Forget Me Not
[Gaza Relief Fundraiser]
by Sukkube [ÊT/RE-T-01]
Despite sitting on a lot of work, we were not really ready to open ÊT/RE as a label yet. Amongst the releases planned, we were lucky enough to be the recipient of a recording from Sukkube
(Charlène Levasseur) based in Toulouse, which was to be one of our first releases.
Sukkube had expressed an interest from the beginning in using the recording as an opportunity to raise funds for people in Gaza, an initiative that we fully-support and agreed to implement. Yet, despite lagging behind with the label due to a lot of work going on over at Becoming Press, Sukkube reminded us that while we are fiddling with the virtual infrastructure, people in Palestine are still enduring excruciating conditions. The minimum we can do is interrupt our own schedules and open ÊT/RE early so that this recording can be heard and the funds can be raised. It was decided that we would use the next upcoming Bandcamp Friday on May 3rd 2024 to release this recording, in order for the full amount of any donation to be delivered to the chosen organization, namely the Association France Palestine Solidarité.
The recording has been named Forget Me Not, as during the process of creating the artwork, we landed on just the right combination of blending options, the harsh yellow-red lines that carve up the skyline over Gaza transform into delicate blue flowers, dried and pressed. The transformation of weaponry into this particular flower with this particular name captures quite the sentiment — we cannot forget these people. In a passage in Becoming's book, Dialogues on CoreCore, Dana Dawud writes about the imagery that is erupting out of Palestine, the captured faces of suffering people, immortalised. For this reason, as an additional incentive we will be giving away some copies of this book to some of those who will participate in this fundraiser. The selection of the winners will be random.