Tania Saleh | Tania Saleh "Happy About Something - " " | Intersection 6 years @taniasalehofficial | Uploaded 11 months ago | Updated 22 hours ago
Happy About Something "
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Poem by: Mahmoud Darwish
Music by: Tania Saleh
Programming, electronics and sound design: Khalil Judran
Clarinet, duduk and soprano saxophone: Mohammad Fawzi
Violin: Nancy Mounir
Double bass: Andre Segone
Percussions: Hani Bedair
Super special guest on oud: Hazem Shaheen
Recordings of voice and acoustic instruments by Erik Hillestad Assisted by Martin Abrahamsen. Acoustic instruments recorded at Art Mania Music Center, Cairo, Egypt. Tania's voice recorded at studio Nordraak, Oslo, Norway
Mixed by: Khalil Judran
Mastered by: Bjrn Engelmann, Cutting Room, Stockholm
Executive producers: Tania Saleh and Erik Hillestad
Produced by: Kirkelig Kulturverksted with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dabke Dance in Akka-Iqrit used by permission from Walaa Sbait and Eskandar Hilwi

Murals by: Tania Saleh
Moud Jiba and Achraf Abdeladhim (Jerba, Tunisia)
Wall filmed by: Rami Jaballah, Kristin Reitan and Berit Hunnestad (Jerba, Tunisia)

Creative direction by Tania Saleh
Film directed and edited by Elie Fahed

Lyrics translation:

Happy about something unseen
I was walking
Dreaming of a blue poem
Of two lines
Of a light-weight happy thought
Visible and secretive at the same time
Give us, oh Love
Your generous flood
The weather is appropriate
Oh Love, we have no ambition
But to be losers in your wars
Be the winner
We are thankful
But come back to us, losers
Safe and sound

All song excerpts taken from Tania Salehs album "Intersection"
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Winner of the German Records Critics' Award 2018