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TootArd Live in AL.Karneval
⇒ They / Them
⇒ Brothers Hasan & Rami Nakhleh (a.k.a Hasan Kai & Rami Lee).
⇒ From:- ManyWheres
⇒ 26th of Mai 2023 – Festsaal Kreuzberg
⇒ AlongSide: (Edna Martinez | Hiba Salameh | Jamila & The Other Heroes | Milad Khawam | Saliah | Tamer Nafar | Ministry of Dub-Key | Yunis | and more…)
⇒ Stage:- TBA Later
⇒ Doors Open:- 18:00
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TootArd (Arabic for Strawberries) is a “quarter-tone pop” band from the majestic mountainside village of Majdal Shams in the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights. This inventive duo of brothers – Hasan and Rami Nakhleh – return with an infectious re-imagining of their sound. Jammed full of pop hooks and quarter-tone melodic lines, “Migrant Birds” unleashes a disco whirlwind that pays homage to the South West Asian dancefloor scenes of the 80’s. Retro funky meets hi-sheen contemporary.
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It’s 1980. You’re in a disco, maybe in Beirut or Cairo, almost anywhere in the Middle East, lost in the colours and the lights, overwhelmed by he
sound of drum machines and keyboards. It’s heady, it’s beautiful…but those days are long gone; maybe they were only ever just a fantasy. Real or not, they provide the inspiration for Migrant Birds, the new synth-powered album from TootArd that takes them to the dancefloor, about as far from the spare, guitar-driven desert blues of their highly touted Glitterbeat debut Laissez Passer, as it’s possible to go.
The 80s may be the catalyst, with the glittering, hedonistic party vibe. But the real roots of the music here run deeper, to musicians like keyboardist Magdi al-Husseini and Ihsan Al Munzer, who were the first to introduce synthesizers to the Arabic classical style, or Omar Khorshid, who pioneered the addition of electric guitar and worked with the legendary Umm Kulthum.
They brought Arabic music firmly into the modern age.
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