Hasan nakhleh

songwriter & producer

About

Hasan Nakhleh is a Swiss musician and producer based in Bern. As a multi-instrumentalist with Syrian heritage, Hasan's work spans a diverse array of musical styles, including Arabic classical and pop, disco, funk, as well as scores for contemporary dance and art installations. His music has reached a global audience, receiving airplay on notable radio stations and shows across six continents and featuring in award-winning films.Hasan has toured extensively with his band TootArd, performing at prestigious festivals across Japan, Korea, North and South America, Europe, and the SWANA region. His music have been recognized with several awards, including the 2022 SUISA Get-Going Award and the 2023 Kanto Bern Music Award.300+ Performances in:
🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇭 Bahrain, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇨🇱 Chile, 🇨🇴 Colombia, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇪🇬 Egypt, 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇯🇴 Jordan, 🇱🇧 Lebanon, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇳 Mongolia, 🇲🇦 Morocco, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇵🇸 Palestine, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇸🇾 Syria, 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom👥 Member of: SUISA, SWISSPERFORM & SONARTFrom Press Appearances:🇨🇭 Der Bund «Ich habe mich nicht verändert – aber die Welt ist für mich eine andere»🇨🇭 SRF 3 “Das neue Album «Migrant Birds» ist eine Retro-Offenbarung. ”🇨🇭 Der Bund "Er erobert die Welt vom Eigerplatz aus”🇬🇧 BBC Radio 6 Music “A great record” - Gilles Peterson🇩🇪 WDR “Der Sound, zu dem man in den frühen 80ern in Kairo, Damaskus oder Beirut getanzt hat, ist auch heute noch partytauglich.”🇫🇷 Le Monde “TootArd, les oiseaux musiciens du Golan ”🇨🇭 RTS “Pony Music - Tootard en interview”🇬🇧 FINANCIAL TIMES “A love letter to the PSR-62 Oriental, the synthesiser whose quarter tones and popping drum sounds fuelled 1980s dance floors from Beirut to the Gulf.”🇬🇧 Morning Star “Culturally affirming songwriting that’s free from commercial imperatives, with Levantine canon modalities explored and lovingly modulated with contemporary shifting tempos and unexpected instrumental tonalities. ”🇫🇷 Radio NOVA “TootArd : la disco arabe des 80's fantasmée depuis le plateau du Golan”🇬🇧 BBC Radio 3 Kathryn Tickell with the best roots-based music from around the world🇫🇷 PAN AFRICAN MUSIC “An album inspired by pop and quarter-tone melodic lines, triggering a disco whirlwind that pays homage to the Middle Eastern dancefloor scenes of the 80s.”