basel zayed

BAHER // Full Album on Bandcamp: https://rayessbek.bandcamp.com/album/baher
I composed this album during the last end of the world. Not the current one, but the one before. The fourth or the fifth... I lost count. Maybe before fascism took over Europe, or before the Beirut port exploded, I'm not sure. This is not a celebration of the apocalypse, nor a shamanic dance. It's a dive into the distant past, around the 1930s, I think. It was the age of the first recordings in the Arab world, while my grandparents were still living in Palestine, before they were massacred or deported, before their own end of the world.
These are fragments of lost, forgotten recordings that I found in the sand by the sea. I pieced them together as much as I could with the only glue I had: analog sound machines, more or less recent. Who were these voices ? I have no idea. Well, sometimes I have a fragment of information, a title, a name, a date. But most of the time, I just listen and my fingers start to move gently. When I squint my eyes, it's because I see something I can't describe, but it's there, and it makes me want to inhabit the song, to live in it for days.
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J'ai composé cet album lors de la dernière fin du monde. Non pas celle que nous vivons actuellement, mais celle d'avant. La quatrième ou la cinquième... je ne les compte plus. Peut-être avant que le fascisme ne contrôle l'Europe, ou avant l'explosion du port de Beyrouth, je ne suis plus sûr. Ce n'est pas une célébration de l'apocalypse, ni une danse chamanique. C'est plutôt un plongeon dans un passé lointain, vers les années 1930, il me semble. C'était l'époque des premiers enregistrements dans le monde arabe, lorsque mes grands-parents vivaient encore en Palestine, avant d'être massacrés ou déportés, avant leur propre fin du monde.
Ce sont des morceaux d'enregistrements perdus, oubliés, que j'ai retrouvés dans le sable au bord de la mer. J'ai recollé ces morceaux du mieux que j'ai pu avec la colle que j'avais : des machines sonores analogiques, plus ou moins récentes. Qui étaient ces chanteuses et chanteurs ? Je n'en sais rien. Enfin si, des fois j'ai une bribe d'information, un titre, un nom, une date. Mais la plupart du temps, j'écoute et mes doigts se mettent à bouger doucement. Lorsque je plisse les yeux, c'est que je vois quelque chose que je ne peux pas décrire, mais qui est là et qui me donne envie d'habiter cette chanson, d'y vivre pendant des jours.

01 - Albi Ala - Albak

Random House ( البيت العشوائي ) - Leman Ertaqa

جوليا بطرس شو الحلو فيك

أزرق -باسل زايد

هدية الجندي المخطوف لدى المقاومة الفلسطينية

Shaool - اسمع يا شاوول

بكير من خلف الجبل
كلمات الشاعر عامر بدران


Bakkeer - بكير

Lyrics by Arafat Al-Deek
كلمات عرفات الديك


Dalle Hurra - ضلي حرة

فاكهة الحبّ l مُحاكاة

شتويّة - وليد كنعان

Mashrou' leila - 3al7ajiz - live - Baalbeck - عالحاجز - بعلبك- مشروع ليلي

مو مني كل الصوج - ياس خضر

تراب عينطورة

Roy Dib

في وردة بين الوردات - وداد

ذلّوا بغير اقتدارٍ عندما وَلِهوا
إنّ الأعزّا إذا إشتاقوا أذلاءُ
العشق في أزل الآزال من قدمٍ
فيه بهِ منهُ يبدو فيه إبداءُ
العشقٌ لا حدثٌ، إن كان هو صفةٌ
من الصفات لمِن قتلاه أحياءُ
صفاته منه فيه غير محدثةٍ
ومحدث الشيء ما مبداه أشياءُ
لما بدا البدء أبدى عشقه صفةً
فيما بدا فتلالا فيه لألاءُ
كذا الحقائق: نار الشوق ملتهبٌ
عن الحقيقة إن باتوا وإن ناءوا

العشق - شعر- الحلّاج - غناء- باسل زايد

عندما يخذلك العالم ويصبح الأمر فوضوي..

مزيج|فوضى

Basel Zayed was born in Jerusalem in 1979. Started playing music at an early age. When he was 14 he began studying Piano and Oud, as well as receiving professional training for his voice. Zayed studied Oud and sang in the Arabic Choir of the Edward Said Conservatory of Music. Following his study in the National Conservatory. 
Zayed started studying music composition and harmony at the Magnificent Institute for Holy Music in Jerusalem. Since 1995 Zayed started to play music with many groups and with a number of artists, all of which had exposed him to different styles of music which formed a unique and distinguished artist in the field of alternative music.

Basel an accomplished virtuoso Oud player and vocalist skilled in highly developed Arab musical traditions, is also a trained pianist with a unique outlook on musical arrangement made him a member of many successful artistic ideas and performing groups, such as making and recording of soundtracks for movies, plays and dance groups.

As a music composer, arranger, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Zayed became an important contributor to Palestinian and Arabic music, through the integration of Arabic music with all its musically unique elements, and Western music with its various forms of jazz, reggae, pop and classical music, that has gained acclaim both locally and internationally.
For the past ten years, Basel has led the band Turab and has more recently focused on developing a style based on Palestinian music ‘with a jazz flavor’- Ara-Jazz. Ara-Jazz has been Basel's dream for a long time and now it is becoming a reality on stage and soon to be recorded on a number of records.

Bakkeer - بكير

II باسل زايد

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