As a christmas gift, and because you’ve all been so naughty this year, here is a link to download our christmas album , Min L Manjam 3al Marreekh, to enjoy this season. Please feel free to share the songs and this link with your friends.

And if you really liked them, you can get the limited printed edition of this album (that comes inside a tin can) from virgin megastore and from la maison du disque.

And did you check the clip of “Min L Manjam 3al marreekh” on youtube?

Enjoy!!

Elie Akl , my guitarist friend, who is performing the solo on the track, suggested that we record a talkbox solo… And I adored the idea.

A talkbox, as Wikipedia defines it, is an effects device that allows a musician to modify the sound of a musical instrument. The musician controls the modification by lip syncing, or by changing the shape of their mouth. The effect can be used to shape the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto a musical instrument.

So mainly, the output of the guitar goes into the input of the talkbox. Then the guitarist takes the pipe, puts it in his mouth, and plays the guitar while controlling the sound as if he was speaking. This sound is then recorded with a mic.

He went to his place, got his talkbox, and we played with it a bit till finally we decided to use the setup I am illustrating in the chart below.

We used a fast autotune, on the solo, with automation, and we applied the effect only on few notes to create an annoying robotic cher effect :)

You can listen to the result here. First I included the clean guitar, with no effects added, then the final solo on the mix.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSEt6jcBukA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNAB7TXX_A

Meen was performing yesterday at the Brumana festival, and this is a short montage of the performance. Meen will be also participating in other festivals this summer so stay tuned!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrm46KhTWo

We uploaded the last two songs of the Gebran Tueini Memorial on youtube. check them out by clicking on the pictures above. Also, others have uploaded the other 3 songs too, and you can find them by doing a simple search in youtube.

The album was distributed for free yesterday. In case you couldn’t make it to the event, you can still get the songs by downloading them for free from here:

• Sawtak 3am youghmour kil libnen
• Al kasam
• 3inna wizarat
• Khabirneh ossa
• Akeed honik

Just right-click and save as. Enjoy!

It’s been around three weeks that we are working on our new project (produced by Annahar newspaper).  We wrote five new songs never ever been released or been played in any concert before!!

We spent the last few days recording these songs. We have few more tracks to add and we will be mixing next week.  These five new songs will be released the 13th of Dec.

More details to be posted soon!

check http://www.myspace.com/meentheband

There, you can listen to a mix taken from the USJ concert, and to Qamlo L 7arb, the piano version.

add us if you have a myspace account. enjoy!

Finally, if you are a facebooker, join the meen’s group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2263286076

that’s all for now,
take care and peace

In details, it will be aired on “Dandana TV”, 7 pm eastern time, on a fund raising show to help Lebanon called “The Dandana for Lebanon Telethon”, and produced by Zeina Yazbek.

“Dandana TV” is the first Arab-American Television channel to broadcast from the US.

“Dandana TV” is usually an encrypted channel on the Dish Network which is the largest international stations carrier in North America, but it is made temporary free to air for the 14 million subscribers in the US until August 30th. Try to catch it.