Listen: Haseeb Iqbal’s songs of healing & resistance

Exploring the political power of music.

‍Recorded in Devon Turnbull's Listening Room at The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition, the final of Haseeb Iqbal's summer listening sessions explores the theme of healing and resistance in music.

Moving from the contemporary jazz sounds of composer and educator Angel Bat Dawid to the dub poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah and the spiritual explorations of Soweto seven-piece band Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness, Iqbal's final summer listening session highlights the power that music has to ignite change, express pain and maintain hope.

Listen below to hear more about the political context of trailblazing artists across the varied worlds of spiritual jazz, pop, folk and much more, as told by Iqbal.

Hear Iqbal’s other sessions so far – a history of Blue Note Records, a Pakistani cinema vinyl special and a Jah Shaka special – now.