Charif Megarbane - Hawalat Artist_South Penguin and is joined by saxophonist

and is joined by saxophonist Frank Lowe

the songs speak of the life experiences of the band

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both of whom also worked on his 2013 released album

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Charif Megarbane - Hawalat Artist_South Penguin and is joined by saxophonistIf Hawalat sounds like a world tour thats because it essentially is. As much as Marzipan is a picture of Lebanon from the inside, Hawalat kind of picks up from where Marzipan finished but more looking to the outside, the diaspora, to the notion of exile. Megarbane says he is interested in the connections between the global and the domestic, the mundane and the cosmic, and wanted to create space for non linear progression. Hawalat is based on the idea