Hello friends and global fam,

I hope you’ve got support and grounding in the ever increasing chaos of our times. The intersecting crises with immigrants in the U.S., people in Gaza and the West Bank, the Sudan or the Caribbean are escalating, contrary to what the gestures of “peace deals” and the absolute farce of a Nobel Peace prize try to message, they are just the Western and oligarchic order manufacturing consent for modern day colonization and war. I hope that as a global population we have learned from the last two years of overt genocide and the last 50 + of coups and puppet regimes from the Middle East to Africa and Latin America and that we are becoming more aware everyday. I believe that once people are awake, you really cannot put them back to sleep.

Towards that end (I swear this is not a hard pivot), Elder Ones is about to go on tour, with a show tomorrow Saturday 10/18 at National Sawdust opening for our comrades Ava Luna and the EU later this month. The new set builds upon our last one, trying to connect the dots between issues of capitalism and imperialism across the globe. As we see the oligarchs and ruling class operating on a global scale, we should recognize the resistance to power needs to be global as well. I consider “stage banter” to be fully part of the performance practice of this band, to find ways connect people and ideas through our small but potent global platform. The tour includes my curation at Le Guess Who? which highlights MENA/SWANA artists and those who stand in solidarity, with Ghadr (Beirut), Dirar Kalash (Palestine), Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary and One Leg One Eye (Ireland). We will also have a panel conversation and live session with Saul Williams, Dirar and Masello Motana, another way of extending this global solidarity work through music.

ELDER ONES TOUR DETAILS

OCT 18 _ National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY w/ Ava Luna

OCT 31 _ Jazzfest Berlin, DE

NOV 3 _ Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, NO

NOV 4 _ Alice, Copenhagen, DK

NOV 6 _ Fasching, Stockholm, SE

NOV 7 _ Le Guess Who?, Utrecht, NL (Elder Ones concert)

NOV 8 _ Le Guess Who?, Utrecht, NL (Outernational - workshop, improv and panel session with Saul Williams, Dirar Kalash and Masello Motana)

NOV 9 _ Sound in Motion, Antwerp, BE

OUTERNATIONAL POD EPISODE 3: IAN LYNCH OF LANKUM

I’m also excited to announce that Ian Lynch of my favorite Irish band Lankum and One Leg One Eye is the next guest for the Outernational pod, releasing next week! After two years on the road during the genocide, Lankum was one of the only bands I shared festival bills with that I saw consistently speaking out in solidarity with Palestinians. We talk about our experiences with censorship and cancellations and also our anti-colonial solidarities as people who who colonized by the British, and how that history informs solidarity work today. Check it out on the Outernational tab of my Substack, on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

**ELDER ONES NEW MONUMENTS LIVE IN VILNIUS DOUBLE LP**

And lastly, I’m excited to announce a new live DOUBLE LP of Elder Ones New Monuments from the Vilnius Jazz Festival in 2024, on Fern Flower Records. This album is a document of our time on the road during the global uprising for Palestinian liberation, with an incredible color booklet of liner notes and photos talking about our time on the road, with several tours across the US, EU and Latin America. It’s not just an amazing archival document, but an absolutely incredible and insane performance by the band Alfredo Colon, Matt Nelson, Lester St. Louis and Jason Nazary. You can pre-order it here!

Hope to see you at one of these shows or activations so we can have these conversations in person, building community in the face of all this chaos.

Solidarity,

Amirtha