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.

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

Rifles & Garbage Podcast

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

The Rifles & Garbage Podcast is a series concerned with acoustic ecology and the slow, methodical dismantling of the technocapitalist war machine via poetry, deep listening & sound activism. We go in search of a demilitarized trade zone of spirit & ideas. If we don't find it then we takes steps toward creating it while pushing back against ecocide. Join us. Support via paypal jeff.gburek@gmail Patreon coming soon. Field recordings made by Jeff Gburek. Poems by Mosab Abu Toha & others (full list of all recordings will be posted in a few hours).

Rifles & Garbage Podcast Second Edition

Thoughts on process & reality in the bioacousmatic field-mind. Field recordings from Mecca (via satellite), Sofia, Bulgaria, various locations Poland & Romania (special guest appearance by Phil Mill's Herons. Exploring acoustic ecology, sympoetic polyvocality, geological time factors, composite identity, long-term thinking, deconstruction of empires.  #acoustic #ecology #charlesdarwin #williammacaskill #polinabuchak #fieldrecording

Rifles & Garbage Podcast Third Edition

The Rifles & Garbage Podcast is named thusly to create a strong an mental association between militarism, waste and pollution. I am not opposed to subsistence hunting but maybe use a trap rather than firearms or maybe even try subsistence farming instead of the venison survivalist hype. This podcast has three movements. One introductory, paying homage to sources. The second featuring a recital of poems by Yahia Lababidi, Ghassan Kavafani, Noor Hindi, Yours Truly, Mourid Barghouti & Tony Brewer. The third and final section is a crunchy leaf peripatetic meander musings about Captain Beefheart, the apolitical politics of acoustric ecology and Charles Darwin. All of it supported by the non-musically specific vibratory matters of the planet and background radiations and creatures of the air, wald and water i.e. field recordings. Photo from the internet of women in Ramallah circa 1890, artist unknown. Sumud in Palestinian Arabic means steadfastness. Props to the healers & field workers.

Rifles & Garbage Podcast 4 Sumud

This podcast we go deeper into the otherness. Poems by Tony Brewer, Ilaria Boffa (English & Italiano) and recitation of Osip Mandelstam (English & Russian) by Tim Williams. It's called Rifles & Garbage Podcast in order to draw attention to outrageous military spending, ecological disaster, arms racketeering and the exploitation and/or removal of indigenous populations in favor extraction of raw materials for corporate profit. Stop that. Yikes.
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Rifles & Garbage Podcast # 5

This may be the final or phoenix edition of the Rifles & Garbage Podcast as I seek social medial detox and the travelling cures for the next 2 months. "On Fire" includes poems by Charles Whittaker, Tony Brewer, George Christian, Palestinian poet Hiba Abunnada and a special forest fire narration & field recordings by Phil Mill. Poems and various vocal assertions about language and life forms on the brink of extinction by myself as well as the weaving field recordings and sonic textures by yours truly. And special thanks to Tony Brewer for the extended field recording of the cicada double brood from Belle, MIssouri (USA) which allowed me to breath more deeply and orchestrate this virtual commingly of spaces, places and voices. Have a great summer. Be great, everybody, one and all. Because you were meant to be so. 
Selected Bibliography. On the Hawaiin land reclaimation movement
MĀLAMA MĀKUA   https://www.malamamakua.org/
On the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza
https://thebaffler.com/latest/running-amok-turfah
Further field recordings by Phil Mill
https://soundcloud.com/phil-mill1
Find Tony Brewer and Charles Whittaker on Facebook.
George Christian's music: https://soundcloud.com/georgechristian

Rifles & Garbage Podcast "On Fire" #6

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/