Baada Ab EP, by Baada Ab (Mayssa Jallad, Omaya Malaeb, Ezra Tenenbaum & Dani Shukri)

Baada Ab EP

by Baada Ab (Mayssa Jallad, Omaya Malaeb, Ezra Tenenbaum & Dani Shukri)

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1.	Bi Kheir 04:17	lyrics	buy track
بخير - Bi Kheir أمي أنا بخير، لا تقلقوا علي عانقت مريم وانقلبت الدنيا علينا ولا أعرف كيف نجينا ولكن الآخرين ليسوا بخير وهل أنا حقاً بخير؟ طارق أنا بخير، لا تقلقوا علي كنت على الطبولِ وسقطت الواجهة أمامي وليس علي ولكن الآخرين ليسوا بخير وهل أنا حقاً بخير؟ أنس أنا بخير لا تقلقوا علي ليست إلى بعض الجروح ليست إلا بعض الكسور إنهار المبنى أمام عيناي ولكن الآخرين ليسوا بخير Mother, I’m okay Don’t worry about me I held Mariam as the world collapsed on us And I don’t know how we survived But the others aren’t okay But the others aren’t okay And I am really okay? Tarek, I’m okay Don’t worry about me I was playing the drums And the walls fell around me But not on me, But the others aren’t okay But the others aren’t okay And I am really okay? Anas I’m okay, Don’t worry about me It’s only a few bruises It’s only a few broken bones The building collapsed In front of me But the others aren’t okay
2.	Fil Aatma 03:58	lyrics	buy track
في العتمة لا حياة لمن تنادي لا ننام والليل دافي ماذا ننتظر؟ متى ينتهي؟ من يأتي هنا؟ كيف ننتصر؟ لماذا أنا؟ لا شعور بالسكون لا ظهور للأيقون ماذا ننتظر؟ متى ينتهي؟ من يأتي هنا؟ كيف ننتصر؟ لماذا أنا؟

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“What does Beirut feel like in this age of madness? Crisis upon crisis, blow after blow.... economic collapse, oppressed uprising, global pandemic, world-scale explosion, I think we've become a bit numb. And a bit mad, ourselves.”

For the third and final release in the ‘Thawra Records & Found Sound Nation’ co-release series, 4 expert musicians join forces to present the collaborative project “Baada Ab” (“After August”), a “super-group” of musicians formed by Mayssa Jallad (Safar), Omaya Malaeb (Mashrou’ Leila), Dani Shukri (Tanjaret Daghet) and Ezra Tenenbaum (Ezra T/Onebeat). The group was conceived during FSN’s Onebeat Lebanon music residency, creating two meaningful and impactful songs. Jallad’s brilliant lyricism tackles, with mature sensibility, sensitive themes of grief, loss, depression, and how we try to overcome it all. Both songs are a genuine and honest reflection of the collective shared experience and trauma of a people following the August 4 blast, its aftermath, and the simultaneous collapse of the Lebanese state. “Bi Kheir”, meaning “I’m okay”, captures the voices of the survivors in the few moments after the explosion, recounting each of the first conversations that the band members had with family and friends after surviving one of the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history. The looming question is “am I really okay?”. In turn, “Fil Aatma”, or “in the dark”, portrays a desensitized people, waiting for answers, stuck in a surreal realization of total loss of control and agency, displaced from reality, and watching time go by, like shadows in the dark. With its expertly measured lyrical and musical performances, Baada Ab is a beautiful ode to the souls we lost, the grieving souls still with us, and essentially, the artists’ way of expressing and dealing with their grief, while echoing the thoughts of all those surviving in Lebanon

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released April 30, 2022

Baada Ab: Mayssa Jallad, Omaya Malaeb, Dani Shukri & Ezra Tenenbaum

Written & performed by Baada Ab
Recorded & produced by Ezra Tenenbaum
Additional mixing & mastering by Christopher Botta
Released on Tiny House Music & Found Sound Nation © 2022
Artwork by Rana Zaher

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