A demo I made for Native Instruments' East Asia Library which features Korean and Japanese instruments Ajaeng, Hichiriki and Shakuhachi in a pop context.

Native Instruments - East Asia Spotlight Demo

A track I composed and played piano on for Nour Al Zawateen's family drama film "Family Portrait".
Featuring Sarah Martin on violin. www.violinistsarahmartin.com
موسيقى شارة النهاية لفيلم "صورة عائلية" للمخرجة ومؤلفة نور الزواتين.
زينة أزوقة - تأليف وبيانو، ساره مارتن - كمان

Family Portrait

Demo Track for Orchestral Tools' "Tableau" Chamber Strings Library.

Keep Your Elbows to Yourself

My demo for the soundpack "Habitat" by Dominik Eulberg for Orchestral Tools.
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It was really enjoyable to dive into.

Habitat Demo - Submerged

للاستماع إلى الأغنية الكاملة: 
Listen to full track:
Youtube:
https://youtu.be/3QwKZGUESjI
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3yVgFI1MH5deDgl8uKwjDO?si=mC5KY2i1TzOSCPgH49W9Zw
Anghami:
https://play.anghami.com/song/1070828649?adj_t=dgl0aa8_64v1dnl&adj_campaign=web&adj_adgroup=song&adj_creative=52972849
Bandcamp
https://zazuka.bandcamp.com/track/hadeel

Hadeel - هديل

Commissioned demo track for the new Orchestral Tools library: a free set of e-piano sample instruments (Rhodes MK1 and Wurlitzer 200A).
Get it here: https://www.orchestraltools.com/sinefactory

Wurlwind Crossroads

*** NEW EP OUT 30.06.2023 ***

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Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/69Vrd18Yt7VDjY7wfqrVkD?si=iXB-Bo25RQ2SEmZa2jZGJQ

About:
A track for all diaspora Adiğe about tracing our familial histories and calling our ancestors for guidance after generations of displacement.
In it, I sing both Eastern and Western dialects (Kabardey and Ch'emirgoy) of our language, Adiğebze, to stress our unity and our will to keep our language alive. Yes, I embedded it into a folk pop song with English lyrics to hopefully spread the message wider :) Share it widely with your music lover friends

Lyrics:
I move in a memory zone
By way of a riverbed
The tumbling rocks
Have changed its course
Some spots turned into sand

I came upon a wise crone
Deep her roots and high her head
Her lonely voice
Fighting the noise
Ears cupped over with their hands

Orire orire oriraa
Orire orire oriraa
Hay ride ride horiraa

I cut myself on a sliver of hope
Just one drop more of our blood shed
Our people displaced
Our places erased
Noone to hear our demand

Iэзэхэм сарипхъу
Iэзэхэмрэ сипхъоу

си тхыдэр сэ сытхэнущ
си тхыдэр сотхэноу
си лъапэ куууэ
си лъапсэр кууоу

си пхъэщъхьак1э бгъуэ
си чъыгщхьапэ быхъоу
си къэлэм хьэзыр

апхуэдэ, псалъэрэ псалъэрэ хэкум сыкъэгъэзэжын
фэдэу, гущыI гущыIэу си хэкум сыгъэзэжьы

апхуэдэ, си дыркъуэ мэкIыж
фэдэу, си уIагъэ кIыжьы

Orire orire oriraa
Orire orire oriraa
Hay ride ride horiraa

Credits:
Composed by Zazuka
Lyrics by Zazuka
Additional translation East Adiğebze dialect by Gunef Özbek (Yadij)

Voice, Keys: Zazuka
Chorus Vocals: Katya Tasheva, Zazuka
Clarinet, Bass clarinet, E-bass, Programming: Maxi Menot
Drums, Percussion: Jarita Freydank

Mixed by Felix Trawöger, Studio Babelsberg
Mastered in Menot Studios

Azem yi Pxu

Orira

*** NEW EP out June 30th 2023 ***
Stream and buy:
https://snd.click/iotm

Orira - preview clip

*** NEW EP out on June 30th 2023 ***
https://snd.click/iotm

Dhahikaat - preview clip

*** NEW EP out on 30th June 2023 ***
https://snd.click/iotm

Yol Ver - preview clip

Film music I composed for "wHole", a stop-motion short directed by Robert Banning and Verena Klinger. Visit www.whole-stopmotion.blogspot.de

"wHole" Film Music

A song about an aching secret.
Watch the lyric video with English translation in the video description here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgok2kDCLc

"Bsaat Irreeh" demo

Sometimes you want to revisit a juxtaposition of rhythm cycles you worked on years ago just to have a fresh take on it.

Kuwululu Revisited

Mixing this track for an upcoming release! Here is a sample, enjoy!

Full re-mastered track here:

https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1300219838?ls=1&app=itunes

http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1300219838

https://open.spotify.com/album/40iVQvgqATBsT2OxGMNozr

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1IFdGxOUk

https://www.musicload.de/web/single/24216753?data.type=rights

http://www.deezer.com/de/track/421541362

Artwork by Neda Ahmadi.

Zazuka - Turn Everything - Sample

A live string quartet recorded in Berlin. Original score for a short film, "KAVOD", directed by Tamara Moos.

"KAVOD" Theme -- Our Father, his Honour, our Burden

Written and arranged by Zeina Azouqah.
Maria Reich, Diego Vassallo (Violins)
Mari Häring (Viola)
Elisabet Iserte Lopez (Cello)
Zeina Azouqah (Piano)
The version with vocals is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl-HZkRkWec

Hudna

Hudna - instrumental

Full version out on my album "zazuka". See bio for more info.

A Crossing - - Snippet 2

Full version out on my album "zazuka". See bio for more info.
A folk tune for Mezguasche, the forest goddess of the Adigean (Circassian) Pantheon. I arranged it for orchestra and this is a snippet of the recording from February 2019 with the Deutsches Filmorchester.

Orchestral Arrangement of Mezguasche's Song

Listen to the whole song here:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1HE5rdA8iUIpbyQGMSjBct?si=JyGvf9FJTw2qQ2IL4_iXMg

"Bsaat Irreeh" Sample

Listen to the whole song here:
https://open.spotify.com/track/650hn1DLtrgFEAdyRQvDkj?si=xzYCMdB2Ro-istBda5aUSg

"Mutual Interests" Sample

Listen to the whole track:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4B6dTQgzPqEdQ5WGrA9dw3?si=iiClOmhSRbqJRSkJuGH2QA

"Light" Sample

This is a cover of Sumru Ağıryürüyen's song.
Listen to the whole track here:
https://open.spotify.com/track/69W6TIvuImDbYMoTFgLYQX?si=ob3UdvhtSt-_DYW3n6Y6Rw

"Gecesefası" Sample

Written and produced for the documentary "Janitou", dir. by Amine Hattou. Co-produced by Kaske Film (De), Libre Image (Dz) & Tact Production (Fr)

Qriba o B'ida

Qriba o B'ida - Near and Far

A track I composed and co-produced with Maxi Menot for the  "Phoenix Orchestra" library (Orchestral Tools' Chinese instruments library). Check out the rest of the tracks here:
https://www.orchestraltools.com/store/collections/phoenix-orchestra

Phoenix and the Begonia

Tearing through different musical landscapes, never arriving.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2As1vi9uCCHRZB0NDUp2sY?si=FKwkCpd5Q_KMqrfGLAkLnA
Zeina Azouqah aka Zazuka composes for film and live music ensembles ranging from creative soundscapes to melodic intercultural orchestral pieces.
Also, she writes songs in Arabic, English, Turkish and Adigebze.

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