Mashrou' Leila - Cavalry (Official Music Video) | مشروع ليلى - معاليك

Mashrou Leila return to North America this fall with the Beirut School Tour.
See them live in a city near you - for tour dates + Tickets: https://bnds.us/5np7gt
sep 28 - Hanover NH / Spaulding Auditorium
sep 30 - Cambridge MA / The Sinclair
oct 03 - Los Angeles CA / Regent Theater
oct 05 - San Francisco CA / The Regency Ballroom
oct 07 - Toronto ON / The Danforth Music Hall
oct 09 - Montreal QC / Club Soda
oct 11 - Queens NY / Knockdown Center - GET LOST NYC
oct 12 - Washington DC / 9.30 Club

Stream and buy CAVALRY by Mashrou Leila: http://hyperurl.co/MashrouLeilaCavalry
Buy The Beirut School LP: https://mashrouleila.tmstor.es

Directed by Jessy Moussallem

Cavalry is the lead single from The Beirut School, the new compilation celebrating ten years of trailblazing Lebanese indie band Mashrou’ Leila.

The accompanying video is the band’s second collaboration with director Jessy Moussallem, following her award-winning film for Roman.

The video revolves around the devastating cruelty and machismo of militarized oppression, which enters our homes, and plays out in our domestic life.

Calling to mind Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager arrested outside her home for confronting Israeli soldiers, and thrown into the public gaze as an activist, the children in the film reflect Mashrou’ Leila’s own struggles with political power, having recently been banned from being with their audiences in Jordan and Egypt, and finding themselves at the center of yet another human rights polemic.

The film reminds us perhaps of the energized idealism we had as youths coming into the world, and believing we could change it, before political fatigue left us jaded and defeated.

(please scroll down for lyrics)

Music by Firas Abou Fakher, Ibrahim Badr, Carl Gerges, Hamed Sinno, Haig Papazian / Produced by Joe Goddard and Mashrou Leila / Lyrics by Hamed Sinno / Recorded at La Frette Studios, Paris / Additional Recordings with Joe Gaddard in Sounds and Sons, London / Mixed by Fadi Tabbal and Anthony Sahyoun at Tunefork Studios, Beirut/ Mastered by Matthias Heinstein

Video Produced by:
Wissam Smayra - Clandestino
Marlene Jaber - Clandestino
Olivier Muller - Phantasm
Sorcha Shepherd - Caviar
Jakob Preischl - BWGTBLD
Hady Dahrouj - Mathematic

Cinematography: Sofian El Fani
Editing: Tianès Montasser
Color Grading: Mathieu Caplanne
Sound Engineer: Rawad Hobeika

Production Manager: Marie-Lynn Nasrallah
Stylist: Ola Achkar
Art Director: Carlo Kassabian
1st Assistant Director: Amanda Kik
Location Manager: Jad Nehmeh
1st Assistant Camera: Jonathan Saccal
Casting: Ayman Hamawi

Studio KGB
Nicolas bourgeois

BMM Studios
Alexis Jung
Joseph Petitpain

Production coordinators:
Leah Yared - Clandestino
David Borens - Phantasm

Editor assistant: Paul Julien
Equipments: Gamma Engineering

VFX Editors : Vincent Goy Cecile Crilout
VFX Executive Producers : Guillaume Marien Hadi Dahrouge

إيّـــــاكَ التطوّسَ بـالعروش
الطغيانْــــ يُزَهِّرْ عصيانـــــ
لــو رحـــ أموتـــــ مئة مرة
رحـــــــ أعـــود مــئة مـرة
مصقولِ الحســـــــامْـــــــ
أتَشَـظّى جيشـــاً يُشــبِهُني
نلتحمْـــ بِبعضْ وَنسـتعصي

جيشـــــــــــك ومعـــاليه
مـــــــــش حــــــ يقدرلي
مـــــــــا بتقدر على قلبي
مـــــــــش حــــــ تقدرلي

في قاعِــ كُـلِّ شاهقــٍ تُربَتي
أَنْـبُـتُـــــ مَصْقُولَ الْأَقْـلَاَمِـــ
الْجِبَــــــــــالُ حَامِلُوهَــــا
بدأو بحصاها حـتى أَنْجَزُوا
حَيْثُــ القُوّةُ تُبْنى بالوُجومِــ
كُلُّ صوتٍـــــ يُرْفعُ هجومُـــ

جيشـــــــــــك ومعـــاليه
مـــــــــش حــــــ يقدرلي
مـــــــــا بتقدر على قلبي
مـــــــــش حــــــ تقدرلي

جيشـــــــــــك فداء قلبي
مـــــــــش حــــــ تكسرني
جيشـــــــــــك فداء قلبي
مـــــــــش حــــــ تكسرني

لـكمـــــــــ قيمكمـــــــــ
والحبـــــــــــــ لنـــــــــا.
لكمـــــــــ عاداتكمــــــــ
لنـــــــــا الموســــــــيقى.
لكمــــــــــ تقــــــــــاليد
لنــــــــــا المســــــــتقبل.
لـكمـــــــــ قيمكمـــــــــ
والحبـــــــــــــ لنـــــــــا.