PirateBeirut

Blend is the first rock group in the middle east to be signed by EMI. Jad Souaid, one of the band members is Jade owner of The Basement.

Genre: Lebanese Rock, rock.
Year: 2004
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About: Growing up with the lingering effects of civil war on your doorstep can do strange things to a teenager's mind, especially when your backyard is somewhere in Beirut...Middle-Eastern violin suddendly switching into overdrive, steering a path behind the likes of A Perfect Circle and early Rage Against The Machine. The album sounds like some prog-rock grunge opera with the opening Belong,an epic flight beginning like a merger between a Portishead and a Radiohead ballad complete with a piano interlude, before rising to a blistering climax. Thank you merges a slow flange guitar with Middle-Eastern instruments before erupting into the albums most pure metal roar before dying away again. Lyrically, they are exploring their place in the world while tracks like Inc. fire well-aimed potshots at big business. Act One is rock solid. Reviewd by Lindsay Davis.

Credits:

Jad Aouad - beats
Haytham Chalhoub - bottom
Miran Gurunian - noises


Produced by: Philip Tohme and Blend
Mastered by Chris Blair at abbey road studios, lodon.
concept & art direction by Karma Tohme
Album photos by Rajwa Tohme & Rami El-Hajj
Band photos by Ghadi Smat
Jad Souaid - voices