Jarak Qaribak
2023 collaborative album by Dudu Tassa and Jonny Greenwood
Jarak Qaribak ("Your neighbour is your friend") is an album by the Israeli musician Dudu Tassa and the English guitarist Jonny Greenwood, released on 9 June 2023 by World Circuit. It was produced by Tassa and Greenwood and mixed by Nigel Godrich, the longtime producer of Greenwood's band Radiohead.
The album comprises reworkings of Middle Eastern love songs, with vocalists from countries including Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Tunisia. Tassa and Greenwood were criticised by pro-Palestine activists, and live performances were canceled following threats.
Background and recording
Greenwood first heard Tassa's music on a trip to Israel with his band Radiohead in the early 2000s. He contributed to Tassa's 2009 album Basof Mitraglim Le'Hakol, and Tassa opened for Radiohead on their 2017 tour.
Jarak Qaribak was recorded in studios in Tel Aviv, Oxfordshire, and across the Middle East. "Taq ou-Dub", a Lebanese song, was the first recorded. Tassa said that the music "sounds 1970s", but with drum machines and Arabic lyrics, which he liked to imagine would confuse listeners. Greenwood said his process involved "trying to imagine what Kraftwerk would have done if they'd been in Cairo in the 1970s".
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