Maltash - Barki (2022) [Hi-Res]

An attempt to deconstruct Metal, Industrial, Experimental Hip Hop, Sludge and Tarab at the same time: With his latest album 'Barki', Maltash aspires to establish 'Post-Tarab' as a musical genre.

Maltash (Arabic: ملطش, “wicked”) is a Lebanese experimentalist, who is steadily remodelling his musical influences: Drawing from Arabic Wedding Music, Byzantine Music of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Islamic Call to Prayer and various opposite tonal languages, such as music from the Lebanese-Syrian singer George Wassouf and Ambient Drone Metal duo The Angelic Process.

‘Barki’ is an exemplary statement on how to make an artist’s outcry heard with a steady underlying dark humour that is satirical in its nature. Maltash insists on being heard by propagating Noise-Metal-Post-Tarab waves through a certain rawness that is in its core ’Barki’ (Arabic: بركي, “maybe”).

Traditionally, Tarab is a societal and communal phenomenon that lives in Levant culture. Maltash’s experimentation contradicts these elements and touches on the individual conditions that come after Tarab has been practiced. The Post-Tarab endeavours in this opus touch on the unapologetic nature of populism, the emotions that come with populism and Industrial Noise-Metal solitary.

The album sets a precedent for the Levant, bringing an obscurity to light that has lived within.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Maltash - Fayesh (3:58)
1.02 - Maltash - Smaani (4:01)
1.03 - Maltash - Ay Ay Ay Ay (4:37)
1.04 - Maltash - Kaletli (5:34)
1.05 - Maltash - Barki (7:17)
1.06 - Maltash - Ma Fi Shi (4:03)
1.07 - Maltash - Aadi (5:57)