The Best Of, by Soapkills

The Best Of

by Soapkills

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BeagleBay Somewhat lopsided 'best of' with almost all of Enta Fen here, but true to the description this is a good 'best of' collection. However, if you love these songs, you will likely love all 3 Soap Kills albums, and also likely Yasmine Hamdan's solo work. Favorite track: Marra Fi Ghnina.

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1.	Leh Zaalen 04:02	buy track
2.	Yahoo! 04:36	buy track
3.	Cheftak (Paris Version) 03:03	buy track
4.	Tango 03:51	buy track
5.	Marco Slow 01:50	buy track
6.	Aranis & Koullou Ndif 03:20	buy track
7.	Herzan 03:21	buy track
8.	Galbi 04:14	buy track
9.	Enta Fen 05:16	buy track
10.	Wadih 03:35	buy track
11.	Manni 2elak 04:09	buy track
12.	Souleyma 05:20	buy track
13.	Kasdoura 04:52	buy track
14.	Marra Fi Ghnina 04:42	buy track

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One of the very first indie bands to emerge in the Middle East, Soapkills was founded at the end of the '90s by Yasmine Hamdan and Zeid Hamdan, both born in Beirut, Lebanon, but not related. They drew their inspiration from Arab music (both classical and folk) and from electronic music, dub and trip hop. The group's sound, influenced by the production style of Massive Attack and Portishead, featuring Yasmine’s contemporary, personal interpretations of classic Arab songs, was initially dominated by a Roland MC-303 Groovebox, which Zeid Hamdan had acquired to replace musicians after the dissolution of Lombrix, a rock band that he had founded in the mid-1990s. Later on the band included trumpet, flute, saxophone, bass and drums. The result was a bold new approach that took more from the classical Arabic repertoire of their parents’ generation than the nominally popular Lebanese rock acts of the 1990s and early 2000s did.

Soapkills recorded three albums, respectively entitled Bater (2001), Cheftak (2002) and Enta Fen (2005), which were all self-released. Their music quickly became the soundtrack to the vibrant, young arts scene which developed in postwar Lebanon, and the band gradually acquired an emblematic status. The band's music appeared on several compilations and was featured in many movies, theatre and dance productions as well as in modern art installations. Elia Suleiman's cult movie "Divine Intervention" (Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, 2002) featured two of the band's tracks. In 2007, the band was mentioned in Time Magazine as part of "small but artistically-significant rock scene" in Beirut.

Yasmine and Zeid have now joined forces to curate a definitive Soapkills compilation album, which will come out on CD, vinyl and digital in May, together with the digital re-issue of the three original Soapkills albums.

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released May 8, 2015

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Soapkills Beirut, Lebanon

One of the very first indie bands to emerge in the Middle East, whose cult status has kept growing in the Arab world ever since the group's demise in 2005

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The Best Of

May 2015
Enta Fen

Sep 2005
Cheftak

Sep 2002
Bater

Sep 2000

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