Thread by @NYUADArtsCenter

Part 1 of our inside view Off the Stage: @altingunband talk about their influences. Turkish folk Pink Floyd, Thai psychedelia, Afrobeat (including @RealSeunKuti). All their songs start with fold songs of vocals + sax #BarzakhFestival

And now @altingunband are professing their love for their sound engineer Jasper and one another. They play all their music analog. @almoharek’s @BasemAbuarab praises how true to their sound they are.

Most of @altingunband’s fans in Holland are young people their own age, much younger than the age of their songs. In Turkey, they get older fans who know all the original songs they do. Many of those traveled to Jordan, Egypt too.

“It’s cool to bring people together who wouldn’t otherwise hang out together. “ - @altingunband #BarzakhFestival

.@altingunband’s explanation of their music, mixing together so many different elements without losing their essence, is the definition of #BarzakhFestival, points out @mobakri

For part 2, #Lekhfa with @MauriceLouca @Tamer_AG and @Maryamm_Saleh deconstruct their songwriting and recording process. @ADWuae is here to shoot a video of it as well. #BarzakhFestival

To start @MauriceLouca talks about the #Lekhfa album’s opening track, which started as a distorted drum loop. They then added bass line, and @Maryamm_Saleh had selected a text, which she set to a vocal line.

#Lekhfa’s songs take their lyrics from poet Mido Zoheir. How do they decide how to split vocals between @Maryamm_Saleh and @Tamer_AG? They split the lyrics in part to bring out the drama of the text.

Many of Lekhfa’s songs would need 20 musicians to play live if they wanted to recreate the record. Transforming it live, they kept minimizing and “summarizing” the record. By trying to recreate the record, it was “killing the live performance” @MauriceLouca