Jan. 17, 2024

PipemanRadio Interviews Kuwaiti Band SRAI

PipemanRadio Interviews Kuwaiti Band SRAI

Join PipemanRadio on a journey from the sandy shores of Costa Rica to the heart of the Middle East's burgeoning metal scene. Listen in as Pipeman chats with Absi from the Kuwaiti metal band SRAI, where we compare the sun-kissed climate of our tropical...

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Join PipemanRadio on a journey from the sandy shores of Costa Rica to the heart of the Middle East's burgeoning metal scene. Listen in as Pipeman chats with Absi from the Kuwaiti metal band SRAI, where we compare the sun-kissed climate of our tropical abode to the seasonal shifts back in Kuwait. Absi shares his insights on the cultural evolution in the Gulf, emphasizing the historic Metallica concert in Saudi Arabia as a turning point for local metal enthusiasts. We also explore the challenges and triumphs of introducing heavy metal to a traditional Arab family, and muse about the potential for a rock festival right here in Costa Rica.

The conversation then steers towards the incredible story of a guest vocalist's musical journey across Saudi Arabia, where we discover the unifying power of metal music. With performances at major festivals like Middle Beast in Riyadh, we uncover the common ground found in the mosh pits and how these shared experiences can bridge cultural divides. Our discussion shines a light on the often-misunderstood metal community and its spirit of camaraderie, as well as the misconceptions propagated by media about safety and culture in the Middle East.

Wrapping up this sonic expedition, I reflect on the enlightening dialogue with the members of SRAI Band, whose name symbolizes a guiding light in the Kuwaiti tradition. We delve into their latest track, "Faith," and the universal message it carries—persevering through adversity and nurturing positivity in difficult times. The band members and I contemplate the power of commonalities across faiths to foster peace, and the significance of hobbies in warding off the negativity that permeates social media. As we conclude, I offer a heartfelt thank you to the band for their contributions and provide tips for listeners eager to follow SRI band's journey online, hoping to reunite on the airwaves for more uplifting musical dialogues.

--------- EPISODE CHAPTERS ---------
(0:00:04) - Metal Scene and Interviews in 2024
(0:06:15) - Metal Music Builds Bridges in Saudi Arabia
(0:13:06) - Faith and Music With Sarai Band
(0:21:47) - Finding SRAI Band on the Web

--------- EPISODE CHAPTERS WITH SHORT KEY POINTS ---------
(0:00:04) - Metal Scene and Interviews in 2024
Costa Rica adventures, Kuwaiti metal band SRAI interview, Middle East's metal scene, cultural shifts, Metallica concert in Saudi Arabia, introducing metal to traditional Arab family, potential for metal rock festival in Costa Rica.

(0:06:15) - Metal Music Builds Bridges in Saudi Arabia
Music's transformative power, bridging cultural divides, media's influence on perceptions, and a band's journey of growth and genre exploration.

(0:13:06) - Faith and Music With SRAI Band
Journey of a musician finding true sound, forming band Sarai, discussing latest song "Faith," importance of passion and hobby, and challenging world division.

(0:21:47) - Finding SRAI Band on the Web
Thanking SRAI band for sharing music and faith, keeping up with them online, and their contribution to "The Adventures of Pipeman" on W4CY radio.

--------- EPISODE CHAPTERS WITH FULL SUMMARIES ---------
(0:00:04) - Metal Scene and Interviews in 2024 (6 Minutes)

This chapter kicks off with my adventures in Costa Rica and a lively interview with Absi from the Kuwaiti metal band SRAI. We discuss the contrast between the seasonal climates in our respective locations and the cultural shifts happening in the Middle East's metal scene. Absi highlights the growth of metal music in Gulf countries and the groundbreaking Metallica concert in Saudi Arabia as a beacon of hope for regional metalheads. The conversation also touches on the personal experience of introducing metal music to a traditional Arab family and the potential for a metal rock festival in Costa Rica.

