On / Off

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Album Info

Release Date: 2020-10-22

Label: Balcoon

Bachar wanted to record this fifth record, On/Off in his native Lebanon. More precisely in the main room of his family house, a stone house standing alone in the mountains north of Beirut. In the house, electricity goes on & off twice, a day. During the night, hostile and freezing, hyenas are heard; during the day, the birds whistle with serenity, and the light of day shines through the windows, each day slightly differently… This constant duality becomes a source of inspiration for Bachar, obsessed as he is by this rustic environment which exacerbates the senses.

On 'Chaffeh Chaffeh', Bachar Mar-Khalifé sculpts a unique original sound space. A throbbing dub track, infused with an R&B vibe.