Name: jazztrio Kairos: Children's Song nr 12 / Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! by Hans van der Maas
Duration: 4 min 10 s
Description: Childrens's Songs by Chick Corea arranged by Kairos: Hans van der Maas, classical accordion; Carlos Matos, piano/synths; Vasilis Stefanopoulos, bass.

Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels [mastered MP3]

Mayssa Jallad - Mudun

@SaintAbdullah & @Eomac rekindle their longstanding collaboration in this fiery new release sourced from the multiple cultural references and personal stories of its producers.

In their third installment entitled “Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you”, the New York-based Iranian-Canadian siblings Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh aka Saint Abdullah & Wicklow-based Irish producer Ian McDonnell aka Eomac continue their exploration of sounds and rhythms through an expansive use of sampling and heavy distorted beats. Passionately curious about diverse vocal and musical cultures as well as their own, the trio began their long-distance collaboration in 2019, releasing their first two albums, “Patience of a Traitor ” (Other People) and “Chasing Stateless” (Planet Mu) in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

The trio recorded the album as the world witnessed the genocide on Gaza, Mohammad notes that all tracks were “recorded within a few weeks in October after the war broke out as we tried to keep our heads above water.” The sound of Saint Abdullah is characterized by a keen interest to challenge cultural perceptions and expectations of diasporic narratives, by foregrounding sounds, field recordings, and sacred and profane music from the multiple worlds they belong to. They pay homage to the distinct influences, however sonically and culturally disparate, that have permeated their records and musical process so far. Together with Eomac, they continue a conversation shaped by their ever-growing sonic heritage and shared musical affinities. The inclusion of field recordings for example, often personal ones, are not ornamental but are integral parts of the whole album in which vocal samples are both used in moments of release or through thrusts of heavy beats, continually mirroring a state of unease.…

Reflecting on the recording process, Eomac notes that: “There is a strong influence and inspiration from hip-hop culture here. The beat-tape in particular. It’s rough, raw; rhythms are direct and not overthought. The beats are heavy and distorted for the most part, often shifting and changing throughout a single track. This brings an intentional “ungroundedness” to the record and a sense of tension.” Echoing this state of unsteadiness, Mohammad writes in a poem during the recording: “Those in the diaspora, are those that have left their home, by force, by will, somewhere in between. Are we the connective tissue that makes things more interesting?” Tracks like 'Bitch, I am Islam’ and ‘Rocknrallah’ relieve some of the sense of disorientation but are no less poignant. In the former, 'Bitch, I am Islam', Mohammad uses old personal recordings of his sisters reciting the Quran or repeating Iranian revolutionary chants like “War war, until victory”, an acknowledgment of the worlds they left behind and the ones that need building. In ‘Rocknrallah’ Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth sings a rendition of the 1933 American standard tune ‘Smoke gets in your eyes’ only to evoke the smoke coming out of Gaza.

The record also features fellow Iranian artists in the diaspora, musician and sound artist based in Paris Cinna Peyghamy and club experimentalist Aria Rostami. Ian Bruner, who worked on the album’s artwork, created a composite of the different elements and motifs that form the album, an image of arduous travel towards the mirage of Americana. In this historic period of grief and anger, ‘Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you’ musically and conceptually engages world systems and beliefs through the experiences and stories of its producers.

—Rayya Badran

All proceeds UNRWA

Produced by Saint Abdullah & Eomac Featured Artists: Cinna Peyghamy, Aria Rostami, Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth Mastered by Rashad Becker Art by Ian Bruner

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Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you

Saint Abdullah & Eomac - The people who initiate a new world

Tonight, you can listen to the 14th episode of 'Feeding the Gentry' with Use Knife on @RadioalHara. The tracks in this episode are thematically linked to our recently released remix EP, Peace Carnival. Carnival's usual satire and mockery should be directed towards the so-called one-sided definition of 'peace'. The tracks oscillate between anger, hope, great worries, and cynical thoughts, starting off with Hang Youth asking (for those of you who don't understand Dutch) if it wouldn't be better to try to structurally fix things instead of all these "probably very good charities", and ending with "We Shall Overcome," a song of hope and resistance across the world.

