Mounira

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

A dub version of  lebanese traditional lullaby 
with Hiba Mansouri on voice 
produced by Zeid Hamdan at home on a Yamaha RS7000 in 2010
Remixed by amazing Francois Cunin.

RIMA

Rissala min Qalandia (letter from Qalandia)

the samples used on this track are based on a recording of the late arab poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) reading his famous piece "Rissala min taht il ma" (Letter from under water). Nizar kabbani one of the greatest contemporary poets in the arab world was also known as the women's poet, the poet of love and the homeland poet. Qalandia is an israeli Checkpoint halfway between Ramallah and Jerusalem.

Rissala min Qalandia

قافلة

This is a demo i recorded for Danny Baladi in 2009 .

It s a remix of Allallah t3oud originally sang by the great Wadih el Safi 

Danny Baladi is an amazing young Arabic singer from Beirut  .
We performed and recorded tracks together in 2009 , he got signed after that to an Arabic pop label . 
He came back recently wanting to push more or musical experimentation , so watch out , u absolutely  have to see him perform live. 

Ala allahvoix douchka master

Remake Made By Dilaw and Fourat Naffeti (Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/fourat-fn )

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My Lord - Mawlay

TootArd: Laissez Passer
Order here: https://goo.gl/JUD97v
www.glitterbeat.com

I do not exist on an ID card
A string and a piece of wood are my gunpowder

A Laissez Passer. Let him pass. That’s the document the stateless carry. It’s all that those from the occupied Golan Heights possess. Since 1967 the area has been part of Israel, but the inhabitants aren’t Israelis. They don’t have any citizenship. They don’t have passports. Just a Laissez Passer. And for the members of TootArd who all grew up in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan, it’s a very apt name for their new album.

“Laissez passers are special situation papers,” explains singer and guitarist Hasan Nakhleh. “It took us a while to realise the effect. We’re permanent residents in Israel, but not citizens. We have no travel documents. When we travel we need the laissez passer. With no nationality, we’re officially ‘undefined.’”

But in statelessness, the five-piece has discovered musical freedom. TootArd grew up understanding that borders are something imposed by governments, lines that only exist on a map. On a disc, in concert, they can go wherever their imagination carries them. They carry their citizenship inside.

“What we do now is the result of everything we’ve ever done and heard,” Nakhleh says. “We began listening to Tuareg music and we fell in love with it. It resonated with us. North African music is something we’ve heard since we were children. We all grew up with classical Arab music. In finding our own sound, we’ve discovered things from all over.” With Laissez Passer, the past has helped create the future.

On the title cut, Nakhleh notes, “the first verse is the reality, the second is our solution. Our people are stateless. We have no flag, no sense of belonging. It also reflects our emotions. We feel undefined, we don’t know where we belong, when everything in the world tells us we should belong. People always want you to say who you are.”

With its insistent riff that evokes the space of the desert, glorious driving, funky percussion, and an electric guitar that Nakhleh modified with extra frets to sound like an oud, the song builds a manifesto that bonds West Africa and the Maghreb to the Levant. It’s a thrilling opener; more than that, it’s a very catchy one, with the subtle reggae flourishes adding a very organic, international feel. But those were a natural touch for the band, a nod towards their musical beginnings.

Laissez Passer is the sound of a band that’s found its voice. The songs seemed to be pulled from the air, to have found them, whether it’s the catchy optimism that transports “A’sfur,” the biting groove that propels “Oya Marhaba,” or the flickering shadows-and-light shifting guitarscape of “Sahra.”
The album closes with the yearning “Syrian Blues,” a gaze across the Golan Heights into the distance and history of another country.

“It’s something calm to finish, a very emotional quality. Our region used to be a part of Syria. Historically we’re Syrians, but I’ve never been to there. I feel the music has an emotional quality, and sadness in the harmonies. I even wrote it in the Rast scale, the one that’s most used in Arabic music. I thought it would evoke Syria.”

The result is an Arabic blues, the quiet, sad music of people who have a home but no nationality.

With music I become a flying bird
I change my feathers, I change my strings.

TootArd are not ‘undefined’; they’ve fashioned their own identity in their music, creating a bond of the stateless that reaches from the Levant to the Tuareg – another people without a real home - and reaches out far beyond. Let them pass.

Released by:
Glitterbeat Records
P-line:
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TootArd - Laissez Passer

Lyrics by Adonis  كلمات أدونيس

Oraison Funèbre part 1 - Weshm (brikks edit)   مرثية الجزء الأول -فرقة وشم -معالجة بركس

In the Spring of 2017, Red Bull Music Academy brought 7 events and over 30 artists to Dubai for the city’s first ever Red Bull Music Academy Weekender. For the opening night, I was invited to present my project 'Hiwar' which re-imagines the musical heritage of traditional pearl-diving music from the Arabian Gulf through audio, visual, and dance.

This song is a recording from the live performance.

Simsima (Basta)/ Live @ RBMA Wkndr Dubai

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RAS KALB
The Music of Macbeth - Leila & Ben - الدّم يجبد 

Paroles et musique: 
Jawhar Basti

Guitare : Hamza Zeramdini
Basse : Aziz Ben Youssef
Batterie : Nefaa Allem
Claviers: Sofyann Ben Youssef
Bendir: Riadh Larousse & Walid Soltan

Voix: 
Walid Soltan
Riadh Larousse 
Moncef Ajengui 
Sami Rezgui

Mixage: 
Sofyann Ben Youssef

Prise de son et editing: 
Taleb El Atti

Enregistrées à Studio Event, Tunis. 

Production APA (Artistes Producteurs Associés)



RAS KALB
The Music of Macbeth - Leila & Ben - A bloody History

All songs by Jawhar Basti

Guitar: Hamza Zeramdini
Bass: Aziz Ben Youssef
Drums: Nefaa Allem
Keyboards: Sofyann Ben Youssef
Bendir: Riadh Larousse & Walid Soltan

Singers:
Walid Soltan
Riadh Larousse 
Moncef Ajengui
Sami Rezgui

Mixed by: Sofyann Ben Youssef

Recording and editing: Taleb El Atti

Recorded at Studio Event, Tunis.

Produced by APA (Artistes Producteurs Associés)

يمّة

جابو جراري يمّا ترڤّد و تداوي يمّا        جابو جراري يمّا ترڤّد و تداوي يمّا  

أعطيهم دورو دورو سيدي منصور يزورو   أعطيهم دورو دورو سيدي منصور يزورو    

جابو مخادد يمّا تنسّي إلّي حاڤد يمّا         جابو مخادد يمّا تنسّي إلّي حاڤد يمّا

أعطيهم دورو دورو سيدي منصور يزورو   أعطيهم دورو دورو سيدي منصور يزورو    

جابو حشايش يمّا تمشّي إلّي عاكش يمّا         جابو حشايش يمّا تمشّي إلّي عاكش يمّا

أعطيهم دورو دورو سيدي منصور يزورو   أعطيهم دورو دورو سيدي منصور يزورو  
 
جابو سواري يمّا تغطّي إلّي عاري يمّا           جابو سواري يمّا تغطّي إلّي عري يمّا

أعطيهم دورو دورو سيدي منصور يزورو   أعطيهم دورو دورو سيدي منصور يزورو

Yamma يمّة

Artist: Music/Live, Film, Digital Art
Entrepreneur: www.commun.space, www.envearth.com
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Simsima (Basta)/ Live @ RBMA Wkndr Dubai

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