🇨🇭 Radio X (Basel) “Album der Woche: TootArd - Migrant Birds”🇬🇧 BBC “TootArd session & interview on World on 3 on BBC Radio 3 (23 February 2018)”🇫🇷 FIP RADIO “TootArd Live session & interview on Radio FIP, Paris ”🇬🇧 BBC “TootArd interview on Newsday programme on the BBC World Service (5 February 2018)”🇬🇧 SONGLINES “Songlines introducing TootArd ”🇬🇧 RESONANCE 104.4 FM LONDON “TootArd interview on ‘A World in London’ with DJ Ritu at Resonance 104.4 FM London (31 January 2018”🇫🇷 FIP RADIO “Selection FIP December 2017 ”🇬🇧 BBC “Interview on Weekend program, 2 December 2017 ”🇬🇧 UK VIBE “A thought-provoking record which makes you want to bob your heads and shake your hips”🇬🇧 THE QUIETUS “TootArd’s first international album is a wonderfully varied listen. In both sound and subject matter it seems to be an acceptance of the fact that TootArd’s identity is inherently political. Regardless though, they find joy in their music and, borders aside, Laissez-Passer says there is always a reason to dance.”🇬🇧 FOLK RADIO UK “An uplifting, eclectic, funky, highly danceable party of a record … Opener “Laissez Passer” bursts out of the speakers with a driving electro-acoustic beat that suggests an Arabian dance club as much as a party in the middle of the desert. Hasan Nakhleh‘s guitar playing shows how blues and Hendrix-inspired playing can blend perfectly with North African and Arabic melodic sensibilities (…) I dare you not to at least hum along and tap your feet to this crossover hit in the making”🇬🇧 FINANCIAL TIMES “internationalist music, an engaging mixture of desert blues, dub reggae and all-out psychedelic rock”🇧🇪 MOORS MAGAZINE “Energic, exciting, and crossing all boarders. TootArd made a magnificent album that you should rightfully call stateless. Beautiful”♬⋆.˚ Previous Shows:2026
January 25 - Quoz arts fest Alserkal / Dubai, 🇦🇪2025
December 31 - Shams / Amman, 🇯🇴
November 20 - Tivolivredenburg / Utrecht, 🇳🇱
November 18 - Hootananny / London, 🇬🇧
November 15 - Oceanen / Gothenburg, 🇸🇪
November 14 - Den grå hal / Copenhagen, 🇩🇰
November 13 - Blå / Oslo, 🇳🇴
October 29 - Cultural de calaveras / Aguascalientes, 🇲🇽
October 11 - Assembleia.rio party / Rio de Janeiro, 🇧🇷
October 4 - Sesc Jundiaí / Jundiaí, 🇧🇷
October 3 - Sesc avenida paulista / São Paulo, 🇧🇷
October 2 - Sesc avenida paulista / São Paulo, 🇧🇷
September 27 - Kabana / Marrakech, 🇲🇦
August 28 - Fardoss tower / Damascus, 🇸🇾
August 8 - Ked / Beirut, 🇱🇧
July 26 - Jerash festival / Jerash, 🇯🇴
July 5 - Knust / Hamburg, 🇩🇪
July 4 - Roskilde festival / Roskilde, 🇩🇰
May 24 - Colors of mena / Groningen, 🇳🇱
January 19 - Agenor / Damascus, 🇸🇾
January 11 - Ked / Beirut, 🇱🇧2024
December 20 - Grill setup / Cairo, 🇪🇬
December 9 - Telfaz11 x red sea film festival / Jeddah, 🇸🇦
December 6 - Xp / Riyadh, 🇸🇦
November 15 - Ila sawt / Amman, 🇯🇴
November 6 - Cairo jazz club / Cairo, 🇪🇬
October 30 - Jesuit / Alexandria, 🇪🇬
October 18 - Mountain breeze / As-salt, 🇯🇴
October 5 - Chill oposite / Dahab, 🇪🇬
September 20 - Nyuad / Abu Dhabi, 🇦🇪
September 19 - Nyuad / Abu Dhabi, 🇦🇪
August 31 - Gampeljazz / Gampel, 🇨🇭
August 17 - Funk am see / Luzern, 🇨🇭
August 10 - Morgenland festival / Osnabrück, 🇩🇪
August 2 - Appletree garden festival / Diepholz, 🇩🇪
July 27 - Alive festival / Thisted, 🇩🇰
