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Eclectic vibes: The surf rock five-piece Habibi, playing at Bric on April 11, fuse 1960s girl group harmonies
with lyrics written in English and Farsi.
Gnarly in Farsi
Middle Eastern surf rock act
Habibi playing at Bric House
A surf rock girl group will bring
its ’60s-style harmonies and Middle
Eastern themes to the Bric House in Fort
Greene on April 11. The band Habibi, a
name that means “my love” in Arabic,
formed in New York City in 2011, but
the shared Detroit background of singer
Rahill Jamalifard and guitarist Lenaya
“Lenny” Lynch — and their mutual passion
for the Motor City’s rich musical history
and its large Middle Eastern community
— was the lynchpin for the band,
according to the lead singer.
“Lenny grew up with loving the
Stooges, Suzi Quatro, a lot of that rock
’n’ roll stuff and also Motown,” said Jamalifard.
“And also there’s a huge Arab
community there. I was also raised with
Iranian, Arabic, and Turkish music.”
The band, which is now a five-piece,
released its self-titled debut in 2013,
which combined Lynch’s jangling guitar
MUSIC
Habibi at the Bric House Ballroom
647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place in
Fort Greene, (718) 683–5600, www.
bricartsmedia.org. April 11 at 8 pm.
$18 ($15 in advance).
with back-and-forth vocals reminiscent
of classic 1960s girl groups such
as the Ronettes. But rather than singing
about boys, the lyrics drew from
the rich Iranian poetic tradition and
folklore that Jamalifard’s father passed
down to her, filtered through her own
experience.
For example, the song “Sweetest Talk”
is about an empowered Middle Eastern
heroine moving smoothly through
the Western world — which is part of
the band’s identity, according to the
musician.
“She’s a representation of me or a personification
of the band, a strong female
character who is in the Western world
but also of the Eastern world,” Jamalifard
said. “It was a way to navigate my
personal relationship in society or how
I feel within it.”
Lynch’s riffs echo the late godfather
of surf rock Dick Dale, who has
his own connection to the Middle East,
since his grandparents emigrated from
Lebanon.
After a brief hiatus, the group returned
in 2018 with the short album “Cardamom
Garden,” which had a much stronger
Iranian focus, with songs written in
Farsi, including a Persian-language cover
of the 1960s garage rock song “Green
Fuz” — for which Jamalifard had to
enlist her father to help with some of
the translation.
“It’s already an abstract song, but my
dad helped me with that,” she said.
The Williamsburg band is currently
working on its second full-length album,
due out by the end of this year,
according to Jamalifard.
This record will be darker and more
mature, she said, and will include influences
from Jamalifard’s post-punk
side project, as well as her recently acquired
skill on the vibraphone.
“It does sound like Habibi, but it’s
with a lot more age and knowledge,”
she said.
The new record will include songs in
English, in Farsi, and possibly more languages,
according to the singer.
Brooklynites can hear some of the
band’s new material at its upcoming session,
when Habibi opens for Portland
indie-folk act Y La Bamba.
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