‘Desert’ is an intricate collage, documenting a journey from Palestine to Germany, from the personal to the political – and back.

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About the album:

Poetic vocalization, evocative, delicate passages of guitar and wailing violins, Rasha’s work is awash with sweeping orchestration that slips effortlessly in and out of the spellbinding musical overtones of her native Middle East.

Written during a period of transition, Rasha describes it as a 'a chronicle of moments, when realizations rise from the depths to the surface, like tiny floods. I moved to Germany to allow myself to explore my identity. The record represents both the emptiness of the void and the complexity in between for me. It is the thirst, solitude, community, the mirage, the encounters along the way, the baggage, feelings of longing, and the idea of belonging to yourself or to something bigger"

"‘Desert’ navigates the gulf between the theatrical and the personal, between metaphor and raw storytelling. It evokes countless sentiments that define themselves and thrive in opposition to one another – arrival and departure, distortion and clarity, doubt and certainty."

One of the main goals of the album was to capture that live feeling. Rasha recorded together with her band in the same room, with some songs coming together in just one take. The recording bristles with unfixed, dynamic, performative, raw qualities. Guitars floating suspended in the air, strings howling, playfully woven between the different contours ofprofound storytelling. Between distorted allegories and picturesque panoramas wrapped in lucid lyrics.
It’s all a journey... a Desert.

‘Desert’ Credits

Music & lyrics by Rasha Nahas
Arranged with the band: Shaden Nahra - Violin, Gabor Hartyani - Cello, Basel Mfarrage - Drums, Gidi Farhi - Bass, Rasha Nahas - Guitars & Vocals.
Produced by Jonathan Kossov & Rasha Nahas
Engineered by Jonathan Kossov
Mixed by Jonathan Kossov
Mastered by Gregor Zemljic

Desert

This track's new mood is inpired by Sedki Al Imam's nightmare: Career (Artwork) 

Ghali kteer

friv·o·lous
[friv-uh-luhs]

- adjective 
1. not serious or deserving serious notice 
2. self-indulgent and carefree

Frivolous

Ghoula: Gumbri/Piano/fx
Nuri: Drum/Percussion/Guitar
Xavier Descarpentries: Trumpet
Bornholm 2014

Ghoula ft Nuri- Le het le khoudh menni  لا هات لا خوذ منّي

Release date: May 15th 2015
Checkpoint 303, Jawaher Shofani, Wardeh Sbeit, Jihad Sbeit
KKV (2015)
Voices from the destroyed Palestinian village of Iqrit, deconstructed and remixed - An ode to resistance and the quest for justice.
More: www.checkpoint303.com
Available on iTunes, Amazon, www.kkv.no, etc....



Return to Iqrit  -  راجعين لإقرث

Time For Us (Arabs With Synthesizers Remix)

From the upcoming double album "Bes" out on Nawa Recordings 29 April 2016.  

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The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio from Cairo, Egypt, featuring Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.).

Born during 2012 when the three were living in the same apartment building in Cairo’s Agouza district, the trio’s instrumental improvisation-based explorations are propelled by Louca’s North African percussion loops and shimmering keys, Shalabi’s West African tinged free jazz guitar and grounded by Bishop’s driving Krautrock-style acoustic bass.

Following many a late night jam session, the band recorded hours of material during a three-day studio run in April 2014. After compiling and mixing the album in Montreal’s Break Glass studio in July 2015, the refined result will be released as a double-album titled Bes via Nawa Recordings (NAWA005) on 2xLP, 2xCD and DL on 29 April 2016.

Named after the Ancient Egyptian dwarf deity who was worshiped as the defender of all things good and enemy of all that is bad, Bes captures the trio on a hypnotic yet unpredictable journey. From the the lilt of four-minute ethiopian tinged Resinance to the 30-minute free-form epic Museum of Stranglers, the album skirts the outer limits of a psychedelic soundtrack to a North African road trip.

Bes by The Dwarfs of East Agouza will be available on CD, black & limited edition coloured 12” vinyl LP and download, including Mastered for iTunes and lossless high-definition 24-bit/96kHz audio files.

