Al-Fajer Group - Halalalalayya هلالاليا
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
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Al-Fajer Group - "Halalalalayya - هلالاليا" from the 2022 (reissue) album Al Fajer (The Dawn) on Majazz Project
This week’s Song of the Day picks were chosen by DJs Miss Ashley, Kevin Sur, Tory, and Isabel Khalili in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. From Hawai’i to Sudan, these songs represent the global solidarity movement in support of Palestinians and anti-colonialism. The BDS Mixtape series that features three of this week’s songs was inspired by the 1985 Sun City album by artists boycotting apartheid South Africa. To learn more about the music and its connection to the cause, visit Majazz Project and Amplify Palestine.
Formed in Kuwait in 1987, the Al-Fajer Group became known for their fiercely patriotic songs, written in response to the Palestinian liberation struggle. They performed their music acoustically, never using electronic equipment during their sets.
Today's Song of the Day kicks off their debut album, Al Fajer (The Dawn) فرقة الفجر الفلسطينية, which was written and recorded in 1990, but was never released as the band fled the country after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The London-based Majazz Project / Palestine Sound Archive finally released the LP last year, marking the first time it has been available via vinyl.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to do. And then. And the a la la la la la rea a a ama masinia. |
| 0:45.0 | Kulel a wah a wah a filthinar |
| 0:50.0 | a filthyrh a wah wah a filthi Laryshah, when there are |
| 0:53.0 | in Sam and India. |
| 0:55.0 | We fuh I hoo dah shawppy |
| 1:00.0 | a nia d' rak a be. |
| 1:05.0 | Alle im shef, |
| 1:08.0 | bahawk hare. |
| 1:10.0 | Wai a no,-Sibami. |
| 1:15.0 | Hala-Nal-Nalia, |
| 1:17.0 | or a-la-na-la-a-la-a-na-lia, |
| 1:20.0 | Aya of a Fá Kagana Kunil I was in the rishar |
| 1:28.9 | when you are a hry shawl when you are his |
| 1:31.2 | and me for his servantly. It's aune, in a june, |
| 1:55.0 | bil habid, |
| 1:57.0 | with matter a sua-fuwah |
| 2:01.0 | that a kunidaya |
| 2:05.0 | a wah hewap |
| 2:07.0 | and and gah duah gah bah Kala, la, la, la, |
| 2:13.2 | and ya, |
| 2:13.8 | and a la la, a la, aa, aa, |
| 2:16.2 | a fah, |
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