MOE KABBARA
by
Moe Kabbara
All lyrics by Moe Kabbara
Composed and performed by Moe Kabbara
Mixed by Shilo Preshyon
Cedar, British Columbia
Mastered by Ziad Mouka
Woodwork Sound Studio
Beirut, Lebanon
ALBUM MERCH
Coming soon
About the Artist
Moe started writing indie folk songs in Beirut in 2010, where the underground music scene was welcoming enough to let him figure things out. Moving to Halifax the next year opened up a whole new world of music he'd never really paid attention to before—Eastern European Roma music, jazz manouche, all these sounds that were ironically way closer to home geographically than he'd realized. Turns out you sometimes have to cross an ocean to discover what was practically next door.
He spent years in Halifax absorbing everything from Roma rhythms to jazz harmonies, post-rock dynamics, and ambient textures, playing with local bands like Ostrea Lake, The Brooklyn Folly, and The Trundlers.Gradually, all these influences started mixing with his original alternative indie folk approach, creating something that made sense to him even if it didn't fit neatly into any particular box. His songs became bilingual affairs, switching between Arabic and English as he worked through themes of being somewhere else and remembering somewhere before.When lockdown hit, Moe found himself stuck in Montreal with a bedroom and a bunch of instruments. What started as killing time turned into recording his debut album The River—six tracks that somehow managed to pull together a decade of musical wandering into something that actually works.
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