Timaalwahida • Ma3azef Takeover

A deft and absorbing selection of original tracks and remixes of Persian pop music, including live synth by Sassoon Hairapetian; Tehran rapper Roody; and original remixes of pre-revolutionary Iranian and post-revolutionary Tehrangeles sounds. Art by Arash Zarifian. Produced, mixed and remixed by Omid Walizadeh. Co-piloted by Remy Siamak and Sheila Afsoon Walizadeh. Art by Arash Zarifian. Additional mixing done at Flying Carpet Studios.

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Golhaye Rang a Rang – Omid Walizadeh (RIAFC085)

Flute Boy is a harbinger of the forthcoming debut album Songs for Broken Ships by MD Pallavi and Andi Otto. The two tracks are physically exclusive to the 7“ single but are in the digital package of the LP album.

Flute Boy is a folktronica lullaby, a cute waltz with traces of dub and acid in the finish. The B-side, Look Again, presents an almost neoclassical ballad with MD Pallavi's vocals floating expansively over a wonderful framedrum groove.

MD Pallavi & Andi Otto first crossed paths on a theatre stage in India ten years ago. They started collaborating instantly and in 2016 MD Pallavi's mesmerizing vocals for the downtempo raga Bangalore Whispers warmed hearts and ears. Their musical relationship flourished with artistic residencies in Bangalore and Hamburg, their respective hometowns, and a concert tour in Japan.

On their new recordings, MD Pallavi contributes songwriting for poems in her native Kannada, one of India's many languages. Andi Otto co-composed and produced the songs. The process took three years, and the results show an interwoven aesthetic vision of two artists with their contrasting musical backgrounds.

MD Pallavi is a singer, actress, filmmaker and performer from Bangalore, South-India, where she trained in Hindustani music and performed poetry since childhood. Andi Otto is a composer, cellist and DJ from Hamburg, Germany, known for his idiosyncratic and unconventional dance music productions for labels such as Multiculti, Shika Shika and Pingipung.

The album Songs for Broken Ships (LP/dig) will be released May 12th 2023 on Pingipung.

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MD Pallavi & Andi Otto: Flute Boy (Pingipung 082, 7"/digital)

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Nawa Recordings are proud to announce the release of Prelude for the Triumphant Man, the debut EP by Two or The Dragon.

Two or The Dragon is the Lebanese electro-acoustic noise duo of Abed Kobeissy and Ali Hout. 

Founded in 2014 under the premise of exploring Arabic music’s ability to express industrial city scapes and the violence that has plagued the Arab world, the duo’s unique sound of processed Buzuq (levantine long-necked lute) and various hand percussions takes the sonic and visual day-to-day that is Beirut and reflects it hyper-realistically.

The drilling and banging of post-war reconstruction and urban development, the incessant hum and vibration of electricity generators, private water pumps and gasoline motors, the cacophony of car horns in unpredictable traffic, all are represented alongside a wailing pseudo-political rallying cry in an unfathomable psuedo-Arabic tongue.

Without allowing nostalgia or frustration to take over their narrative, Two or The Dragon manage to creatively express both the ugliness and the beauty of this bitter reality in a manner not unlike the early recordings of Einsturzende Neubauten or the soundtrack to David Lynch’s Eraserhead.

Released to coincide with their first European outings, including an appearance at the UK’s Supersonic Festival, this 17-minute long three-part work serves as an introduction to the duo’s aesthetic and a taster of what’s to come next year.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Khyam Allami at One Hertz Studios in Beirut (Nov 2016), the EP artwork features a detail from a photograph by Margot Becka titled MEA, designed by Jana Traboulsi.

Prelude for the Triumphant Man by Two or The Dragon will be available as a streaming and download only EP including Mastered for iTunes and lossless high-definition 24-bit/96kHz audio files.

Prelude for the Triumphant Man

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Two or The Dragon - Prelude For The Triumphant Man (Part II)التنّين - مقدّمة للرجل المنتصر

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Composed and recorded by mettani
Mixed by Fernando Favier and Roi Assayag
Mastered by Benoit Courribet

Allah By Night

From the album Nu Vision available October 9, 2020 on Western Vinyl.
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Two or The Dragon - Prelude For The Triumphant Man (Part II)التنّين - مقدّمة للرجل المنتصر

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