00:00 Hang Youth - ER ZIJN VAST GOEIE GOEIE DOELEN
00:24 Saint Abdullah & Eomac - Pretense Of Neutrality
03:34 Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
06:49 Use Knife feat. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh - To Feed the Gentry (Rabih Beaini edit)
15:53 E-Saggila - Throw The Stone And Hide Your Hand
22:48 Grand Kalle - Indépendance Tchatcha
25:50 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (What's So Funnay 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
29:18 Factory Floor - Ya
36:20 Pisitakun - ReReLiLiGion GMO MURTAD (Gabber Modus Operandi Remix)
40:49 Jerusalem in my Heart (w/Mayss, Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui & Raed Yassin) - Qalaq 9
42:38 Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
50:38 Authentically Plastic - Aesthetic Terrorism
54:28 Crass - You're Already Dead
58:42 Charlie Haden & Liberation Music Orchestra - We Shall Overcome

EP Design by Jef Cuypers
Arabic Lettering by Farah Fayyad

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'Feeding the Gentry' w/ Use Knife on Radio alHara Ep 14 - Peace Carnival

This mix slides from melanchlic to hopeful to enthusiastic feelings with some jamz from the global south.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/metamorphosis-2024/episodes/metamorphosis-2024-mixed-feelings-w-inway-18th-april-2024

MIXED FEELINGS W/ INWAY 180424

This mix plays out the metamorphosis of a piano tone into ever changing, rippling waveforms. Featuring lots of ambient soundscapes, spoken word, broken melody and a pinch of psychedelia, which will hopefully transport the listener through different states and emotions.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/metamorphosis-2024/episodes/metamorphosis-2024-ripples-w-elle-21st-april-2024

RIPPLES W/ ELLÈ 210424

I first encounter Stefan though through Casa Del Popolo, the Main’s main den of épatering the bourgeoisie since the 90s, when they booked me for what was only the second Days of Steam night after the first at Rye Wax. The old booth was set up like you were in a chapel, dim as hell for me but enough of a remove from the audience without being too removed. They’re a longtime organizer in Montréal activist circles, the mind of @freecityradio, with a CV too long to summarize here but one that shows genuine belief and investment in the causes he champions. I’d seen them years back before we knew each other, as part of the city’s experimental undercurrents, with releases of introspective piano for Howl Arts alongside local luminaries Sam Shalabi and Peter Burton and mainstays d’la marge like Aural Canyon and Beacon Sound. Tapestries of field recordings and plunderphonics, part of a long tradition of musique actuelle in the city without intentionally trying to be so. The mix he sent over is almost entirely as of writing recent pieces, with compositions (what they all feel like more than ‘pieces’ or ‘tracks’) from Berkeley, Brooklyn, Brazil, Houston, Jaffa, Milan, Montréal - the sound of the uncertainty and rage of the now, but never restoring to despondency, moreso righteousness.

"It is my pleasure to share these tracks with you. On a basic level these tracks were shared mostly by friends in the context of exchanges and ongoing collaborations with folks in cities all over the place, around creating content for Radio AlHara in Palestine and beyond. I love that this mix jumps between vibes and styles. I also included a couple of tracks from recent releases that I worked on. I hope you enjoy the mix. – Stefan."

Notnef Greco - Scooter Riding in Bombay [2024, Sublamental]
Grimório de Abril - A Torre Poligonal do Astrólogo Caldeu [2024, Subliminal K7]
Matteo Uggeri - ...for You Bleeding Goddess [2024, 13 Records]
Totenbaum Träger - Fleur de néon VI [2023, Cuchabata]
Stefan Christoff - Guitar in Griffintown [2024, Cuchabata]
Matteo Uggeri - ...for Daughters and Sons [2024, 13 Records]
Stefan Christoff - Chalga Remixed [2024, Samizdat]
Grimório de Abril - The River Used to be a Signal  [2024, Subliminal K7]
Stefan Christoff - In Burgas [2024, Samizdat]
Azraq - Baby Please Don't Go [2021, self-released]
Badawi - A Curse on All Murderers (Extended Dub) (excerpt) [2024, self-released]

Days Of Steam

Days Of Steam 013: Stefan Christoff

Beirut songwriter and experimental musician Youmna Saba shares an hour of music that has accompanied her throughout various stages of her life – "music that takes me home, some I discovered recently, some I know since I can remember, music I wrote, and music from cherished friends". 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/youmna-saba-3rd-may-2024

Youmna Saba 030524

Childrens's Songs by Chick Corea arranged by Kairos: Hans van der Maas, classical accordion; Carlos Matos, piano/synths; Vasilis Stefanopoulos, bass.

jazztrio Kairos: Children's Song nr 12 / Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!

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