Nayoo, once again, returns with what he describes as something far from what his generation sees, hears, or feels, a sound coming from the future of what Sham music will be missing. This EP reflects not only the cultural loss caused by the ongoing geopolitical changes in Bilad Al-Sham region, but also the shifting ways people think, feel, and hear their own people music.
Folk music has become something exotic to its own people, treated like a fading treasure we try to catch a glimpse of before it disappears, something artists only samples. But that’s exactly what this EP introduces: a first step toward the long-awaited album Ma Qabl Al A’asa, which will dive deeper into the music that Nayoo’s tribe and the surrounding area still dance to today, raw, on-soil full of light bulbs parties where you don’t need a woman to get in or a ticket to buy, just a desire to join the tribe and move to the rhythms of Mijwiz, Choby, and what comes in between.