ONE SMALL SEED MAGAZINE Issue #28 Digital 03 | Page 38

Your single ‘Ta7t el Daghet’ (Under Pressure) has
a bit of a loud-quiet-loud vibe to it – something
the Pixies did a lot. While it has a steady riff to
it, the vocals sound melodic until there is a more
aggressive ‘burst out’ following a soft, dreamy
episode at the end of the song. For those who
don’t understand the words of the song, was there
something specific you wanted to achieve with
this structure or did that just come naturally?
Our songs, until completion, are a work in progress.
We may have planned for each song to sound a
certain way when we kicked off our creative process.
However, from the vibes we get from one another
while performing, and the artistic direction of our
producer, we continue to tweak until the final sound.
So in the case of ‘Ta7t Al Daghet’, which means
‘under pressure’, the lyrics tackle the various pressures
that the youth of today are facing all around the
world – social, cultural, economic, and many more
which we’re very passionate about. The lyrical and
musical arrangement of the song is intended to help
the listener understand the depth of our worries and
frustrations via the vocals, and the build up of these
pressures via the crescendo at the end of the song...
it’s the way we release it all, just like a ‘Pressure Pot’.