AudioVisual Artist based in Amman.
at the moment in Moscow, Russia

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Nasser Halahlih, born in 1981 in Shafa-amr village in the Galilee, started his journey with electronic music nine years ago. Coming from an Arabic Classical Musical background; Nasser's music was fresh and unique. Influenced by everything he touches, hears and feels; His tracks hit with the electronic music scene locally and he soon started to get international recognition. Many of his tracks were released on major progressive trance labels, such as: Medium Records, IBOGA, BLUE Tunes and more. At the meantime, while working on his 3rd album, Halahlih produces jingles and composes tracks for the local theatre and dance scene
 
DJ MAGAZINE :
 
This exceptional piece of progressive music is made by Nasser Halahly who is one of Iono Music's most recognized artists. Nasser has been producing Progressive dance music for many years now and his tracks have been released on top labels such as Medium, Iboga, Blue Tunes, Flow, Vertikal and Iono Music. After some years of studio work, Nasser now presents his first album project. Checkpoint comes along as mature music creation, stuffed with gentle, deep and melodic sounds. Nasser knows how to build a baseline, his sound is hypnotic and original, warm and soulful melodies reflect his Palestinian roots and mentality. So each track on this long waited debut album is a story for itself - declaimed by a gifted musician, who wishes to express the digestion of his life in a segregated rural Arabic enclave in Israel, far from the urban Israeli trance spots. Nasser tells you the story of his life, not far from the checkpoint between Israel and Palestine. And you, the audience is very welcome to listen. 

Releases:
 
Vovoli -Iboga records
 Free days-Blue tunes records
 So long-Blue tunes records
 Come closer to me -Vertikal records 
Symbiosis- Yotopia /Nasser -Flow records 
Everything is you-Byne/Yo Yo records
 Feyruz-Midijum Records
 Step by step-Blue tunes records 

Checkpoint - 2008 -Iono music 

Fixed - Iono music 
T3ali - Iono music 
Mmemory codes - Iono music 
48 minutes from ramallah - Iono music 
Bossy - Iono music 
Colors - Iono music 
Timeless - Iono music 
greenlines - Iono music 
Stuck in my mind - Iono music

Mlabbas (Album) - 2010 

Fawda Project (with Ghassan Beromi and Ayed Fadel) (2014) 


Using site recordings predominantly from Palestine and the arab world, Checkpoint 303 constructs soundscapes that weave cinematic audio with experimental sound processing and complex rhythms. Through its compositions, collected sounds and noise, Checkpoint 303 spreads a message of peace and a call for the respect of human rights. Contrasting with the mainstream media's exclusive depiction of violence and suffering in the middle-east, CP-303's sound collages also report on the heroic hope that subsists in the region as well as the seemingly banal but ever so meaningful little things that embody a daily search for normality in a state of emergency.

	
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Checkpoint 303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) is an avant-garde activist sonic project that creates experimental electronic music that aims at raising international awareness about the ongoing injustice and suffering of the civilian populations throughout the Middle East and the arab world. Checkpoint 303 combines field recordings performed in Palestine, Tunisia and Egypt with electronic beats, ...FX, oud and subtle oriental tunes.

:: Checkpoint 303 Live

One of the highlights of CHECKPOINT 303's live performances includes being invited by Massive Attack in several shows in the UK in 2007 and in France in 2008 and 2009. Over the last couple of years, Checkpoint 303 has performed electronic and live electro-acoustic sets in several countries (France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Danemark, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Palestine, Tunisia, Belgium, etc.) spreading the word for peace, freedom and human rights through a blend of twisted electronica, downtempo, breakbeats, oriental riffs and field recordings...

Faraj Suleiman (1984) is a Palestinian a composer and pianist. His music is strongly influenced by Arabic/Eastern melodies and rhythms. He often incorporates those scales and modalities in his compositions. In addition to being inspired by his Arabic culture, he is also influenced by Tango and Jazz traditions.

As an Arab musician/pianist trained in classical music, he constantly searches for new forms of expression to equally appeal to his "Eastern" and "Western" listeners. To date, Suleiman composed several albums which have placed the "Eastern" piano in the centre of the composition, ranging from solo piano compositions to quartets, quintets, arrangements for choir and full orchestras.

He released a number of albums and musical projects such as : "Login", "Three Steps", "Mud", "Opening of the Palestinian Museum", "Al-Bashiq", "Love in the Cloud", "Once Upon a City”, "Love Without a Story" and lately “Toy Box”. He also composed music for theatre and film.

Today, Suleiman is considered as one of the most promising composers in the Arab world.

Ghareeb , "When Classic meets Alternative".
 
Music composition and arrangement
 
@mafar-band

Producer and singer Yusor Hamed is cherishing a new sound from within Palestine’s thriving music scene. Her musical arrangements fuse Northern African rhythms with Swedish electronica, sweetly accompanying the sound of Arabic tonalities and lyrics.

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