Zor jwana...✊🏼 Bijî Kurdistan & YPJ...✊🏼

Resistance is life, Berxwedan Jiyane! Rest well Viyan...

4 years, and this is still beautiful and haunting

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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#Rojava - music, awareness & solidarity powered by female:pressure

Pargîn dezgeheke berhevkirin û belgekirina kelepûr, kevneşopî û serhatiyên pêşiyan e Pargîn di navbera gundê Tepkê û Bestasûs de ye li herêma Koçeran-Rojavayê Kurdistanê. 


Pargin: Analysis and preservation of Rojava heritage Pargin center in Koceran region / Rojava .

Zeynebê | Şêx Berekat Xelîl

Deng

Dil Ji Min Bir

Issa Hassan - Gulîzer

Egide Cimo - Hekimo (Mey)Enstrülmantal

Koma Denge Azadi - Fedi

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 )

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

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'

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)

Mirade Kine Ziravê Ziravê - Gel Yanima

Gulîzar Gulîzar...
Ezê rûniştî me li bin darên serê kaniyê
Min dî Gulîzara min av dianî...
Pişta xwe da min, kirî meşek bi giranî
Min ba kirê Gulîzar Gulîzar Gulîzar
Tu bihara emrê min î Gulîzarê

Were were Gulîzarê
Sifet wek heyva biharê
Tu wek kulîlka hinarê
Wer ji min re tu xweş yarê

Gulîzara’m tu delal î
Tu delal t xweş heval î
Binêr li min û vî halî
Hêstir ji çavêm tên xwarê

Gulîzaram tu xweş xatûn
Aşiq bûn wek Leyla û Mecnûn
Hela were dîlber tu rûn
Ji sibê heta êvarê

Min li te nêrî min axîn kişand
Min axîn kişand dlêm êşiya
Ez bûm wek dîn û serxweşa
Ez bang dikim şêrîn yarê

Gulîzaram li dibistanê
Çente bi desta li eywanê
Xelk û alem tev dizanê
Weke berfa li ser zinarê

Mihemed Şexo - Gulizar

Runak Resulpur'un güzel ötesi çizimlerini incelerken denk geldim bu şarkıya,  olur da nasiplenmek isterseniz
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Dîk dîko serî spîko
Derpî li kabokê tê biçe ku?
Dîk dîkê serê giran
Ez pê ketim bi keviran

Ezê herim xuristanê muristanê
Bînim leşkerkî giran
Li ser pîra heftdiran
Çavê'm derxist ji bo du lib dan

Ezê herim çol û çolistan
Payîz çû ma zivistan
Bînim leşkerkî giran
Li ser pîra heftdiran
Pîrê çav li min rijand
Ji bo du tene lib dan
Dîk dîkoo

Mizgîn Tahir ♪ Dîkil Axa

Evrihmanê Herkend, prepayîzoka xisxeriyan

Hespê mîrê min qir û hêşîn
Tere dilîze li ser lingê pêşîn
Birînên mîrê min pir giran in
De dilê min jî jê re diêşe

De Mîro Mîro Mîrê Mîran
Karê te çi li Sêwazê li nav maciran

De rabe rabe Mîro rabe
Xewa sibê pir xirab e
Xewa sibê pir giran e

Hespe Mîrê min qir û boz e
De rê ra mere rê bi toz e
Dilê xwenga wî ji wî sû ye
De lomane jî bi lêv û poz e..

xewnén hespén deşta sor//Baghdad//kurdi

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.

Dear Viyan (feat. Viyan Peyman & Dilar Dirik)

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