A-wa

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Though it might sound like a minor mission impossible to combine Yemenite folk singing with electronic dance music and a lot of natural groove, that’s what A-WA, pronounced Ay-wa, does. The three sisters, Tair, Liron & Tagel Haim, grew up in the small desert village of Shaharut in the southern Israeli Arava Valley. For their debut album, they’re interpreting women’s love and protest songs in Yemeni-Arabic dialect that were first recorded in the early ’60s by the Yemeni singer-songwriter Shlomo Moga’a. That their sound is exotically fresh seems to be the least you can say.

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