Julia Sabra - Natural History Museum (2024) [Official Digital Download]

This album is a collection of songs written between 2020 and 2024 in Beirut. I wanted to capture them the way they were written by keeping the rawness and fragility intact, like the late-night voice memos I send to my bandmates as soon as I have a first draft of a song. Fadi and I decided to record them live on tape, with no overdubs, barely any effect - with all the imperfections. Most of the tracks were done in one take only. Some were recorded in the studio, and some in the church I grew up going to every summer in Dhour Shweir.

This is a collection of songs that slipped through the cracks, and some of the most personal ones I ever wrote. Songs about the port explosion, its aftermath, picking up the pieces and trying to move on, coming to terms with the past, regret and nostalgia for a childhood that lives only in memory, the uncertain future, learning to love, getting married, watching a genocide unfold on my phone screen, having it fill my every waking moment, imagining a better send off for all the dead, processing the violence and terror, and finding solace in community.

TRACKLIST

1. Julia Sabra - White Walls
2. Julia Sabra - Skyscape
3. Julia Sabra - I Want It All
4. Julia Sabra - Goodbye
5. Julia Sabra - Home Is So Sad
6. Julia Sabra - Fall From Grace
7. Julia Sabra - Hands
8. Julia Sabra - Dis, quand reviendras-tu?
9. Julia Sabra - Minor Detail



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