19-track compilation from Ma3azef for Palestine

July 1, 2021

Title: It's Not Complicated

Release Date: Tuesday 6 July 2021

Pre-orders: Thursday 1 July 2021

Released by Ma3azef

Tracklist:

Brian Eno - Sound Machine Elevation
Bungalovv - Bird Trapping
Nahash - Port Punique
Safa - 1000 Months
Against All Logic - Everyday (So Hard To Breathe)
Lee Gamble - Trace
Bergsonist - Aquatic Empathy
Drew McDowall - Inters
LAFAWNDAH- the night and the horsemen
Liliane Chlela - Moustater
Jessika Khazrik - هذا الكون
Kelman Duran - PROVERB
Julmud - Fel Bo2s
STILL - MARE
Sarah Haras - Extending Everything Into Oblivion
Asifeh x Firas Shehadeh - Shadow Unit
SKYLA - :FERNING
Prophän - غدًا سيكون أسوأ
SWAN MEAT - CIRCUS TEARZ

Few ask the right questions about Palestine, yet they are answered time and time again. They are shouted and written and drawn and thrown at the world. They are hacked into the digital sphere and sprayed onto every wall. Every single question has already been speculated, thought of and answered. When your very existence is disputed, negated and denied, you don't learn the answers, you know them. For them, those questions, however complex for the privileged mind, are simple, and the answers could be spoken in a single breath, or they could fill volumes. For them, it's never complicated. And to them, we humbly dedicate this work.

This is an 19-track collaboration between Ma3azef, Heba Kadry, and a group of musicians who carry the fight from the streets to their studios. We offer a sonic tale of occupation, colonial violence and resistance in the face of an attempt to erase a land, a people, a history and a future.

It's not complicated, and never has been.

All proceeds of this compilation will go to Medical Aid for Palestine and Grassroots Al-Quds.

Credits:

All tracks mastered by Heba Kadry

Artwork by Mooni Studio

PR by Sarah El Miniawy / Simsara MusicNew Paragraph

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