Yasmine Hamdan http://yasminehamdan.posterous.com @YasHamdan posterous.com Sat, 26 May 2012 05:14:00 -0700 About Yasmine ... http://yasminehamdan.posterous.com/133676069 http://yasminehamdan.posterous.com/133676069

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"Three winters ago, Yasmine Hamdan was known as ''Y.A.S''., an encounter between her own culture (10 years dominating the Arab underground scene from Beirut, becoming it’s icon as the front woman and singer of her band ''Soapkills'') and Mirwais’s electropop music. Y.A.S. was more than a project, it was a symbol (musical, geopolitical, religious, the perspectives are very wide): that of a potential bridge between two worlds that radios, media, dance floors, ears, and mentalities on both ends never imagined coming together. Never mind the skeptics, the orient-occident encounter did in fact take place. It allowed Yasmine to realize her strength, and to dig deeper into her own identity search. Today, it is only under her name that she embraces a new project."

"In September 2011, ''Marc Collin'' and ''Yasmine'' met in Marc’s studio (whose name evokes New Order « The Perfect Kiss »). Yasmine brought along some songs she’d written, and many favored classics from her huge collection of rare veteran Arab albums. Far from the idea of making remixes, working on these songs was similar to using samplers: from this piece, she picked a melody, a chorus, found a way of vibrating arabic dialects, repeating lines and phrases recreating all the arrangements until yielding something completely original. It won’t be a remake, nor a tribute, nor a modernization, but rather a remote memory of a melody."

"The album Yasmine Hamdan was created in  two phases.Yasmine worked with the guitarist ''Kevin Seddiki'' in a rather folk mood, dreaming of a certain «intimisme», deeply impregnated with 70s romanticism (''Beirut'', Bala Tantanat, Shouei). Then Marc Collin dressed these melodies with an electronic vibe, as his synthesizers gave accents to each song.The rest of the album is the result of intensive studio collaboration between Yasmine and Marc. Starting with Marc’s vintage synthesizers collection (notably the amazing Roland Jupiter 8 and the Chroma Polaris), they chose to create an acoustic universe to accompany Yasmine’s vocal swings, and settle Arabic in a code-free environment. Arab melodies, sometimes complex or tonal, rest here on very simple chords with pop tonalities. The voice becomes raw material. Rhythmic loops are created from organic sounds that only recall a faraway hint to «ethnic» percussions. In Nag, Ya Nediya, Samar, ''In Kan Fouadi'', we reminisce of the times of the 4AD label (Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil)."

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