A melody , dedicated to my dear friend and guitar player JK, that was a source for inspiration and left too early... Recorded with help of another friend with almost same abbreviation - JaKe, and one of the best music companions I've had - Thomi Geiger on soprano saxophone. There are some cello (Ioanna Seira) and violins on the background (Mihai Ilea and Javier Lopez Sanz) at the end, that made it much more vibrant and warm. Was a pleasure to work on this one.

The piece "La 'Allam" is a Love Song composed by Ali Asaad. It is a piece of Ali's current work on new Syrian Songs, which is built on intimate spoken contemporary Syrian poetry (poet Hani Nadeem) with various dialects of Syrian-Levantine Arabic. The new identity is reflected musically by collaborating with arranger Sasha Shlain and Swiss Saxophonist Thomi Geiger, trying to bring the Syrian Pop Song into its new orbit, to confront new musical textures, effected by Jazz settings and electronics, targeting Syrians and Europeans.