By Ruba Hattar
47soul band released a new Hiphop-Dabkeh song video clip entitled Dabkeh System, in which they featured over 55 male and female dancers, from more than five dance groups, and some snakes and reptiles! The last part of the video clip states, "all animal rights were protected in this project, while none of these HUMANS live with basic rights yet."
The Dabkeh System from the new album 'Semitics" got 100,000 views on the first day of release.
47SOUL is an Electro Arabic Dabke (Shamstep) band formed in Amman Jordan in 2013. The members are "rooted in Bilad Al-Sham, spanning the divides from Amman to the Galilee to Ramallah and the rest of the Palestinian Diaspora." This new sound of 47SOUL has rapidly amassed fans in the Arab World and Europe by blasting the electric Arabic Dabke sound through underground music scenes. On top of the beats that have been bumping in the Arab World for centuries, 47SOUL hypes it up with analog synthesizers, hypnotic guitar lines, and shattering verses from the four singers.
"Every show ends in relentless dance and trance from all parties involved." The band says.
According to the band website; "Their lyrics, mixing Arabic and English, call for celebration and freedom in the struggle for equality, inside Bilad Al Sham and throughout the world."
The UK based group's lyrics and names of albums always refer to Palestinian-Israeli issues in sarcastic style such as "Balforn Promise" (which sounds in Arabic like in the oven but refers to Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government in 1917 announcing support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine). The new album is called "Semitics" referring to the fact that Arabs and Jews are both Semites.
