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PPL Songs (Aghani El Khalq) is a label founded by artist Abdullah Miniawy and operates by Phosphoric Passport. It’s a platform, festival, and movement that supports artists with fair deals, protects their authorship, and reimagines how music reaches people rooted in the human voice as presence, protest, and poetry.
The god panicked when they lost their letters and creation fell behind. From their astonished eyes burst veins of wonder, staring at the life that slipped from my small hands, dissolving like salt against the wind, drifting through a dusty orbit. Salt and dust entwine, and from them rises the splendor of a monument where the Lord stands, crying out to humankind: “My childhood was stolen, my childhood vanished in the blink of an eye.” In an improvised dialogue between Abdullah Miniawy and Hvad, the two unleash their second record after Notice A Tiny Scratch For The Blue Behind. The duo’s music erupts raw and unphilosophized, undigitalized, born one night in Copenhagen where words first emerged on a harmonium steeped in memories that, as dreamers always feared, would never return. Through the art of the lost mine and the falcon watchers’ gaze, Miniawy improvises words, letting the air itself revolve around each syllable until a theme unfolds like a letter addressed back to the past.
ABDULLAH MINIAWY & HVAD
CHILDHOOD PASSED IN A BLINK
Length 23:44 MIN
Released on PPL Songs
Music written and composed by Abdullah Miniawy & HVAD
Lyrics, vocals & melodies Abdullah Miniawy
Harmonium, Arghul, Metal Bowls HVAD/Hari Shankar Kishore
Recording, Mix, Mastering and Lacquer cut HVAD/ Hari Shankar Kishore
Artwork: Archive image from Hari Shankar Kishore family.
Taken in 1951 in Muzzafanagar, India.
Graphic Design: Studio Garden
A peacock dreams of being a poet. It ponders, trying to shed its colors, turning its feathers into a gradient of flesh. On the other side, a poet longs for the peacock’s colors; a galactic blend of earth, forest, sea and sky, as seen from a vantage point. The poet can close their eyes and absorb the knowledge of the finite. Yet, trapped in a monotone concentration, eyebrows plucked down to 111, they miss much. The peacock, dipping deep into the ink of the poet's pen, sails through a tube into the poet's body. A fluttering storm erupts, reversing the roles: the peacock finds itself under arrest warrant While the poet, his utterance collapsing into a cry; haunting, like a peacock's wail struggles to describe the world.
Music written and composed by Abdullah Miniawy.
'Kemet song 𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖' composed by Robinson Khoury.
'Poem of the poems قصيدة القصائد' and 'Peacock dreams (Rêves de paon) أحلام الطاووس ft. Erik Truffaz' created in collaboration with Robinson Khoury and Jules Boittin.
Voice, lyrics, composition & artistic direction: Abdullah Miniawy
Trombones: Robinson Khoury, and Jules Boittin
Arrangement for trombones: Robinson Khoury
Mixing: Johannes Wagner aka. J.Manuel
Mastering: James Ginzburg
Artwork: Self-Portrait 2022, acrylic on canvas by Abdullah Miniawy
PR: Marc Chonier
Production: Phosphoric Passport, Abdullah Miniawy
Graphic Design: Studio Garden
Special thanks to Beatrice Bianchini, Aly Talibab, Maïna Ba, Henri Nunn, Lily Matras, Studio Prado, Stacey de Voe, Shoof & Selim Sameh.