الجمعة، 10 يوليو 2020

THE ROUNDUP: Regional pop-culture highlights

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Fri, 2020-07-10 11:03

‘Song of a Caged Bird’

Nadine Khouri 

Music Sawa (Music Together) is an initiative that launched June 20 to highlight the Lebanese music scene. Every day for a month, Music Sawa is broadcasting exclusive live performances from artists in lockdown. Donations will be channelled to two NGO’s in Lebanon. One of the highlights so far is this track from London-based singer-songwriter Nadine Khouri. 

‘Cavalry’

Mashrou’ Leila 

Another highlight from the Music Sawa archive. The Lebanese indie luminaries performed their 2019 single from their “The Beirut School” album. The song, the band said at the time, is “an ode to putting up a fight, even when the odds are stacked against us” and “not letting political fatigue destroy our willingness to speak truth to power.” 

‘Mood Stabilizer’

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Debut single from a new collaboration between Lebanese-German musician Amer Hamzeh and Belgian-Danish producer Michael Bennetson. The lyrics deal with mental health. “As an Arab expat I find myself often bouncing between feelings of elation and feelings of complete despair,” says Hamzeh.

‘Winds’

Saad Shehzad

The Dubai-based artist is an award-winning filmmaker, but recently released a three-track EP called “Epilogue,” from which this track is taken. For his self-made video, though, he went with an ‘unplugged’ version. “I believe ‘Winds’ is about accepting change and … knowing that we’re not alone,” Shehzad says in a press release. 

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