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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