Co-curated by Massive Attack's 3D, the Life Support soundtrack is a tribute to the Palestinian spirit

With the Israeli government barring international journalists from entering the territory, those medics became some of the few independent witnesses to what was taking place there, and still continues to take place. The soundtrack, curated by the film's producers and 3D (aka Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack), combines original compositions by Del Naja and Palestinian composer Habib Shehada Hanna with previously released tracks and an excellent new remix. Star Wars Andor star Denise Gough, who narrates the documentary, says that on a project like this, the duty of artists is "to offer and use whatever skill we have to amplify the very real work being done on the ground." Both composers seem to have taken that to heart in building the score. Their pieces are built on space and breath, leaving room for reflection. Yet that space is always loaded with a density that borders on suffocating. Hanna opens the record with "Sleeping is a Privilege", a title that on its own says almost everything about the context. Sparse, melancholic guitar lines, drawn from Arabic tradition, float over low, heavy frequencies, sketching an anxiety that endlessly searches for a comfort it never quite finds. ...