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Today we announce Every Martyr Is A Universe, the third album by Palestinian-Canadian guitarist, composer, organiser, and harm-reduction worker Bilal Nasser @bilalguitar, and his first release for Constellation. A first single from the album “Who We Used To Be” is now streaming (but not on Spotify or Amazon Music).
Conceived during the 2024 student intifada and encampment movement protesting the genocide in Gaza, Every Martyr Is A Universe asks what art can mean under such conditions, and what it can offer as a space for collective reflection, mourning, connection, and organising.
Classically trained from a young age, Nasser developed his guitar practice through classical music and DIY culture. Here, his acoustic guitar remains at the centre while the compositions expand into a nine-person ensemble featuring strings, horns, piano, electronics, percussion, bass, and voice. Recorded primarily at Nasser’s DIY space Uma Loft and the old Downtown Mission in Windsor, the album moves between expansive ensemble works and more intimate songs, incorporating archival recordings from Palestinian history alongside Zionist military broadcasts.
Every Martyr Is A Universe in stores November 6, 2026 and available now for preorder at cstrecords.com and Bandcamp. Cover art by Jude Abu Zaineh @judeaz_.
This Constellation release is also part of our Digital Subscription available at Bandcamp and @mirlo.space.
Bilal is currently on tour across Canada, with remaining dates below. His dates in Toronto (presented by @musicgalleryto), Montréal, and his hometown of Windsor, will feature full ensembles including string players recruited locally.
11 Sep • Vancouver, BC, Red Gate
12 Sep • Victoria, BC, Near Dark Shows
13 Sep • Victoria, BC, Coastal Concerts
15 Oct • Toronto, ON, Music Gallery / Avant X*
21 Oct • London, ON, Honey Dip
22 Oct • Toronto, ON, Tapestry
24 Oct • Peterborough, ON, Artspace PTBO
25 Oct • Montréal, QC, Casa del Popolo*
27 Oct • Ottawa, ON, Avant Garde Bar
28 Oct • Kingston, ON, Tett Gallery
29 Oct • Stratford, ON, Gallery Stratford
06 Nov • Windsor, ON, Meteor*
* with fulll ensemble
@rarelyunable @secretlydistribution
09 Sep 2026
I am thrilled to announce that my upcoming record, “Every Martyr is a Universe”, has found its home on @cstrecords
This project came out of my experience in the student intifada. It captures that moment, between grief and faith, in a call to action towards renewed, direct struggle against imperialism, while denoting the limits of diasporic art in times of genocide.
In anticipation of the release this fall, I am embarking on a Canadian tour, consisting of mostly solo adaptations of the record. In Windsor, Toronto, and Montreal the album will be premiered alongside a chamber ensemble of strings, horn, bass and percussion.
Much more to say about this soon.
15 Aug 2026
Thanks for the thoughtful review @backseat_mafia
Read the full review on their website
12 Nov 2026
Made a record
Pics 1-3 by @stay____open
10 Nov 2026
Excerpt: “and where they make a desert they call it peace” from Every Martyr is a Universe, out now on @cstrecords
Most of this piece was made by singing through my guitar’s sound-hole into my pedalboard. The resulting piece forms a dialogue between Kanafani’s warnings about surrendering ourselves to a colonial peace process, delivered in parallel circumstances to those preceding 2023, with Arab states on the verge of normalization with the Zionist entity, leaving Palestinians to quietly disappear, and my own voice as the world fails to heed his warnings.
Visuals (turn sideways) by Benjamin Recovery
09 Nov 2026
Erasure- live in MTL at @casadelpopolo2 avec @quatuormemoire @nateblackton and @nick.hildenbrand
Every Martyr is a Universe out now via @cstrecords
Filmed by @joshfilmsconcerts
Visuals by Benjamin Recovery
08 Nov 2026
Every Martyr Is A Universe
Out now on @cstrecords
🎥 by @stay____open of @nateblackton and I tracking the record
06 Nov 2026
Out today: Every Martyr Is A Universe, the third album by Palestinian-Canadian guitarist and composer Bilal Nasser @bilalguitar, and his first for Constellation.
Conceived during the 2024 student intifada and encampment movement, the album expands Nasser’s distinctive solo guitar practice into a nine-musician ensemble, with strings, horns, piano, electronics, percussion and voice. Recorded primarily in Windsor, Ontario, it is a powerful work of solidarity and resistance, confronting the question of what art can mean in the midst of genocide.
Tonight, Bilal celebrates the album’s release with a final tour performance at Meteor @meteorwindsor in his hometown of Windsor, joined by strings.
Every Martyr Is A Universe is available now on LP, CD and digital.
Order from our webstore or listen via the link in bio.
@rarelyunable @secretlydistribution
06 Nov 2026
When we started this project, we were in the middle of the global student intifada. For 2 months we camped out as a sustained disruption of normalcy during genocide. When it ended, we wanted to make something out of this material. To document this moment of time. At the same time, we realized how retreating from direct action to art was itself part of the problem. So we made this album to wear the hypocrisy, and to denote the limits of art itself in the end times wars. Of course, we need to be doing so much more.
But still, we enlisted our friends to play on this record, and made it DIY because that’s how we had the means to do it. Some of it recorded at home, some remotely, some in the old downtown mission.
The following musicians deserve so much credit for making this a reality:
Violins: @yeehawyaz
Cello: @mattmagerkurth
Piano: @racha.music
Viola: nicholas penny
Horns: @austindipietro
Drums: @nick.hildenbrand
Backing vocals: @stay____open and @willowbrookofficial
Bass, production, vocals: @nateblackton it’s Nate’s album as much as it’s mine.
And a huge shoutout to the generational talent @judeaz_ for lending her artwork as the cover.
We never thought we’d get a vinyl release for this, or that we’d ever play it live. @cstrecords made this happen and it’s been a dream to work with them.
EMIAU is out now. Not on Spotify or Amazon in solidarity with PACBI’s call for boycott.
We play it TONIGHT at @meteorwindsor
📸 @stay____open
06 Nov 2026
2 more days until the album drops! See you at @meteorwindsor this Friday for a rare performance featuring a 7 piece ensemble:
@austindipietro @olivia___seal @_alicezacharias @greencellocase @nateblackton @nick.hildenbrand
And special guest: @teege_laves
TICKETS IN BIO!
04 Nov 2026
Every Martyr Is a Universe- MTL premiere at @casadelpopolo2 avec @quatuormemoire and @nateblackton
High-8 video by @joshfilmsconcerts
We get to do this set once more this Friday in Windsor at @meteorwindsor tickets in my bio.
03 Nov 2026
Inspirations and influences with THE @bilalguitar! His new album Every Martyr Is A Universe on the venerable @cstrecords sees its official release this Friday, November 6th at @meteorwindsor! We’ve got advance copies available at the store now if you just can’t wait, which would be fair!
02 Nov 2026
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