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I recorded Desert Road in my front room in a flat off the Harrow Road in London about 7 years ago. I am normally a collaborator but I did this one all on my own.
The weird thing is that when I recorded it I hadn't been to a Desert since my childhood in the Middle East, but the Cd that it comes from sent me on a trajectory which took me to the heart of the Sahara for some amazing times. I am luckily still on that trajectory now!

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This track was recorded somewhere between January and April 2005 in several sessions.  This track came from a simple jam and kept growing into something big and ugly, but then was re-edited again to its current form, but in general it is a lively tune that got a lot of attention when it was played live. Operation Room is off Sign of Thyme's first album entitled Like All People, the whole album was a big experiment in recording with the necessary element of funding, so a lot of it was recorded in my little work room (operation room) and it was mixed there on a pair of worn down Hi Fi speakers!

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Ahwak, is part of a number of songs that were improvised and fine tuned by Kun-fusion, a project that I took part in last year.
The story of the song, started with 6 musicians coming together and jamming, we jammed a few times until the energy started to bring us closer to each other and create that unique harmony that was important for a group project like that one. then I started singing and expressing real sorrow that came from a rough breakup, and that's what the words of Ahwak are about:
I love you without hope, I love you and this distance kills me. this is the rough meaning of the lyrics. Then we started working on structuring the song, and what you hear now is the final version.
Final thing I want to say, the lyrics I write usually expresses real things, I don't like writing lyrics that comes from the mind or from void, I like to write songs that say something that express an incident, a landmark event, a certain loss of love, friendship, a story about interaction with a city, a person... the important thing is that the song is a form of self expression.

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Laabet Al Kbarr
Recorded in February 2007 in a home studio Lebanon with DJ Little Skillz. It is a rough edit.
Little Skillz is an old friend who is a producer making instrumental music. He asked me for a song to record. We talked about it – I said I could do 3 verses and 3 choruses. The first time we did a test. After I listened in my house and I returned to him and we recorded it.
We have performed the song live at the Medina Theatre in Beirut.

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I wrote this piece, 'Tharthara' (Laqouicy), in 2002. I recorded it in 2004 as part of an album dubbed 'Hewar’. The album was released 2005.
I performed this piece in different music events, including the album launch event which took place in Damascus in 2005; and also during a tour in the USA (The Kennedy Centre in Washington DC and other venues). I also performed it in the UK and France.

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Nass Ou Nass, is a song about a social life in Casablanca. as we started to have an intense way of living like in most  big cities in the world, I'm  afraid that we are starting to lose the sense of solidarity. I have this image in my mind, people walking fast in the street, and no body got the time to look at u or to help you when u need help. it's all about what modernity can bring to us like comfort and all sorts of new technology. keeping us busy and far from the genuine life.
The song is a mix of gharnati music(Andalusian), reggae and some issawa transy music. This song was recorded and mixed in one night last year, the purpose was to have a demo. and I'm going to record it this summer in a proper way and add other instruments like clarinet and sax.

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The track is called Marra Marra (meaning 'sometimes it goes right somtimes it  does not') its about political program and the situation of the youth in Morroco. I recorded this track on April 1st 2006 and played it on mah album. I did the instrumental with a sampler and some software i record it on my own home studio

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This track was done in December 2006, in Paris. I have never played it yet in public because this song is part of a project called music for robots, that was supposed to be research for a short movie soundtrack. The movie is "Le quotidien des automates"   
As always, this song could have been more interesting if I’d had more time to work on it

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