Hadi Eldebek and Layale Chaker
Recorded
September 27, 2022
Archived
September 27, 2022
39:28 minutes
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Id:
dde001648
Description
Friends Hadi Eldebek (34) and Layale Chaker (32) discuss their relationship to music as a means of connecting to their Lebanese culture. They consider how translation, drawing from different musical influences, and their audience's reactions shape their musical practices.Subject Log / Time Code
Layale (L) shares her first memories of music during her childhood in Paris, when her family left Lebanon during its Civil War. She recalls the cassette tapes her family would record and exchange that included music and conversations.
Hadi (H) remembers when he first picked up the oud and how he came to learn to play it and to play music with others while growing up.
L and H consider the wide variety of musical influences outside of a formal music education.
L shares the difficulty in sharing and playing traditional music, and they both discuss their audiences’ ability to relate to the music they’re playing.
H considers how he engages with foreign music that he can’t understand.
H and L talk about the music they like to play, and L shares why she rarely plays folk music.
H says that he cares about sharing a higher level of context about the music he is playing with other musicians.
L and H discuss the difference between playing within a musical tradition but not necessarily working to preserve it.
L and H talk about how music can create a sense of ecstasy and tarab.
H shares how playing music in New York through his group, The Brooklyn Nomads, has allowed him to find a greater sense of community.
L and H reflect on tanfis and how music and musicians have the ability to heal others.
Participants
- Hadi Eldebek
- Layale Chaker