(0:06:15) - Metal Music Builds Bridges in Saudi Arabia (7 Minutes)

This chapter, we explore the transformative power of music through the experiences of a guest vocalist who performed across the Middle East with a local Saudi band. We touch on the significance of playing at major festivals like Middle Beast in Riyadh and how music can bridge cultural divides, even amidst regional tensions. The discussion highlights the misconceptions about metal music and the reality of its community spirit, evidenced by concertgoers looking out for one another. We reflect on the role of media in shaping perceptions of safety and culture in different countries, emphasizing the positive aspects often overlooked. We also share the backstory of the guest's band, which evolved from teenage beginnings in the emo scene to their current diverse musical project, showcasing the journey of growth and genre exploration.

(0:13:06) - Faith and Music With Sarai Band (9 Minutes)

This chapter unfolds the journey of a musician finding their true sound, which leads to the formation of a band named SRAI, after a traditional Kuwaiti word meaning "lantern" or "guiding light." We explore the significance of this name in the context of Kuwaiti history and its representation of shining a light on the world. We also discuss the band's latest song, "Faith," and its message about overcoming internal demons and staying positive during tough times. Further, we touch upon the universal concept of faith across different religions and how focusing on commonalities rather than differences could lead to peace. The conversation shifts to the importance of having a passion and a hobby to combat negativity, especially the kind that's prevalent on social media, and the value of living a life that leaves a positive legacy. Lastly, we tackle the topic of division in the world, critiquing the role of world leaders and media in perpetuating polarization, while sharing personal experiences that challenge these divides and highlight the shared humanity that transcends cultural and political barriers.

(0:21:47) - Finding SRAI Band on the Web (1 Minutes)

This chapter wraps up with a big thank you to the SRI band for sharing their music and faith with us. I guide listeners on how to keep up with the band by searching for "SRAI band" or "Srai band" online to find their social media profiles and music. We express our gratitude for the band's contribution to "The Adventures of Pipeman" on W4CY radio and look forward to having them join us again. The energy is high, and the appreciation is mutual as we close another engaging session filled with great tunes and inspiring conversations.

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Hey, you have then two censure
from thumb see wow for you young whycoume

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adventures of Pipe Man on W four c

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host, the Vipe Man. Leave
in dogsb don't dry far away in some

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time light. So folks, it's
two Thy twenty four and for those of

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you that know the pipe Man,
and we're off season for festival season,

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so I tend to disappear for a
little while during the holidays and the beginning

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of the year, and I do
a lot of traveling the rest of the

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year until festival season starts up again. So here we are with the first

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interview of two Thy and twenty four. And it's pretty cool because I'm doing

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this interview from where I'm staying for
the next three months in Costa Rica,

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and I'm interviewing this cool band that's
over in Kuwait. So that's really cool.

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So I'd like to welcome to the
show Absue from Surai. How are

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you yo? Yo? Is good? All is good? How's it going?

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Man? Oh, it's going great. You know. First of all,

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I'm happy that we have no technical
difficulties since I brought all my equipment

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to Costa Rica and I wasn't sure
how good it would go. And it's

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going great. And then I'm going
to go surfing after this interview, and

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I have a couple of interviews later. So you know, that's life here

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in January twenty twenty four. How
about over on your side of the world,

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dude, that's exciting. That's very
exciting. Well, from this side

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of the world, everything is great
and cuates at the moment, so we're

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just chilling. The weather is great. It's usually hot in the summer,

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you know, in the Middle East, but in the winter it's just perfect

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for people going out and go for
walks and just you know, hang out,

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have coffees or do whatever they want. It's perfect. That's cool because

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where I live the rest of the
years in Florida, and I'm like the

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opposite of the normal person. It
might be a little loco because we have

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snowbirds because of the weather. The
weather's just like you're describing. During the

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summer it's super duper hot and humid, and during the winter it's tolerable,

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you know, and sometimes it can
get even cool. But you know,

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we have two seasons, hot and
hotter, and I leave and a lot

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of times I'll go to cold weather
too, Like I'll go over to Europe

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during the winter, and people think
I'm a little bit insane, but hey,

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you know, I think the diversity
is what makes us well rounded and

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experience in things. And now I'm
in Costa Rica where it's the opposite of

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Florida. So it's like Florida summers
right now, super hot, superhumid,

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but you know, I have the
ocean and the surf, so not so

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bad. That's all you need.
That's all you need to have a good

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time, exactly. And it's funny
too, because I already met somebody here.

