Palestine underground: A new face for local radio
January 22, 2022 11:23 AM   Subscribe

How Palestine’s Radio Alhara is taking a grassroots approach to shaping a new landscape for protest, culture and local journalism online. Hunched down in front of a DJ console, Yousef Anastas assiduously manages the decks, preparing the mix and adjusting the atmospherics of the ambient track he is playing. It is haunting and trance-like: the drone-like synthesiser he has programmed melds into the repeated strumming of an oud – a Middle Eastern stringed instrument – with increasing intensity. It feels as if it is urgently attempting to break free within the mix. It seems like an apt sonic metaphor for life in the 33-year-old’s native Palestine.

Radio Alhara: the online station that prompted a global movement [Dazed digital]

Tune in here! Radio Alhara
posted by Ahmad Khani (4 comments total) 22 users marked this as a favorite
 
Direct stream link appears to be https://stream.radiojar.com/78cxy6wkxtzuv, for those of us who prefer to choose our own media player software for this kind of thing.
posted by flabdablet at 4:53 PM on January 22, 2022


Just tuning in and the music is great. Thanks!
posted by Kosmob0t at 4:54 PM on January 22, 2022


Funny, I come upon this, while listening to "Karunesh".
Love music from east of Egypt.
posted by Goofyy at 5:16 PM on January 22, 2022


Ooh! Thanks for posting, I'm going to listen.

Folks here might also be interested in the recent reiussue of Riad Awwad's album The Intifada 1987, written as a collaboration with his sister Hanan Awwad. It's been re-released after Palestinian actor and filmmaker, Mo’min Swaitat, discovered a cassette of the album in the now-defunct Tariq Cassettes in Jenin in 2020.
posted by happyfrog at 12:39 AM on January 23, 2022 [1 favorite]


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