MY MOTHER'S KITCHEN

style

• arabic electropop
• mahraganat influence
• qanun samples
• hard electronic drums
• female alto
• sharp and commanding
• microtonal melody
• modern
• arabic accent
• warm

the numbers

bpm

103

key

B minor

energy

0.70

dance

0.94

valence

0.52

vocal at

7.7s

length

2:07

language

Ar

lyrics

(my mother's kitchen)

Forty-one degrees and the fan on the counter going
And a laptop with a hinge held on with masking tape
And the sound of my mother making tea behind me
Is in the bottom of the loop and always has been

My mother's kitchen (my mother's kitchen)
That's the room, my mother's kitchen
That's the whole studio, my mother's kitchen
My mother's kitchen

My mother's kitchen, kitchen, my mother's kitchen
Three international hits have got her cupboard door in them
My mother's kitchen, kitchen, my mother's kitchen
And a man in London calls that the sound of Cairo

He is not wrong, is the thing. That is the joke.
It IS the sound of Cairo. It is one specific kitchen in it.
He just thinks a city makes a sound. A woman made that sound.
(BEAT SLAMS BACK)

My mother's kitchen, kitchen, my mother's kitchen
Three international hits have got her cupboard door in them
My mother's kitchen, kitchen, my mother's kitchen
And a man in London calls that the sound of Cairo

(a woman made that sound...)