With her deeply personal and historically rich new album Árabe just weeks away, vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Ekery has released a second single called ‘Yenobak Eih’, which follows the spellbinding ‘Stitching’. Like the album as a whole, the track continues Ekery’s exploration of identity, memory, and cultural storytelling, grounded in her experience as a half Syrian, half Mexican artist. Rooted in oral history and archival sound, ‘Yenobak Eih’ began with a family discovery: Ekery found her great-grandmother’s record collection tucked away in a closet full of 78 RPM records from Brooklyn-based Arab American labels, and homemade recordings including her great-grandfather Fahim announcing “memories from your relatives in El Paso, Tejas”, which opens the song.

While we wait for the full album to drop on May 9th, listen to ‘Yenobak Eih’ below.