère 
Durée : 3'48

Prod - Radio Moniek - émission spéciale Papier Machine - Janvier 2016 
Diffusion Radio Campus Bruxelles 

Part of the female:pressure / solidarity campaign for the canton of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.


Manche

Words have power to change our lives (instrumental) By Dgeral  2016
for ROJAVA 
female:pressure is launching an awareness and solidarity campaign for the cantons of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.


Words have power to change our lives (instrumental) By Dgeral  2016

Awareness & solidarity with #Rojava by female:pressure
www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html

Kurdish inspired danceable music for celebration and driving energy.

Samples from traditional instruments Kemençe, Def and Zirne.

Unmastered version

Ishtar - Rojava compilation via Female:Pressure

In solidarity with the Kurdish fighters and future leaders, In solidarity with all my women out there making a change in their life and our world. Much Love. #Female Pressure in #solidarity w #Rojava.

My girls are a fire
A flame from beyond
I toast to you ladies 
For changing your world

Your soul
Eternal love lies in your soul
Eternal justice freeing us all
Eternal wisdom sparkling the road

Sample from CNN - Interview with Khazar Fatemi
https://youtu.be/cuU8hSN4WKg

Check out full playlist by FEMALE:PRESSURE artists:
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My Girls Are A Fire

awareness & solidarity with #Rojava powered by female:pressure 
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voices of activists sampled from...

Rojava: A democratic system in progress (November 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_dchu1i8cs

New World Summit: Stateless State. Dilar Dirik 
https://vimeo.com/107639261




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Thoughts On Rojava feat. Zeynep Kurban, Dilar Dirik, Zaher Baher, Havin Guneser, Memed Aksoi

awareness & solidarity with #Rojava powered by female:pressure
www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html
There are over 7000 women fighters on the border of Northern Syria. These women are collectively known as the YPJ or the Women's Protection Unit, an all-women unit. They are fighting on the front line against IS / Daesh. To build a new society in Rojava, they are forced to defend themselves. Until recently I was unaware of their existence.

our BENEFIT COMPILATION to support the women of Rojava please donate
https://femalepressure.bandcamp.com/album/music-awareness-solidarity-w-rojava-revolution

'Afraid Of Women' was produced in a short time of the moment 
: Refragmented / Sources sampled: BBC news, Günther Steinmeier , PBS NewsHour / Mastered by AGF

Background : The New York Times ' A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS' backyard'  
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html?_r=0

'Afraid Of Women'

Women in Rojava need our support. 

female:pressure is launching an awareness and solidarity campaign for the cantons of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.

With a series of music, media and sound art to listen, dance and fight to, we would like to send our love and strength to these women and spread a positive message in support of their efforts.

http://www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html

Rojava Belong Here

The voice of the young girls from Rojava claiming for liberty

KURDISH FEMALE . ROSA PEREZ FLUIDO ROSA MIX 13307755 2016 - 02 - 04T08 - 59 - 26.000.1005

http://www.sylviahinz.com for https://soundcloud.com/femalepressure

#femalepressure for #rojava #revolution #solidarity

4 great bass recorders and voice sample.
Voice sample source: anonymous female soldier @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx9FflnWy6Y ("I hope that kurdish women can inspire women all over the world.")

[Sylvia Hinz] - Sylvia Hinz - anonyma

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female:pressure has launched an awareness and solidarity campaign for the cantons of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.



Stone Pillars Of Rojava

my music runs backwards and stretched to accomodate fragments of conversation in a woman's camp in Syria in time for International Women's Day on March 8th. 

Syrian Moonlight

Aynur & Morgenland Chamber Orchestra - Delale AnadoluHouseRmx Ipek Ipekcioglu

Delale - My Beauty (english translation) (kurdish below) 
Hey, your father's sheep herd is speckled my beauty
Rest your herd behind our house, come my beauty

Hey, alert me before you move the herd
A wound remains with me, don't leave my beauty.

Hey my beauty, rugged are these mountains they will not give passage
This world is a dark and cruel place, stay my beauty

Hey, this world is like a blink of an eye
All that remains is pain and death, don't leave my beauty

The tents are striped, they are striped my beauty
It is time for me, your admirer to feed his lambs, come my beauty

Hey, surely the lamb has come down to get fed
A wound remains with me, don't leave my beauty

Translation by Ali Yalçın

Delalê - kurmanci
Hay pezê bavê te belek e hay lê lê delalê delalê we xalê
Hay le paş xanî(yê) me mexel ke were delalê delal

Hay le rakir(i)nê mi(n) xewer ke delalê delalê we xalê
Ay sîse gwîzey min mabî mere were delalê delal

Hayê çiya pêrew e delav e ya lê lê delalê delalê hevalê
Ay dune terr e zuxl e nav e were delalê delal

Revşe dunê bireyê çav e ya lê lê delalê delalê we xalê
Ay jane mergêy min mabî mere were delalê delal

Ma'lûm dawê karek daket ya lê lê delalê delalê we xalê
Ay sîse gwîzêy min mabî mere were delalê delal

Xorasan ( Horasan )
Lyrics and music : Traditional
Arrangements : Wolf Kerschek   
Played by Cemîl Qoçgirî (Tambur) & Morgenland Chamber orchestra



Picture by Melis Özdil


Aynur & Morgenland Chamber Orchestra Delale AnadoluHouseVersion Ipek Ipekcioglu

Viyan Peyman was a musician, a poet, an activist, and a fighter for the YPG/YPJ. Viyan was killed on April 6th 2015 near Serekaniye, a town also known as Ras al-Ayn in northern Syria while fighting against Daesh (ISIS).
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/viyan-peyman-female-kurdish-fighter-killed-battling-isis-n339566

For an English translation of the song see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAlIsAqh2S8


Dilar Dirik is an activist, writer and academic. Find more information on her blog http://dilar91.blogspot.de/

Samples taken from:
https://soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/837dilardirik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXzLHeDcK8

Dear Viyan (feat. Viyan Peyman & Dilar Dirik)

SOLO FRÉQUENCE FINE
For the women of Rojava fighting for their lives, their land and for a better world * female:pressure compilation will be issued on the 8th of march and sent to the fighters in Rojava!

Fire Fighter / Fréquence Fine

#Rojava - music, awareness & solidarity powered by @femalepressure

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Based on a recording of a YPG fighter singing while a doctor tends to her battle wounds (@ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CBeAave2o0 )

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Kobani is in sadness
it's streets full of blood and corpses

Tears fall from my eyes,
Ah Kobani...

The brave and beauty resist
amid bombing and attack

They face the bullets
Long live the forces of resistance

Kobani is symbol of life
its cradle of resistance

Our nation shout in one voice,
"Long Live the Resistance"

~

Recorded live 160226 and in studio 160227

lo. batt. ~ آه كوباني  (“Ah Kobanî”)

female:pressure is a database and network of women*, AFAB, transgender, transfeminine, transmasculine, intersex (+gender optional), genderqueer, gender nonconforming, a-gender or/and non-binary artists in electronic music and digital arts. Founded in 1998, we focus on connecting artists, labels, bookers, curators, event organizers and other stakeholders. Over the past several years we have intensified our efforts to increase the visibility of artists and to create new opportunities. Our database is a worldwide resource of talent that can be searched according to criteria like location, profession, style or name.