Years active 2012–present Record label INDIE | Albums Khebez Dawle | |
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Past members Rabea (surname unknown), killed in Syria Members Anas Maghrebi, Muhammad Bazz, Bashar Darwish, Hikmat Qassar Similar Kay Ray, Syrian, Iris Criens, El Morabba3, Watcha Clan | ||
khebez dawle launching album video
Khebez Dawle (arabic lit. 'Government Bread') is a Syrian post-rock band led by Anas Maghrebi. All the band members are war refugees currently awaiting a response about their status in Germany's former Berlin Tempelhof Airport, which has been repurposed into a large shelter and housing unit for migrants.
Contents
- khebez dawle launching album video
- Khebez dawle nar big up berlin 2015
- Formation and flight
- In motion
- Songs
- References
Khebez dawle nar big up berlin 2015
Formation and flight
In 2012, Anas Maghrebi formed Khebez Dawle in the midst of the Syrian Uprising. Before the war, the band were active underground because of Syrian censorship.
As the Syrian Civil War ensued, the guys opted at first to wait it out, while each individual was simultaneously trying to avoid conscription into the Syrian army; but after the band's drummer and activist Rabea was killed; Bazz, Qassar, and Darwish fled Syria for Lebanon, and Maghrebi followed in 2013.
After spending two years in Beirut, members of the band deemed staying on in Lebanon as having no future ahead for them, though they'd managed to record a limited pressing of their new album.
In motion
Thereafter, the band moved to Turkey, from where they made the perilous boat trip with twelve other refugee musicians on a dinghy of sixteen souls across the Aegean Sea to the Greek island of Lesbos. From Greece, they moved through Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia.
Throughout their journey, the band used their records to pay (in part) for their trips, and even presented their records as identification.
According to some sources, the band's first performance in Europe was playing in a refugee camp.
Khebez Dawle did their first substantial European gig in Croatia's capital Zagreb at Klub Močvara (lit. "Club of the Swamp"), a popular cultural venue that in the past had hosted Mogwai and God is an Astronaut. The men were asked by activists to perform at a concert supporting refugees. At the sold-out club event, the bandmates played with borrowed instruments to a full house largely attended by Croatians.
Subsequently, Khebez Dawle got invitations to play two shows in Austria, and then performed in Cologne, Germany on New Year's Eve.
Khebez Dawle's first album was released in August, 2015.
In March 2016, they performed on the stage of Cologne's Lanxess Arena alongside major German literary and musical luminaries at the Lit.Cologne benefit festival for the Til Schweiger Foundation, which seeks to serve as a less bureaucratic means to quickly aid newly arrived refugees.
Songs
Belsharea'Khebez Dawle · 2015
AayeshKhebez Dawle · 2015
Ya SahKhebez Dawle · 2015