July 26 - Plan b / Malmo, 🇸🇪
July 18 - Gurten festival / Bern, 🇨🇭
July 6 - Playtime festival / Ulaanbaatar, 🇲🇳
June 22 - Parkplatz festival / St. Gallen, 🇨🇭
June 20 - Free flow / Zürich, 🇨🇭
March 29 - Fábrica bhering / Rio de Janeiro, 🇧🇷
March 24 - Womad festival / Santiago, 🇨🇱
March 16 - Super rayo / Bogotá, 🇨🇴
February 18 - Bee-flat / Bern, 🇨🇭
February 17 - Bee-flat / Bern, 🇨🇭
February 16 - Le groove / Geneva, 🇨🇭
February 15 - Zentralwäscherei / Zürich, 🇨🇭
February 13 - Import/export / Munich, 🇩🇪
February 12 - Gretchen / Berlin, 🇩🇪
February 10 - Knust / Hamburg, 🇩🇪
February 9 - Motopol / Copenhagen, 🇩🇰
February 8 - Plan b / Malmo, 🇸🇪
February 7 - Hus 7 / Stockholm, 🇸🇪
February 3 - Byens tak / Oslo, 🇳🇴
February 2 - Oceanen / Goteborg, 🇸🇪
February 1 - Posten / Odense, 🇩🇰
January 27 - Muziekgieterij / Maastricht, 🇳🇱
January 26 - Boring festival / Haarlem, 🇳🇱
January 25 - Petit bain / Paris, 🇫🇷
January 19 - Hootananny brixton / London, 🇬🇧2023
November 10 - Womad / Gran Canaria, 🇪🇸
September 30 - Iwa festival / Melilla, 🇪🇸
September 13 - Tapestry / Toronto, 🇨🇦
September 10 - Revival / Toronto, 🇨🇦
September 9 - Ausgang plaza / Montreal, 🇨🇦
September 7 - Fortune sound club / Vancouver, 🇨🇦
September 2 - Dmz peace train music / Seoul, 🇰🇷
August 31 - Shinsaibashi conpass / Osaka, 🇯🇵
August 29 - Shibuya www / Tokyo, 🇯🇵
August 26 - Sukiyaki meets the world / Nanto, 🇯🇵
August 12 - Ingensteds øya natt / Oslo, 🇳🇴
August 9 - Musikfestwochen / Winterthur, 🇨🇭
August 7 - Kalamış yaz festivali / Istanbul, 🇹🇷
July 26 - Am schluss / Thun, 🇨🇭
July 22 - Paradiso / Amsterdam, 🇳🇱
July 21 - Durchlüften / Berlin, 🇩🇪
July 15 - Import export / Munich, 🇩🇪
July 9 - Gurzelen sommer fest / Biel, 🇨🇭
July 8 - Palp festival / Lens, 🇨🇭
July 1 - Roskilde festival / Roskilde, 🇩🇰
June 24 - Migration matters / Sheffield, 🇬🇧
June 23 - Cobalt studios / Newcastle, 🇬🇧
June 17 - Studio 9294 / London, 🇬🇧
June 9 - Clandestino festival / Gothenburg, 🇸🇪
May 26 - Festsaal kreuzberg / Berlin, 🇩🇪
May 23 - Jazz cafe / London, 🇬🇧
May 19 - Islâmico de mértola / Mértola, 🇵🇹
May 12 - Womad / Cáceres, 🇪🇸
April 30 - Cabaret sauvage / Paris, 🇫🇷
February 10 - Kite beach / Dubai, 🇦🇪2022
November 26 - Manarat al saadiyat / Abu Dhabi, 🇦🇪
October 9 - Posidonia / Formentera island, 🇪🇸
October 7 - Ciajg / Guimarães, 🇵🇹
October 1 - Kawalees / Montreal, 🇨🇦
September 29 - Pop montreal / Montreal, 🇨🇦
September 24 - Adelaide hall / Toronto, 🇨🇦
September 20 - Masahat / Oslo, 🇳🇴
September 17 - Ottertrotter festival / Mechelen, 🇧🇪
September 3 - Zdravo mladi / Skopje, 🇲🇰
August 28 - Zomerparkfeest / Venlo, 🇳🇱
August 27 - Maaskantine / Rotterdam, 🇳🇱
August 12 - Documenta / Kassel, 🇩🇪
July 24 - Jazz montez / Frankfurt, 🇩🇪
July 23 - Sinsal / San simon galicia, 🇪🇸
July 17 - Palm house / Liverpool, 🇬🇧
July 15 - The jago / London, 🇬🇧
July 9 - Wildeburg / Kraggenburg, 🇳🇱
June 23 - Viola / Manama, 🇧🇭
June 18 - Loppen / Copenhagen, 🇩🇰
