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Songs from April Blossoms - EP

On this new EP, Checkpoint 303 take the songs to a radically different universe embedding Rim Banna’s eternal voice into electronic soundscapes that vary from minimal eerie electronica to elaborate upbeat dance pieces. Rim Banna, who passed away in 2018 after

Henna

Seven young singers and groups are now presenting their work on a new CD called “Henna” (after the red colouring used for body decoration, in Palestine often used to embellish brides). In an Arabian, acoustic and modern singer-songwriter style the seven perfor

When the Waves

Her voice flies from Haifa and the Middeterean across the Middle East and North Africa, and within the last years, she is managing to successfully captivate a much younger audience. Terez Sliman’s new album “When the Waves” contains 9 songs, most of them compo

Daughters of Jerusalem

The “Daughters of Jerusalem” (Arabic: Banat Al-Quds) are 25 young Palestinian women from families with deep roots in Jerusalem. They all study at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music and live in East Jerusalem. Now they are releasing a CD where they

Voice of resistance

With incredible determination and defiance, and despite her illness and the paralysis in her vocal cords, Rim worked relentlessly on her new album and managed to complete all the recordings in January 2018. Rim said that she wanted this album to be powerful an

Rosa frå Betlehem, Vinyl

A gem of a Christmas record featuring Sondre Bratland: vocals; Iver Kleive: organ and synth; Knut Reiersrud: guitar; Paolo Vinaccia: percussion; Suheil Khoury: flute and a Palestinian children’s choir from Ramallah.

Serene Hope

Here four eminent musicians take part, each of them from four different countries. From Palestine: Ahmad Al Khatib on oud; from Turkey: Ertan Tekin on duduk; from Norway: Gjermund Silset on bass, and from Iran: Ali Rahimi on percussion. Marjan is prevented

Syrian Prayers

While Europe tries to establish new national identities based on pluralism, the world’s oldest religious diversity is about to fall apart before the eyes of a paralytic world. KKV’s Erik Hillestad has made recordings of profoundly beautiful sacral music from

Salute to Gaza

The album, entitled "Salute to Gaza", is bursting with energy from a part of the Middle East where 1.8 million people are cut off from the rest of the world. The music, the power and the joy tell the story of how we in the Western world should start to look at

5 voggesanger fra ondskapens akse (EP)

Kari Bremnes, Eva Dahlgren fra Sverige og Anisette (The Savage Rose) fra Danmark.er bidragsytere til i første omgang en EP med 5 sanger fra Irak, Iran og Palestina. De synger sine egne tolkninger på skandinaviske språk av sanger som kommer fra den nære orient.

The mirrors of my soul

Through two KKV CD projects, "Lullabies from the Axis of Evil", and SKRUK's Christmas record "Krybberom" ("A Lowly Manger"), Rim Banna has become familiar to many Norwegians. She also appeared in the show "Finn veien, engel" (Find the Way, Angel) with Kari Bre

Seasons of violet - Lovesongs from Palestine

In times when Palestine and the palestinean people only are assosiated with war and conflicts the singer – songwriter Rim Banna wants to focus on the positive power of love and understanding in her lyrics. Her songs are inspired and founded on the rich arabic

Songs across walls of separation

This CD presents songs from Palestine, Morocco, Syria, Kashmir, Cyprus and Mexico, where walls within their borders or between them and richer countries separate neighbours. This CD features singers, who themselves are unable to meet each other because of thes

April Blossoms

Rim Banna reaches out to children in Gaza with new CD! Rim Banna, Palestine's star of children’s songs is familiar to Norwegians from previous KKV releases and her concerts with Kari Bremnes. In addition to her career as an adult artist she has won the

A time to cry - A lament over Jerusalem

Under the title "A time to cry", KKV is now releasing an album recorded in a threatened Palestine home in East Jerusalem. Four Palestinian voices, led by Rim Banna, sing to a packed audience jostling together in the small rooms in the house where 90-ye

Revelation of Ecstasy and Rebellion

Throughout the "Arab Spring", Rim Banna, the best-known voice of Palestine, has seen how the music she has created over the last ten years has become part of the revolution's "soundtrack". She has toured and held concerts in several of the countries where arti

Songs From A Stolen Spring

The demonstrations we in the West called "the Arab Spring" in 2011 led to the downfall of several heads of state. In country after country from Tunisia in the west to Yemen in the east people took to the streets in numbers that surprised the world. Today, howe

The Iqrit Files

The Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Syria is a double hell: it is surrounded by Assad's hostile forces, and the forces of IS (the Islamic State) terrorise it from the inside. Through the CD project “The Iqrit Files” and the exhibition “The Faces of Iqrit”,