“What does Beirut feel like in this age of madness? Crisis upon crisis, blow after blow.... economic collapse, oppressed uprising, global pandemic, world-scale explosion, I think we've become a bit numb. And a bit mad, ourselves.”

For the third and final release in the ‘Thawra Records & Found Sound Nation’ co-release series, 4 expert musicians join forces to present the collaborative project “Baada Ab” (“After August”), a “super-group” of musicians formed by Mayssa Jallad (Safar), Omaya Malaeb (Mashrou’ Leila), Dani Shukri (Tanjaret Daghet) and Ezra Tenenbaum (Ezra T/Onebeat). The group was conceived during FSN’s Onebeat Lebanon music residency, creating two meaningful and impactful songs. Jallad’s brilliant lyricism tackles, with mature sensibility, sensitive themes of grief, loss, depression, and how we try to overcome it all. Both songs are a genuine and honest reflection of the collective shared experience and trauma of a people following the August 4 blast, its aftermath, and the simultaneous collapse of the Lebanese state. “Bi Kheir”, meaning “I’m okay”, captures the voices of the survivors in the few moments after the explosion, recounting each of the first conversations that the band members had with family and friends after surviving one of the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history. The looming question is “am I really okay?”. In turn, “Fil Aatma”, or “in the dark”, portrays a desensitized people, waiting for answers, stuck in a surreal realization of total loss of control and agency, displaced from reality, and watching time go by, like shadows in the dark. With its expertly measured lyrical and musical performances, Baada Ab is a beautiful ode to the souls we lost, the grieving souls still with us, and essentially, the artists’ way of expressing and dealing with their grief, while echoing the thoughts of all those surviving in Lebanon
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released April 30, 2022

Baada Ab: Mayssa Jallad, Omaya Malaeb, Dani Shukri & Ezra Tenenbaum

Written & performed by Baada Ab
Recorded & produced by Ezra Tenenbaum
Additional mixing & mastering by Christopher Botta
Released on Tiny House Music & Found Sound Nation (@found-sound-nation) © 2022
Artwork by Rana Zaher

Fil Aatma

Baada Ab - Fil Aatma

Holly Miranda - Waves cover

Bandit - Where Is My Mind

Soaring

Peter Broderick - Red Earth

released 26 May 2015

Words and music: Siv Jakobsen
Produced by Siv Jakobsen and Charlie Van Kirk
Mixing & Engineering: Charlie Van Kirk
Mastered by Kevin Reeves

String-arrangements and piano: Christian Li
Bass: Jared Henderson
Vln 1: Katie Kresek
Vln 2: Jesse Hanson
Viola: Rachel Golub
Cello: Yoed Nir
Percussion: Charlie Van Kirk

Recorded at Ant Food, Stadiumred Studios & Virtue & Vice, i Brooklyn NY

Assistant-engineering by Jay Marcovitz and Ben Talmi

Artwork & photography by Jørgen Nordby (jorgenordby.com)

Dark

Bedroom - In my Head

Cover of Smog's song 'It's Rough' from his 1995 album 'Wild Love'
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released 21 December 2011
Written by Bill Callahan
Recorded by db in his flat 

It's Rough (Smog Cover)

who are the sacred ones that keep on keeping on in all this mass confusion?
who are the holy ones that shouldn't be alive? they're giving up the wrong conclusions. 

giving up.

this is your wake up call to arms.
bring you back, no hurt, no harm.

We are the broken guns, set fire to our tongues. no words you'll ever comprehend.
they're breaking down the door, but we're all waiting for the end, it's always the end.
giving up.

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https://cloudellyn.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-not-the-only-light

The things I see are not the same
As what you see, not exactly
Every single life, distinct
Creating it’s own reality
Billions of worlds, collapsing in
I fear the weight of everything
Draped around my dream of life,
A beautiful wall of static light

And I only trust what I see
What separates love from anxiety?
Shades of the same dream

Lately I’ve noticed tremors that lie
In corners of my eyes, just out of sight
Distant warning, I don’t know what it means
I can’t stop listening to the sound
I’m either breaking out or breaking down
Cracks are forming, I don’t know what it means

Am I learning how to be bright?
Or is it a trick of the light?
Shades of the same dream

There are times when I’m convinced I’m only a burden
But I tell myself it’s just an absence of sun
So I step through the wall to the other side-

I think I’m going blind

And I don’t believe my own sight-
The presence of everyone in my life
We live in shared dreams
And I’ve gone as white as the light
That falls in this place, across every face
We live in shared dreams
My world collapsing, what lovely churning
Peace in the breaking

You Are Not the Only Light

Dream Lives

From the album 'Permanent Signal' - out August 20 via Secretly Canadian


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