This weeks free song is ‘We Resist (Free Palestine)’. In fact it is the newest song in Doc Jazz’s repertoire – if you don’t count the recent string of song remakes – and was written and recorded in the late fall of 2010. Click on the image or here to listen to the song, and click here to download it...
Another remake of an older Doc Jazz song – this time it is the song ‘Wake Up!’, which was written during the 2006 Israeli war against Lebanon and Gaza. The song combines slow pounding hip-hop with the sound of the Arabic lute, the Ud, paired with urgent and penetrating lyrics. Click on the image to hear the song, or here...
Every Friday, a different Doc Jazz songs is designated as ‘Free Song of the Week’ and can be downloaded without any payment. This week’s free song is ‘Why the Innocent’. It is a piano ballad, which was written immediately after the bombings of Amman on November 9, 2005, in which three hotels were targeted and 60 people were killed. Many...
Glasgow Caledonian University has a Centre for Political Song, which was one of the first organizations that took notice of my political songwriting. In 2003, after the Centre had published a number of Doc Jazz song lyrics, I was asked to write a short article about political songwriting. The original article can be found here, still on the University’s website....
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