DUNUMS

DUNUMS is a music, multimedia, and collaborative performance project that emerged in 2009 and is led by Sijal Nasralla – a hot, sad, mad, glad, diaspora dad, raised and based in North Carolina. DUNUMS identifies as arty and noisy post-rock; nostalgic, bedroom fake-jazz for a free Palestine. Their songs blend memory and homeland heartache into sonic feelings – reflections on family, love, rage, and how "God" will always be greater. How the Earth will always be an accomplice to oppressed peoples.

In Arabic, "dunum" (dūnam) is an arbitrary unit of land measurement, approximately 1 Hectare, used in different ways to quantify space among villages in Palestine. A dunum can be the shrinking or exploding of space, a personal testament to the tremendous land loss, and/or the emotional/material transformation brought on by zionist settler-colonialism. 

Shifting players and contributors to DUNUMS have recorded, performed, and created in direct response to events commonly known as "summer in Gaza" or "revolution in Syria." The band envisions its work and creativity as inextricable from its members' rooted histories in Palestine, as well as their assimilation into the American south.

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