Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you is the third full-length collaboration between the New York-based Iranian-Canadian duo Saint Abdullah (the siblings Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh) and the Irish producer Eomac (real name: Ian McDonald). Mohammed Mehrabani-Yeganeh stated that the record was “recorded within a few weeks in October after the war broke out as we tried to keep our heads above water.” Indeed, it’s a charged set. Using everything from field recordings to sacred music as source material, the trio put together a distorted, collaged record that manages to capture the energy of an urgent humanitarian moment.  

Sonically, the album threads together the histories of plunderphonics and rough-and-ready hip-hop beat tapes. Conceptually, it runs across geographic lines, featuring both the Irish McDonald and Mehrabani-Yeganeh’s fellow artists from the larger Iranian diaspora. On the track “Bitch, I am Islam,” Iranian revolutionary chants share space with Mehrabani-Yeganeh’s sister reciting the Quran. The whole project is a layered, vital transmission. All proceeds go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.