Naji, by Checkpoint 303

Naji

by Checkpoint 303

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1.	London Fog - ضباب لندن 03:38	info	buy track
2.	Handala - حنظلة 03:08	info	buy track
3.	Grooving Grief 03:43	info	buy track
4.	Cartoon Life 02:34	info	buy track
5.	Spilled Blood - دمك المسكوب 04:28	info	buy track
6.	Handala Inspiration - من وحي حنظلة 05:09	info	buy track
7.	Outro 00:49		buy track

about

This 7-track album is a tribute to the Palestinian cartoonist and activist, Naji al-Ali (ناجي العلي ), who was born in 1938 in Al-Shajara, Palestine, and murdered in London on August 29th 1987. Naji Al-Ali became one of the most popular cartoonist in the Arab world, He openly criticized Israel as well as the PLO and all the corrupt Arab regimes. He spoke truth to power and sided with the poor and oppressed. His tragic murder in London in 1987 is widely considered to be a political assassination. The killers have never been identified.

This album creates an electronic archival portrait of the cartoonist by remixing and rearranging audio snippets from various audio-visual resources which include excerpts of an interview with Kuwaiti TV from the 80s, samples from the film "Nagi el-Ali" directed by Atef El-Tayeb (1991), and starring the Egyptian actor Nour el-Sherif in the role of Naji al-Ali, as well as digitized audio from an old cassette featuring the Palestinian musician and singer Fawzi Saadi.

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released August 29, 2023

Programming, electronics, sampling & guitars - Checkpoint 303
Vocals & samples on tracks 5 & 6 - Al Jormoq band / Fawzi Saadi / Khawla al-Haj, digitized from cassette ( من وحي حنظلة ) by Majazz Project.

Album Cover by VJ Um Amel [vjumamel.com]
Mixing, mastering and production by Checkpoint 303

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Checkpoint 303

Checkpoint 303 is an activist sonic project that creates experimental & electronic music, by combining field recordings performed mainly in Palestine, Tunisia & Egypt with electronic beats, audio archives, oud & piano.
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