Fontaines D.C., Massive Attack and Young Fathers announce Gaza benefit single

nme.com:

Fontaines D.C., Massive Attack and Young Fathers have teamed up for a limited edition 12” single to support the charity Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).The release, which is available to pre-order now, will feature material by Fontaines and a collaboration between Young Fathers and Massive Attack, alongside a sleeve and print designed by Robert Del Naja.100 per cent of the profits from the single will be donated to the charity to help their emergency operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

In a statement, the artists have also called for an immediate ceasefire in the region, “in solidarity with the Palestinian people living under a brutal military operation”The reverse of the sleeve includes a quote from a hospital whiteboard in Gaza written by MSF medic Dr.

Mahmoud Abu Nujaila: “Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us”. Nujaila was killed a few weeks later.No more details of the tracks on the single have yet been provided, but it is available to pre-order here.

In addition, there will also be a limited edition, artist-signed large-print sale of the single’s artwork, available here.Massive Attack’s 3D said: “The hourly scenes of horror in Gaza, with hospitals and schools bombed to dust and innocent civilians, journalists and doctors killed in unspeakable numbers has been made so much worse by more than ten weeks of abject political failure.We’re in awe of the Doctors Without Borders medics who place their lives on the line to help innocent civilians in Gaza.