This is great, beautiful. Many parts but especially right at the start and here, it reminds me of a recording I have of 2 tornado sirens from 2 different towers organically playing over the top of each other.

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)

151 Beat

Roll Along

Golden beans

This track was made with Kontakt 7. & Spark 2 (congas, perc & FX).
Graphics made by AI
© FrÀn​K

Black   Venus

The world continues to be unfathomable. The human world no less so but in a more distressing way. Trying to make a process piece using pitch values that model conflict resolution. Paradoxically, to resolve tensions one creates different tesnions as a result -- in the distant hopes of an eventual balance. So I've eased into the process this way. Bringing discordant tones into a field of re-pitched urgencies leads somehow to this skein of tangled tanpura-like quiverings and frayed drones with keening moments. Nothing tremendously original thus far. Just a struggle. Nono meets Scelsi meets Eno. Maybe originality is too controversial in certain moments right now. Maybe your music cannot reach too many people sometimes and rather aids in transform your own consciousness. Melodica, looper pedals, synthesizer.

Process Peace`

Arrival In New Founded Territory

Transference To The Next Universe

Transference Into The Next Universe

Our trio - that released a single of two tracks under the title of "Trois versions d'une histoire" here on SoundCloud on 27 June 2023 - is delighted to now present our 3rd collaboration. Like the previous two, it was the initiative and the lead of Patrick or DjArtw2001 (@djartw2007), who mixed in MAGIX during the night of 27-28 November 2023 a part composed by Dan or DAN-DT (@Dan-T-3), originally back in 2018 under the title of "Meander", with a part composed by Alex M, originally under the title of "New Beginning" (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/new-beginning) that appeared here on SoundCloud on 21 July 2023, and parts and transitions composed and mixed by DjArtw2001 recently. We release this new collaborative track emerging from Patrick's (re)mix under the title suggested by Dan: "Not All Who Wander Are Lost". We hope that you will enjoy this heightening sequence, beautifully blending the music of each of us into a single composition of philosophical contemplation, wisdom accumulated through life, reconciled emotion and symbolic mysteriousness!

The painting in the artwork cover for the track was created by DAN-DT on 16 December 2023, and then the artwork cover was annotated in Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 16 December 2023 too - in coordination and agreement with DjArtw2001 and DAN-DT.

We also decided to now add this 3rd collaboration, as a 3rd/final "bonus" track, into the single released by the three of us, "Trois versions d'une histoire", here on SoundCloud on 27 June / 17 December 2023  (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/sets/trois-versions-dune-histoire).

Thank you so much for this 3rd beautiful collaboration and artwork of ours, Dan and Patrick!

Duration: 9:42 minutes

Not All Who Wander Are Lost - DAN-DT, Alex M & DjArtw2001

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

The  Drow

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

I wrote this in 2006 after reading an article on some new finds of human remains that are 4 million years old in Ethiopia, I felt inspired to begin a series of tunes based on the idea that ancient people tell their stories every time an anthropologist writes of humankind's curious ways, then and now.

This is the first offering from this dig containing bare bones that I call Ultimately Fossil. (See Playlist for more.)

(This tune is downloadable.)

I compose in MIDI, using Logic Pro and sound libraries from EastWest.

© 2023 Rebecca Williams All rights reserved.

Unearthing Our Own

music for an imaginary film

Theo Bina: Music, guitars, bass, e-piano, drum programming, mixing.
Released:2018
Cover : Bodo Bremer

The Path of Life

Drive (Theo Bina)

listeners will find here the most recent edge of my research as well as album samples and one-offs from the last 10 years of my solo work, from official, upcoming releases, unreleased oddities, works in-progress, & experiments, all music by jeff gburek and collaborators, as noted. support directly via paypal: jeff.gburek@gmail.com or buy albums via https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/

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