These Are Our Friends Too, by Various

These Are Our Friends Too

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1.	I'm Only Human - composer: Negin Zomorodi (Iran) / writer: Ayan Ali / read by Kabung 07:54	info	buy track
2.	A Day In My Life - composer: Maryam Nazari (Iran) / writer: Muna Abdi-Hajj / read by: Kabung 02:58	info	buy track
3.	She Said - composer: Ola Saad (Egypt) / writer: Riyaan Ali / read by: Cherrelle 03:09	info	buy track
4.	The Arrangement - composer: Cathy Lane (UK) / writer: Rasha Farah / read by: Wangu 01:55	info	buy track
5.	Hush Little Baby - composer: Nilufar Habibian (Iran) / writer: Anam Ali / read by: Wangu 04:46	info	buy track
6.	Speak Out - composer: Parisa Shirvani (UK) / writer: Mariam Fall / read by: Nafisa 01:52	info	buy track
7.	What A Woman Must Do - composer: Kumah (Serbia) / writer: Saria Khalifa / read by: Angela 02:41	info	buy track
8.	So What - composer: Polly Petrova (Bulgaria) / writer: Anfal Ali / read by: Kabung 01:24	info	buy track
9.	Me, I Don't Mind - composer: Maryam Nazari (Iran) / writer: Emmanuel Kabanza / read by: Imhotep 02:40	info	buy track
10.	Tsunami - composer: Kumah (Serbia) / writer: Nima Nuur / read by: Nafisa 01:35	info	buy track
11.	Keynote Speaker - composer: Nour Sokhon (Lebanon) / writer: Rashida Sanni / read by: Cherrelle 02:52	info	buy track
12.	Game Face - composer: Iida Aino (Sweden) / writer: Ikram Nur / read by: Cherrelle 02:12	info	buy track
13.	I Know Her - composer: Jacqueline George (Egypt) / writer: Kaltun Duale / read by: Cherrelle 02:00	info	buy track
14.	We, Us, Community - composer: Stephanie Merchak (Lebanon) / writer: Foosiya Ahmed / read by: Wangu 02:22	info	buy track
15.	Choices - composer: Nour Sokhon (Lebanon) / writer: Cherrelle Salmon / read by: Cherrelle 02:45	info	buy track
16.	When The Sun Goes Down - composer: Rhéa Dally (Lebanon) / writer: Siham Ahmed / read by: Angela 02:15	info	buy track
17.	The Party Plan - composer: Jilliene Sellner feat. the Brain Dead Ensemble (UK) / writer: Fanta Kone / read by: Nafisa 05:26	info	buy track
18.	She Walks / That Sword - composer: Hüma Utku (Turkey) / writer: Rahman Duale / read by: Nafisa 01:48	info	buy track
19.	That Magnificent Colour - composer: Dr Mariam Rezaei / writer: Habon Duale / read by: Nafisa 08:08	info	buy track

about

This album is brought to you by Musicians Unite to End FGM (MUTEFGM) and Tse Tse Fly Middle East. These Are Our Friends Too is a unique album that highlights the work FORWARD does towards ending FGM (female genital mutilation). The album continues FORWARD’s These Are Our Friends project, a collection of poetry from young people from London, Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham that responds to the themes of FGM and its consequences. The first stage of the project resulted in a book of the same name that features more than thirty pieces of work, a short film made with Media Trust, and this new collaboration sees nineteen of the poems re-imagined.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East hand-picked a selection of female artists and musicians, and each one was given a spoken word recording of one of the poems read by members of the FORWARD team and poets from the book. The artists then composed and recorded a sonic background for their designated piece, with the resulting spoken word and experimental music compositions making up this new, nineteen-track set, These Are Our Friends Too.

The album features contributions from some of the foremost female proponents of noise from Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Serbia, Bulgaria and Sweden, as well as UK-based collaborators. And the visceral, uncompromising and unsettling tracks that result reflect the disturbing nature of female genital mutilation.

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released September 20, 2019

Everyone involved has given their time for free, with all proceeds from sales of the album going directly to FORWARD.

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FORWARD (Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development) is the leading African women-led organisation working to end violence against women and girls.

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