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Review: 'Alif'
'Aynama-Rtama'   

-  Album: 'Aynama-Rtama' -  Label: 'Nawa Recordings'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '4th September 2015'

Our Rating:
From a drawling, cracked desert whine rises a hypnotic sonic serpent. An homage to insomnia, it paves the way for an album that weaves intricate paths through the canyons of the mind, transcending the band’s obvious and judiciously explored Arabic roots to conjure Burroughs’ Interzone rendered in musical form.

The incorporation of contemporary electronic sounds alongside traditional Arabic acoustic instrumentation, and the juxtaposition of an array of percussive styles, makes this an intriguing work, not set in any one time or space. ‘Al-Juththa’ (The Corpse) is slow, hypnotic, and contrasts with the lilting yet jittery ‘I_tiraf’ (Confession), while elsewhere, ‘Al Khutba Al Akhira’ (The Last Declamation) builds and builds, soaring and swaying towards a tantalising climax. ‘Yalla Tnam’ Lullaby’ is a sweetly spacious dub-led track with a powerful rhythmic edge.

Brilliantly atmospheric, nuanced, and utterly mesmerising, ‘Aynama-Rtama’ perfectly demonstrates the capacity for music to convey more than mere words alone, and to go beyond the confines of linguistic comprehension.

Alif Online

  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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