Optical Track
12.12.23
Optical Track is a weekly show presented by members of the Echo Park Film Center Co-op, a group of artists who collectively staff EPFC as volunteers for the cinematic revolution. Each week features a sonic slideshow as we turn off the projector bulbs and turn up the sound.
“So much of our archive since 1948 has been looted and destroyed. So many of our cultural institutions now lie shuttered or ruined. This is my appeal to you to help play a part in keeping our beautiful musical heritage – in all its diversity – alive, and making it accessible to people all over the world who can be inspired these albums, and the stories of the bands, poets and musicians who created them.” — Mo’min Swaitat, Majazz Project
Tautoko Gaza: Aotearoa Artists in Solidarity with Palastine
Majazz Project / Palestine Sound Archive https://majazzproject.com/
Image by @rosannaprints
Tracklist:
Eastside Radio with DJ Isabelle Necessary – Free Free Palestine
Mosab Abu Toha reading If I Must Die: the last poem of Refaat Al-Areer Ala-rare
Bella Cuts – Until Everybody Is Free
Patrick McGinley – Welcome / Nablus Street Petshop Field Recording
Samara Alofa – CEASEFIRE
Al Fajer (The Dawn) – Halalalalayya – هلالاليا
Atef Swaitat – Majazz Project Palestinian Bedouin TabeRiad Awwad, Hanan Awwad and Mahmoud Darwish – Intifada
Ruthie Gorton – Free Palestine Now
Al Fat’h Members – Beladi (Motherland)
Al Fat’h Members – Take Me With You
Mixed Bokharian singers, doyra players – Al Matcha Anora
Male Soloist, Female Chorus, ‘ud and durbakki players – Song of the Ramadan for the Month of Fasting
Kwiis Hamilton at All Out For Palestine, Vancouver, BC, December 9, 2023
Majazz Project / Palestine Sound Archive – Palestinian Black Panther Mixtape
Hazel Kahan and Ayeda Ayed – Palestinian Women Make Music conversation on Tidings, 2016
Oriental Music Ensemble – Longa Nahawand
Jocelyne Saab – Palestinian Women (soundtrack excerpt)
