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Electrosteen is an initiative to bring Palestinian traditional music, in its widest sense, into the contemporary international art/musical scene. A team of professional researchers/musicians/technicians carry out an extensive fieldwork, documenting the oral musical traditions of different ethnic and religious communities of historic Palestine. An audio material library, collected from existing archives or recorded from professional and non-professional urban, rural and Bedouin musicians, was found at Popular Arts Center in Ramallah. An agreement was signed between Made in Palestine project and Popular Arts Center to use this library that represents an important data base to produce new music. This is how, during a two-week workshop, a team of carefully selected Palestinian contemporary young musicians and DJs were asked to work on the production of original tracks, using this database as a starting point. Features Muqataa, Mehdi Haddab, Walaa Sbait, Bruno Cruz, Sarouna M, Julmud, Al Nather, Shab Jdeed, Nasser Halahlih, SAMA, Basel Naouri.
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MST 007CD
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Aghane Servicet - Al Hajj Transportation is a live recorded album that includes a compendium of songs that simulate the living conditions of some Arab countries, including Lebanon, from the onset of the Arab spring until now. It is the product of a series of live shows (consisting of songs with original music and lyrics) that took place at Metro al Madina theater in Lebanon. Features Maryam Saleh, Roberto Kobrosli, Yasmina Fayed, Sandy Shamoun, and Ahmad El Khateeb.
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MST 006CD
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The Great Departed's first album is titled La Bombe, also a title for the shows performed at Metro Al Madina, which have received great feedback for over two years. This album's most noticeable trait is the political and social satire present in almost every song. The album's tracks address many aspects such as religious extremism, cultural, artistic, and political disorder, and most importantly, hysteria within an entire nation. The music arrangements were done differently in this album, including instruments such as violin, cello, accordion, and tuba.
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MST 4002EP
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Limited 7" of tracks only available on CD version of Lekhfa (MST 003CD).
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MST 4001LP
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LP version. Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca, and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, names that have turned heads in alternative Arabic music with solo albums and conspicuous collaborations. With Lekhfa, they give birth to an off-kilter sound where layers of grit and beauty intertwine in and around the dystopian poems of their contemporary Mido Zoheir, whom they've dubbed the fourth member in this creation, and one of the most talented Egyptian poets of their generation. Mixed by Khyam Allami.
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MST 003CD
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Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca, and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, names that have turned heads in alternative Arabic music with solo albums and conspicuous collaborations. With Lekhfa, they give birth to an off-kilter sound where layers of grit and beauty intertwine in and around the dystopian poems of their contemporary Mido Zoheir, whom they've dubbed the fourth member in this creation, and one of the most talented Egyptian poets of their generation. Mixed by Khyam Allami.
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MST 002CD
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Tamer Abu Ghazaleh's Thulth takes the listener to lush and complex grounds with its rich sound, flowing with gentle melancholic melody and multiple sonic layers. It also takes the listener into sudden ferocious walls-of-sounds, it's a sharp reminder of Tamer Abu Ghazaleh's abilities as one of the few to imbue the region's sound with sentiments of fury and restlessness. Thulth also shows Tamer Abu Ghazaleh's vocal prowess, gutsy modal twisting, fragmented structuring, constant shape-shifting of styles and dizzying vocal harmonies.
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EKA 1001CD
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2010 release. Leka@eka3, the Regional Fusion Tour, was established in 2009. Artists that have built their musical language and audience separately in each country got the chance to meet and fuse their genres to blast a new experience across the Middle East. Jordanian artists included Aziz Maraka & RAZZ , Sign of Thyme, and Jadal. Egyptian artists included Ressala and Omar Kamel, while Mashrou' Leila and I-Voice participated from Lebanon.
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EKA 1202CD
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2012 release. Mesh Baghanny, Maryam Saleh's debut album, presents her works, ones which grew throughout the previous years in music, performance and politics. Maryam Saleh, Egyptian singer and songwriter, is a major creative force and a powerful voice for her generation. Saleh composes and performs music that is personal, political and philosophical; intense, intelligent Egyptian music with Arabic language and influences of trip-hop and psych-rock.
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MST 001CD
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2015 release. Halawella is an experimental musical partnership between Maryam Saleh and pioneering electro-music producer Zeid Hamdan, who has been described as the "godfather of Lebanese underground music". The duo have developed their blend of traditional Arabic songs, hip-hop and electronica to produce raw, energetic and sophisticated music. Includes original music by both artists, alongside covers of classic Arabic songs.
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EKA 801CD
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2008 release. Tamer Abu Ghazaleh's debut album Mir'ah (Mirror) was released in 2008. Recorded with a group of Palestinian and Egyptian performers, the record's seven entrancing and sometimes frenzied songs were written during a turbulent period of demonstrations, bombardment and invasion of Palestinian cities. Composed during curfews, the album expresses everyday human emotions - love, hate, comfort, boredom, excitement - that were informed by the unreal experience of living in Palestine during that period. Tamer Abu Ghazaleh is a leading figure in modern Arabic culture. The Palestinian singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer has over the past few years collaborated in many music projects and founded eka3, a regional platform dedicated to promoting, producing, distributing, and touring independent Arabic music.
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