Gina Dirawi - Meet Me In Jannah

Monday, new week and it's time to introduce "Record Of The Week".

This week I take out the turns a bit and offer a bit of Pop with Arabic Folk Music, something out of the ordinary.

In addition to the big TV shows jobs, Gina Dirawi always dreamed of recording an album. Already seven years ago, she released a couple of singles, but it was only when she came in contact with Björn Yttling and Freja Drakenberg that she found home. "It has been like seeing yourself in sound," Dirawi said after meeting them.

Dirawi was born on 11 December 1990 in Sundsvall, Sweden, the second of four children. She is of Palestinian descent and her family comes from Lebanon. Dirawi's paternal grandparents convinced her father to move to Sweden.

"Meet Me In Jannah" is Gina Dirawi's debut album, produced by Björn Yttling and Freja Drakenberg, got released February 18th. In Juli 2021 she released the excellent singles ”Sunday” and ”Live And Die”, both of them was included in the Netflixserie ”Young Royals”. They got followed by "Blame It On Me" and Dirawi's first tune on Arabic, "Bmoot", that means "I die". The music on the album sounds magnificent, it's raw and feels spontaneous, partly improvised and the voclas are just marvelous, she intertwines Arabic folk music with alternative pop and creates a sound that is completely its own and she does it with such a confident, like she was born to do this full time. Her voice flows nicely, it's intimate and raw, like an instrument by it's own. The opening track "Sunday" she sings about praying to Allah: "Catch you on a Sunday / When you got the weekend off". It does not matter that it is a holiday and that no one may listen, the need for inner peace is too great to wait. The final and closing tune "Live And Die" is recorded in a single recording and the end of the song has been completely improvised. It is one of many moments on "Meet Me In Jannah" that remains long after the last notes have sounded out. I really enjoy this, after working with Gina, I never thought she would possess this knowledge, quite magically I must say, nicely done Gina! Now make sure to release this on Vinyl, because I want this.

Sum: ”Meet Me In Jannah” a rare confident debut, get it.

Today's tune "Meet Me In Jannah" is the title track from her debut album, "Jannah" is Arabic for "Paradise". TRIGGER WARNING, violent video.



Here is a excellent clip from the TV show "Nyhetsmorgon" a few days ago.

https://www.tv4.se/klipp/va/13748943/meet-me-in-jannah-med-gina-dirawi

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Jetbone - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

The Swedish rock band JETBONE from Sundsvall have released a new video "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" from their latest album release "Magical Ride", released 2015

JETBONE was formed in 2008 in Sundsvall. The band consists of Alin Riabouchkin (vocals and guitar), Gustav “Gurten” Sjödin (bass and vocals), Sebastian Engberg (lead guitar), Tobias Bengtsson (piano and organs) and Albin Linder (drums).

JETBONEs music is versatile within the rock and roll scene, yet heavily influenced by southern rock, funk and soul. To date, they have two studio albums – the self-titled album “Jetbone” released in 2012, and their recent album “Macigal Ride” released in 2015. They are currently active in Sweden, playing various shows and engaging in diverse musical projects.

Today's tune "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" taken from "Magical Ride", enjoy!



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Trakdor - Dealer of the Hidden Hand

Trakdor is a Hard rocking band from Sundsvall Sweden. Formed in 2008 and released their debut album in 2013.

The band plays a heavy and very blues-based hard rock. The production breathes very 70's and sounds very comfortable but a bit muddy. Joakim Nordlander who has a delightfully drawling voice does a really good job behind the microphone and his team mates surrounds him with a great landscape of melodies and musical vibrations.

Trakdor consists of:

Joakim Nordlander - Vocals
Henning Johansson - Bass
Tobias Dahlberg - Drums
Martin Flodin - Guitars
Oskar Nilsson - Guitars

Todays tune is the fairest swinging "Dealer of the hidden hand" taken from the self titled debut album, enjoy!



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Jetbone - Ain't It a Shame

Jetbone is a band from Sundsvall, Sweden. The band has existed since 2008 melting down their special brew of Power Pop, Blues & Boogie. Jetbone is an explosive load of straight forward Rock & Roll! The members of the band have known each other since they were kids, growing up together playing soccer and hockey among other things. During their high shcool years they merged together with a mutual interest in good music. By mixing their different influences they developed their own style of Rock & Roll, deriving their sound mainly from 1970's hard rock and rock bands such as Kiss, The Faces and The Rolling Stones. They're also influenced by the likes of Jackson Browne and you'll also definitely hear some echoes of the 90's Garage/Punk wave. Raunchy hard hitting guitars, wild drums, a screaming organ and a punchy bass all topped with punky "spit it out" vocals are some of the ingredients of their of their clean-cut new rocking tunes, Jetbone Rock & Roll.

With influences from Rolling Stones, Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd and many others, Jetbone has perfected the art of 70s Rock n' Roll - made for today. It is not hard to see why the band has been called "the most hard working band in Sundsvall". With hundreds of gigs, one full self-titled album and one single the band has started to hit the international scene with tours in Russia, Spain and UK among others.

"I can imagine myself dancing in some small dark concert hall that smells of sweat, cigarettes, beer and in the background the music of Jetbone. If an album can inspire you those feelings, it means this is really rock & roll. And I like it! One of the surprises of 2012!" - FREE! Magazine

Johan Myhrgren - Vocals
Albin Linder - Drums
Tobias Bengtsson - Organ/Keys
Alin Riabouchkin - Guitar/Vocals
Gustav Sjödin - Bass/Vocals
Sixten Blixt - Guitar


Todays tune "Ain't It a Shame" taken from the their self titled debut album, produced by Robert Höglund & Jetbone, photographed by Robert Höglund, Erik Ambrosson & Anton Björklund


Upcoming Tourdates:

26 September - Loco Club, Valencia
27 September - Codigo de Barras, Almansa
28 September - Four Seasons, Castellon
29 September - Louie Louie, Estepona
2 October - Supersonic, Cadiz
2 November - CC Puben, Gävle


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