🌱 Sbaya al Intifada - Min al Mukhayyam Toulad al Ru'aya

A call for the youth of the camps to join the uprising against the Israeli occupation. It is part of the compilation "Palestine - Music of the Intifada", released in 1989 in the midst of the first Intifada. It was recorded in 1988 at Vielklang Studio in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. The names of the performers remain uncredited.

🌱 Luzmila Carpio - Uqhumanta

As a child, Luzmila Carpio was turned away by radio promoters for singing in the native languages quechua and aymara. "That is indio singing. Come back when you have learned to sing in Spanish!" a session pianist told her once. Carpio lived on to become one of the most revered Bolivian singers and was appointed ambassador in France. Uqhumanta tells a journey into the rural communities of the Andean high planes.

🌱 Asuncion Quinonez -
Bambuco La Katanga

🌱 Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto - Campo Alegre

The Atlantic and Pacific coastlines of Colombia and Ecuador describe a continuum of African heritage, spawning instruments such as the marimba and mestizo styles such as bullerengue. The natural environment of these communities becomes a homeland after centuries of transoceanic transfers and organic encounters with local cultures.

🌱 Pastorita Huaracina - Rio Santa

Legendary huayno singer, radio host, political activist and honorary guest in North Korea's Friendship Festival in 1982, Pastorita summons the tradition of agrarian societies in the Peruvian andes. The track's title bears the name of an abundant river whose treacherous currents she warns against in a poetic delivery of a heart broken by human desires but mended by the love of the land.

🌱 Kankawa Nagarra - My Country

Aboriginal Australian blues, country, and gospel by the Queen of the Bandaral Ngadu Delta. As part of the stolen generation, she was taken from her family to a Christian mission, where she was taught hymns and Gospel songs with the choir. On the pastoral lease where she was sent to work, Country music was everywhere. She first heard rock and roll on the station gramophone.

🌱 Amparo Ochoa - Maldicion de la Malinche

La Malinche bears the historical name of a Nauha woman who became the advisor and lover of Spanish invader Hernan Cortes during the campaign against the Mexicas (1519-1521). Malinche went down in history as a symbol of those who betray or look away from their own kind in order to obtain the favours and the approval of the colonizing entities.

🌱 Violeta Parra - La Carta

La Carta narrates the reaction to a letter informing the artist that her brother has been jailed for supporting the union strike. The poem goes on to denounce the social imbalances created by the political elite as well as the creeping violence that befell the soul of her following generation in the 1973 US-backed Chile coup d'etat orchestrated by Augusto Pinochet.

🌱 Fathi al Dhiqr and Sons of Africa Band - Palestine is my Homeland

Imbued in one of the richest reggae scenes worldwide, Lybia's Fathi al Dhiqz creates an anthem of Pan-Arab / African solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. The song's refrain reverts the ubiqutous trope of the land of Zion, expanding the meaning beyond its Jamaican confines.

🌱 Riad Awwad, Hanan Awwad and Mahmoud Darwish - Intifada

At the outbreak of the First Intifada, Riad Awwad printed 3000 cassette copies which he began distributing in the Old City of Jerusalem and across the West Bank. The Israeli Army immediately confiscated all the copies they could find, the vast majority of which remain in the military archives to this day. His, along with other music was recovered in 2020 by collector Mo'min Swaitat in the city of Jenin and subsequently edited as part of the fantastic Majazz Project.

🌱 Umeko Ando - Iuta Upopo

Umeko Ando was a representative of the Ainu culture, indigenous the Hokkaido Island and subjected to Japanese colonization and displacement. Upopo is the name of a particular singing style which involves repetition, while Iuta simply means song. Umeko Ando performs this minimalistic vocal in a brittle, emotional manner framed by slow, percussive Tonkori patterns.

🌱 Coro Qom Chelaalapi feat. Lagartijeando - Cancion de Cuna

This lullaby sung by the Qom choir from Northwestern Argentina is part of their album Campo del Cielo. The name refers to a vast region located in the Southern Chaco, that was struck by an iron meteor shower approximately 4000 years ago. Qom mythology considers the "rocks" (aerolites) to have been drops of sweat from the sun. The collaboration of producer Lagartijeando brings this piece into the future, courtesy of record label Shika Shika.

🌱 Pink Floyd - Absolutely Curtains

Closing of the soundtrack to the 1972 French hippie film "La Vallee" which follows the journey of young Europeans in search for an idyllic valley in the remote Papuan islands.The track fades into the chanting of a dirge (sad song), usually performed at funerals. The words to this song are indecipherable, as there are around 700 known dialects. The Floyd dubbed the chant from the sound recordist's tapes, recorded on location in New Guinea; those performing the chant remain unknown.