leather.head combine their enigmatic sound with peaceful protest poetry from Zia Ahmed to raise funds and awareness for the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Birthed from a live improvisation of a previous track, ‘from the river, to the sea’ is instrumentally epic with 7 minutes of stressful saxophones, something we’ve come to expect from leather.head. All proceeds of the release will go to the Defendant Solidarity Network and to the Youth of Sumud. leather.head have built up a reputation playing out large narratives over their epic Post-Rock instrumentals, but on this occasion the band share a powerful message,
On the track, the band say “The song is a call for Palestinian liberation, a call to strengthen our solidarity with Palestinians and their right to resist/exist. It is also explicitly a rejection of Zionism and the settler-colonial violence of Israel’s apartheid and genocidal state. We must not become complacent and desensitised to the horrors committed by Israel, the news will move on but we must continue to resist. What’s going on in Palestine isn’t a ‘humanitarian crisis’, or a war, or a religious conflict, or Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’, it is a continuation and escalation of the Zionist project to colonise, occupy and ethnically cleanse the region from the river to the sea. It is a genocide. It is occupation. It is apartheid. It is settler-colonialism. It is backed unquestioningly by our political, corporate, and media elites. We have a duty to resist; protest, picket, boycott, blockade, sabotage, educate, organise, agitate”
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