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Musician: Hannie Abokhamis
Location: Leicester
Instruments: voice, bongo, tom tom
Music: Palestinian / desert techno
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 听听Listen (5'17) to 'Ya Munira' (The Bride) written and published by Hannie A.
听听Listen (4'40) to an interview with Hannie
'I spent my youth in the Sinai Desert in Egypt where I picked up lots of African drumming beats and rhythms '
How I came to this music:
I was born in Nazareth. I ended up in prison when I was 9 years old for stealing an apple or something. We learned to pick up the drums, to pick up instruments, to pick up everything. But it was very hard for us. All the time I thought about the hard way and the sweet way. I used to fit them to each other and sing about it.
After three years in prison, I ran away to be with a Bedouin tribe. That's where I learned my music. I spent my youth in the Sinai Desert where I picked up lots of drumming beats from North Africa, East Africa, West Africa and Egyptian rhythms - Nubian music. With the tribe, I learned the rhythm of the camels, fire sounds, echoes and bird sounds.
Anything to do with skin is a drum. I was brought up to play bongo and tom tom which is a double drum from Morocco. For myself, I used to make my own instruments from plastics which I'd tie up to make into a drum.
My voice is like an instrument. If people don't understand what I'm singing, they will understand the melody. If they don't understand the melody, they will understand the rhythms. What I'm doing doesn't exist anywhere else. I call it 'desert techno' because I carry it from the tribe to the techno.
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