Two or The Dragon is the Beirut based electro-acoustic duo by Abed Kobeissy and Ali Hout. the project was sparked when Kobeissy and Hout began to compose music as a duo for contemporary dance and theater performances. Their music as well as their compositions for theater and contemporary dance productions featured them in festivals and concerts in Lebanon, the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, France, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Chile, the UAE, Jordan, and Egypt.
Their unapologetic approach to Arabic music speaks deconstruction, dance grooves, industry, satire, and hints of a deniable melancholy. Regardless of their work’s “ethnic” identity, and their traditional instruments and background as musicians, their music is saturated with a current identity, clearly very local to Beirut, rather than it being a contemporary rendering of traditional Arabic music. The highly urban and ever restless facets of Beirut play the major role in shaping their sounds and aesthetics; The never-ending ever-expanding construction sites, drones of randomly scattered electricity generators powering a while city, and thousands others pumping water from wandering tankers into buildings, colorful fields of noice that have become soothing agents of amnesia in an absurdly long post-war period.
Two or The Dragon released their first EP album “Prelude For The Triumphant Man” and are now preparing to release their 2nd EP with Ruptured Music in May 2021, and a full length album after that, with the support from AFAC.
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Two or The Dragon released their first EP album “Prelude For The Triumphant Man” and are now preparing to release their 2nd EP with Ruptured Music in May 2021, and a full length album after that, with the support from AFAC.
Follow this link for individual short biographies