Jordanian producer Yazan Sarayrah brings Bedouin music into an electronic world on IRTH-TRONIC. Across eight tracks, Arabic maqamat, traditional vocal styles, guitar and regional instruments meet analogue synths and techno beats. The album sounds deeply rooted, but never trapped in the past.
While listening, I kept picturing a sci-fi desert safari: crossing an unfamiliar planet at night, with strange machines moving through the sand and distant voices travelling across the open land. The album made that image feel surprisingly vivid.
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The Desert Slowly Turns Into a Dancefloor
“Echoes of Mo’ab” opens with soft synth arpeggios drifting over low drones, leaving plenty of space for Sarayrah’s deep voice. His singing has a rough, earthy quality that immediately gives the music a strong sense of place.
“Ben Hajhouj” carries that atmosphere forward, then introduces a steady four-on-the-floor kick. Short synth patterns pulse beneath the vocals. The beat stays firm, but Sarayrah’s phrasing moves freely around it. It sounds as though two different ideas of rhythm have met in the same track and decided to dance together.
“Ghosn Al-Gana,” featuring Ahmad Selawy, becomes more intense. A traditional wind melody rises above the electronic rhythm before an overdriven guitar enters. The guitar bends between notes and sounds almost unruly against the precise beat. That tension brings a live, unpredictable energy into the track.
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Guitar, Voice and a Futuristic Edge
“Galo Anni” brings the guitar further forward. Bluesy riffs sit alongside regional rhythms, while Sarayrah uses a warmer vocal style. There are several sounds at play, but the arrangement never becomes messy. The voice stays clear, and the guitar often feels like it is answering him.
“Ghbeshi” takes the album somewhere darker. Distorted guitar motifs repeat over heavier synths and a driving beat. The rhythm becomes hypnotic, while the microtonal melodies keep pulling the music in unexpected directions. “Ala Msiri” then picks up the pace with faster vocals and layered synth lines. By this point, my imaginary desert vehicle was definitely speeding.
One Continuous Journey
Tracks often begin with a voice, a guitar line, or an atmospheric sound before the percussion slowly takes control. Because of this, IRTH-TRONIC flows more like one continuous journey than a collection of unrelated songs. Pulsing synths, forceful percussion, and sharp guitar bends give the album a spacious but restless feel.
Musically, it draws from melodic techno, progressive electronic music, and Arabic electronica. The beats could fill a club, but the vocals and guitar keep the music human. It’s atmospheric enough for headphones, but the stronger rhythms also make it easy to imagine these tracks expanding during a live set.
Sarayrah has created an album that carries the desert into the future and somehow makes the journey feel completely natural.
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