Beth Rettig of Brixton-based grungsters Where We Sleep and North London based Clit Rock founder Ms Mohammed have joined forces for a fiery, new collaborative single, Write My Name – our LOUD WOMEN #singleoftheweek
The single aims to raise awareness and funds for aid agencies Medecins Sans Frontieres and Medical Aid for Palestinians who risk their lives to help besieged communities in war zones.
The song itself is driven by insistent beats and inflammatory guitars, reminiscent of Rage Against The Machine and dark plaintive lyrics inspired by the desperate plight of Palestinian mothers and fathers, after Rettig heard the CEO of Medical Aid for Palestinians tell Crooked Media that parents in Gaza were weighing up whether it was better to write their children’s names on their child’s back or hand, so that if they were killed, they could be identified and buried together as a family.
As Rettig says about how the collaboration came together,
Around this time, Ms Mohammed had sent me a track to work on. I’m a huge fan of Ms Mohammed’s and we’ve talked for years about collaborating. The urgency of the song that she sent me, matched the hopelessness I felt about the situation in Gaza and the devastating reality of that conversation that Palestinians had been having, seemingly with the death of family members hanging over them as almost an inevitability. The idea that this could be a necessary conversation is a desperation that most of us will, fortunately, never know.
The track is available to download via bandcamp and all funds minus platform fees will go to Medecins Sans Frontieres and Medical Aid for Palestinians
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