IS THAT MY VOICE
Her mother's wedding recordings, cut up beyond recognition and rebuilt
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 144
- key
- F minor
- energy
- 0.71
- dance
- 0.95
- valence
- 0.54
- vocal at
- 13.5s
- length
- 7:59
- language
- Ar
lyrics
(sawti?) Sharit tasjilat farah ummi min soug al-jumaa I bought my mother's wedding tapes back from a market stall Kanet bitghanni fi 1989 w ana ma kuntu mawjooda She was singing in 1989 and I did not exist yet And I cut her into eight hundred pieces! And I put the pieces under an 808! And I called it mine, and it is not mine, and I called it mine! Is that my voice, is that my voice She asked me that, quietly, in a kitchen Is that my voice, is that my voice And I said no, that is your breathing Al-nafas huwa illi baqi. Al-kalimat rahat. Al-nafas baqi. The breathing is what survived. The words did not. The breathing did. And I cut her into eight hundred pieces! And I called it mine, and it is not mine! Is that my voice, is that my voice And I said no, that is your breathing (nafas...)