Al-Qasar - Uncovered (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Cover albums are a tricky business. They say nothing beats the original. But when international psychedelic collective Al-Qasar tackles songs from the Western pop to the Arab folk repertoires, you know you’re in for a brain-melting, transcontinental trip. Cultures collide, and the result of this fission is Depeche Mode sung in Turkish, Sean Paul in Arabic, Nubian legend Hamza El Din with fuzz guitars and iconic Lebanese composer Wadih El Safi through space echo.

Produced between Tunis, Lisbon, Los Angeles, London, and Paris, UNCOVERED contains 7 tracks (4 covers and 3 originals) which tell the story of a world in flux, with its ancestors deep in the past but its eyes set on the zeitgeist. It’s retro-futurist Arab psychedelia with a foot in the Mojave and the other in the Sahara.

TRACKLIST

1. Al-Qasar - Kişisel İsa (Personal Jesus) (feat. Sibel)
2. Al-Qasar - Desse Barama (feat. Alsarah)
3. Al-Qasar - Blue Tataouine (feat. Nadah Mahmoud)
4. Al-Qasar - Ssir w ztam (Get Busy) (feat. Sami Galbi)
5. Al-Qasar - Promises (feat. & Cheick Tidiane Seck, Mamani Keita)
6. Al-Qasar - Enyio Nkondon (feat. & Cheick Tidiane Seck, Mamani Keita)
7. Al-Qasar - Bissaha Tlaqayna (feat. Mariam Hamrouni)



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