Performer Aziza Eskender can often be found where they talk about Crimea: at Crimean festival sites, events in support of political prisoners, artistic performances and events reminiscent of their native peninsula. Aziza was born in exile in Tashkent and grew up in Gezlev, Crimea, where her family returned when she was four years old.. The sea, the steppe, the trees in the courtyard of her parents' house - these memories form her feeling of home, from which the occupation separates her today. This connection with Crimea became a cross-cutting theme in her concert in the “Total: Profit” program, dedicated to the Resistance Movement and people remaining under occupation.

In the new release, the artist performed live songs Kel (Ukrainian. “Come here”), “How to explain it”, Mankurt (Ukrainian. “People without memory”), Menim qara koz qara qas k? m hay? rl? geceler (ukr.. “My black-eyed, black-browed donechko, dobranich”) and The Flag of Freedom (Ukrainian. " The compositions are performed in three languages: Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar and English.. Aziza's musical style combines electronics, ambient and spoken word (recitatives while playing the keyboard).

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Between songs, Aziza talks about Crimea, her Crimean Tatar roots, loved ones with whom she was separated by the occupation, and the responsibility of Ukrainians living in territories controlled by the Ukrainian government to be the voices of the people from the TOT.

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Aziza Eskender is from Gezlev (now Evpatoria) in Crimea. Talking about her roots, she notes that her grandfathers are Crimean Tatars, and her grandmothers are Kazan. In her address during the concert, the artist says that she continues to live with thoughts about the peninsula and the people who remain under occupation.

“It’s as if I constantly carry Crimea within me, dreams, thoughts about those dear people who are under occupation, not only in Crimea. With every breath I try to fill it with meaning and do something to bring closer the time when my family, my friends and I will see each other,” says Aziza.

During the concert, Aziza also appeals to Ukrainians living in free territory with a call not to allow the occupation to turn into silence around the people who remain there.

“It seems to me that people who are in a free Ukraine should be the voices of those who are in simply terrible silent terror, who strive to be heard. And in the same way, we strive to see the people who are waiting for us and fighting for us,” says the singer.

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At the end of the performance, the artist thanks everyone who continues to resist, believing in victory over the aggressor, and calls on them to join the Resistance Movement: “I want to thank everyone who keeps the will, self-respect in their hearts and continues to fight. I urge everyone to become part of the Resistance Movement and never lose heart, because behind us are great mountains and the sea, and behind us are great songs, works that will never die and will never disappear from this planet,” emphasizes Aziza Eskender.

By the way, in the live you can see the symbols of the MTR Resistance Movement - two runes with a colon in the middle, symbolizing the past, present and future. In the comments for “Mirror of the Week” they add that this sign embodies the image of “an eye that burns right through the Russian occupiers”.

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The project “Total: Profit” emphasizes: Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories must be heard, and the culture is able to maintain communication, despite the occupation, physical distance and Russia’s attempts to displace any Ukrainian identity there.

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