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Saru l​-​Qamar

by A Lily

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Żeżina Ddoqq L-Isħab 04:46
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Kemm Nixtieq Li Qed 03:48
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Flimkien Ngħaddu Mill-Bieb 04:07
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Ħajti Kollha, Qalbi 04:24
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Nitolbu Lil Dawk Li Lejlu 04:19
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Tħallinix 04:07
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Erba' Aħwa 03:53
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Sirna l-Qamar 04:22
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Issa, Kuljum, Għal Dejjem Żgħażagħ 05:03
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about

From the 60’s until the modern era, it was common for Maltese families to receive reel tapes from relatives abroad. Maltese emigrés resettled in Australia, the UK, Canada etc. would record their news onto cassette - often in the form of għana, traditional Maltese song - and mail the tapes back home. Amazingly, through the superlative archival work of Malta’s nonprofit heritage foundation Magna Żmien, many of these tapes still exist. A Lily (Phantom Limb boss and musician James Vella) - who is Maltese - was allowed access to Magna Żmien’s collection and in late 2022 began creating new musical works responding to these recordings. These works take up the oneiric bliss of new album Saru l-Qamar [Eng: They Became The Moon], his first release on his own label, and released in Malta under Kewn Records.

Arranged alongside hardware synthesis and “minimal DAW intervention”, the recordings on Saru l-Qamar take on ghostly, spiritual new qualities. Simple storytelling and news-sharing (“there was a burglar in the house yesterday”, “I can’t tell you how much I miss Malta”, “do your utmost to spend all your money at the feast”) become plaintive and evocative elegies for friends and family lost to time. “This is the meaning of the album title,” Vella writes. “Though these people have left us, they can never be truly forgotten, as without them we would not be here. They become part of the fabric of our lives, remaining forever and inexorably within the makeup of every subsequent generation. They have become the moon - always present, but always out of reach.”

This project is supported by Arts Council Malta

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released April 5, 2024

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