Music Reviews
The strength of grieving together, in Felisha Ledesma and Snakeskin
We live in a world of solitary trauma and unrealized grief. We can sit alone with our phones and see it reduced to images in an algorithm. We can see our loved ones go through trauma in ways we can’t even understand or reach. In Palm of Hand, through extemporaneous collaboration between Snakeskin and Felisha Ledesma, Malmö and Beirut, there is a healing expression of all this agonizing, fragmented experience. The result can be deeply centering, a balm to play on loop.
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30+ labels join to raise funds for Lebanon; music to support
Over 30 labels are uniting to raise funds for the 1.5 million people now forcibly displaced in Lebanon. With Bandcamp Friday today, now’s your chance to maximize album purchases for that effort. Here are the details — and a few music selections to consider.
Music for the displaced from Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synthesizer Center
In Lebanon, over one million people, about a fifth of the population, have now been forcibly displaced by Israel. From inside the country and uniting an artist community around the world, Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synthesizer Center have issued a powerful protest in two musical compilations — and an urgent cry to support those displaced […]
