Hand to Hand is a new cassette tape edition by Aventures LTD in collaboration with UNIBROW SUN and Glue Factory Radio, assembled by Sabri Sami Sundos, Michelle Nazzal, & Andrew Miller. The project draws inspiration from histories of bootleg mixtapes exchanged by family and through travel across the Arab diaspora. It pays homage to the preciousness of music as a souvenir, especially for people displaced or in exile.
â...whenever someone returned from abroad, they carried suitcases filled with pieces of home. Cassette tapes and CDs were a big part of that home. They were quickly dubbed, recopied, and passed along, hand to hand, through a community hungry for connection. I remember my parentsâ friends arriving with stacks of freshly recorded tapes, ready to share.
From those, my parents would build their own collectionsâmixtapes of favorites that would continue to circulate among family and friends. These exchanges shaped my earliest sense of home: not just a place, but a feeling carried through sound, scent, and memory.â - Sabri
You can find this limited edition mixtape available at the Aventures LTD
@aventuresltd table A22 and on display in the Reading Room at the LAABF
@printedmatter_artbookfairs . We also welcome you to join us this Sunday, May 10th from 6-9p at Zizou
@zizou_losangeles for a special collaborative event with our friends at Dub Lab
@dublab and Secret Riso Club
@secret_riso_club , celebrating the Hand to Hand tape launch and GUNK Zine release.
For those unable to attend our LA launch events, details on in-person pickups in NYC, Oakland and domestic shipping will be announced soon.
All proceeds from Hand to Hand will be donated to
@thesameerproject a grassroots organization providing crucial aid to people on the ground in Gaza.