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Two or The Dragon's 3 part EP "Prelude For The Triumphant Man” kicks off with a deconstructed melodic coughing of the Saba Maqam (Arabic music mode), romanticizing the phantom-like presence of the drilling and banging of post-war reconstruction and urban development sites, the incessant hum and vibration of thousands of small privately owned electricity generators and water pumps in building entrances, the constant grid-locked traffic, leading to a strange yet inevitable sort of faint melancholy. Enter an unjustified dance, a pop moment with a leading tumultuous buzuq and an edgy processed darbouka, in a dangerous and festive celebration of absurd accomplishments. Enter the poet who introduces the victor, with a wailing political rallying poem about a great and holy triumph to come, spoken in an unfathomable pseudo-Arabic tongue, of which we can’t understand a word, but the speech works nonetheless. "Prelude For The Triumphant Man” is about the tyrant-god's triumph over everything else.
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Gazing at The Blood of a Poet - Trailer
A soundtrack-performance about the crossing to the other side, (preparation to performance). 2 performing-viewers emotionally situated at the audience side of the screen. So this is not a typical soundtrack, there is no clear constant bridge between the fragile narrative and the sonic performance.
European Film Festival in Beirut, 2019 edition
Metropolis Cinema (Beirut, Lebanon)
A soundtrack-performance about the crossing to the other side, (preparation to performance). 2 performing-viewers emotionally situated at the audience side of the screen. So this is not a typical soundtrack, there is no clear constant bridge between the fragile narrative and the sonic performance.
European Film Festival in Beirut, 2019 edition
Metropolis Cinema (Beirut, Lebanon)
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For the 2018 edition, featuring Two or The Dragon's "Prelude For The Triumphant Man - Part II" and showing scenes from "Leila's Death" (Dance performance by Ali Chahrour with live music by Two or The Dragon).
Edited by Luca Trufanelli www.dublindancefestival.ie |
Part of a concert at Beirut Open Space
Abed: vocals, buzuq, effects / Ali: daholla, splash, effects
Abed: vocals, buzuq, effects / Ali: daholla, splash, effects
Our first collaboration with German percussionist Joss Turnbull, which 3 years later led to the hazardous quartet of Stellar Banger, with German trumpet player Pablo Giw
An accidental recording from our EMS retreat, Stockholm
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Our first thing ever
Recorded. Home recording in Beirut, 2015.
Recorded. Home recording in Beirut, 2015.