comp. for Palestine featuring Phil Elverum, Magnolia Electric Co., 50+ more out now
BROOKLYN LABEL HATETOQUIT
SHARES COMPILATION BENEFITTING PALESTINE
MERCILESS ACCELERATING RHYTHMS: ARTISTS UNITED FOR A FREE PALESTINE AVAILABLE NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON BANDCAMP - LISTEN
FEATURING OVER 50 ARTISTS, INCLUDING PHIL ELVERUM, MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC COMPANY, THE DISTRICTS, FUST AND VILLAGERRR
Brooklyn-based label HATETOQUIT and band Hiding Places are excited to share a compilation titled Merciless Accelerating Rhythms: Artists United for a Free Palestine, available now via Bandcamp. The compilation will be released on streaming services next week but is, for now, available exclusively on Bandcamp for today’s Bandcamp Friday, when artists and labels receive all profits from their sales. All proceeds made from sales on Bandcamp and streaming proceeds from DSPs will be donated directly to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) and Palestine Legal.
The compilation features 50 songs from artists across the U.S. and U.K., spanning genres from ambient electronic to jazz. Artists featured on the compilation include The Microphones’ Phil Elverum, Little Wings, John Andrews & The Yawns, Magnolia Electric Company’s Jason Evans Groth, Nara's Room, Villagerrr, Super Infinity, Self-Help, Fust, TVOD, Chatterton, Nora Stanley, and more.
The cover art for the release was created by Rebecca Pempek, who organized a print sale of the cover art and other pieces for release today.
Based on June Jordan’s poem, “I Must Become A Menace to My Enemies,” dedicated by Jordan to Agostinho Neto, former President of The People’s Republic of Angola, the album’s title Merciless Accelerating Rhythms encapsulates a form of political organizing beyond “walking politely on the pavements,” and emphasizes “becom[ing] the action of [our] fate,” acting in a form of “retaliation.”
“I plan to blossom bloody on an afternoon
surrounded by my comrades singing
terrible revenge in merciless
accelerating
rhythms”
“These are the words of anti-apartheid artist, leader, and poet, June Jordan; we as Artists United for a Free Palestine see retaliation as a diversity of tactics; as mutual aid; as solidarity with the people of Palestine; as direct action, if necessary; as an immediate end to the Israeli Occupation Force and a Free Palestine, forever; as a liberated world,” says HATETOQUIT and Hiding Places. “Our duty as artists has – and always will be – radical acts of care; the least we can do is send any aid possible to those facing genocide in Palestine, and money to folks on the frontlines of organizing action to get access to lawyers and legal support.”
Full list of contributing artists in alphabetical order:
Ali Alrabeah
Aunt Ant
Bertha
BEX
Chatterton
Color Temperature
Dish
Dissimilar South
Drawl
Exercise
Family Vision
Fraternal Twin
Fust
Groakus (Jason Evans Groth of Magnolia Electric Co.)
Gus Kelley
H. Pruz
hemlock
Honeypuppy
Jake Miller 82
John Andrews & The Yawns
Jupiter 2
K. Porcelain
Lady Die
Libby Rodenbough (of Mipso)
Little Wings (Kyle Field)
Local Weatherman
Mary Metal
Nara’s Room
Nora Stanley
Oh Vinnie
Pearjuice
Phil Eleverum (The Microphones)
Pinky Verde
Prith
Request Access
Salamander Sam
Saturnalias
SCHMUK
Self-Help
Shower Curtain
State Park Ranger
Sub*T
Super Infinity (Rob Grote of The Districts)
Symbol Soup
Telemarket
Tercel
The Knife Kickers
Tongues of Fire
TVOD
Untldsnd
Vijay Rajkumar
villagerrr
