Barki, by Maltash

Barki

by Maltash

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1.	Fayesh 03:57	buy track
2.	Smaani 04:01	buy track
3.	Ay Ay Ay Ay 04:37	buy track
4.	Kaletli 05:33	buy track
5.	Barki 07:17	buy track
6.	Ma Fi Shi 04:02	buy track
7.	Aadi 05:56	buy track

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An attempt to deconstruct Metal, Industrial, Experimental Hip Hop, Sludge and Tarab at the same time: With his latest album 'Barki', Maltash aspires to establish 'Post-Tarab' as a musical genre.

Maltash (Arabic: ملطش, “wicked”) is a Lebanese experimentalist, who is steadily remodelling his musical influences: Drawing from Arabic Wedding Music, Byzantine Music of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Islamic Call to Prayer and various opposite tonal languages, such as music from the Lebanese-Syrian singer George Wassouf and Ambient Drone Metal duo The Angelic Process.

‘Barki’ is an exemplary statement on how to make an artist’s outcry heard with a steady underlying dark humour that is satirical in its nature. Maltash insists on being heard by propagating Noise-Metal-Post-Tarab waves through a certain rawness that is in its core ’Barki’ (Arabic: بركي, “maybe”).

Traditionally, Tarab is a societal and communal phenomenon that lives in Levant culture. Maltash’s experimentation contradicts these elements and touches on the individual conditions that come after Tarab has been practiced. The Post-Tarab endeavours in this opus touch on the unapologetic nature of populism, the emotions... more
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released November 28, 2022

Written and Produced by Maltash
Mastered by Kujo at Modular Mind Studio
Photography by Marcel Bretzel
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