🐙 Compañero Allende 🇵🇸<p>Via @/antifa_is_for_lovers@/instagram:<br>"In 2022, Mo’min Swaitat, a Palestinian actor and filmmaker living in London, rediscovered a closed-down music shop in his childhood hometown of Jenin, West Bank, during the pandemic. </p><p>He uncovered a treasure trove of long-forgotten music from the 1980s, including synth, funk, disco, Bedouin, and revolutionary tracks inspired by the first Palestinian uprising.</p><p>Swaitat bought thousands of the tapes and brought them back to London, making it his mission to digitise and rerelease this window into the past. </p><p>He started the Majazz Project, a new archival Palestinian label, and the Palestinian Sound Archive, an online database dedicated to restoring Palestinian musical heritage. </p><p>He focused on digitizing tapes from the first and second Intifada due to their personal and historical significance.</p><p>The first album released, "The Intifada 1987" by Riad and Hanan Awwad, features protest synth-pop tunes created during the first Intifada.</p><p>These would have been the tapes most of interest to the Israeli military, who seized, destroyed or removed from distribution countless releases during this period. </p><p>It’s an unlikely sound — a riot of bouncing and melodious protest poetry often using homemade instruments, fusing electro with disco beats that are replete with a warbled late ‘80s synth charm.</p><p>Cafes that played it were raided and every copy was either seized or destroyed, making the single blank yellow C90 Mo’min found at Tariq’s, with ‘The Intifada’ scrawled in Biro, unthinkably rare and precious.</p><p>Looting and destruction remain core tactics in the occupation’s attempts to control and limit Palestinian cultural life.</p><p>Israeli state and military archives where almost all copies of seized music like The Intifada 1987 remain locked away and off-limits to Palestinians, keeping the material cultures of past resistance unheard, while, as Mo’min also says, arts and music spaces are targeted and shuttered in (failed) attempts to curtail the next generation from expressing their future."</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzNXm-FuCgz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/p/CzNXm-FuCgz/?u</span><span class="invisible">tm_source=ig_web_copy_link</span></a></p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/Majazzproject" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">linktr.ee/Majazzproject</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://majazzproject.bandcamp.com/music" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">majazzproject.bandcamp.com/mus</span><span class="invisible">ic</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MajazzProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MajazzProject</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Synthpop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synthpop</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MemoryActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MemoryActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArtIsResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtIsResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityArchives</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntifaIsForLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntifaIsForLovers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intifada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intifada</span></a></p>