A mix held together by voice. Agnes Obel, Melanie De Biasio, Tamino and Warhaus move through a hushed, art-pop kind of intimacy—songs that lean close and stay there. Across from them, the Arab alternative lineage: Soapkills and Yasmine Hamdan—who taught Arabic melody to sit inside trip-hop and electronics—and a generation that followed them out—Mashrou’ Leila, El Far3i, Lana Lubany, Saint Levant. Two scenes that rarely share a room, listening to each other for an hour.

Tracklist

1. Agnes Obel – Familiar
2. Melanie De Biasio – Your Freedom Is the End of Me
3. Yasmine Hamdan – Douss
4. 33 – New ADHD (feat. Astrid Stone)
5. El Far3i – Tghayarti
6. Tamino – Tummy
7. Massar Egbari – Fakra
8. Kazdoura – Khayal
9. Warhaus – Love’s a Stranger
10. Aziz Maraka – Mafi Mennik
11. Lana Lubany – THE SNAKE
12. TootArd – Nasma Jabalyia
13. Maryam Saleh – Nouh Al Hamam
14. Mashrou’ Leila – Lil Watan
15. Maii and Zeid – Mourib
16. Saint Levant & Marwan Moussa – Kalamantina
17. Soapkills – Tango

Credits

Music curation: Mohammed Abood 

Music sequencing: Youssef Nasser 

Mixing and mastering: Sourodeep Guha 

Technical QC and delivery: Mark Alvarez