The Panti Personals S3 E3 Farah Elle 
Panti is Aunty Panti in this episode with the uber talented Irish Libyan singer and artist Farah Elle. They met five years ago when Farah was just emerging and now with her debut album coming out later this year Farah is back and sharing her music, her story and what keeps her joyful.  Farah in Arabic means joy or happiness, and while Farah has experienced a lot of turmoil in her 27 years she shines with light and love. She came to Ireland with her parents and siblings when she was just an infant. When Farah was studying for her Leaving Certificate her mother, Fatima Hamroush, made international news when she went back, post the revolution, to Libya to become Minster for Health.  Farah's breakthrough song 'Silk', written when she was a music student at BIM, blended her two cultures and soundscapes and her first releases from the new album 'Play it By Ear' and 'Desert' continue that journey. 

Music in this episode includes:
Farah Elle - Silk
Farah Elle - Play It By Ear live peformance 
Farah Elle - Desert live performance 
CunninLynguists ft Farah Elle - Oh Honey
Farah Elle -Teardrop ( cover of Massive Attack song) 

Show Transcript : https://www.happyscribe.com/transcriptions/bf52a6fed0e546908a2879e5eeb8b1ed/edit_v2

You can find out more about Farah Elle on her own gorgeous website https://www.farahelle.com/

The Panti Personals is an independent podcast by Athena Media, produced by Helen Shaw, and presented by Panti Bliss. The digital editor is John Howard and the researcher is Dara Shaw. You can find out more and see the videos on www.pantisocracy.ie 
Our theme music is Knots by Lisa Hannigan used with her kind permission.

The Panti Personals  S3 E3 Farah Elle

You And The Devil

Prick

Lynguistics

On Fatima, named after her mother, Farah explores themes of displacement, identity and culture as well as celebrating nature, love and friendship on an album that Farah describes as a “coming of age record,” one across which she hears herself “unfolding in the songs.”
“It represents a lot of lessons I learned in the past, nursing intergenerational wounds and all that deep shit – it’s a gift to share those lessons with other people with the dream of positively making a difference to them. Today, I’m so focused on building my present and future based on all the valuable things I’ve learned along the way.”

Farah’s devotion to music developed at an early age. Watching her older siblings playing together, she was inspired to pick up a guitar and experiment unselfconsciously. Soon after, she penned poetry, singing her words to a piano accompaniment. These moments of self-taught musical expression were hugely cathartic for her. Sitting at the piano gave Farah a space to examine pivotal moments in her life with an unfiltered defiance across her delivery: “I do this to remove it from my bones,” she sings on ‘Play It By Ear.’

“Hey look, I know that FATIMA is not an album of “club bangers” (or maybe it is). One thing I do know though, is that these songs have allowed me to express myself, unfiltered, during a period where I really needed the chance to do that. If any person gets any kind of release from hearing these expressions, then my work here is done. I just want people to know that they are being understood.

“Most of the tracks are about my family and friends. They are songs from my heart to theirs. Naming the album after our mother only seemed fitting, I needed to honour her and all that she sacrificed for us, her community and the world. Here’s to setting Fatima free! Alhamdulillah."

Silk

March 3, 6pm
Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, Galway City
 
Speakers in order
Chair: Katrina Goldstone. Panel: Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Anthony Haughey (DIT), Charlotte McIvor (NUIG), Megs Morley, curator;  Anne Mulhall,(UCD).

Panel discussion as part of Asylum Archive

Simple piano outline to a piece I am working on.

Waves (unedited original composition) by Joanne Stack

Farah El Neihum is the embodiment of the aims of this show. At 22, she’s still a very young woman, but she has developed a terrific understanding of, and empathy for, other people that gave me a lot of food for thought. 

Before she was 2, Farah moved to Dublin with her parents and for much of her youth, though popular, she had the feeling of being an outsider. 

Her culture, her religion, her family situation: these were all different to the kids around her. We talk about coping with her tricky teenage years, and how she came to terms with her parents’ divorce, which saw her father leaving the family and returning to Libya.

Now a full-time musician and song-writer (with a Degree in Song Writing), Farah discovered her passion for music and song-writing around the age of 12. We talk about the role music played for her, and she shares her perspective on the importance of music in society, and the ways that it helps us to make a difference and connect with others.

You’ll also learn what “logosynthesis” is and I think it’ll be important for you like it was for me!

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[Ep32] Farah El Neihum - The Power of Words

Farah Elle on blending a pop sensibility with the traditional sounds, poetry and modes of her Libyan heritage.

Culture File: Farah Elle's Phrygian Mode

Seeing as it's Bloomsday, here's a song that I composed a few weeks ago using the poem 'Alone' by James Joyce. The recording features the voice of the incredible Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada. Please let me know what you think.


The noon's greygolden meshes make
All night a veil,
The shorelamps in the sleeping lake
Laburnum tendrils trail. 

The sly reeds whisper to the night
A name-- her name-
And all my soul is a delight,
A swoon of shame.

Alone - Kevin Corcoran (Words - James Joyce)

Debut album FATIMA (Deluxe) OUT NOW! ف
Contact: 
farahelle.music@gmail.com

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