Jasmin Albash Discovers Gold
One thing hitherto missing on Jasmin Albash’s long list of credits was a record released under her own name. Missing no longer! “Gold”, the first proper Jasmin Albash album, will hit the shops on 18 September via Irascible Music.
Growing up as the daughter of a Swiss mother and a Palestinian father in the rural Northeast of Switzerland, Jasmin Albash found it hard to connect with her father’s distant native culture. Involving herself in a variety of musical projects, including her “soulful electronica” guise, The RK, none of these showed any hint of a Middle Eastern influence. Things changed when Albash became involved in the “Basel – Ramallah”- project initiated by Kaserne Basel. A quartet of female singers, two from Basel, including Albash, and two from Palestine, Kallemi toured Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Israel – and, of course, Palestine. Deeply affected by the experience, Albash began to study the culture of her father – a Palestinian refugee raised in Jordan – much more closely. “Gold”, and the abandonment of her pseudonyms, is the result of these studies, an album that documents song by song her attempts to uncover a hitherto hidden side of her own psyche as well as a long neglected part of her family history.
Stylistically, “Gold” continues on the electronica path of The RK. The album was recorded partly in Berlin with producers Aaron Ahrends and Joschka Bender of Neubau Music, and Joachim Piehl.
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