{"id":22624,"date":"2025-04-12T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22624"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:23:11","slug":"amanda-ekery-offers-new-glimpse-into-arabe-with-yenobak-eih","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22624","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Ekery offers new glimpse into <em>\u00c1rabe<\/em> with &#8216;Yenobak Eih&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22625\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Amanda-Ekery-Arabe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>With her deeply personal and historically rich new album <em>\u00c1rabe<\/em> just weeks away, vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aekerymusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Ekery<\/a> has released a second single called &#8216;Yenobak Eih&#8217;, which follows the spellbinding \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stitching<\/a>\u2019. Like the album as a whole, the track continues Ekery\u2019s 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, &#8216;Yenobak Eih&#8217; began with a family discovery: Ekery found her great-grandmother\u2019s 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 \u201cmemories from your relatives in El Paso, Tejas&#8221;, which opens the song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While we wait for the full album to drop on May 9th, listen to &#8216;Yenobak Eih&#8217; below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2129688870\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1414398887\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aekerymusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/rabe\">\u00c1rabe by Amanda Ekery<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her deeply personal and historically rich new album \u00c1rabe just weeks away, vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Ekery has released a second single called &#8216;Yenobak Eih&#8217;, which follows the spellbinding \u2018Stitching\u2019. Like the album as a whole, the track continues Ekery\u2019s exploration of identity, memory, and cultural storytelling, grounded in her experience as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3329],"class_list":["post-22624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-amanda-ekery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22627,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions\/22627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}