The album artwork features a reproduction of an ancient Egyptian carving of the dwarf god Bes, painted by Egyptian artist Raafat Al-Kordy, designed by Iraqi-Palestinian graphic designer and illustrator Sara Sukhun.


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The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Clean Shahin أقزام شرق العجوزة - نضافة شاهين

yasmin مرة في جنينة ( live edit)

Saint Abdullah is an Iranian electronic duo now based in New York.
They made a special mixtape for HAB.B. called Iran circa 1980.

They are presenting here a set of sounds that captured the mood of Iran, literally and figuratively, during this very important era. 
They were interested in exploring sounds that were rooted in religious, political, cultural happenings of the time, and came to define the era. 
To this day, the Iranian experience during this era continues to have implications on the way Iran shows up and behaves in the world. 

They have sampled a mix of sounds / songs and also included three of  their own. 

Tracklist:

1. 0:00 — Ayatollah Khomeini's first speech upon his return to Iran 1979 upon back on Iranian soil from exile in France

2. 2:46 — Saint Abdullah, Karavaneh Karbalaei

3. 6:10 — Jah La, Lullaby 

4. 11:20 — Saint Abdullah, Brown Eyed People's of Rafsanjan

5. 17:20 — Saint Abdullah, Mossadegh's Revenge for 52

6. 26:14 Shahram Nazeri and Shans Tanbur Ensemble — Spiral of Abandon

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(Photo: Mohammad Reza Shahrokhi Nejad)

• Saint Abdullah X HAB.B. •

حديث موسيقي دار بين الالات وفم عدي العجيب ما بعد التمثيلية السفاحة, الموسيقى, وقشعريرت البدن في مسرح اربد
جيتار رعد! بيت بوكس عدي حجازي, كمان يسر, وقانوني - استمتعوا

Theater jam

LETTER FOR BEIRUT, FIVE
by @spinello from "The Wire"

Featuring//
1 - Lama Lobsang Palden & Jim Becker
“Compassion”
from Compassion
(Drag City)

2 - The Wanton Bishops
“Whoopy”
from The Ruptured Sessions Volume 6: For Beirut
(Ruptured)

3 - People Without Shoes & Inkswel
“Get Down”
from Plasma Platter
(5420)

4 - Kierra Luv
“Work It Out”
from Take It Or Leave It
(TenThousand Projects/Electric Feel)

5 - qualchan.
“leave em floating.”
from . . . . . [split release with Toad Computers]
(No Problema Tapes)

6 - Sebbo
“Beirut Boogie”
from Beirut Boogie
(Liebe*Detail)

7 - Mungo’s Hi Fi x Marina P featuring Tippa Irie & Dennis Alcapone
“The Beat Goes SKA!”
from Soul Radio
(Scotch Bonnet)

8 - Cyril Cyril
“Les Gens (Radio Edit)”
from Les Gens
(Les Disques Bongo Joe)

9 - Oliver Coates
“Reunification”
from skins n slime
(RVNG Intl)

10 - The Velvet Underground
“Venus In Furs”
from The Velvet Underground & Nico
(Polydor)

11 - Marta De Pascalis
“The Echoing Shore”
from Sonus Ruinae
(Morphine)

12 - Kutiman featuring Melike Sahin
“Elimi Tut (Hold My Hand)”
from Elimi Tut EP
(Siyal Music)

13 - Modificación
“Across The Time”
from Across The Time/Annelie
(Munster)

14 - Earl Grey
“Wiretap”
from Infinite Loop EP
(Western Lore)

15 - Snowdrops
“Comma (Variation 2)”
from Volutes
(Injazero)

16 - Zoon van snooK
“Cusco”
from Se•pa•ra•ción
(Lo Recordings)

#beirutneedsyouneedbeirut
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RK | Letter for Beirut, Five - by Shane Woolman (The Wire)

Music, images and tales from isolation.
From Beirut to the rest of the world [and/or vice versa].

Musiques, images et autres. Histoire de s'isoler.
De Beyrouth vers le reste du monde [et/ou vice versa]

موسيقى وصور وحكايات من العزلة‎
من بيروت الى العالم و\أو العكس صحيح

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