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‘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

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 of rock and profound storytelling. Between distorted allegories and picturesque panoramas wrapped in lucid lyrics.
It’s all a journey... a Desert.

Desert

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Palestinian singer, composer and instrumentalist Rasha Nahas has a distinctive approach to songwriting, storytelling and performance. As a genre-defying, narrative-focused artist, Rasha Nahas has been crafting a keenly singular music universe, cultivated in and loyal to the underground. Driven by candid lyrics with disarming vulnerability, Rasha has created a sound that moves seamlessly between the resonances of the old school rock ‘n’ roll singer-songwriter era, and the anarchic heyday of ‘80s electronica.
 
Rasha’s critically acclaimed debut album, Desert chronicled her journey from Haifa to Berlin. It was featured by BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends and the Spotify-produced podcast, Spotify:Mic Check. Her upcoming two-chapter LP, 'Amrat', is due for release in January 2023, with tours scheduled across Europe and West Asia. Rasha's first foray into Arabic-language lyrics, ‘Amrat’, is a sentimental body of work, maneuvering seamlessly between the thematic duality of urban and rural landscapes.
 
Rasha is among the first to receive the Bertha Foundation's Artivism Award in 2022.