⌘ Journal
Notes from
the workshop.
The craft behind the songs — how Raï w-Phonk works, where the words come from, and what it takes to build a catalog with no one's permission.
Leaving the Village
درب الغبار
What Darb El Ghubar is actually about — the elders who carried the gasba into the neon, met the lost youth halfway, and walked everyone home. A film about ghorba.
Ghaddara: Writing Betrayal at 123 BPM
غدّارة
The story behind the heartbreak — the drumless mawwal, the earthquake bass, the double-edged Darija — with a provisional piano score for members while a corrected transcription is prepared.
From Rebetika to Raï w-Phonk
Three musics of the powerless — how a Greek underground tradition, studied in an Illinois classroom, led a Tunisian drummer to build a genre.
What is Raï w-Phonk?
راي و فونك
A new genre, defined by the man who built it — gasba over 808s, Darija and French in one breath, and a bass that shakes the road.
