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"In the ashes of my homeland, I planted my hopes like olive trees—knowing they would outlive the fire" — Fadwa Tuqan

Letters to the Sun is a double LP compilation comprised of music by Adelaida, Asifeh, Drew McDowall, drumloop & Mayss, fatalism, Faten Kanaan, Firas Shehadeh, Israa Shalaby, Jad Atoui, Kareem Lofty, alongside poems sent to us by Fatma Al Jabari, a poet in Gaza writing throughout the genocide.
The album emerged from a place beyond language. After a vicious loop of arguing, explaining, justifying, intellectualising - we found ourselves circling a distorted narrative, not our own, but one upheld by the very systems that seek to silence and suppress.

What if we stopped screaming into the void of geopolitical power games, and poured attention towards each other instead? What would it mean to build a space that assumes equal footing - a space where we can simply express, on our terms? For sorrow, for rage, for stillness… for the Sun.

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩. 𝘼 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨, 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙨, 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 - 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙥𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙖𝙯𝙖, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙗𝙤𝙢𝙗 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧. 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣, 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧.

Cover art by Ilham Shahrour & Bráulio Amado.