Many things call Lebanon home including many indie music bands that strive to make fresh music, and explore new themes. The combination of the people and the landscape facilitate such scene. Here is where Rabae Beirut enters the picture.
A band that took the name Spring of Beirut first started performing 2004, under the name of “Nadine and the band”, between the UNESCO Palace, Beirut, and the American University of Beirut, and then in many festivals in different Lebanese regions. Reaching Egypt, they performed in Alexandria and Napoli in 2005, and Paris in 2007 in the Arab World Institute.
The band chose to search for a unique music identity, rising from the Arabic tradition but overcoming its classical conventions, seeking new possibilities and expressions worthy of our reality, without breaking the subtle balance of Arabic music. This is delightful attempt to bring some raw concepts using the backdrop of Middle Eastern instruments and Western attitude to bring the best of two world.
If anything we need more bands that experiment, like those thousands of of garage bands that keep surprising mainstream conformist music by surprise. Check out this poem turned to a song by Rabae Beirut.
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