Robert Del Naja has co-curated the soundtrack to Life Support, Daniele Rugo's documentary on medics working in Gaza, and contributed three new compositions to it: "Explosives of the Future," "Perfect Victims" and "House of Healing." The record is out today, thirteen tracks assembled by Del Naja under his 3D alias with the film's producers, and it also carries his remix of Kneecap's "Palestine," featuring Fwazi. Vinyl is available, and all proceeds go to the Health Workers 4 Palestine solidarity fund.
The cast around him is wide. Paul Weller, David Holmes and Róisín El Cherif appear together on a track by The Five Techniques. Habib Shehada Hanna contributes compositions; Yasmine Hamdan, 47Soul, Monkyman, Aar Maanta and Massar Egbari fill out the rest. The film, narrated by Denise Gough, follows a team of medics across two years in Gaza, and it is streaming now.
Del Naja's statement is careful about what a score can do. He called the film's rawness humbling, and said he was asked to compose work "that could in some way enhance a second-hand experience of living the devastating realities for volunteer medics and Gazan civilians." He added that the range of pieces might travel "the emotional quagmire" while elevating "the astounding human spirit and resilience displayed by the subjects of this film." That phrase, second-hand experience, is the honest center of the project: music built to sit beside footage it cannot replace.
The timing sits inside a longer record. Del Naja was arrested in Liverpool this year for protesting outside the UK Labour Party's convention in support of Palestine, and again in April at a similar demonstration. Massive Attack have raised funds for Middle Eastern charities for years. He and Grant Marshall are due to play Primavera Sound in 2027 after their 2026 set was cancelled by weather.
The Kneecap remix is the thread worth pulling. "Palestine" arrived as one of the most direct protest songs of the past two years, and handing it to 3D places it in a Bristol lineage of slow, heavy, dub-rooted sound built for pressure. Listen for how the three originals sit against it: whether Del Naja answers the song's bluntness with texture, or meets it head-on. The soundtrack's proceeds go to health workers, and the music has to hold a documentary's worth of weight without pretending to carry it alone.
