Yasmine Hamdan Da

Lebanese singersongwriter Yasmine Hamdan is an eminently cool addition to the indiepop landscape. She was the cofounder of the groundbreaking duo Soapkills, which might have been the very first electronic band in postwar Beirut. Now a solo artist and based in Europe after a childhood split between Lebanon, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Greece, Hamdan blends new material with reworked traditional songs in a smokycool electropop setting. Her choice to sing exclusively in Arabic isn t a parochial one: Instead, i