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Below The Radar 40

Track 14

Yara Asmar

"Jumana"

Previously unreleased

Multi-instrumentalist, video artist and puppeteer Yara Asmar currently lives in Beirut with her cat Mushroom. She is about to release her debut album Home Recordings 2018–2021, featuring music recorded at home on cassettes and a mobile phone over the past few years. On it she plays a range of instruments including the piano, her grandmother's old accordion which she found in the attic of her grandparents’ home in Lebanon, the metallophone, synth, and various deconstructed and disassembled toy pianos and music boxes, as well as field recordings of hymns sung in churches around Lebanon which Asmar has turned into waltzes. Home Recordings 2018–2021 is released by Hive Mind.

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