Kefaya & Elaha Soroor have today released their new single, Cold & Heavy - Sardo Sangin

Award-winning musical collaborators Kefaya & Elaha Soroor have today released their new single, Cold & Heavy - Sardo Sangin, alongside the announcement of their forthcoming album Our Freedoms Must Be Won - Azadi Kho Bigri, a powerful blend of global sounds and urgent political commentary.

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"Cold & Heavy is a very direct song for us. Milad's poetry speaks about a kind of emotional numbness that isn't just personal but shaped by the world around us. It reflects a state where disconnection becomes normal, where people are physically close but still cut off from each other." — Kefaya & Elaha Soroor

Our Freedoms Must Be Won is both Kefaya and Soroor's most ambitious and most urgent work to date. The music is restless and searching — polyrhythms, immersive synthesisers, and trance-inducing grooves create a sonic landscape that feels simultaneously ancient and acutely contemporary.

Our Freedoms Must Be Won does not flinch from naming what it sees: War, genocide, displacement, and mass violence are understood here not as aberrations but as mechanisms — ways that systems maintain themselves by breaking communities apart.

" We are living through a moment where systems of power are visibly under strain and maintaining hegemony increasingly takes authoritarian and fascistic forms that attempt to divide and alienate communities. War, genocide, displacement and mass violence are not exceptions to this system, but part of how it maintains and protects itself. The album speaks of exile, migration and separation, of resistance and survival, and of the collective responsibility it takes to keep moving through all of that. Freedom here is not abstract. It is collective, fragile, and it must be won."

The album's grooves are communal by design, built for bodies moving together. Its lyrics insist on shared responsibility. Its sound refuses bordersOur Freedoms Must Be Won follows their critically acclaimed album Songs of Our Mothers (Bella Union), which won the 2020 Songlines Award for Best Fusion Album, and continues the band's mission to push the boundaries of global music.

Kefaya is the London-based trio of Giuliano Modarelli, Al MacSween, and Joost Hendrickx, known for their boundary-breaking approach to global sounds, jazz, and socially conscious music.

They reunite here with Elaha Soroor, a pioneering Hazara singer whose voice conveys both profound emotional depth and unflinching power. Soroor rose to prominence as a finalist on Afghanistan's Afghan Star and made history as the first female Hazara singer to perform on Afghan television. She has since appeared on BBC Farsi, Al Jazeera, and numerous Persian media outlets.

Upcoming Tour & Festival dates:

• 23 May 2026 - UK Scotland - Galloway, S.W. - Knockengorroch Festival
• 16 July 2026 - Germany - Stuttgart - Sommerfestival der Kulturen
• 28 July 2026 - Switzerland - Thun - Am Schluss
• 04 September 2026 - Germany - Hamburg - Hastam Festival
• 10 September 2026 - Norway - Trondheim - Transform Festival