Written and performed by Youmna Saba 
for the RELIEF Centre 2021 conference: 
"Working Through Crisis: Innovations, Possibilities and Limitations of Research in a Volatile Lebanon."

Recorded in March 2021.

طال العمر وتاب
هو العمر ضاع في بالي
كأنّ الوقت ساب
يعيد لي الوقت حالي

ساعة قمر شاب
ضوءٌ غاب في ظلّ شالي
بريقٌ خفيفٌ ذاب
عينك باب الصبح الغالي

RELIEF Center Conference 2021

Al Sobh

"Arb‘een (40)" is a solo experiment in songwriting, challenging narrative structures and proposing alternative readings of time and continuity. It is rendered by use of oud and guitar, and vocals inspired by the circularity of the project’s recurrent themes. It borrows elements from the Arabic music tradition, and blends them with electronic treatments, sonic textures and loops.

Written, arranged and performed by Youmna Saba

Recorded and mixed by Fadi Tabbal at Tunefork Recording Studios, Lebanon 

Mastered by Lopazz at Mixmastering, Germany

Produced by Youmna Saba and Fadi Tabbal (Tunefork)

Album cover illustration and design by Joseph Kai

all rights reserved

Arb'een (40)

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Sign of the Times 
Featuring Bonne Chose (Abdo & Charbel Sawma)

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bonus track//slipping down

One hour mix for Salaam full of Mahraganet music Courtsey of Phil Battiekh!

Salaam Phil Battiekh!

Albert Suissa - Ughniyya Sayyid Muhammad al-Khamis [Sides 1 - 2] (Éditions N. Sabbah, c. 1955-56)

The Remaining Voice” Tribute for Juliano Mer khamis” in collaboration with Abu Recordings.

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This album comes out after eleven years of the assassination of the Palestinian thinker, actor and director, Juliano Mer khamis. Until now there has been no farther investigation of his killing. Juliano was assassinated in 4 of April at 3pm in 2011 just outside the freedom theatre he founded in Jenin refugee camp. 

Album now available in Majazz Project bandcamp.

Tracks and Credit: 
 

Anarcifada / Spartak and Abir Mer khamis and the band. 

Created by : Majazz Project and Abu Recordings.

Mastered by : Abu Recordings. 

Picture of Juliano by Yoni S.HAmenachem. 

Album cover by Abu Recordings.

Mer khamis brothers - anarcifada

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صورة الغلاف لـ طلوع المهاجرين، عمّان. تصوير نهى عنّاب، ٢٠١٧

تصميم الموسيقى الخلفية: ساندي شمعون

Rabit - Sun Showers
First circle
Deena Abdulwahed - Chouf
Albercht La’Brooy - The Sherbooke

روابط ذات صلة
@ 6:07: https://www.zamancom.com/?p=3009

حيوات بديلة - الحلقة الثانية

The project aims at publishing the Artist’s first solo album consisting of three
tracks inspired by the October 17 th revolution in Lebanon. Following a long
period of despair and disappointment, the night of October 17 th offered a lot of
surprises and excitement. For the first time in Lebanon, we lived a moment of
spontaneity that united us all for one demand: Good Living.
A few months after its inception, I try to gather scenes from the first nights of
the revolution and remember this feeling. The songs presented in the album
are based on audio clips from videos I filmed during the protests, in addition
to voices and music from the streets that lived in uprisings during the same
period of the Beirut uprising, such as Iraq and Chile; the sound of fire, the
saxophone playing during clashes in Chile, bouzouki and percussion
instruments, in addition to the my voice as a singer.
After five months of protesting on the streets, the COVID19 pandemic locked
us in our homes and interrupted the uprising’s momentum. A feeling of
loneliness haunted me during this isolation and I began to recall sounds,
pictures, and events from the uprising that gave me energy to continue. Here I
started working on the first song of this trilogy, “The Boy of October 17”
This trilogy will pass through three phases, reflecting three cases that we have
experienced during the course of the uprising:
First: Euphoria – a lot of daydreaming
Second: Fear that this dream will stop
Third: Recession
Dreams Of The Imagination : 
Music production and Lyrics : Sandy Chamoun
Mixed by : Khyam Allami
Nas Al Wahel :
Music Production and Lyrics : Sandy Chamoun
Mixed by Fadi Tabal
Percussion : Ali Hout
Buzuq : Abed Kobeissi
Soukoun Mouwhesh:
Music Production & Mixing : Anthony Sahyoun
Lyrics : Sandy Chamoun
Mastered by Modularmind
This EP was funded by Culture Resource

Dreams Of The Imagination احلام الخيال

BAMBI - ZAN

Sandy Chamoun for Beirut Art Center- The Derivative (#2 lumpenness)

Music production and lyrics by Sandy Chamoun
Mixed by Khyam Allami 
Mastered at ModularMind
Vocals Recorded at Tunefork studios 
artwork by Bassem Saad 
funded by  Culture resource المورد الثقافي

Dreams Of The Imagination "احلام الخيال "فتى ١٧ت

Youmna Saba is a musician and musicologist who started her musical career in 2006 and has released four albums to this day (Arb’een (40), 2017, Njoum, 2014, Hal Bint Aabalha Tghanni, 2011, Min Aafsh el Beit, 2008). 

She is currently working on a research project that investigates the relationship between the art of the qasida (a musical form that is based on the vocal improvisation of classical Arabic poetry texts) and electronic and electro-acoustic treatments. 

Youmna has collaborated with many musicians of different musical backgrounds: Mike Cooper (GB), Jean Marc Montera (FR), Kyungso Park (SK), Piotr Kurek (PL), among others. She has taken part in international programs and residencies: Hwaeom Spiritual Music Residency (South Korea, September 2017), Sound Development City (Spain, Morocco, 2016), Gyeonggi Creation Center (South Korea, 2013), OneBeat (USA, 2012) and at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris as of January 2020. 

Youmna holds a master’s degree in Musicology, focusing mainly on the parallels between classical Arabic music and Arabic visual art.

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Youmna Saba

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