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I've been talking a few years about
putting a metal rock festival here in

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Costa Rica because they don't really have
a big one, but they have a

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big underground scene here, and so
I the first day I got here,

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I met somebody who is involved in
it, and we were probably talking about

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doing a festival here. So maybe
we if we do that, we could

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get you guys to come all the
way from Kuwait and perform here in Costa

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Rica. Oh hell yeah, dude, that that would be amazing. You

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know, like just for us just
going anywhere to perform would be amazing.

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You know, there you go and
you know speaking which I saw a TikTok

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of yours that you know, you're
show showing your or playing for your Arab

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mom medal for the first time.
And right, so tell me in real

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life, forget TikTok for a second, but in real life, what what

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was that like? Because and what
is the metal scene like in Kuwait?

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All right? So basically what's happening
now? You know? Like Kuwait,

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it's a in the region between Saudi
Arabia and United Arab Emirates, which is

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the city Dubai, Bahrain Cutar,
like those countries, uh accept create those

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countries are having a good metal scene
movement happening right now, which is a

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lot of bands are growing out of
the and and like for for for the

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Gulf country especially it's it's something amazing
because back a couple of years back,

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this thing is complicated and hard,
you know, but to see to see

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that happening and on those countries,
it's it's such a great hope for the

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metal scene in the region, especially
in Saudi Arabia. They recently last last

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month, December, they had Metallica
playing there for the first time and you

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saw that, right, so you
haven't heard about it? No, I

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did that. It's so cool.
I mean, yeah, you would never

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think exactly exactly that was. That
was a dream coming true for all the

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metal heads from the Middle East,
you know. So that happening was like,

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I don't know, like a miracle
to the to the metal heads and

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especially Metallica. They played in one
of the biggest music festivals, which is

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the Medal Beast in Saudi Arabia and
specific specifically in Andrea, and a couple

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of weeks before that, I I
was guesting vocalist. I was a guest

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vocalist in a Saudi local band and
I was gig in with that band almost

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all all of twenty twenty three.
We did We did the Jidda in Saudi

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Arabia with Adrial, we did the
Bahrain, we did Atar, we did

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what's it called Dubai, And those
shows were like the best thing that ever

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happened to me, and like in
ever, you know, like it was

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amazing, Like last year was thressing, but with these shows happening, life

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was perfect, you know what I
mean. So I'm so happy to hear

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that because like, yeah, you
would never think that, especially what's going

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on now, Like I'm Jewish,
so what's going on in Israel? You

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you wouldn't think of stuff like this. So stuff like this just makes me

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feel like warm and fuzzy that maybe
there is hope that things will change and

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we could this whole world could just
be one big, happy family exactly.

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And music brings people together, right, Yeah, one hundred that and exactly,

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I think that's the biggest tool.
And especially you know, a lot

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of people don't realize and maybe you
know, the old school uh Middle Easterners

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don't didn't realize and are being shown
now that metal is one big happy family

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and it's not about evil and death
and destruction. It's it's a totally different

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vibe than what people perceive it to
be. Yeah, that you mentioning that

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the elder people who doesn't have enough
information about the metal music in general,

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and they mostly think of it as
in, you know, evil because it's

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loud and and it's it's a loud
music. That's why they don't get it.

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They don't understand it. Yeah,
but they don't actually know like in

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like that one of the best things
that happens in for example, the rog

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shows or the metal shows. If
people are mushing and they see one person

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falls down on the ground, everyone
runs to pick up this person to make

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sure this person is fine and safe. Right, Yeah, absolutely exactly.

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So we protect each other's we're we're
one family, you know, when it

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comes to mental we aret want family. And that's what I love about it.

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You know, the community is loving
and it's peaceful and it's friendly.

