Slovenia Inshallah

Slovenia Inshallah is an abolitionist sonic ethnography that uses field recordings from the borders of Bosnia and Croatia to explore the contemporary violence of the EU border regime. This mixtape is an account of these border spaces where borderless solidarities and border resistance merge and collide with realities of state-sanctioned violence. The tape distorts and creates soundscapes of the community, chaos, and uncertainties of these border realities. In these liminal and moving spaces, the tape invites an imagination of political futures, offering a listening from afar, both in time and space, to possibilities hidden in the cracks of the present, where new, borderless futures emerge.

This mixtape is produced by Masa Nazzal and Ilyas Titaou and released by Glasgow-based DIY label, GLARC.

Masa and Ilyas first met when Ilyas was staying at the transit camp, and Masa was doing aid distribution work. When Ilyas spotted a guitar in Masa's hand, he pointed at it, grabbed it, and started playing. This is where their friendship and sonic journeys began.

Masa has performed the mixtape in venues across the UK and Europe, including Arika Festival and Counterflows Festival in Glasgow, Cafe OTO in London, and Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels. Because of borders and the harshness of its regulation, Ilyas could not join the performances.

This project was released alongside the Updates from the Border zine, which can be read for free HERE