Music
Momoko Gill
Even on the barricades, there is a need for tantalizing smooth jazz
Nowhere is Momoko Gill's modus operandi more clearly demonstrated than on 'When Palestine Is Free'. The London-based multi-instrumentalist (and self-taught artist) recorded the track with a fifty-piece choir and scene- and soulmates Shabaka Hutchings, Soweto Kinch, Coby Sey, and Alabaster DePlume. Yet, it is primarily the message that is characteristic: We are only free when Palestine is free. With her spiritual jazz-pop she preaches freedom, openness, connectedness, with her, with Palestine, with each other. She might sound somewhat in the clouds when she sings the aforementioned words, but daydreaming together about a just world can also be healing.
