Unboundable:
BDS Mixtape Vol. 3
Out on all platforms July 9, 2025 – the twentieth anniversary of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS). Proceeds from BDS Mixtape’s sales support cultural initiatives in Palestine.
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER ON BANDCAMP.
MUSIC FROM
Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy • Sholay • Robert Lighthouse & Huda Asfour • Qais Essar • Huda Asfour, db & Sonny Singh • Sami Abu Shumays • Muyassar Kurdi & Camilo Ángeles • Omar & Khorshid • gabby fluke-mogul • The Dwarfs of East Agouza • Leyya Mona Tawil & John King • Y No • Alia & Ziad
LINER NOTES
Amplify Palestine releases Unboundable as we mark twenty years since the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions went global; as Gaza’s people continue to endure genocidal siege, bombs, famine, and fire; and as repression of Palestine solidarity rapidly escalates.
But this third volume in the BDS Mixtape series also comes as support for Palestinians’ freedom struggle surges, especially among artists.
As curator and contributor Sonny Singh declares: “It is our responsibility as musicians to get louder. We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide.”
In this spirit of urgent, liberatory defiance, he and fellow curator-contributors Huda Asfour and db set out to investigate improvisation as a practice that interweaves their work as musicians and activists, asking: When we center deep listening, curiosity, and exploration – what new modes of solidarity and human connection emerge?
Unboundable gathers over 20 celebrated musicians to engage this question on a double album with 13 improvisational tracks that braid jazz, Indian classical, and Arabic music (SIDE A) with experimental voice, avant electronica, and instruments from nature (SIDE B).
Improvisation, as described by contributors Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy, demands vulnerability and connection, introspection and empathy. It is communion.
We invite listeners to let go as trumpet meets oud and conch shell meets synth; as mawwal and maqam bring to life a requiem for the children of Rafah; as a duet of strings, inspired by Darwish's olive tree, soars into the sky.
From rabab virtuoso Qais Essar and violinist gabby fluke-mogul to interdisciplinary artist Muyassar Kurdi and The Dwarfs of East Agouza (Maurice Louca, Sam Shalabi, Alan Bishop), the art on this album breaks down borders and sets our notions – about music, about ourselves – free.
In the poem from which this volume draws its name – “On the Eve of yet another Nakba, a Dream” – poet George Abraham imagines mint and rice and endless maqloobeh in place of walls, shelling, blockades, and lies. They imagine everyone helping cook, everyone eating their fill, all the beloveds returning. They ask us to imagine with them that “The table is set — the fruit beyond knowing is ripe & begging to be plucked!” They invite us to see that we are “choosing life in every act of reaching.”
We offer you this fruit, this choice, this act of reaching “to trust in the becoming of us, unbounded — unboundable.”
The Amplify Palestine Team
