Palestinian poets who are cited or whose work is drawn from in making this album include both living, recently deceased and the ancestral ones: Hibaa Kamal Abu Nada, Refaat Alareer, Rashid Hussein, Mahmoud Darwish, Mohammed El-Kurd.

Many are the words of other Palestinian poets, writers, podcasters that I have listened to in these weeks of research which have entered into the blood-stream of my own texts and words spoken through this album and I thank all those I can recall and those who I can't at the moment. I also thank my fellow Americans: Martin Luther King Jr. and Tony Brewer. Cover art is a re-working of a Samia Halaby painting.

https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/a-moon-will-rise-from-my-darkness-suite-for-gaza

A Moon Will Rise From My Darkness (Suite for Gaza)

recorded toungedrum with TE´s TP-7/TulaMic
then rerecorded in TE's TX-6 with reduced tempo and played backwards

More on this 607th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Silence Wave (The Assignment: From close to zero and back again, alter the relative amount of sound to silence in a piece of music), at: https://disquiet.com/0607/

Thanks this week to Jason Richardson and Klaus-Dieter Hilf.

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0607-silence-wave/

silent percussion(disquiet0607)

naviarhaiku504 – Lazing in shadows
Lazing in shadows,
Conceding the drawing room
to moonrays

Hidden

Hidden - (naviarhaiku504)

Before fall

Naviar Haiku 510

in pre-dawn darkness
the avant-garde soundtrack
of orchestral rainfall

Elliot Carson is a teacher living in Japan who doubles as an artist/designer/translator in his free time. He writes haiku under the pen name EKC and is currently working to self-publish his first book of haiku.

To participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Haiku by Elliot Carson https://www.instagram.com/i.write.haiku/

Picture by Lazarescu Alexandra https://unsplash.com/photos/vRiylUiR6ew

The Soul's Rainy Night

The Soul's Rainy Night (NaviarHaiku510)

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Janice Doppler’s poem “Summer sky… / rippling the silence / a watersnake”. 

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/09/20/naviarhaiku507-summer-sky/ 

Tracklist:

Zenbytes - Watersnake
Halcyon Hum - Rippling Silence
Rikardfvs - Summer Watersnake
Noksidam - Summer Sky Watersnake
Ed Mundio - The Watersnake's Song

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #287 – summer sky… – Wednesday 4th October 2023

I began this process over a month ago.  Carrying to term tomorrow with the album release.

Gaza 6 Another Kinda Jungle

Raymond's haiku inspired me to dust off my electric upright bass for this minimalist improvisation. Recorded and mixed in Reaper, with Guitar Rig 6. Mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Dark Clouds (naviarhailu518)

All music written, recorded and performed by Ryan J Raffa in Taipei, Taiwan during late 2021 on moog matriarch, modular, fender rhodes, snare drums, cymbals, percussion, op1, tape machines, and field recorders.

Every sound was captured for this specific occasion

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Vinyl cut by Barry "Baza" Grint at Alchemy
Layout by Drew Heffron
Photographs by Ryan J Raffa

4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose.

4 e and a

Spirits Of Menghuanhu

I have been meditating upon the curious life of Nathan of Gaza since the Hamas attack of October 7 and the rather devastating consequences for the people in the Gaza Strip. I note without irony but simple observation that this leader of the messianic cult surrounding the figure of Sabbatai Zevi, another volatile, evasive and enigmatic personage, who ultimately converted to Islam while conducting an enterprise seemed to revolve around reconnecting Jewish people to their homeland -- well, Nathan didn't make it either... I can barely come to grips with the terror of the Nazis in the country that hosts me, let alone who could live happly and peacefully in Gaza after all this---  

On Friday, January 11, 1680 in Üsküp, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia), Nathan of Gaza died.[3][4][5][6] According to another version he died in Sofia, Ottoman Empire (now Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria) but his body was transferred to Üsküp and buried here.[7][8][9] It is presumed also, he could have died traveling from Sofia to Üsküp. It is understood that upon arriving into Üsküp that day, he immediately requested that several gravediggers construct his grave. He told these men that he was about to expire and wanted to be prepared so that in the instance of his death, his burial could occur prior to the start of the Sabbath. Then, as he predicted, “‘[w]hile he was still in [a] rabbi’s house he fell down and died, and the members of the congregation buried him with great honor.’” While the death of the prophet was a tragic event for his followers, his burial place was a pilgrimage site after his death,[10] but it would not become a permanent pilgrimage site, since it survived only until World War II, when it was destroyed.[11]

Ghazatti Drone Mix

Swarmandal 462 New Tuning

Voices taken from speeches of Martin Luther King and the final one in Arabic from a man and his wife in Gaza speaking about sleeping with their child close together so that they might all...

A Moon Will Rise From My Darkness

Also known as Gaza Blue Theme, composed around October 11, 2023. The title comes from a poem by Mohammed El-Kurd whose voice you hear on my track, reciting not his own poem however but that of Rashid Hussein (d.1977) first in Arabic and then in El-Kurd's translation. Thanks to Mohammed El-Kurd and the Palestine Festival of Literature who faced great obstacles in finding venues for their conferences and readings since October 7.

Children for whom the Red Sea does not part

Introductory passage from and address given by assasinated Palestianian poet Refaat Alareer. Next poem by Tony Brewer (USA), "stripped barren reborn" -- music and arrangement by myself.

Stripped Barren and Reborn



Where are we?

Home

Where are we from?

Beyond the veil 
of tears unnumbered 

That’s too far

Earth inside the veil
One of many tears
Stars from out there

I want to be closer

Explosion of sunset

Too close

Fiery blooms of sunrise

Too close

Falling infrared tears
green night vision
sight of soldiers
of children waking
from dreams

The Earth covers me

Avenging moon rising scythe
A mouth of night
swallowing Earth

A mouth of tombstones

The throat of Earth
not linen but stone
coarse – unforgiving

What have I done?

Hiding nothing
but moon and clouds
its veil

I die here

We do not perish but
death is an answer

Feeding on the Earth
Feeding the Earth
is how we learn home
Chance existence
where we are born

Swollen stomach Earth
Swollen feasting worm

Born bordered

Doppler of sirens

Little obliteration – big scream

Sun & moon pass over walls
obliterating obstacles

We do not move

Persistence ammunition
Survival a threat

We migrate

River of conscience
Souls rippling to the sea

Impediments to firmament

Working free like a tooth
pushing through new gum
slipping out of decay

To whom?

Dust in the mouth
Civilian rubble
Frozen conflict swelters

To home

We will not be moved
We move or die
and die

To who we are

Explosions move 
everything

Ingrained 
in grains

Dust

Settling

Oxygen is not for the Dead

BERIMBAU MAFIOSO - DJ DELAZARI

INTHEPLACE

Enaj (1992 Mix)

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Gaza 6 Another Kinda Jungle

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