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CairoScene
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
47SOUL Drops ‘Dualism Pt.1' EP - A Tribute to Palestinian Journalists
The Palestinian outfit explores feelings of desolation and refusal to accept the genocide as a cyclical reality. May 11, 2025 After teasing their upcoming new record for months with a steady influx of preview singles, Palestinian shamstep pioneers 47Soul have finally released the first installment of their highly anticipated album, 'Dualism'. Born out of grief and resilience, the three-track EP is a heartfelt tribute to the Palestinian journalists who have been risking their lives to report on the atrocities happening in Palestine, exploring feelings of desolation and refusal to accept the genocide as a cyclical reality. The EP features 'Ghost Town' and 'Ya Kho', which were both released as preview singles of the record, the latter of which marked a shift in the band's signature sound, offering more nuanced electronic arrangements of electric guitar riffs and minimal percussion. The newest track on the album, however, is 'Power', a subversive commentary on the brutal Zionist occupation, highlighting the perpetual destruction and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The track blends space-age electronics with traditional folk influences, capturing the devastating daily life of Palestinians through sharp Arabic and English lyricism and El Far3i's powerful vocal performance.
The Guardian
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Womadelaide 2025: Róisín Murphy, Khruangbin and more lead a blissful, sweltering weekend
As the sun set on day three of Womadelaide, under the bat colony at Tainmuntilla (Botanic Park), the audience were in a trance. Brooklyn-based Colombian musician Ela Minus mixed her voice with synthesisers, prompting a roar from the crowd; strobe lighting pulsed over the moving mass of bodies. The surrounding pine trees somehow seemed to make the reverb echo even stronger, lifting us up through the canopy to the open stars above. Minus' music is complex and expansive, pop music meets house. We were all hypnotised, dancing as one, slick with a day's worth of sunblock and sweat. Her 45-minute set was over too fast: a set so good it sent me into a stupor for two hours, aimlessly wandering in search of something that could possibly continue the high. Adelaide sweltered through this year's Womadelaide weekend, with daytime temperatures hovering around 35C on Saturday and Sunday before hitting 40C on Monday. Stage seven, under the flying fox camp, saw performances moved or rescheduled during the day. The heat stress proved to be too much for one tree, which dropped a branch on several punters on Monday evening, with one man taken to hospital with concussion. The artists, perhaps, hadn't realised the extent of the heat – or chose to ignore it. Ngaiire started her set in a voluminous red dress; Róisín Murphy began in a black suit and a fur hood; and Sun Ra Arkestra were decked out in sequins and metallics. Despite this, they all performed with incredible energy – and this energy was given back to them in spades. At Murphy's boisterous pop set on Saturday night, there was a forward momentum to the crowd; a drive to share space even more intimately. Murphy embraced this, climbing on to the crowd barrier, hugging and taking photos with her fans. In this heat, Emily Wurramara stood apart – in a long flowy skirt and a bikini top – her rich soulful voice giving way to a conversational artist who just wanted to have fun with her audience in the summer heat. Last year's festival saw protests after the Palestinian Jordanian band 47Soul were uninvited. Returning to Womadelaide this year, they performed without incident, a Palestinian flag draped on the stage, flags and keffiyehs held aloft in the crowd. At their Saturday afternoon set, Walaa Sbeit touched on the events of last year. 'It was frustrating for us, the justification of why you would withdraw an invitation to us,' he said. To the overwhelming support of the audience, he asked: 'Are you ready for some more anti-colonial music? Are you ready for some more anti-racist music? Are you ready for some more free Palestine music?' This year, despite the heat, Womadelaide felt easy. There was the hectic dancing and the always eclectic and soul-revilatising music. The crowds gathered thick at the front of stages – especially after the sun went down. But while there were crowds, it never felt crowded. Most of the day, the only lines were for ice-cream. Even in the thickest crowds, there was space to dance, or to simply watch. This was perhaps best exemplified by the festival's closing act: Khruangbin's psychedelic rock left the audience blissed out, swaying in an easy vibe. On a mostly languid Saturday afternoon, I found what I was looking for in Lindigo, a maloya band from Réunion Island. In the full sun, people were dancing to the drums, the bass, the accordion: a joyous, melodic cacophony. Spray bottles of water – a mainstay across the weekend – were squirted in time with the beat. Towards the end of their set, Lindigo came down into the audience. We were directed in our dance moves, artists and audience moving in sync. In the heat, it felt like something magic. These magic moments kept happening. I joined at the back of the crowd for Nana Benz du Togo halfway through their set. Less than five minutes later, the crowd had grown by another 10 metres of dancing bodies; another five minutes, another 10 metres. At the Scottish folk band Talisk, I watched a dozen people hold hands in a circle on the edge of the crowd, jigging faster and faster. First Nations rap group 3% brought up a member of the crowd to sing on their Like A Version cover of Youngblood: Eloise easily held her own among the professionals of the festival. Much of the highlights were the musicians