SANAM صنم + Barbican Estate
Live performance by SANAM (Beirut) and Barbican Estate (Tokyo) at Rich Mix London on December 5th.
SANAM صنم + Barbican Estate
Live performance by SANAM (Beirut) and Barbican Estate (Tokyo) at Rich Mix London on December 5th.
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Fri 5 Dec
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Rich Mix London
Rich Mix London, London
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This Friday! at @richmixlondon SANAM صنم (Beirut) + Barbican Estate (Tokyo) Doors open at 7.30 @barbicanestateband on stage at 8.20 @sanam.music_ at 9.20 Tickets available via Dice SANAM is a Beirut-based sextet that merges psych/kraut, improv/skronk, electronics, goth, and jazz elements with traditional Egyptian song and modern Arabic poetry in a compelling brew of widescreen hybrid avant-rock. Emerging from Beirut’s fiercely creative independent scene, the group features Sandy Chamoun (vocals), Antonio Hajj (bass), Farah Kaddour (buzuq), Anthony Sahyoun (guitar, synth), Pascal Semerdjian (drums), and Marwan Tohme (guitars)—each an accomplished musician in their own right, with ties to influential Lebanese acts like Kinematik, Postcards, Al Rahel al Kabir, and Oviid. Formed following an invitation to collaborate with Hans Joachim Irmler (of German krautrock legends Faust) at the Irtijal Festival in 2021, the band solidified its identity during a recording residency in rural Lebanon a