Mashrouʼ Leila is not a bandʼs name. It is not a proper noun per se; Mashrouʼ Leila is Arabic for ʻan overnight projectʼ lusting out a microphone, a violin, a bass, two guitars, drums and keyboards. It started out as a music workshop at the American University of Beirut in 2008, an open platform for students of architecture and design, somewhere to experiment with sounds and make things audible. Haig Papazian, Carl Gerges, Hamed Sinno, Omaya Malaeb, Andre Chedid, Firas Abou Fakher and Ibrahim Badr have enjoyed this sound fetish savoring its façade of nonchalance and feeding on its lack of genre – sustaining their collective as Mashrouʼ Leila, an experiment. 

You can hear Leila, cascading melts of masculine vocals only suspended with thrusts of violin, beats and bass – attacked by neurotic melody that means no harm – sometimes tender, even sometimes on pause. Through the music, you can smell where Leila has been, in bed sheets, on sidewalks, jasmines in riﬂes and spilled coffee on dresses as she made you play with aubergines, dancing her dance. Music has constantly been their place to play with things, to match and mis-match, a project. 

In the various performances, Mashrouʼ Leila is a constant attempt to taste and produce, more than happy to harvest anyone from the audience as a guest in their encores. They have performed around Lebanon since 2008, playing in various venues in Beirut, taking over supposed public piazzas as well as clubs, pubs, hybrids and the such – they also played in Zahle, Sour, Jounieh, Saida and Deir el Qamar, each of which pushed forward their thinking about how to go about their music, lyrics and performance. It is only when Mashrouʼ Leila goes live, that you can actually catch a glimpse of Leila. As it talks to you of Beirut, the city that tastes of the absurd, the product of its day-to-day experiences, its stubborn security and lack of the latter, its musical bombshells, incoherent sexuality and thrusting pleasure…narcotic pain – as it brings forward hints of Arabic Tarab, rock, to folk pop, electro, you can see Leila in every man and woman in the silent- come-raving audience. In this trajectory, they participated in music workshops and concerts in Amman and Cairo to maneuver their way into a pan-Arab music scene, to know and to announce, more importantly to grow, musically. 

In March 2009, Mashrouʼ Leila won the Lebanese Modern Music Contest jury prize and public vote organized by Radio Liban in partnership with CCF, Incognito and the Basement. They recorded their debut album with B-root Productions, released in December 2009. The music in the album is a reclamation of the aftertaste; sequel-ing a dose of Beirut.

written by Raafat Majzoub

NYC-based DJ and co-founder of VRH Collective. Deep, melodic, and electronic sounds - original mixes, live recordings, and new projects in the works…

Hendric Buenck (also known as HNDRC) is a composer and producer from Berlin, based in Los Angeles. He is known for combining various influences with modern rap music elements to create unique beats, tracks and compositions. 

Having started to play piano by teaching himself at the age of 14, he soon discovered the possibility of using orchestral composition approaches to create melodic and cinematic-influenced rap music.

By now, Hendric has been producing tracks on more than 25 Top-10 albums, with six of them reaching No.1 in the german album charts. At the age of 19, Hendric earned his first gold award for his work on a major rap album, followed by another gold certified rap album in 2017. In 2018, Hendric was part of another german gold and platinum certified project.

In 2019, Hendric produced 5 tracks for the album ‘‘N9NA’’ by Tech N9ne, which charted on #3 on the official US Billboard Independent Charts, including the single ”Like I ain’t” with over 42.000.000 streams on Spotify. In 2020 he produced on Tech N9ne’s latest Album “Enterfear’’ which charted on #7 on the official US Billboard Independent Charts.

Besides working as a producer for rap and r&b artists, he composed music for several film and tv productions including the german Disney show "Binny und der Geist" and numerous documentaries, short films and online campaigns. In 2020, the Original Soundtrack for the Documentary “From North to South” was nominated “Best Soundtrack” for the Golden Short Film Festival. The Documentary about climate change, directed by Alessandro Rovere, was also nominated for the New York International Film Awards.

Hendric is currently working on rap/trap and soul influenced trailer music with Heavy Duty Music including Artists such as GoldFord and BBY Kody. He also remixed/trailerized Tracks featuring Lil Baby and Rich the kid, Major Lazer, Khalid and others, which will be released through Heavy Duty Trailer Music. Besides that, Hendric is working on projects including A$AP mob, Tech N9ne and various other Artists and companies.

☎️ UK/EU:  peter@klsbookings.com 
☎️ NA/SA: s@icartists.net 
☎️ AUS/NZ: alex@outhereagency.com

TRUMPETS OF MICHEL-ANGE maintenant disponible !! 
👉 https://idol-io.ffm.to/trumpets

Actuellement en tournée, Ibrahim Maalouf & The TRUMPETS OF MICHEL-ANGE  : https://tix.to/TOMA

Site officiel ☞ https://www.ibrahimmaalouf.com/
Boutique officielle ☞ https://ibeshop.ibrahimmaalouf.com/
Marchandises TOMA ☞ https://ibeshop.ibrahimmaalouf.com/collections/textiles 
Facebook ☞ http://bit.ly/2tQM7ZQ
Instagram ☞ http://bit.ly/2tG1epL
TikTok ☞ https://shorturl.at/kzCT7

More info: www.nilsfrahm.com

Management: 
felix(at)agentur-grimm(dot)com


Boryanata is following