Checkpoint 303 – Gaza’s Angels (I Am Stretched On Your Grave) (2023) (single)

This piece is dedicated to the memory of all the children and innocent civilians in Gaza and throughout Palestine, who have been brutally robbed of their lives in October 2023. The world has failed you. You will not be forgotten.
The track features the voice of Sinead O’Connor’s, sampled from a live acapella rendition of “I am stretched on your grave”, a translation of a 17th-century Irish poem titled “Táim sínte ar do thuama”.

In 2014, Sinead said in an interview with a music magazine: “Let’s just say that, on a human level, nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight. There’s not a sane person on earth who in any way sanctions what the f*** the Israeli authorities are doing.”

This song is also a heartfelt tribute to Sinead O’Connor, a true artist who always spoke truth to power, and who inspired generations to stand up for what they believe in. Rest in power, Sinead. This composition is also a tribute to the brave people of Ireland, who have shown tremendous solidarity with Palestine and supported its just struggle against settler-colonialism and apartheid.

This piece is available for free download. Any proceeds will go to supporting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF).

Palestine will be free.
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Lyrics:
I am stretched on your grave
And will lie there forever
If your hands were in mine
I’d be sure we’d not sever

My apple tree, my brightness
It’s time we were together
For I smell of the earth
And am worn by the weather
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lançado em 3 de novembro de 2023
feat. sampled acapella rendition of the traditional song “I am stretched on your grave” (live recording) by Sinead O’Connor, as well as a brief excerpt from an interview she gave on TV, where she expresses the importance of sticking up for what one believes in, even in the face of enormous pressure.

Video also available on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-uMNuzaIg

Checkpoint 303 Feat. M.Kham Le Rouge – Said Guevara Si – Tar Remix (2024) (single)

“Said Guevara Si/Tar Remix” is a remix of our previously released tribute track celebrating the outstanding Palestinian American scholar, literary critic and political activist, Edward Said (1 Nov 1935 – 24 Sept 2003). The electronic audio-collage mixes the voice of Edward Said with excerpts from Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s 1964 speech at the United Nations.

This 2023 remix features French-Tunisian multi-instrumentalist “M.Kham le rouge” on sitar, tar and bass, and also has new electronic arrangements.

Edward Said and Che Guevara, in very different ways, pushed for the universal values of justice, freedom, equality and for solidarity between peoples of the world in standing up united against injustice and colonialism.

This piece is available for free download. Any proceeds will go to supporting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF).

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lançado em 10 de novembro de 2023 

Electronics, sampling and programming by Checkpoint 303.

Tar, sitar, electric bass by M.Kham le rouge.

Mixing and mastering by Checkpoint 303.

Checkpoint 303 feat. Maloun – If I Must Die (2024) (single)

Palestinian poet, writer and professor of English literature, Refaat Alareer, was tragically killed, alongside his family, by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on December 6th, 2023. Refaat Alareer left a legacy of resistance and hope in the defiant and hopeful words of the poem “If I Must Die”, which he published on social media only a few weeks before he was murdered. The poem echoes Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die.” written during the 1919 Red Summer of racial violence in the U.S.

Alareer’s iconic poem has been translated into over a hundred languages since his death.

This piece is available for free download. Any proceeds will go to supporting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) and Playgrounds for Palestine.

Keep speaking about Palestine.

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If I Must Die

Refaat Alareer

If I must die,

you must live

to tell my story

to sell my things

to buy a piece of cloth

and some strings,

(make it white with a long tail)

so that a child, somewhere in Gaza

while looking heaven in the eye

awaiting his dad who left in a blaze –

and bid no one farewell 

not even to his flesh

not even to himself –

sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up

above

and thinks for a moment an angel is there

bringing back love

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale.

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lançado em 2 de janeiro de 2024 

Programming and electronics by Checkpoint 303.

Vocals by Maloun.

Video and cover art by Checkpoint 303 (incl. generative AI)

Recordat Palestine #0031 – Checkoint303

A one hour story made especially for recordat #0031 by @checkpoint303, aired first on May 15th, 2021 as part of the Sonic Liberation Front on @radioalhara, an initiative for Palestine by a group of audio platforms and sound artists who came together to unify their sound for Palestine and protest against the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
Using site recordings predominantly from Palestine and the Arab world, Checkpoint 303 constructs soundscapes that weave cinematic audio with experimental sound processing and complex rhythms. Through its compositions, collected sounds and noise, Checkpoint 303 spreads a message of peace and a call for the respect of human rights. Contrasting with the mainstream media’s exclusive depiction of violence and suffering in the middle-east, CP-303’s sound collages also report on the heroic hope that subsists in the region as well as the seemingly banal but ever so meaningful little things that embody a daily search for normality in a state of emergency.
This is the 31st session of a series of sessions Recordat is hosting on Radio Alhara every other Sunday.

Recordat Palestine #0031 – Basel Naouri

A one hour of original unreleased compositions made especially for recordat #0031 by @basel-naouri , aired first on May 15th, 2021 as part of the Sonic Liberation Front, an initiative for Palestine by a group of audio platforms and sound artists who came together to unify their sound for Palestine and protest against the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

Basel Naouri is a musician, producer and designer of sound and spatial media. His music does not commit to a specific genre and ranges from deep house to experimental and ambient soundscapes with Arab influence. He is a multi-instrumentalist who fuses sounds from samples and instruments to mold immersive stories of a tactile and detailed nature. In his other work, Basel is interested in translating natural systems and behaviors into immersive experiences through the design of multisensory media spaces. Basel works with diverse media on architectural, interior and sound design projects.

