All the songs on this album were written between October 13th and December 31st, 2023. I wrote them to bear witness to the genocide of the Palestinian people that continues by the hour as I publish this album. There are various videos, many more songs, essays, as well as an album songbook that can be found at davidrovics.com/palestine.

Released January 11, 2024

Download Album Here: https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/notes-from-a-holocaust

(FYI: This album has been censored by Spotify among others)

When the genocide of the people of Gaza began in October, 2023, and I began to write a series of urgent songs on the subject, Chet Gardiner shared that sense of urgency, and started taking the songs I was putting out there and making great improvements upon them from his home studio in Hawai'i.

In January we put out a 20-song album together called Notes From A Holocaust.

This album is a continuation of those efforts, but with a somewhat expanded scope. Roughly half the album consists of songs about the Gaza genocide that I've written since we put out Notes From A Holocaust. The other half of the album are songs I've written and recorded in the past few years, that either Chet or I thought would be good candidates for enhancement -- plus the much older songs, "St Patrick Battalion" and "In One World" for good measure.

For my part, I'm either playing a guitar, an Irish bouzouki, or a mandola. Everything else you hear is Chet, which includes electric and acoustic instruments of all descriptions, including guitars, basses, banjos, synth, percussion, vocal harmonies, and more.

The cover photo was taken at a gig in France by Isabelle Souriment, who also designed the album cover.

Released April 19, 2024

Download Album Here: https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/bearing-witness

This is an album in three parts.

First, the ongoing genocide in Palestine, songs that were written in the past few months.

Second, mostly songs related to the class struggle, some very recent and some slightly less so.

The third part relates to the album title.

To paraphrase Renée DiResta, we live in an era especially characterized by the collision of the rumor mill and the propaganda machine. A collection of the songs I've written over recent years on that subject, such as the album's title track, make up the third part.

The songs were all written by David Rovics. Depending on the song, you'll also hear David's guitar, bouzouki, or mandola. If you hear female vocals, that's Kamala Emanuel. Anything else you're hearing -- bass, drums, synth, banjo, electric guitar, and various other odds and ends -- is Chet Gardiner."

Cover graphics by the brilliant Kalindi Jackson.

Released July 16, 2024

Download Album Here: https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/i-heard-a-rumor

As the genocide of the Palestinian people carried out by the Israeli military accelerates, I haven't written as much as I did during the first several months of the Israeli horrors. Every murdered child deserves many songs, but at the same time, what more is there to say? How many different ways are there to rephrase "stop killing the children"?

But I did write nine songs, and one poem, between August and October, 2024, and they're all on this album, along with a new recording of a song I wrote in 2016 (guess which one).
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If you hear vocal harmonies, that's my singing and touring partner, Kamala Emanuel, from Brisbane, Australia -- the other half of the Ministry of Culture.

Otherwise everything other than the voices and whichever instrument I'm playing (usually guitar, sometimes mandola) is Chet Gardiner, who improved the tone and added instrumentation to everything from his home studio in Hawai'i.

Released October 26, 2024

Download Album Here: https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics/sets/jabaliya-the-album

From the Ashes is an album consisting of 10 songs I wrote between November, 2024, and January, 2025.

One of the songs is about a historical event -- the burglary of the FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971 conducted by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI that revealed Cointelpro to the world.

The rest of the songs are about recent, or ongoing, events, including Israel's genocide in Gaza, riots in Amsterdam, fires in LA, an assassination in Manhattan, the death of Cornelius Taylor, Antony Blinken's last press conference, and Trump's second inauguration.

The woman singing with me on many of the tracks is Kamala Emanuel. Other than the guitar or mandola I'm playing, all the other instruments are from Chet Gardiner in his studio in Hawai'i. The process is I record at home, or if on the road with Kamala, in a random location with a smartphone, and then send that recording to Chet, to work his magic.

Cover photo also taken with a smartphone, by Jeffrey St Clair.

Download Album here: https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-ashes