Palestinian Sound Archive

Palestinian Sound Archive

Exploring archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, Palestinian Sound Archive celebrates music, spoken word and album artwork from historic Palestine, mainly from the 1960s – 1990s. Sharing sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage, culture, celebration, dance and resistance. The archive is determined to preserve Palestinian history through different mediums by reissuing music and sound recordings, through club nights and radio sets, through audio-visual installations, live performances and storytelling sessions, which situate the music in its cultural, social and political contexts. At Le Guess Who?, founder Mo’min Swaitat and researcher Karma Abudagga present a DJ set featuring selections from the archive: sounds that deserve to be safeguarded, together with the extraordinary histories and experiences of the musicians who made them.

This artist is part of the program curated by aja monet. The surrealist blues poet has curated a program that explores themes of resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy.