{"id":47838,"date":"2020-05-04T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=47838"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:01:01","slug":"zenobia-halak-halak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/zenobia-halak-halak\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haifa-based duo Zenobia shared new single from debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> After their EP&nbsp;<em>KSR KSR KSR<\/em>&nbsp;released in spring 2019, Haifa Zenobia\u2019s binomial is about to release&nbsp;<em>Halak Halak<\/em>, their very first album to come \u2013 logically \u2013 from their fellow diggers at Acid Arab Records.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The duo Zenobia, who were formed on a night of improvisation in a Haifa dance hall, brought together producer Nasser Halahlih and the brilliant keyboard-player Isam Elias. Two years after its creation, the young group has already performed all over the world: electronic and hypnotic synthesizers\u2026 The duo inflames the traditional structures of Middle Eastern&nbsp;<em>dabke<\/em>, in a new and unusual form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This singular approach \u2013 in which trance takes the upper hand \u2013 will immediately seduce two other acid fanatics: Acid Arab. While on tour in Northern Israel, the two Parisian fell under Zenobia\u2019s spell and signed them straight away to their label, Acid Arab Records*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After travelling back and forth between their studio of Shefa Amr and the small Kabareet stage in Haifa, where they test their new compositions live, Nasser and Isam have just released&nbsp;<em>Halak Halak<\/em>, their first album to be released in June: \u201c<em>Halak Halak is a very common expression which literally means \u2018welcome\u2019 in Arabic,\u201d&nbsp; says the duo, \u201cFrom Egypt to Syria, from Tunisia to Morocco, all Arabic speakers can refer to it, it speaks to everyone. That\u2019s the purpose of Zenobia\u2019s sounds, we invite as many people as possible to discover our world, share our emotions and stories, travel with us!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\"><em>Halak Halak<\/em>&nbsp;is scheduled for June 5th, you can pre-order it now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zenobiatunes.bandcamp.com\/album\/halak-halak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Zenobia \u0632\u0646\u0651\u0648\u0628\u064a\u0627  - Galbi Dari - \u0642\u0644\u0628\u064a \u062f\u0627\u0631\u064a\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jVHKtHdR2JU?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\"><em>*Acid Arab Records is a subsidiary of&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crammed.be\/\"><em>Crammed Discs<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After their EP KSR KSR KSR released in spring 2019, Haifa Zenobia\u2019s binomial is about to release Halak Halak, their very first album to come \u2013 logically \u2013 from their fellow diggers at Acid Arab Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":47832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4032,22016,4096],"location":[8078],"yst_prominent_words":[9544,9536,9557,9555,8539,9538,9546,9554,9549,9535,9550,9548,9556,9553,8933,9532,8402,9552,9551,8858],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47838"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=47838"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=47838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}