Electronic Music and Cinema from the Arab World
Drawing on the large repertoire of Middle-eastern pop and Egyptian film from the 1940s to 1990s, musician Rayess Bek create a fertile hybrid between the joys of the past and modern aesthetics. Rayess remixes ancient melodies and break-beat blows, with the electrifying support of Mehdi Haddab on oud and Julien Perraudeau’s hypnotic synths ; It’s a shamanic ceremony whose stanzas invoke the resurgence of a lost time when the Arab world was joyous and candid in its wit, passionate and immoderate in its dramas and melodramas.
” Something completely different and utterly compelling”
The Guardian
150 concerts in 22 countries
A musical and visual event, Love & Revenge’s repertoire pays homage to Arab culture and its popular idols from a lost epoch. The group revisits the Middle-East’s precious cinematic heritage as well as its hugely successful songs, such as those of the Iraqi Kadhem Saher, Egyptian Nagat El-Saghira, and the major composer Abdel Wahab. But the musical quartet doesn’t stop there. They don’t shy away from uncovering tunes lesser known to the mainstream, composed and sung by artists such as the Kuwaiti Mostafa Ahmad, Sudanese Ahmed Al mustafa, Saudi Touha, and Mauritanian Houria. Despite it being less visible from abroad, women hold a central place in the world of Arab music.
“The Golden age of Arabic Cinema taken to Modern Day Stage” – The National
Gharam wa Intiqam
Film extracts will be remixed in exact synchronisation with the music – Hollywood inspired musicals, genre films and B movies, remakes of cinema’s classic myths (Dracula, Star Wars, Faust, Superman, the cowboys and indians of Westerns), not to mention those cult scenes which gave last century’s Arab film industry all its glory. As these go by you’ll stumble across certain notable faces from the golden age of Cairo’s Studio Misr, such as the dance queens Samia Gamal and Tahia Carioca, stars of Levantine music such as the Lebanese Sabah, the actor and singer Farid al-Atrach and his sister, the beautiful Asmahane or the darling Soah Hosni.
“A Subtle Mixture of Retro Music and Classic Arab Film” – Kapitalis
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