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Geykido Comet always puts out good compilations. With eight released in
the last couple years alone -- each bursting at the seams with a healthy
variety of established and underground punk acts and unreleased material
-- that much should be expected by now. What’s especially great about
this compilation is that like its title might indicate, the
beneficiaries are the women of Afghanistan whose rights and livelihood
have been ravaged by a decade of Taliban rule and an ongoing war in
their homeland.
The Revolutionary Association for the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) was
founded in 1977 to oppose the oppression of both the Soviet Union and
the Jihadists, rejecting all forms of religious fundamentalism. As a
result of its dissident stance, its founder Meena Keshwar Kamal was
assassinated in 1987. But the movement has lived on, and in the
post-9/11 Afghanistan of today, its focus has widened, as the group set
up programs for orphaned children and continued humanitarian and women’s
rights campaigns.
In the spirit of empowering women and equality, Dropping Food draws
equally on some of punk’s best female and male voices. And several of
the bands, like the Devil Is Electric (featuring Chris Clavin...
