Compendium 244 - Song 12
Qais Essar & Sonny Singh - Beloved
Album: Sangat
Date: 2025
Web: sonnysingh.bandcamp.com/album/sangat
Blue Sky: #QaisEssarMusic / @sonnysingh.bsky.social
Chicago this Saturday night - we bring you Sangat, a musical journey rooted in beloved community and expansive solidarity. www.saichicago.org/calendar/san...
To me this movement is a continuation of the one Guru Nanak built over 500 years ago, laying the groundwork of what it looks like to fight oppression & tyranny with love and joy at the center, in chardi kala. #zohran #happygurpurab
Our time has come. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and his campaign have been chardi kala in action throughout this last year, and now we get to soak it in for a moment. Real HOPE. A taste of what is possible. Today happens to be Guru Nanak’s Gurpurab, the birthday of the founder of Sikh revolution.
you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
NYC voters: There is so much mixed messaging from progressives and total confusion about ballot proposals 2-4. I voted yes on them. Check out this @jacobinmag.bsky.social article if you're confused about what to do, it's super helpful. jacobin.com/2025/10/new-...
Last day to vote today!
The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.
Donate here.
NYC! Our Sangat album release show is TONIGHT Oct 9 at Drom. Still some tickets available. Hope to see you there as we delve into the intersection of the spiritual and revolutionary, the introspective and ecstatic. dromnyc.com/event/qais-e...
First round GRAMMY voting has commenced, and here are a few recordings for your consideration. Please share with Recording Academy members you know and thanks for uplifting music that matters in these times. #grammys #fyc
Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
How you can take action against ABC/Disney bending the knee to authoritarianism: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Say it with me: we would not be seeing this authoritarian censorship takeover in the United States, had both parties, the media and elite institutions not already greased the path with the muzzling of speech on Palestine.
just not our students that we expelled for "difficult speech" </3
Today marks 24 years since the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi—one of the first deadly post-9/11 hate crimes.
Today, we honor Balbir ji’s memory, along with all those whose lives have been lost to or forever changed by violent hate 🕯️
Lovely piece in @bandcamp.com by Vrinda Jagota on NYC's growing Sufi music scene. Honored to be included in it - daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report...
@sonnysingh.bsky.social with some beautiful tunes, and a powerful message of our shared syncretic histories!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdW8...
"The Guru Granth Sahib was not just written by Sikhs, right? It was written by Muslim Sufis, by Hindu Bhakti saints..." (1/2)
Presave or preorder our new album Sangat, out October 17 - sonnysingh.ffm.to/sangatalbum
There is a hundreds of year-old history of Sikh and Muslim musical collaboration that has been buried. We make music and build community that transcends boundaries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdW8...
My new album with Qais Essar will be out October 17! You can presave it now and save the date for a show near you. sonnysingh.ffm.to/sangatalbum
Join me at Arts & Democracy’s Free concert Sept 4 at 7pm at Ave C Plaza in Kensington Brooklyn featuring @sonnysingh.bsky.social and Mafer Power Trio
Thank you, @crackmagazine.bsky.social, for featuring BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 and curator-contributor @sonnysingh.bsky.social 💜
www.instagram.com/p/DNlRAJUNPZn/
Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, says she could not stay silent on the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza. "My deep care for children doesn't stop at any border," she says.
Watch the full interview: www.democracynow.org/2025/8/13/ms...
"It is our responsibility as musicians to get louder. We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide." Quotation from trumpet-player Sonny Singh. Image of Singh holding his trumpet, head slightly bowed and eyes closed, against a purple and green background with two hand-drawn wide-awake eyes.
Artists are with Palestine. As BDS Mixtape curator & contributor @sonnysingh.bsky.social says:
"It is our responsibility as musicians to get louder. We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide."
www.amplifypalestine.org/bds-mixtape-...
This. It’s really disheartening to see the vitriol — we can disagree and critique without canceling (& making false equivalencies).
There are ethnonationalists who might object to that sentiment. But the flourishing of American Jews is built atop that foundation."
"To call Mamdani an anti-Zionist is accurate, but the power of his position is that it is thoroughly, even banally, liberal. 'I’m not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else,' he said...
What a refreshing and powerful read from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social today, a nice pivot from a lot of the the NYT's terrible coverage on Zohran of late. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
July 19th in Queens, NYC! Thrilled to be a part of this epic @summerstage.bsky.social show curated by @djrekha.bsky.social along with Rashmeet Kaur, Rajuju, Tara Lily and more. Get there by 6:00 to catch my set!
