Tania Feghali

Today @nts_radio // Music is not gonna change this impossible situation but I believe it’s one of the tools we have to resist, liberate, heal, and counterpose all of this darkness. Today @nts_radio will re broadcast As I Was Moving Ahead // We Loved Each Other So Much. It is a three-hours journey weaved as a love letter to Beirut, Lebanon, Fairuz, and all interconnected threads. Weaved into this letter many people I love: Fairuz and the Rabhani family’s songs and interviews, sounds of Sabah, Robert Maalouf, Baligh Hamid, Omar Khorshid, my father Tony Benn Feghaly, Nagat Al Saghira, and others for the first and second hour. In the third hour, a tapestry of underground sounds from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Palestine with Soapkills, Sanam, Nancy Mounir, Yasmine Hamdan, Zeid Hamdan, Charbel Haber, Dirar Kalash, and others. Spoken words by me featuring translations of Fairuz songs, field recordings of Beirut and Bethlehem by Yasmine Hamdan, Charbel Haber, Elias Anastas, and experimental guitars by Dirar Kalash. A special thanks to Clayton Vomero and Amar Ediriwira for inviting me to pencil this soundscape on the occasion of the screening of We Loved Each Other So Much, a wonderful documentary about Fairuz and Beirut, directed by Jack Janseen In the next days a funding for Lebanon will be launched via this project. Stay tuned. Much love.

Music as resistance, transcendence, community and healing // These days have been filled with so many blessings that I am not sure where to start, so I will start from last night. Grateful to @nycwjf for having me and for this uplifting collaboration. People getting together and dive so profoundly into these sounds as proof of the life force and transcendent uplift of music. Temples: 1_ @esperanzaspalding listening to @harpista 2_music as a collective meditational practice 3_backstage joy with @nduduzomakhathini @bricer22 @harpista @allanmednard @free.bass @esperanzaspalding @aquilespty #nycwjf #esperanzaspalding #brandeeyounger @impulserecords #winterjazzfest

Grateful to @theastergates and @prada to have trusted my vision in directing this teaser for Prada Mode Abu Dhabi curated by @theastergates At the core of this project lay many concepts very close to me. A world that waited to be restored ( title of the project) / The Life Within Places/ Opening the gates / Rehearsing the unknown. Grateful to my beautiful brother @noahleanti for making this happen and his magic beyond, to @grankelios for the invitation and making a beautiful conversation a possibility, to Plasma, to @arturo.brunetti and all the crew that made this adventure possible. Directed by @taniaeffe Dop @arturo.brunetti Prada content Manager: @grankelios Ass. Content manager: @floradomitilla Head of Production @tommaso__furi Ex producer / 1ad @michele_trevisani Producer @noahleanti Location manager @khalid_abd.ali @a.80002 1ac tommasofazzii Soundtrack: @tommasocappellato Sound recordist: Sheldon Jaxx Monteath Sound Design / Mix Master: @briccoenjoy @odd_engraving Wardrobe assistant @niyatgeb Mua @joekemakeup Edit @simone_gramellini Color @filippo_cinotti 2nd AC/ VTO : Jeyunol Abbdeen Hanifa Gaffer: Imran Bashir Spark: Saqlain farooq Key Grip: Mohammed Visman Grip Assistant: Muhammad Sajid Anwar RENTAL: @actionfilmzrentals #pradamode #prada #pradamodeabudhabi #abudhabi #theastergates

~ Azul Malouma ~

~Some Love and Rupture From The Worlds ~ Mending news instead of breaking: There’s so much beauty 1- Mezmerizing Hadda Ouaki via @aksel.rami Morocco 2-“Music Is A Universal Language I came across these incredible vocals from an Artist called Zikiri Sourakata Koné from Mali, Bamako” via @niyahsmith 3- @nyegenyegefest Nakibembe, the iconic Busoga giant embaire xylophone tradition, performed by the world-famous ensemble carrying its hypnotic polyrhythms into the present @nakibembe 4- Egito, 1954. The Blazing Sun / صراع في الوادي Dir: Youssef Chahine via @bricsflix 5- Across the sea by Said himich 6- Shabjdeed, Touch, Smokaholic•Kattal via @elias.anastas @yousefanastas @radioalhara 7- Abdullah Miniawy, Supernova, Rimini via @supernovarimini @abdullahminiawyofficial 8- via @timlorelli Like Him by Tyler the Creator and Lola Young. @feliciathegoat @lolayounggg Chords:Fmaj9, A 9 sus4 (or a13 sus4), Dmaj9 9- the great @ cheickamadoutidianeseck panafrican vessel via @nektar 10- @youbel.music This kemise melody raised us, Some melodies never get old they just evolve. I’m remixing the feeling 11- @bjork singing the great @ornellavanoniofficialpage 12- Karoti - Didymoteicho / Kyani - Didymoteicho A clip from the ERT program “To Dimotiko Tragoudi” (1987) via @hellenicfolkarchive 13- via @esemplastique Max Mathews Laboratory, 1984. Bob Rocco rehearses “Toccata” for Max Mathews’s first‑generation intelligent controller, later called the “Electronic Drum.” 14- Innocent Sorcerers (1960) - Andrzej Wajda via @poetofcinema 15- Bill Evans in Italy via @raicinque 16- Beatles cover repost. Vietnam (1993) via @vinatapes 17- Nostalgia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved. via @poetofcinema 18- Tenores ( usually sang by men solely) chanted beautifully by women via @canto_difonico.eu @ilaria_orefice_ilynur @soundhunterrr 19- Incredible @frida_musicworld via @stefano_bollani 20-Just a reminder you got this my friend from the amazing @candasifamabarnes

