Hawalat
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If Hawalat sounds like a world tour that’s because it essentially is. “As much as Marzipan is a picture of Lebanon from the inside, Hawalat kind of picks up from where Marzipan finished but more looking to the outside, the diaspora, to the notion of exile.” Megarbane says he is interested in the connections between the global and the domestic, the mundane and the cosmic, and wanted to create space for non-linear progression. Hawalat is based on the idea of hawala, informal money transfers that you can make to certain countries impacted by a lack of currency or unstable political and economic contexts. His use of the term on this album is not a financial one, Megarbane explains, but a nod to notions of creative exchange between “places, persons, generations.” It is the first time Megarbane called on other musicians in this way to inform his sound, including a collaboration with Sven Wunder on the song Helia featuring strings by the Stockholm Studio Orchestra
Tracks
1~1~Hanadi1~2~Dreams Of An Insomniac
1~3~Al Dollarji
1~4~Les Vents Dominants
1~5~Al Bahriye
1~6~Miramar
1~7~The Invisible Cut
1~8~Helia
1~9~East Of What
1~10~La Calypso
1~11~Hawalat
1~12~Sfiha
1~13~La Virgule Suspendue
1~14~Preamble To The Conclusion
1~15~Chou Ostak
1~16~What Happened Next
1~17~Jana
1~18~Bil Fey (Bonus Track)
1~19~Ni Vu Ni Inconnu (Bonus Track)
Details
Catalogue Number: HABIBI030-1Format: Vinyl
Artist: Charif Megarbane
Release Date: 31 October 2025
Genre: World Music
Label: HABIBI FUNK RECORDS
Distributor: Inertia Music
