Hand to Hand is a new cassette tape edition by Aventures LTD press (Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe) in collaboration with @unibrowsun and @gluefactoryradio , assembled by @sabri, 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, a time capsule and an emotional bed, especially for people displaced or in exile.

Edition of 300 with proceeds going to @thesameerproject. Master print design by Secret Riso Club.

Palestinian-American artist Sabri Sundos assembles music from Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Growing up, Sundos would listen to the tapes his parents would receive from friends and family in the Middle East, sonic links to their homeland. He extends this chain with his own compendium, published by Aventures LTD, which traces back to his childhood in San Diego and further back through the Palestinian Diaspora. 

“...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 parents’ friends arriving with stacks of freshly recorded tapes, ready to share. From those, my parents would build their own collections—mixtapes 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.” 
–Sabri