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Riad Awwad / credit: https://majazzproject.bandcamp.com/album/the-intifada-1987-2

Intifada 1987: The Story of a Rare Palestinian Album

Atiyyah Khan May 6, 2022 Atiyyah Khan

A rare recording featuring Palestinian artist Riad Awwad and poet Mahmoud Darwish has resurfaced, found amid a collection of 12,000 old cassette tapes in the West Bank, writes Atiyyah Khan.

Afro Yaqui Music Collective's album, "Maroon Futures"

Music Review: Afro Yaqui Music Collective’s ‘Maroon Futures’

Loren Kajikawa July 26, 2021 Loren Kajikawa

“Maroon Futures” follows in the tradition of so many great and important musicians, tapping into the spirit of jazz artists, including John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, McCoy Tyner, Duke Ellington, and Alice Coltrane, among others, who in the 1960s and 1970s were looking to “Third World” cultures for musical and spiritual inspiration.

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