Yasmine Hamdan♩Khalas @YasHamdan Original song: Ziad Rahbani

Yasmine Hamdan - Khalas http://www.yasminehamdan.com
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By Nadim Asfar, Yasmine Hamdan
Editing By Manu Marmier
Song, Lyrics by: Ziad Rahbani (1985)
Music Cover by: Marc Collin / Yasmine Hamdan produced by Marc Collin (2012)
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Yasmine Hamdan ♩ Samar (OFFICIAL VIDEO) @YasHamdan @Kwaidan_Records

Yasmine Hamdan - Samar · http://www.yasminehamdan.com
Lyrics: Yasmine Hamdan · http://fb.com/yasminehamdanofficial
Music: Marc Collin / Yasmine Hamdan produced by Marc Collin 
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Directed by Harvey B. Brown @HarveyBBrown
Directs stuff and fabulizes people and things :
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Produced by Alain Dib 
Co-Produced by (c) 2012 Satellite my love - Kwaidan Records
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Album : "Yasmine Hamdan" on release on May 21 
Kwaidan Records / IDOL - Order Yasmine Hamdan on :
· iTunes FR : http://bit.ly/yasminehamdan 
· Qobuz : http://bit.ly/qobuz-samar
· Album available on Amazon, Spotify, Deezer, ...

Singer/songwriter Yasmine Hamdan (http://on.fb.me/yasminehamdanmusic) has become an icon in the underground scene of Lebanese. Three years ago, Yasmine Hamdan was knows as Y.A.S., duo she dormed with Mirwais. Now she's back with a solo album, produced by Marc Collin reminding us of one of the greatest productions of the fifties and sixties in Beirut or Cairo, also of the latest and sexy CHOUBI Iraq, or the soulful Samri Kukwait. To continue living this music and keep it moving, Yasmine is surrounded by two artists with different strengths Marc Collin and his vintage synths and Kevin Seddiki the prodigious guitarist.

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Special thanks: Nadim Asfar - Satellite my love Production, Alain Dib, Harvey B. Brown, Mamali Shafah, Rafic Majzoub.

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The voice of Arabic electro-pop - NOW Lebanon

Talking to Yasmine Hamdan about her new self-titled album
Nadine Elali, June 8, 2012

Lebanese songwriter, composer and singer Yasmine Hamdan is back with her second, self-titled album. (Video via YouTube.com)

.../... Today, the singer with the Femme Fatale looks is launching her second, self-titled album, which is in collaboration with Marc Collin, the producer and lead musician of French cover band Nouvelle Vague.

The project comprises of Hamdan’s original compositions as well as a new approach to oriental classics. In an attempt to break musical boundaries, her album echoes 1950s and 1960s Arabic music from Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait.

The Arabic electro-pop artist talks to NOW Extra about her musical career and latest album, which was released in France last week and is expected to hit the Lebanese market this summer.

Read more on NOW Lebanon, follow @YasHamdan!

 

About Yasmine ...

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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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Album : "Yasmine Hamdan" - release mai 21 th (Kwaidan records/ Idol)

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Lyrics: 

بيروت
شرب العرق
شرب العرق
لعب الورق
خيل السبق
صيد الحمام
رسمال بيروت

لبس الغوى
شم الهوى
اكل الهوى
شاغل عقول
سكان بيروت

بيروت
زهرة من غير أوانها
بيروت
محلاها ومحلا زمانها
بيروت
يا حينها وياضيعانها
تدبل

ما في عمل
ما في امل
برك الجمل
ركب النحس
تجار بيروت

الغندرة
والفنغرة
والبهورة
كتر البطر 
هالك بيروت


Beirut
Arak drinkin'
Card playin'
Race Horse cheerin'
Pigeon huntin'
The essence of Beirut
Seduction crowd
Cruisin' around
Foolin' about
Tis' all there is on the minds
Of the citizens of Beirut
Beirut
 A flower off its terrain
Beirut
Oh her beauty, her good old days
Beirut
That dire end, all a waste
Withering
All unemployed
Hopeless, ruined and Rusted
Jinxed and accursed
Those dealers of Beirut
Oh the Strutting
That fancy livin'
Excess of splurging
Exploded vanity
Smothering Beirut


Lyrics: Omar el Zenni
Music: Kevin Seddiki / Yasmine Hamdan
produced by Marc Collin / Kwaidan records

Director : Antonin Fourlon
(c) 2012 Contrejour Films - Kwaidan Records 

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