Tel-Aviv duo nAbi Release ‘Kapara’ Featuring Magi Hikri (city Slang)

NEW BEATS AND OLD MELODIES FROM TEL AVIV DUO NABI FEAT. MAGI HIKRI NEW SINGLE “KAPARA” IS OUT TODAY

“Matching scorching bass elements to hip-hop beats, lucid electronics, and a hefty dose of re-tooled traditional Middle East culture” Clash Mag

“nAbi’s soundscape is immediately striking, combining musical elements of their Middle Eastern and Mediterranean heritage with such seemingly disparate genres as hip-hop and electro-bass.” 

High Snobiety ‘Kapara’ Video

Tel-Aviv beatmakers nAbi arrived on the scene earlier this year, mixing of reggaeton, electro-bass and middle eastern arrangements and instrumentations into conscious and wild pan-middle-eastern club bangers. Now they return with a brand new single track: “Kapara” literally translated to “My Darling” still uses their trademark foundation of heavy beats and samples but introduces singer Magi Hikri on vocals and with that a refined pop sensibility to the nAbi-sound.

Magi Hikri has made a name for herself over the past years with a handful of singles and an album on her own. Born and bred in the Yemenite neighborhood of south Tel Aviv, and having an Iraqi grandmother, MAGI’s first sonic encounters included 2000 year-old Yemeni prayers and contemporary Iraqi music. The storytelling structure and emotional content of Arabian music naturally led to her interest in Hip-Hop, soul, rock, electro dance grooves and ultimately to the collaboration with “nAbi” “NABI” is both the Hebrew and Arab word for “prophet”, the brainchild of the two music producers Ori Rousso and Matan Spenser.

Ori and Matan who have been working together since 8 years, have made an effort to reach out to the talented hotpot of artists in their field by collaborating with local artists rather than sampling older music. Musical community is a big theme of their project: “We come from a middle eastern country that is soaked in the cultures of the people who live here, who originally came from Arabic countries and at the same time this is a place that is heavily connected and influenced by western culture and we believe that expressing this combination through our music is the best way for us to express our identity”. An EP collecting all nAbi tracks and a lot of new jams will be released in Autumn on City Slang, including, another Track with Magi Hikri. nAbi’s own particular combo of traditional Jewish Yemenite sounds and club beats has a long legacy in dance history; from Coldcut’s cheekily uncredited sample of Ofra Haza in the benchmark remix of Eric B And Rakim’s “Paid In Full”, to the more recent record-breaking results of A-WA updating the Yemenite sound all the way to the top of the charts all over the Middle East. If you’re interested in the origins of the sound of the Yemenite Diaspora in Israel please check out this compilation: „Da’asa – The Haunting Sounds of Yemenite-Israeli Funk 1973-1984“ on Fortuna Records

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LADAAT – https://youtu.be/_GVr9Ae7KwM

SACHI – https://youtu.be/GIpvHca7zIU

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