Untitled by Muqata'a (@muqataa) and Mazen Kerbaj (@mazenkerbaj). Taken from Mazen Kerbaj new album Sampler / Sampled, out February 25, 2022, via Morphine Records (@morphinerecords)

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Sampler / Sampled is an album made of two interdependent parts rather than a double-album.

The first part of the project, Sampler, is a trumpet solo album that catalogues the unique sounds and extended techniques that Mazen Kerbaj developed for the instrument in the past 25 years; it consists of 318 pieces ranging from less than a second to forty seconds each, and presenting different sonic materials.

This catalogue of sounds works on various levels: first and foremost, it is a trumpet solo that could be played in its original order, or in random mode to create different pieces of music. But it is also a collection of samples that could be used for various applications (ringtones, phone sound effects, cinema) and, of course, to create new pieces of music based on sampling.

The second part of the project is the composition Sampled for a musician working with loops and/or samples. The composition has one instruction: create a piece of music using solely tracks from Sampler as your sound source (with the possibility to use all kinds of effects or treatment).

Each interpreter/musician becomes thus a co-composer who appropriates the piece and makes it their own. In this regard, the musicians that were commissioned to play Sampled were chosen from different geographical origins and musical genres to create highly different and personal pieces of music.

One important output of this project is putting in practice the overused idea of music as a universal language. This idea is very present in “free improvised music” where musicians from different origins can meet for the first time and make music together without the need to adapt to different musical traditions.

But here, the collective part of creating music in real time is not involved. It is rather the contrary: it starts with one middle-eastern musician creating a new language/vocabulary for his western instrument, to be later used by other musicians from around the globe who will appropriate this vocabulary and use it with their own language/grammar.

The final output of this double faceted album that was recorded during the Covid lockdown proved to be a very efficient new way to collaborate from a distance in times of world isolation, and ultimately put in practice the universality of music by breaking the boundaries of genres that are the most difficult to break.

Sampler / Sampled

Premiere: Muqata'a and Mazen Kerbaj - Untitled [Morphine Records]

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Tinariwen - Imidiwaren (KMRU Remix)
Azemad - Afriki
Yaseen - Siteh ft Dakn
Nikki Nair - once upon
Xzavier Stone - RESTLESS
Hassan Abou Alam - Hanshoof 
KAVARI - Uppe'ntra - Lust (Klahrk Reeemix)
Cassius Select - WHERE U AT
AKA AFK & T9 RJ - Frequência (prod. by Amor Satyr)
Nazar - ATL - LAD ft. Brodinski
Osheyack - Thrall
Air Max '97 - Ice Bridge
Rattlesnakke ft. EL PLVYBXY - ESTRÉS
Liliane Chlela - Swordfish
Postdrone - Dawsha FM (feat. PostTawheed)
A.Fruit - The Party is Inside (Instrumental)
ABADIR - Another One
Granul - Quarantine
Moktar - Immigrant
Badsista - NAGINATA ft. EVEHIVE
Ayesha - Downpour
tarxun - tattoo fold تای تتو
S1AM - AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT

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Neo chiclosa - Bruja Dmazapan
Mesh Marshmellow - El Kontessa
Mmuan Daan - Muanda (Emo Kid Remix)
Tartaga - Makimakkuk (Rewrite version)
Aloe Vera - El Kontessa
Intimo Engendro - CANDIE
Elly 2atelny - Qow
H2222AW (remix) - Jana
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Glitch - Assiye Bongzin
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Asanser - El Kontessa
Afqid Adh-Dhakira أفقد الذاكرة - Nadah El Shazly
Taghyeer Thabet - Julmud
BELEK - KOAST  
Soho Road (Crying Song) - Lauren Duffus 
Transformation - Ryuichi Sakamoto

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Release date - November 02nd 2018
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Kollu l-Joloud — Lyrics by MSYLMA

و من جماجمنا سلما لمجدنا
و لعزة النفس؟ ملحمة آثمة
كل الجلود: سيان اذا اخترقت
هل أتت الساعة ام إقتربت؟
كل الذنوب قد إقترفت
أوراق صمودى قطفت 

و لعلى طريد من عفوك لكنى لا أعجز عن محاسبة نفسي على ما انتهكت
اهلكت نفسى بطغيانى بعقلى بيدى بفمى أبدمى طهرت؟

B3 — Kollu l-Joloud (ft. MSYLMA)

Lil Asaf - Sawa Sawa
APR126 | Out July 31

Out Now: astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sawa-sawa

Following January's "Msll777" single, we're proud to deliver Lil Asaf's Sawa Sawa. Produced by Beirut-born, Berlin-based artist Khadije, Sawa Sawa bundles fragmented sonics with Lil Asaf's devilish vocal performance. Air horns, chimes, blast beats and wheezing rhythmic arrangements make up Sawa Sawa's backing. The beats knock as much as they disarm, utilizing a capacious approach to empty space undergirded by a copious and pernicious drone.

Asaf, also known as Bashar Suleiman, has honed his hectic, dim lit approach to rap across previous releases for ANBA and HIZZ هز. Riding roughshod over his own and Khadije's production, Suleiman delivers line after line of scraped expression into the pitch dark spaces between beats. Dub effects and the flinty corners of broken kick patterns form walls to bounce off of, filled by repeated refrain and howling sub vocals.

Sawa Sawa means “together together,” a phrase Bashar’s grandfather would say to him and his brother when they fought as children. This spirit is embodied in the circumstances behind its recording, born from a chance meeting between the two artists and recorded in several impromptu sessions. Sawa Sawa is accompanied by a music video for “3wwe”, directed by Yusra Nazek.

Sawa Sawa

Lil Asaf - Tazfeet (prod. Khadije) [APR126]

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