This is the 31st session of a series of sessions Recordat is hosting on Radio Alhara every other Sunday.

Palestinian Sound Archive: Majazz Project X Checkpoint 303170122

www.nts.live/shows/palestinian-…-17th-january-2022

Checkpoint 303 | Free Tunes from Occupied Territories

GAZA Mixtape EP (Lançada a 8 de outubro de 2023)

O EP GAZA Mixtape consiste em novas remisturas e lançamentos anteriores de Checkpoint 303, combinados numa Mixtape de 4 faixas em apoio às corajosas mulheres, homens e crianças de Gaza. Uma celebração da sua resiliência e da sua luta pela justiça, liberdade e o fim do bloqueio ilegal de Gaza.

O primeiro tema do EP é uma remistura de 2023 de uma faixa anteriormente lançada pelo CP-303 sob o título “Gaza Soumoud”. A seguir, em “Gaza Calling”, ouve-se o nosso amigo Bilal, um cidadão de Gaza, ao telefone a tentar em vão contactar as Nações Unidas, perguntando por que razão a comunidade internacional abandonou Gaza e os palestinianos. A terceira faixa, “Gaza sea minor”, é uma colagem áudio que combina gravações de campo em Gaza (adolescentes a passear na praia) e excertos do autor e ativista político palestiniano Ghassan Kanafani, entrevistado pelo jornalista Richard Carlton em Beirute, em 1970. Por último, a peça “Time Passes” é uma homenagem ao falecido escritor, poeta e humanista John Berger (1926 – 2017), sob a forma de uma remistura/colagem/paisagem sonora baseada num registo em vídeo de John Berger a ler a “Carta de Gaza” de Ghassan Kanafani (poeta palestiniano assassinado em 1973).

Produção, mistura e masterização por CP-303.

“Se não tiveres cuidado, os jornais vão fazer-te odiar as pessoas que estão a ser oprimidas e amar as pessoas que estão a oprimir.”
– Malcolm X

Checkpoint 303 é inspirado nos sons que acompanham o dia a dia de milhões de pessoas no Médio Oriente. Sons estridentes de balas. Ecos de injustiça. Tumulto. Revolta. Desespero e tristeza. e ainda no meio de tudo isto os sons calmantes. De esperança. De normalidade. Actos triviais. A vida como em todo o lado. Isto não é um jogo de vídeo. A violência não é uma imagem em movimento na televisão. É o pesadelo diário de milhões…
Checkpoint 303 um projeto de arte sonora ativista liderado pelo designer de som SC MoCha. a experiência eletrónica teve início em 2004, quando o produtor de som SC MoCha se juntou ao captador de som palestiniano SC Yosh, de Belém. A ideia é cortar, seguir, fragmentar e reconstruir a paisagem sonora do quotidiano no médio oriente e em todo o mundo árabe. Novas reportagens áudio sobre a injustiça. Uma ode à resistência face à opressão.

Vários artistas e amigos de todo o mundo contribuem para as gravações do Checkpoint 303. Entre os colaboradores actuais e passados contam-se SC Yosh, Miss K SuShi, Cheikh Julio, Visual Hacker Diddy, Mehdi Douss, Rado, VL MonaLisa, Melksi & Damski e muitos mais.

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Checkpoint 303 – Gaza Mixtape EP

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GAZA Mixtape EP (Released 8 October 2023)

The GAZA Mixtape EP consists of new remixes and earlier releases by Checkpoint 303, combined into a 4-track Mixtape in support of the brave women, men and children of Gaza. A celebration of their resilience and their fight for justice, freedom and an end to the illegal blockade of Gaza.

The first piece on the EP is a 2023 remix of a track previously released by CP-303 under the title “Gaza Soumoud”, Next, on “Gaza Calling”, you hear our friend Bilal, a citizen of Gaza, on the phone trying in vain to get through to the united nations, asking why the international community has abandoned Gaza and the Palestinians. The third track, “Gaza sea minor” is an audio collage combining field recordings from Gaza (teenagers strolling along the beach) and excerpts from the Palestinian author and political activist Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by the journalist Richard Carlton in Beirut in 1970. Finally, the piece “Time Passes” is a tribute to the late writer, poet and humanist, John Berger ( 1926 – 2017) in the form of a remix/collage/soundscape based on a video recording of John Berger reading Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”.

Production, mixing, and mastering by CP-303.
Cover art designed using generative AI and prompt engineering by CP-303.

“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X

Tracklist
1.Gaza Resistance Remix 02:54
2.Gaza Calling 04:16
3.Gaza Sea Minor 03:58
4.Time Passes – A tribute to Berger’s tribute to Kanafani 03:07

Checkpoint 303 is inspired by the sounds that pace the daily lives of millions of people in the middle east. screeching sounds of bullets. echoing injustice. uproar. revolt. dispair and sadness. and still amidst all this the soothing sounds. of hope. of normality. trivial acts. life like everywhere else. this is not a video game. violence is not a moving image on tv. it’s the daily nightmare of millions…

Checkpoint 303 is an activist sound art project led by sound designer SC MoCha. the electronic experiment initially kicked off in 2004 when sound cutter SC MoCha teamed up with Bethlehem-based palestinian sound catcher SC Yosh. the idea is to cut, track, fragment and reconstruct the audio soundscape from daily lives in the middle east and across the arab world. new audio reporting on injustice. an ode to resistance in the face of oppression.

Several artists and friends from around the globe contribute to Checkpoint 303’s recordings. present and past contributers include SC Yosh, Miss K SuShi, Cheikh Julio, Visual Hacker Diddy, Mehdi Douss, Rado, VL MonaLisa, Melksi & Damski + many more