Badeela - September 2023

Badeela is SceneNoise’s monthly alternative MENA music playlist, bringing you our favourite feel good tunes and cathartic alt-rock gems released in September.

This month, popular Egyptian band Massar Egbari released their track ‘Asef’, where they combine smooth guitar riffs with expressive horns for a colourful single. Meanwhile, alt-pop singer-songwriter Idreesi released the latest in his string of collaborations with producer Ahmed Diaa with the track ‘Zymal Ketab By2ol’, where you can hear the Jordanian artist settling into his brand-new sound, which draws from genres like 90s Arabic pop and indie-rock.

Egyptian alt-pop band Sharmoofers’s latest release, ‘Sha2lebty Routiny’, can also be found on this edition of Badeela. The song’s contemplative lyrics and instrumentation are brightened with vivid arrangement ideas and quirky vocal flows.

‘Moonshine II’ by Egyptian experimentalist Maurice Louca’s project, Maurice Louca & Elephantine, is also featured in this month’s selection, where a playful yet intricate arrangement of mallets, woodwinds, and horns falls in and out of harmony. Melodies start to drift until they spiral out of control,  eventually realigning to form the same thoughtful phrases they had diverged from.

Tracklist:

Zymal Ketab By2ol - Idreesi X Ahmed Diaa

Majaz - Heila Hei

Rasas - Elyom

Malaaz - El Baab Mwareb

Massar Egbari - Asef

Sharmoofers - Sha2lebty Routiny

Nada Nader X Amr Omar - Hayaty Hafla

Maurice Louca & Elephantine - Moonshine Part II

Intibint Ft. Ekin Oykener - Sunflower

Statues Of Sinking Men - Burning Sun (Ft. Ghada Sheri, Klinsh)

Dirty Backseat - Te3rafy - Alt.verson

Salma Murad - Esh Alsabab

Aikk - My Love, Unknown

Yamane - 90's Kid

Listen to the full playlist here: