30/06/2026
A little more on the making of Rmoosh Arabiya ft. Dani Moham 🌞
Most of the time, my process for making tunes is more jamming on my MPC and letting the music decide where to go rather than having a specific idea of what I want to make. But I did have an intention here, some kind of fusion of Lovers Rock and Desert Blues / Arab folk. I had a bass line and this melody kind of came to me. MoMo Loudiyi the humble and incredibly skilled guitarist he is, encouraged me to sing it to him, and despite my insecurities, he played it perfectly and brought it to life.
I then played the sketch to any friend Yuri, who suggested adding a female voice. I’m wary of working with singers, it’s such a sensitive thing and can totally ruin a song, but it seemed like a good idea. I wanted a female Arabic singer, and my friend Ahmed in Melbourne Ahmad Atawneh connected me to Dani. It was totally serendipitous…when I was talking to him, for some reason Al Sarah and the Nubatones came to my head. Not because I wanted the voice to sound like that…I really don’t know why! But he tells me ‘I have someone in mind’, sends me a video, and it’s Dani doing a cover of an Al Sarah and the Nubatones song 👀⚡️so it instantly felt like it was meant to be. And her voice totally blew me away!
She liked the track, and wrote beautiful lyrics….It’s a love song but also a bit tongue in cheek…it fits the track perfectly. I have infinite respect for Dani as an artist and as a human, her roots are from Lebanon / Syria, and she managed to write the lyrics and record the song during a very difficult and scary time. Plus she kindly used Dalia (my dog’s name) for the chorus so that was the icing on the cake!
Thanks to everyone who has been supporting the track so far….the album ‘Azizi in Space’ is available for pre-order on Bandcamp👇
Sadeedo.bandcamp.com/album/azizi-in-space
The last slide is the original demo voice note Dani sent me, recorded in her car 💥
