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Faragh (Niklas Paschburg Remix)

from Monologue Reworks by Yousef Kekhia

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“They told me freedom is an imaginary thing. Yet here I am, free but in silence”

Faragh illuminates the first of several intimate remixes, sublimating Syrian electronic-folk composer Yousef Kekhia’s songs with new layers of introspection. Kekhia’s original lyrics sing of loss, truth, and what comes after. Producer Niklas Paschburg approaches this intimate story with ambient, sensitive frequencies, slowly opening it up for new sources of light to find their way. Carried by music and framed by evocative simplicity, the dialogue is renewed.

“Take me back to my country and don’t tell me it’ll be rebuilt I’ve seen enough destruction to understand who remains silent”

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لما الغرفة بتصغر قدامي
و الخطوط، عم تكبر
الغريب القاعد مكاني
و الإيمان عم يصغر

لما الكل بعالم تاني
و الفراغ عم يغمق
ماعم نفيق ولا حتى ثواني
و الحروب عم تكثر

خدوني على بلادي
و ما تقلي رح تعمر
بكفيني الدمار القدامي
لأفهم، مين أخرس

ما عم اقدر سيطر على حالي
ولا حتى اش أخسر
قالولي الحرية شي خيالي
ليكني حر بس أخرس


As I feel the room grow small around me
and the lines are growing deeper
This stranger sitting instead of me
and faith getting weaker

When everyone is in another world
and the emptiness gets bleaker
We lay dormant, not awake for a single second
and the wars are multiplying

Take me back to my country
and don’t tell me it’ll be rebuilt
I’ve seen enough destruction
to understand who remains silent

I’m losing control over myself
not even what I’m losing
They told me freedom is an imaginary thing
Yet here I am, free but in silence

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from Monologue Reworks, track released December 11, 2020
Original by Yousef Kekhia
Rework by Niklas Paschburg
Artwork by @lipppusch
Artwork Design by @bishoo_000
Description written by Lola Baraldi

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Yousef Kekhia Berlin, Germany

Yousef Kekhia is a singer-songwriter from Aleppo, now based in Berlin.

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