Commie Francis (WPRB)Sorry I've been absent on the radio, I've been dealing with some intense pet health stuff. Hopefully I will be back next week
I wanted to share this article about my friend Hassan and his band Zanjeer who appears on the first No Genocide compilation. I think music from members of the #swana #diaspora and their complicated relationship with where they came from and where they are, is the most interesting and powerful thing happening in the underground scene. From alien kulture at the dawn of #punk to zanjeer, shakti, taqbir, ameretat, ikhras, haram and many others today.
Rage Across Borders: Zanjeer’s Multilingual Hardcore Is A Battle Cry For The Displaced
Zanjeer’s Urdu Hardcore Is a Battle Cry From The Migrant Underground The band attacks religious authoritarianism, but it also goes after nationalism, xenophobia and the hostility migrants encounter in Europe.