Nafas

Thawra Records & Tiny House Music are proud to announce Nafas, the debut original music album by Palestinian vocalist, researcher, and songwriter Salwa Jaradat, set for release on March 13 2026.Rooted in a traditional Arabic singing practice yet shaped by a layered and deeply personal artistic journey, Nafas marks a powerful first statement from an artist whose work moves between heritage, research, and lived experience. The album emerges from years of musical and feminist inquiry, giving renewed breath to voices, emotions, and histories that have long existed on the margins.Salwa Jaradat’s artistic formation is grounded in classical Arabic music and oral tradition, with studies at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine and later in musicology in Lebanon. Alongside her work as a performer, researcher, and archivist, she has developed a practice that treats music as a space of memory, resistance, and continuity. These threads converge in Nafas, an album that does not seek to modernize tradition, but rather to inhabit it differently, allowing it to speak in the present tense.Developed through an intensive artistic residency inLebanon, Nafas brings together a core ensemble of regional musicians, with Jaradat’s voice at its center, measured, expansive, and deeply intentional. Across six compositions, the album unfolds patiently, moving between stillness and momentum, intimacy and collectivity, breath and release.