The positive thinking of DAM
The group DAM. © damofficialband.com
07/23/2019
Originally from Lydd, a Jewish-Arab city on the outskirts of Tel Aviv (Israel), Palestinian rappers from DAM are publishing Ben Haana wa Maana , a third relevant and measured opus that celebrates a 20-year career with, as a gift from anniversary, the participation of producer Brian Eno on a title.
The two long braids wisely capped around the face of Maysa Daw, organize the visual of this new album, placing on both sides, in the background, the faces of Mahmood Jrere and Tamer Nafar.
The MC's, which first joined the group on stage in 2011 before officially integrating it in the studio in 2013, has obviously made its place within this group founded in 1999 by brothers Nafar (Tamer and Suhell) and Mahmood Jrere. " Since its inception, DAM (Da Arabian MCs) has always collaborated with women and not just for marketing or self-help stories, " says Mahmood Jrere, who answers questions for the group through the WhatsApp app.
" But with Maysa, something unique happened: beyond the strength and accuracy of her point of view, her activist and feminist remarks, or the freshness of her musical approach, she was able to shake things up. our way of writing We went out of the classical 16 measures each around a subject, to go towards a more collective creation, also encouraged by Ithamar Ziegler (guitarist and bassist of the Israeli-New York group Balkan Beat Box - editor's note), who made our album "he analyzes before going back to the other meanings of the initial acronym.
" DAM is the ' eternity' in Arabic and the ' blood ' in Hebrew, both the one that flows during the bombings and the one that makes us brothers.This plurality of senses and languages root our presence here. we will stay there " He loose. Unambiguously and without exclusiveness, he claims the land where they were born: " We are Palestinians from Lydd (renamed Lod since 1948 by the Israelis), a dormitory town in the outskirts of Tel Aviv, which hosts the Ben Gurion and all kinds of trafficking (receiving, drugs, prostitution). "
Love of self
" As a Palestinian, we have to work on ourselves to express what we are best and not just the fantasy that accompanies us, this fabricated image, this caricature orientalism that sticks to our skin " He explains.
"Prozac, one of the songs on the album, is a metaphor for the way the West behaves with the Arab world, and you've been prescribed Prozac whether you need it or not. is by ourselves that we will feel good " he says, addressing Westerners as much as his peers. This maturity permeates all titles.
With Emta Njawzak Yamma , they attack marriage as a social constraint on a beat that evokes the dabke, music that makes dance at weddings in the region. Milliardat recalls the power of creation. " Israelis can spend billions to silence the voice of the Palestinian people, to divide us, they can not do much against our titles which they did not cost very expensive " .
... and freedom!
Overdose is produced by Brian Eno, the legendary producer who for more than forty years has been involved in shaping what some people call the world-wide sound. " Brian Eno contacted us after having heard us at a concert organized by the Palestinian Music Export Bureau, and he sent us several embryos of titles, including the one with the sample of Bill Withers that we liked. from that " he explains, recounting the genesis of this title to the innovative sound that addresses the need, the desire of every human being to be alone, to take the distance to think.
" Putting the human being at the center of our concerns is to address everyone, whatever their choice, and often those who come to Palestine are surprised by the joy of the Palestinian people, by our smiles in this context. This particularly oppressive regime is one of the worst in the world, and that necessarily limits your movements and your aspirations, "he comments.
" Yet, like everyone else, I only hope for one thing: to be able to live normally, to live like someone who loves life, because it is by affirming our existence that we are free! "
DAM Ben Haana Maana Wa (Cookin Vinyl) 2019
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