Yasmine Hamdan

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Yasmine Hamdan
Background information
Born 1976
Origin Lebanon
Genres Electronica, Trip hop, Arabic
Occupations Singer, songwriter, actress
Years active 1997–present
Associated acts Soapkills

Yasmine Hamdan is a Lebanese singer, songwriter and actress, now based in Paris. She became known with Soapkills, the duo she founded with Zeid Hamdan (no relation) while she was still living in Beirut. The first album released by Soapkills was Bater (1999).[1] Soapkills was one of the very first independent electronic bands in the Middle East, and its innovative approach exerted a lasting influence. To this day, Yasmine Hamdan is considered as an icon of underground music across the Arab world.[2][3]

After moving to Paris, Yasmine collaborated with CocoRosie. She teamed up with Mirwais (who was part of French electronic new wave band Taxi Girl in the 80s, and produced/co-wrote some of Madonna albums), with whom she recorded the Arabology album (2008), under the Y.A.S. moniker.

Yasmine Hamdan then joined forces with Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague (band)) to write and produce her first, self-titled solo album, which came out in France and Lebanon in 2012 on Kwaidan Records), and is released internationally (in a revised version with five new tracks) in 2013 by Crammed Discs under the title Ya Nass. In this album, which blends pop, folk and electronic sounds with melodies and lyrics inspired by various Middle-Eastern traditions, Yasmine Hamdan "has undertaken the challenge of affirming and rewriting Arabic musical heritage", according to the Al-Akhbar paper.[4] Her personal life (she has lived in Lebanon, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Greece and France) and her curiosity have enabled Yasmine Hamdan to playfully use various dialects of Arabic in her lyrics, which alternate between Lebanese, Kuwaiti, Palestinian, Egyptian and Bedouin, as well as some of the code-switching which is so typical of Middle-Eastern humour.[5][6][7]

Yasmine Hamdan is appearing in Jim Jarmusch's new movie,[8] "Only Lovers Left Alive", alongside Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddlestone. She has recently written an original soundtrack for the theatre play Rituel pour une métamorphose by Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous, for a production at Comédie Française.[9]

Discography

  • 2012 : "Yasmine Hamdan", Kwaidan records (modified and re-released as "Ya Nass" in 2013 by Crammed Discs)
  • 2009 : "Arabology", Y.A.S, production 50/50, Label AZ, Universal France.
  • 2005 : "Enta Fen" Soapkills
  • 2001 : "Cheftak" Soapkills
  • 1999 : "Bater" Soapkills

Film Music

Aräbology by Y.A.S.

Released in June 2009, "Aräbology" was recorded in collaboration with Mirwais.

The album contains 12 songs.

  1. Arabology
  2. Get it right
  3. Yaspop
  4. Oloulou
  5. Da
  6. Azza
  7. Coit me
  8. Ma rida
  9. Gamil
  10. Fax
  11. Mahi
  12. A Man

Yasmine Hamdan

The first version of Yasmine Hamdan's first solo album, released in April 2012 (only in France and Lebanon) on Marc Collin's label Kwaidan records.

  1. In Kan Fouadi
  2. Beirut
  3. Samar
  4. Baaden
  5. Ya Nass
  6. Irss
  7. Nediya
  8. Nag
  9. Shouei
  10. La Mouch
  11. Bala Tantanat
  12. Zarani [Pre-Order Only]
  13. Khalas [Pre-Order Only]

Ya Nass

The international version of Yasmine Hamdan's first solo album, out in April 2013 on Crammed Discs, and containing 5 new songs.

  1. Deny
  2. Shouei
  3. Samar
  4. Enta Fen, Again
  5. La Mouch
  6. Nediya
  7. Beirut
  8. Aleb
  9. Bala Tantanat
  10. In Kan Fouadi
  11. Hal
  12. Khayyam
  13. Ya Nass
  14. Khalas (iTunes only)
  15. Zarani (iTunes only)

References

  1. ↑ "Yasmine Hamdan - Farklı Müzik". Farklimuzik.com. Retrieved 2013-05-26. 
  2. ↑ "Yasmine Hamdan Collaborates With Marc Collin". Rollingstoneme.com. 2011-12-07. Retrieved 2013-05-26. 
  3. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/arts/13iht-hamdan13.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
  4. ↑ "Yasmine Hamdan: Musical Tradition With an Attitude". Al Akhbar English. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2013-05-26. 
  5. ↑ "Leçon de géographie intérieure avec Yasmine Hamdan". mondomix. 2012-06-18. Retrieved 2013-05-26. 
  6. ↑ Par Marie Ottavi (2012-05-21). "Yasmine Hamdan, l'envol pop Next". Next.liberation.fr. Retrieved 2013-05-26. 
  7. ↑ http://www.brownbook.me/yasmine-hamdan/
  8. ↑ http://www.reorientmag.com/2013/01/yasmine-hamdan/
  9. ↑ http://www.comedie-francaise.fr/spectacle-comedie-francaise.php?id=517&spid=373&p=1

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