Biban

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Renowned Jordanian/Palestinian Indie band El Morabba3 will captivate long-time fans and new enthusiasts once again with their upcoming single, "Biban" (Doors). Following their successful return in February, after a seven-year hiatus, with the track "El Wuhoosh" (Monsters), the band keeps pushing the aesthetic envelope and exploring new artistic horizons. With lyrics co-written by Mohammad Abdallah and Jordanian young gun Idreesi, and sound designed and produced by Basel Naouri, “Biban” recalls Bedouin speech and the rhythms of traditional Khaliji music while mapping the shifting sands of the self, a terrain that remains strangely resistent to charting.

What is the “duality” the singer speaks of in the song’s lyrics, and why can’t it be shown? And who is it, we might ask along with the singer, who “chatters”? Must we always be split, not only between our own barely speakable interiority and the communiqués of society mediating ourselves back to us, but also between our everyday lives in the present and our dreams of history? Our desires and what we think we desire? What we know and what we think we know? “Biban” gives voice to this quandary of the fragmented self unlike very few contemporary songs today, in a world in which the impossibility of expressing love or managing one’s emotions might be as much a postcolonial condition as statelessness.

Accompanying Abdallah’s Bedouin-inflected poetic vocals, Naouri’s polyrhythmic and sample-based grooves sweep across the Rub’ al Khali of the listener’s ear, galloping Trap rhythms and vestiges of earlier, well-known El Morabba3 tunes fluttering in their wake. The cathartic finale recalls El Morabba3’s earlier work, not least the tribal beats on Taraf al-Khait. But the resolution that catharsis usually brings—the satisfaction of chaos overcome, an achieved or “owned” coherence—is missing in “Biban,” a sign, perhaps, that this journey is far from over and that the map can never be the territory.

El Morabba3 releases “Biban” on May 26th, along with a mesmerizing visualizer produced by the renowned Lebanese creative entertainment studio Balkoon and starring the acclaimed performer Paula Saba.

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تركني بارود، ربع خالي قلب حامي مشحون،
وحداني بعقر داري مسحوب،
دبرني بالمطلوب.

يا ويلي لادوخ و انا بحالي مية حالة و دكتور.
شلون اداري اثنيني، شلون اداري شلون؟
منو الي يهذرب و منو الي مفتون؟

طنّت وذني عالي بالفلكلور
و قلبي للمعارك هش و فسفور
لا كاني ماني، سمّي هاري،
سلّلوني.

قلبي تاه، ظلَّلو، تظلَّله البيبان
كل ما البيبان يبان شقّها نفوت
واضرب بالمثال وان شد أشوط
بالناس ما اي لالالالا
ذوّبوني
قلبي تاه ظللوه تظلله البيبان

مافي صوت، طرشنا السكوت

ويا مرحبابا بالفلكلور
شارح الصدر و مهلّي باللي يهلَّ بالنور
و ان عقلي شارد قلبي شاهد حين يذق على بابك، منك لباب السموات
كل ما البيبان يبان شقَّها نفوت
واضرب بالمثال و ان شد أشوط
بالناس ما لي

ولّا انا المضارب، و بداري الصوت فوق الي ضايل.
هاي نساني و راح، قطع لساني ان شفت نوم لاني سالب كلي شوق.
ماريدك تروح على روحي
و المنى يسواك، قلبه مو صادق.
قال لي صعب و ضليت طوق انا حولك نجم سهيل في قلبي.

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el morabba3 to us is the window in which we see things we want to express...being from a region that had seen alot of occupation (still does) you can imagine what we see .

المربّع هو نافذة نرى من خلالها أشياء نريد التعبير عنها..يمكنكم التخيّل ماذا نرى في هذا الجزء من العالم.. ... more

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