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All they want to do is just
enjoy music and that's it. No one

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is going for hate or you know, nobody wants to harm anyone. It's

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just for the love of music.
Everybody's getting along together. I think that

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concept is what's going to change people's
concept in general for everything, because you

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know, there's a lot of misperceptions
of things, and you know out there

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in the world, no matter where
you are in the world. I know,

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I'm somebody that had misperceptions from growing
up in the United States until I

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travel and I'm like, hmm,
what were they talking about? And these

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people have never been to these places, so they don't know, you know,

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and it's like I've I've never been
to a country where sometimes the you

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know, the perception was real,
you know. Like even as an example,

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even a few years ago, I
was traveling and there was gonna be

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this flight that had layover in Istanbul, and you'd read up on Google and

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it's like, oh, not safe, blah blah blah blah blah. And

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I was just in this Stimbol last
year and I'm like, oh my god,

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this is like one of the most
beautiful cities and it's totally safe as

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far as I'm concerned. And you
know, then you go to other places

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in the world and there's diverse cultures
all together you know that are you know,

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loving each other and coexisting without any
issues. And I think that's what

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the media needs to show more of. Like the media loves to show all

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the bad stuff and I hate that. And yeah, I think that's what

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metal's all about, to show the
world the good stuff exactly. I agree

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with you one hundred percent. And
other than that, like human nature is

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being afraid of the things that we
don't know. Until we get to know

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with them, we'll be like,
Wow, that's what it is. I

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love it, you know. And
we always take the extremes of everything and

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make it the reality when in all
actuality. It's such a small small piece,

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you know, And and these are
just the people that are not part

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of the average of any society or
culture. And that's where again music,

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as he said, music's the ultimate
uniter because when you go to a music

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festival, there's no differences of religions, skin colors, birth countries. It's

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just we're all there for the music
facts facts. So tell us a little

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bit more about your band and for
a lot of the listeners that may have

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never heard of you, and you
know, how how you kind of describe

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the band, your music not necessarily
genre because I think artists get boxed into

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a genre. I love to hear
how the artist things of their band,

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right. So so basically we started
as a band January twenty twenty two.

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But before we get together, we
all had separate projects and we had like

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what do you call it, We
had different bands. Back then. The

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drummer in the band, he like, I've known him since two thousand and

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six, and we played together in
our first band, which was called the

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Black thirteen Angels, and back then
we were teenagers and we were doing what

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you know, like the new bands
were doing the scream of the EMU scene

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back then. This is when we
all started. Yeah, and then growing

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up, we kept doing different projects
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know, experiencing and exploring different genres
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I wrote a song and that song
genre specifically felt like that's me, you

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know, that's what I want to
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make, or that's who I am
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I didn't think it's actually going to
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just like, I was streaming one
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games sometimes and stream it, and
you know, just chatting with my friends

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on the chat, and I was
like, guys, what do you think

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should I do a project, a
solo project or should I do a new

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band? And we were talking about
it and we're like, yeah, let's

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do a band then, and I
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to choose a band name. And
the band name that I'm looking for is

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something has to be a traditional Kuwaiti
word, you know, like something that

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resembles something with a with a Kuwaiti
traditional word. And then one of the

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guys on the chat was like,
how what SRAI. I'm like Oh yeah,

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that's the one because sarai in quated, it means that the lantern.

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You know, Oh, I love
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man and now and you just told
me. And I love that because to

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me, that's like shining a light
on the world exactly. So we we

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use it as why sarai because sarai
means the guiding lights. And this is

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what quates back in the sixties and
early seventies used to light up their houses,

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light up their shops because you know, kuwait before the oil they they

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had those houses are made of sand
and a mud and and for they didn't

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have any electricity and all they had
is uh oil what do you call it?

