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Overcoming distance on their mission to be musical stars, a young Bahraini band has just released their second single despite each member going to university in a different country.
Mission to the Moon, comprising bassist Ayesha Tyabji, singer Nour Boujacli and guitarist Mohamed ‘Mojay’ Abdulla, last week unveiled Purple Lemonade, taking a sojourn through the surreal and leaping forward boldly, in terms of musical production.
“It’s a song about nothing and everything,” Ayesha told GulfWeekly from Canada, where she is studying Life Sciences at the University of Toronto.
“We had come up with the idea for this song and recorded a demo of it in July, but we re-recorded everything, from start to finish, within the three days that we were all back in Bahrain in December.
“We also worked with Giorgio Nawfal, who really took our musical production to a whole new level, adding in whimsical elements and layers to the song.”
Nour and Mojay are, meanwhile, studying at the Lebanese American University and Boston University, respectively.
Like their previous song Loop, the new song comes in under three minutes and a laidback sound.
However, the song quickly veers into a psychedelic pop-inspired lane, with Nour crooning, “Excuse me, I just left, all the faces calling my name, it’s an accidental theft, of my own relations with myself.”
According to Nour, “The words in this song don’t really make much sense, and the focus was much more on the melody.”
Ayesha originally came up with the idea and the melody, wanting it to sound, musically, like a daydream, with some of the surreal elements, without “getting too crazy.”
“These surreal elements were integrated into the artwork that my friend Tala Al Kujuk came up with,” she added.
The trio are reticent about revealing upcoming singles, unsure when they will have time to come together and record again, but draw a certain musical magic from writing and working together.
“When we were recording Loop, I was unsure of myself, because that was the first time my voice would be going out there, but in that respect I was much more relaxed with this one,” Nour added.
“It is really cool, because we have very different tastes outside of music, but when we are in the shed where we come up with our music, it feels like a safe space.”
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