Listen to the reflections and words of artist Damon Davis on the 7th edition of the #MusiciansForPalestine podcast. 

Damon speaks on the #BlackLivesMatter uprising in Ferguson, Missouri, in response to the police murder of Michael Brown. In 2015, Damon's work, All Hands On Deck, a participatory street art project projecting the hands of Black community members who participated in the uprising, resonated all around the world.

In this interview, Damon also speaks on creating music (heard in this podcast) and also many ongoing projects, including Filling In The Crack (2020), that has been described like this: "Through the use of concrete—emblematic of the hardness of Black life—Davis’ practice suggests that however resilient it may be, masculinity is not without kinks, vulnerability, and abrasion."

Damon is a signatory and supporter of the Musicians for Palestine initiative.

Information on Damon here : https://heartacheandpaint.com

Interview by Stefan @spirodon Christoff, sound editing by @nicolasjaar

#MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE PODCAST 7 - Damon Davis

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson joins the Musicians for Palestine podcast on the 8th edition. 

In this episode, Leanne speaks on creating music as an Indigenous musician, reflecting on the process of rehearsal, the connection of presenting to live audiences and repetition in group practices as a meaningful space for reflection and new meanings to emerge.

Leanne also speaks on overlapping solidarities between struggles for freedom across the world, from #BlackLivesMatter, to #LandBank, while speaking directly about engaging with the Musicians for Palestine project. 

Info on Leanne's work here: www.leannesimpson.ca 

This interview was conducted for the Musicians for Palestine podcast by Jessie Stein from The Luyas, with sound editing by @nicolas-jaar 

Leanne has a book coming out soon, jointly written with Robyn Maynard who authored the book Policing Black Lives. Info : 

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living

Information about Musicians for Palestine here: musiciansforpalestine.com #FreePalestine

#MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE PODCAST 8 - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Wetlands w/ Queenie & Ben Wrong 09/04/22

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It began as an art project. Inspiration was taken from the sounds of her adventures, in the city, forest and by the seaside. Random elements gave the track structure. We then had the pleasure to invite three artists, each with their own unique sound. Now, the journey of listening is yours.

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Releases September 22, 2022

Artwork by Sébastien Mercier & Maison Sagan. Mastered by Amandra.

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Extract from session 28/05/18

Ken Anders: Vocals
Luca Andriola: Guitar
Salvador Martinez: Drums
M.S. Montellano: Bass
Gabriel Castillo: Guitar

Automatenfall - Open Sea

Domestic Mind Wandering w/ Bassinä

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Penumbra / Son Objet

“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words: but most of your friends do not see it at all, and often wonder why, liking this, you should also like that. Again, you have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you have been looking for all your life; and then turned to the friend at your side who appears to be seeing what you saw -- but at the first words a gulf yawns between you, and you realise that this landscape means something totally different to him, that he is pursuing an alien vision and cares nothing for the ineffable suggestion by which you are transported. Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of -- something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat's side? Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it -- tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest -- if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself -- you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say "Here at last is the thing I was made for". We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work. While we are, this is. If we lose this, we lose all.” C. S. Lewis

Artwork © Aina Climent

The secret thread

Untitled #4 (Pieter Kock)

Musicians for Palestine is a global network of musicians working together to support Palestinian human rights and to refuse silence in the face of Israeli state war crimes against the Palestinian people. 

#MusiciansForPalestine podcast is a series of conversations with artists who signed our collective declaration : https://musiciansforpalestine.com

“We call for you to join us with your name in refusing to perform at Israel’s complicit cultural institutions, and by standing firm in your support of the Palestinian people and their human right to sovereignty and freedom. We believe this is crucial to one day live in a world without segregation and apartheid.”

#MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE PODCAST 7 - Damon Davis

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