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Gas and fuel to make those lanterns
and use them for lighting their places

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for for you know, like as
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the shops and and the roads.
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the lantern. Nice. I love
it. And so tell us about the

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newest music you have. The song
I was checking out that was really bad

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ass called Faith, so nice,
yeah, tell us a little bit about

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that, all right. So Faith
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December and that song pretty much talks
about you know, the person that goes

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through a hard time. We we
we ask people we go through tough times

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in life, you know, personal
mental issues, physical issues. Sometimes we

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just feel like we're drained, we
don't have power to do anything. We're

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just fed up. And this is
where the demons inside comes up and be

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like, yeah, it's time to
give up and quit. And that song

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speaks about being being a positive instead
of negative, like fight those feelings,

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fight those demons when you fall down, wake up and get up and stand

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up and fight back, because those
are just negative thoughts and you don't need

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them there, you know, you
just keep forward. And that's the idea

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of the song itself. Well,
what's cool about that too, is if

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you take all the religions of the
world, there's one common uh dominate you

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know, denominator, and that is
all of them believe in faith exactly.

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And I also think that, you
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doesn't matter. Faith in and of
itself makes humans feel better. It's what

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keeps you going in life, you
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I think that's what we should focus
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When it comes all the major religions
is that commonality that we all share

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instead of the differences, because really
there is a lot of commonalities and something

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like faith. That's the one commonality
that I think all human beings should share,

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and I think that's what would lead
to peace, is realizing our commonalities.

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Definitely, people need two things in
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find a hopy and passion, you
know, like hopy and passion. It's

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like kind of the same thing,
so like because most of like most of

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people, they don't have any passion
or any hope you to do. That's

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why the negative increasing. If you
have something to focus on, you wouldn't

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you know, care about what's negative
being said on social media. Social media

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is just there. It's not real
life. Live life, Be passionate about

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something, do something with your life. Be at least have this idea in

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your head. Like me as a
person on my journey is to live until

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the time stops for me right and
duringing that I actually want to achieve something

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and that will make people remember me
for and be thankful for. You know,

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that's okay. That person did that. He changed that to make things

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better at least, you know,
So people should aim for something like that,

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instead of just waking up, grabbing
their phone and just spending hours with

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their phone and getting fed with the
negative from all around the world. You

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know. Oh yeah, you know, like you spoke my language when you

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said real life, because I can't
believe how many people think social media is

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real life, you know, and
how many people nowadays we've let the world

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leaders even promote hate even more to
where we're so divided and polarized. To

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me, it's like they're all on
the same team and it ain't mine.

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And you know that we're falling for
the oldest trick in the book, divide

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and conquer, you know. And
it's interesting because you know, I'm a

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big believer in natural medicine, and
my natural path in Florida practices Persian medicine.

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She's from Iran, and you know, we're taught from a young age

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that Persians and Jews are supposed to
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so to speak. And it's like
one thing I've learned from traveling the world

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is watched the news in every other
country, and it's like the new US

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is different everywhere because it's the perception
or whatever that particular government or media wants

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to portray. And you know,
I sit and talk with my doctor and

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like, we get along famously,
and we think the same way, and

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we believe in a lot of the
same things. And you know what,

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what's realized is that we're all falling
for this bunch of bulldinky as my brother

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would put it while as a kid. And then they have people like you

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that are giving us music, which
is to me, the best therapy and

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the best united So maybe with music
like yours and things the way they're progressing

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in the world, there is some
hope and faith pun intended of us all

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just realizing we're all one race,
the human race, I mean to that'ing

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else you want to cover about your
band or your music that we haven't covered

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yet, and you want the listeners
to know we are actually working on more

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music, and we are planning to
go for an EP album or a full

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album, depends on how many songs
we have till then. We'll be releasing

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this year hopefully, and definitely planning
to go play some live shows, maybe

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in the region, maybe a bit
far, like the closest is either Asia

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or Europe, and maybe in the
future we come to the States. And

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play music. That's something we're very
excited for and we hope everyone turned into

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it. That would be way cool. And let's tell everybody how they can

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follow you guys on the web,
on socials, your link tree, all

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that good stuff, so they can
follow you. Check out your music,

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check out everything about you. Yeah, just search for Strive band and you'll

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find us, s r AI band. You will find us. Love it

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well. Thanks for giving us great
music and great faith, and thanks for

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being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you brother. She is really

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good to be here and looking forward
to come back again. Thank you for

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listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man
on w for CUI Radio.