Ta Paidia&Lamma Bada

Bint El Shalabiya

Samsa

“muhtelif” which is an Arabic word originally used to mean “discordant, fluxional” in Turkish, then turned out to be used as “various” in time. True to this name, the band builds its repertoire out of the songs seemingly “discordant and fluxional” so to emphasize the musical concord of different languages and cultures of Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean. The band performs a wide range of music in Turkish, Greek, Arabic and Armenian from traditional to popular, 70s to present. Musicians are also song-tellers narrating the social and historical context of songs and their meanings in addition to stories of old performers.
"Samsa" is the band's first original song.

Muhtelif

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