who make fascinating connections between musical genres: Estonia's Duo Ruut played a delicate concert, where they manipulated a zither with a violin bow and drum sticks; Digable Planets were a funky melding of hip-hop and jazz; and Amaru Tribe richly played between traditional Latin American music and electronica. Sunday was a day of big sounds. I travelled from Andrew Gurruwiwi Band to Bala Desejo to Saigon Soul Revival to Sun Ra Arkestra to Talisk: all of them joyous and effortlessly cool, their music full, at every stage a dancing mass of bodies. Nils Frahm closed out the evening at 11pm. After the frantic energy of the day, Frahm's complex and mediative music was just what we needed to send us into the night. As the temperature finally dipped below 30C, the crowd settled. Some stood at the stages; but most of us sat or lay down, embracing the cool grass and the stillness. I looked up at the stars, letting the combination of electronica and piano wash over me, feeling as one with the music and the park. As I watched the sky, perfectly in sync with Frahm, I even caught a shooting star. Womadelaide 2025 was held 7-11 March
CairoScene
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
47Soul Address Resistance & Exile on ‘Ghost Town'
The song is the second single from their upcoming album 'Dualism Pt. 1'. Feb 19, 2025 Palestinian band 47Soul has released 'Ghost Town', the second single from their upcoming album 'Dualism Pt. 1'. The track captures themes of loss and resilience, reflecting on the destruction and exile of Gaza's people. Sung in both English and Arabic, the song mourns the situation in Gaza while highlighting the strength of its people, conveyed through subtle instrumentation and powerful vocal performance by Tarek Abu Kwaik, better known as El Far3i. Inspired by Palestinian journalists who risked their lives to document the genocide in Gaza, 'Ghost Town' also explores the feeling of desolation and the refusal to accept the genocide as a cyclical reality, shedding light on the ongoing narrative of displacement, demolitions, and siege that shape the Palestinian experience. Known for their dabke-electro fusion, 47Soul's new track follows their previous single, 'Ya Akho', which dropped a month ago. This song, also focused on the Palestinian cause, marked a shift in the band's sound - abandoning the traditional dabke roots in favour of more nuanced, progressive electronic arrangements paired with electric guitar lines and minimal percussion. This fresh direction not only revitalizes the band's music but also amplifies the weight of the messages they deliver, allowing the words and vocals to truly resonate. 'Dualism Pt. 1' is slated for release on May 2nd and will showcase this new sound in full. The album will be the band's first full-length release in five years, following their 2020 album Semitics.
See - Sada Elbalad
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Cairokee to Perform Live in New Capital on February 21
Egyptian rock band Cairokee will perform live at the Green River, in New Administrative Capital, Egypt, on Friday, February 21. The evening will also feature a performance by the Palestinian-Jordanian electronic music group 47Soul. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ticketsmarche (@ticketsmarche) Cairokee consists of lead vocalist Amir Eid, lead guitarist Sherif Hawary, drummer Tamer Hashem, keyboarder Sherif Mostafa, and bass guitarist Adam el-Alfy. The band was founded in 2003 but rose to fame with its revolutionary music after the 2011 Revolution due to its politically inspired lyrics and protest songs released following the revolution. They were friends ever since they were young during their school days and Hashem was already a drummer back then. In 2003, Eid and Hawary had already started an English band initially called, 'The Black Star' and started playing covers of English songs alongside an Egyptian song entitled 'Ghariba' that was loved by their audiences. The band's first major hit was 'Sout El Horeya' which has millions of views on YouTube and was ranked a world record as one of the most-watched videos in the shortest period of time. Their song 'Ya El Midan', featuring prominent Egyptian singer Aida el Ayoubi, who had previously retired in the 1990s, ranked number one on Facebook worldwide for downloads and number eight on YouTube with over half a million views on the video channel in just two days after its debut release. Cairokee was mainly influenced by 'The Beatles' and 'Pink Floyd'.
CairoScene
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Saliah Withdraws From WOMANDelaide Festival in Solidarity With 47Soul
The Palestinian band 47Soul had their invitation revoked earlier this week as part of the festival's safety measures. Mar 11, 2024 Celebrated British-Lebanese selector and producer Saliah took to Instagram to announce that she will not perform at WOMANDelaide on March 10th, following the removal of the Palestinian electronic band 47Soul from the festival's lineup. Despite initially being invited to perform at this year's WOMANDelaide, 47Soul had their invitation revoked earlier last week. The festival's organizers claimed that the decision to leave the Palestinian musical band off the lineup was due to their doubts about being able to provide 'a suitable safe environment' for both the artists and the audience. In solidarity with the Palestinian musical group, Saliah, who is known for her club-style remixes of classic Arabic pop music, chose to boycott the festival, explaining that ' WOMANDelaide's rhetoric is deeply problematic, as it refuses to provide a 'safe' platform for Palestinian artists and their allies at a time where amplifying our voices could not be more critical'. WOMANDelaide is an Australian four-day open-air music, arts, and dance festival, which began on March 8th and will run until March 11th at Botanic Park.