Exactly one year ago, I had the chance to meet and work with someone whose story and work deeply shaped the way I imagined my life in music - Christopher Kirkley - and to film the electrifying @etrandelair for @sahelsounds . This is just a small fragment from a few days we spent together when @etrandelair were on tour with @kinggizzard and stopped in Barcelona, where I was based at the time. Although we’re still waiting for some field recordings to arrive from Niger (inshallah they come soon!) for me to weave together the material I filmed into a fuller piece, I wanted to start sharing a little preview from an intimate rooftop session we organized together. Much love and desert riffs to you all. ~Etran de l’Aïr is a family-based Tuareg guitar collective from Agadez, Niger, formed in 1995. The band consists of brothers and cousins, including key members Moussa Ibra (guitar/bass), Abdoulaye Ibrahim (guitar/bass), Abdourahamane Ibrahim Tahilo (solo guitar), and Alghabid Ghabdouan (drums), often led by Moussa “Abindi” Ibra.

Some love and rupture from the worlds ~ Sunday Night Journal ~if this speaks to you, there’s now a way to stay close and support my work through subscriptions 1- Woman from the South Ural via @rupinvalley_official_77 2- Niang Soli grace, 106 yo from Bali @roshiphoto 3- via @filmhotpot Han Deng Da Gu” is a traditional vocal art form that was created as a new performance style in the late 19th to early 20th century. 4- @thepianism Saddened to hear of the passing of Ruth Slenczynska yesterday at 101 years old. This is a clip of her at 5 years old playing Grieg’s Lyric pieces Op. 43 No. 4 ‘Little bird’ – it was filmed at the Curtis Institute 5- via @csedenda & @therensound the day was’ draft/demo new proj ‘theren’ which means ‘to start’ in my native dialect limba from sierra leone 🇸🇱 6- Lalibela via @storiesmatter 7- @declansounds synths glides 8- Kafonu built by @afero_works 9- @thislongcentury @sabri 10- @stmauriceneptunelinguine 11- Sun Ra Arkestra via @jazzphotoarchives 12- Three horns, one breath. Not a gimmick, just the way he heard music Rahsaan Roland Kirk performing “The Inflated Tear” at Prague’s 4th International Jazz Festival, 1967. Via @jazzisdead 13- Korean guy sings in Arabic 14- Joe Henderson about feeling music 15- @ece.temelkuran @de_balie “The world today tells us that we have to survive by stepping onto each other,” journalist Ece Temelkuran explains. But we cannot survive on our own. She tells how immigrants, refugees and exiles bring the wisdom of surviving with morality. “And I think the world, or at least many, many, many people in the near future will have to taste that. This survival.” 16- 5000 Nubian songs @alsarah5000 17- @dhee 18- @arrahman @abisampa @rushilmusic @royalphilorchestra @kmmcchennai @thesunshineorchestra 19- @iamkelseylu portrait of a lady on fire 20- Psalm 23 its.Asheri

Sonny Rollins’s Bridge

Women at War Via @cleoforshort

Welcome to new subscribers ♥️ ‘I believe in paradise - John Lee Hooker said - it’s here on earth’ John Lee Hooker - ‘Serves Me Right to Suffer’ live Early 70s The late great John Lee Hooker recorded sometime in 1972. Much of Hooker’s career played as a battle between darkness and light. There are blues musicians whose darkness defines them, and there are the ones who find the happy ending they deserve. “I believe in paradise,” Hooker said in 1997. “It’s here on earth.” Via @blues.in.colour

Walking home ~ Kram al-Āḡā or the plural of Karma, meaning « fruit tree » or « figs »

💌To my independent artists & labels community - and anyone this might resonate with: Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how we sustain each other as artists - beyond the limitations of a system that often takes advantage of our work without fully valuing it - or reduces it to branding and content. So I’ve decided to open a new offering within my practice: visual pieces made from a tailored selection of video archives and footage from my personal archive, for musicians and sound-based projects. They are lighter - both economically and in terms of resources - than a full video production. I offer them at small “political” fees - the point where both of us feel good, and the work can support each other’s practice in different ways - so that independent artists can access visuals for their releases without the weight of a full production. I also love working with artists’ personal archives, no matter how they were shot. If you’re working on something that resonates with my practice, feel free to reach out - I’d be very happy to explore possible paths together. In this post: excerpts from recent video works for @bassolino.sound — Popoli del Mare @shungu_senga It Echoes and Sound Like You @bassolino.sound — Baid Alik @thomas.naim — Kite