Fake Lines Unites Arab Artists on VA Compilation for Gaza

Fake Lines, a non-profit Levant-based record label distributed via Proton Radio, has released a VA compilation, ‘Fake Lines: Sono Levant’, uniting artists from across the Levant region and its diaspora to raise funds for Gaza.

In a powerful act of creative solidarity, the compilation challenges the colonial ideologies that continue to fragment the region, directly confronting how borders, imposed through imperial divide-and-conquer tactics, have stripped neighbouring countries of true sovereignty, creating the conditions that enable apartheid, like the one unfolding in Gaza. The compilation seeks to reconnect the Levant and reclaim a shared sense of identity, unity, and resistance.

Featuring 36 tracks spanning anti-pop, experimental, folk, hip-hop, ambient, and electronica, Sono Levant assembles voices from Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Turkey, France, Venezuela, Italy, and India. The album includes contributions from regional heavyweights like Bu Kolthoum, Tayar, Hello Psychaleppo, El Morabba3, Zeid Hamdan, Joy Moughanni, Boshoco, Bu Nasser Touffar, Eyten, Ishtirak, and Carla Saad, among others.

“The project began from a place of anger and helplessness during the Zionist genocide in Gaza,” the organisers of Fake Lines shared. “We hoped that by creating this compilation, we’d at least feel that we had done something. Yet even after finalising the project, that feeling hasn’t disappeared. The void remains”.

The album is dedicated to Palestinian nasheed musician and artist Hamza Abu Qenas, who was murdered by the Zionist occupation on October 14th. All proceeds from the record will be donated to the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, an NGO focusing its efforts on reviving farmlands across Gaza.