Sawt Syria: Damascus (Motherland) flyer

Sawt Syria: Damascus (Motherland)

27 May 2022, 19:00 - 23:59 EEST
Damascus

After two years of collaboration with Sadaa Sound Syndicate, we're honoured to present Sawt Syria: an exploration of club & underground music culture in Syria and its exilic diaspora in Europe.

Captured in the summer of 2022, this two-part project showcases, for the first time ever, the most compelling Syrian DJs & producers of contemporary culture, shaabi sounds & rap.

The first segment – 'Motherland', shot in Damascus – presents a 6-hour broadcast accompanied by a video-essay that roots deeper into these artists’ worlds & practices in music-making & organising.

"Sawt Syria {'sawt' meaning sound} is a meditation on the Syrian condition forged in over a decade of still ongoing war and dispersion, of the abjection and joy that shape that condition and the place of music in reckoning and striving for life. It was conceived & produced by Syrians for Syrians with editorial help from Sadaa Sound Syndicate – a cross-border group of self-organized Syrians who are attuned to the agential possibilities of sound. Since its inception, this project has been difficult to put out into a world where genocide is ongoing in Palestine and where turmoil persists in Syria and the region. Our work today and everyday is geared towards a Syria that is ours and a Free Palestine." – Sadaa Sound Syndicate

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