Set Me Free
by Various Artists
"Set Me Free" is an album collaboration between 9 years detained Arab Ahwazi refugee poet-artist Jalal Mahamede and Australian Art Music Award finalist Keyna Wilkins, working via zoom from his detention cell, with 19 special guest musicians. It is a musical setting of 12 of his spoken poems. Jalal was never charged or tried, but was indefinitely detained for arriving in Australia by boat.
New Music Coming Soon — 11/11/2021 Released 2021
Keyna Wilkins
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Album tracks
- 14:55I Love My Tears as Much as My Laughter (clip)Jalal Mahamede, Keyna Wilkins & Shane Carpini
- 23:25Set Me Free (clip)Jalal Mahamede & Keyna Wilkins
- 36:14Chains (clip)Jalal Mahamede, Keyna Wilkins, Elsen Price, Roy Newman & Sol Rosen
- 44:55Bow and Arrow (clip)Jalal Mahamede, Susie Bishop & Laura Bishop
- 57:19When I Hug You (clip)Jalal Mahamede, Will Gilbert, Byron Mark, Jenny Eriksson, Emanuel Lieberfreund & Elliot Lombard
- 61:54Nothing Is in Place (clip)Jalal Mahamede & Dawn Barrington
- 71:23When I'm Thinking of You (clip)Jalal Mahamede & Lyra Rosen
- 82:03The Gardener (clip)Jalal Mahamede, Keyna Wilkins & Rhyan Clapham
- 95:02Doomed to Life (clip)Jalal Mahamede, Carl St Jacques & Josh Shipton
- 102:50Alone I Walk (clip)Jalal Mahamede, Emanuel Lieberfreund & Isaac Lombard
- 114:50Drop of Rain (clip)Jalal Mahamede, Karen Cortez & Connor Malanos
- 124:00Drunk My Whole Life (clip)Jalal Mahamede & Keyna Wilkins