Riad Awwad, Hanan Awwad, Mahmoud Darwish

London-based archive label Majazz Project specialise in reissuing and remixing vintage cassettes of music from the Arab world, and they've done a sterling job on their alternative research mission once again by presenting this DIY curio from Palestine to the world. Riad Awwad recorded The Intifada just one week after the First Intifada began as Palestinians protested against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The charged socio-political backdrop is bedded in these homemade synth pop songs, which Awwad committed to tape and distributed in the Old City of Jerusalem and across the West Bank. Most copies were captured by the Israeli Army and Awwad himself was arrested, but the music survives and now receives the due care and presentation such an important historical artefact deserves.