Azadi!

Benefit CD for Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Huge variety of mostly local bands, ranging from Deerhoof to Zeek Shek to Faun Fables. Produced locally by a guy who story has it first learned about RAWA by hearing KZSU’s broadcasted PSA.

CD1:
1) low fi fem middleeastern spoken word over acoustic music, this is Meena, the founder
2) womens chorus, drums, slow
3) indie pop, male/fem trade vocs
4) chill instrumental, mostly echoey guit and synth
5) swingy jazzy bass and cello
6) dark theme, fem voc group, this is dark rock reminiscent of Danielle Dax
7) strange experimental looping mix of mechanical and pseudo bird sounds
8,9) chill piano+bowed cello/bass
10) dancy housy beat, fem vocs turn male
11) middle eastern acoustic folk feel
12) electro experimental droney chill
13) FCCs, rap spoken word hip hop
14) laptop noise
15) feminist fol
16) upbeat noise rock
17) Godspeed- looping samples, noisy w/ Shrub cut-ups

CD2:
1)slow fade-in fem chanting
2) Faun Fables-simple eerie folk
3) angular indie rock-fem vocs, abstract no wave
4) anti-war folk w/ banjo and vocal harmonies
5) upbeat dissonant lowfi indi rock
6) dark folk, yodely fem vocs
7) menacing dark abstract industrial noise
8) blippy buzzy electronoise, gets harsh
9) womens eastern chorus feel
10) harsh weird noise w/ voice samples, nice
11) femal a cappella
12) noisey voc, sax drum improv
13) The Loins- cool electro beat, silly melody, neary jungle/breakbeat gets upbeat funky
14) deerhoof- quintessential
15) abstract improv noise, live feel, false ending at 1:20
16) cool chill funky trippy instrumental jam w/ deep bass
17) upbeat poppy, sung auf deutsch
18) brief thai flare
19) middle eastern folk music w/ fem vocs