Azadi: A benefit compilation CD for RAWA	"Dropping Food on Their Heads Is Not Enough"
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Produced by local scenester Steven Tobin for Fire Museum and Electro Motive Records, this benefit compilation for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) brings together a wide variety of players spanning a multiplicity of genres, from jazz, modern classical, and experimental improv to folk, indie rock, and dance. While a few of the featured artists hail from distant lands -- e.g., freaky instrumentalists Godspeed You Black Emperor! (Montreal) and Turkish avant-garde singer Saadet Turkoz -- most were handpicked from our own back yard. Familiar names include art punks Deerhoof, global-minded altrockers Charming Hostess, estrogen-powered a cappella sensation Jou Jou, and haunted fairy-tale duo Faun Fables; lesser-known standouts are post-Pixies pop group 20 Minute Loop and queer hip-hoppers Deep Dickollective.

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Afghan born Heela Naqshband and her husband, Shahab Zargari run a punk label called Geykido Comet Records out of a Fullerton apartment and stepped in to help the sometimes-overlooked victims of the war on terrorism. Their recent compilation CD, Dropping Food on Their Heads Is Not Enough, is a fund-raiser for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). 50% of the proceeds from the CD go directly to RAWA.

"Different labels were doing benefits for the New York victims," says Heela, "but what no one realized is that the people of Afghanistan, particularly women and children, had been suffering for years."

It’s not a side of the story the mass media likes to tell, they explain. Once you get past Osama bin Laden (who, lest we forget, isn’t Afghan) to the dubious relief efforts ("Dropping food into a country full of land mines," Heela sighs), information on Afghanistan sort of peters out. And that’s where Geykido Comet (GC) comes in.

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