June 13 - Oerol / Terschelling (island), 🇳🇱
May 28 - Içe içe festival / Berlin, 🇩🇪
May 14 - Palp / Pfyn-finges nature park, 🇨🇭
May 13 - Gaskessel / Bern, 🇨🇭
May 12 - Gannet / Basel, 🇨🇭
May 6 - Lauter festival / Zürich, 🇨🇭
April 28 - Stanser musikstage / Stans, 🇨🇭
April 15 - Tour vagabonde / Fribourg, 🇨🇭
April 9 - Tremor festival / São Miguel, 🇦🇿
April 1 - Radio meuh circus / La Clusaz, 🇫🇷
March 26 - Rich mix / London, 🇬🇧
March 25 - Le forum / Charleville - Mezieres, 🇫🇷
March 24 - Electrowerkz / London, 🇬🇧
March 23 - Tribeca / Manchester, 🇬🇧
January 21 - Shams el balad / Amman, 🇯🇴2021
September 11 - Plai festival / Timisoara, 🇷🇴
August 31 - Stutt:ard / Stuttgart, 🇩🇪
August 28 - Clandestino festival / Göteborg, 🇸🇪
August 27 - Det turkise telt / Aarhus, 🇩🇰
August 26 - Sorte firkant / Copenhagen, 🇩🇰
August 25 - Gretchen / Berlin, 🇩🇪
August 15 - Le phare / Neuchatel, 🇨🇭
August 14 - Summer stages / Tours, 🇫🇷
August 13 - Kulturfabrik / Luxembourg, 🇱🇺
August 8 - Micro festival / Liege, 🇧🇪
August 6 - Ancient trance / Leipzig, 🇩🇪
August 3 - Trevarefest / Henningsvær, 🇳🇴
July 30 - Musiques en ete / Geneva, 🇨🇭
July 29 - Bogen f / Zürich, 🇨🇭2019
September 7 - Jour et nuit festival / Grenoble, 🇫🇷
September 1 - Into the great wide open / Vlieland, 🇳🇱
August 31 - Cultura nova / Heerlen, 🇳🇱
August 24 - Musig i de altstadt / Aarau, 🇨🇭
August 17 - Shepherds beer festival / Bethlehem, 🇵🇸
June 29 - Hootananny brixton / London, 🇬🇧
June 27 - Glastonbury festival (shangri-la) / Worthy Farm, 🇬🇧
June 27 - Glastonbury festival (silver hayes) / Worthy Farm, 🇬🇧
June 14 - B sides / Lucerne, 🇨🇭
June 13 - Festi'neuch / Neuchâtel, 🇨🇭
April 4 - Pmx / Ramallah, 🇵🇸
March 31 - Rewined / Bethlehem, 🇵🇸
March 29 - Jameson fel 7housh / Amman, 🇯🇴
January 26 - Footprints tivolivredenburg / Utrecht, 🇳🇱2018
October 29 - Kaserne / Basel, 🇨🇭
October 27 - Alice / Copenhagen, 🇩🇰
October 18 - Sargfabrik / Vienna, 🇦🇹
October 13 - Bee-flat @ turnhalle im progr / Bern, 🇨🇭
September 29 - Rock in the barn / Vexin sur epte, 🇫🇷
September 28 - Le temps machine / Tours, 🇫🇷
September 27 - La lune des pirates / Amiens, 🇫🇷
September 21 - L'boulevard festival / Casablanca, 🇲🇦
September 2 - Isla de salsa / Fukuoka, 🇯🇵
September 1 - Sakurazaka theatre / Naha, 🇯🇵
August 28 - Shibuya www / Tokyo, 🇯🇵
August 27 - Tokuzo / Nagoya, 🇯🇵
August 24, 25, 26 - Sukiyaki meets the world / Nanto, 🇯🇵
August 16 - Relache festival / Bordeaux, 🇫🇷
August 12 - Musikfestwochen / Winterthur, 🇨🇭
August 11 - Afro c festival / Bredene, 🇧🇪
August 10 - Palais granvelle / Besançon, 🇫🇷
August 8 - Neustadt lab / Bern, 🇨🇭
August 4 - Fengaros festival / Pervolia, 🇨🇾
July 23 - Fmm sines / Sines, 🇵🇹
July 21 - Palp festival / Sion, 🇨🇭
July 19 - Valkhof festival / Nijmegen, 🇳🇱
July 14 - Transit festival / Breest, 🇩🇪
July 10 - Wein a ramallah / Ramallah, 🇵🇸
July 6 - Constellations (laaf) / Liverpool, 🇬🇧
June 29 - Fusion festival / Lärz, 🇩🇪
June 24 - Antifestival / Perugia, 🇮🇹
June 22 - Exopotamia / Genova, 🇮🇹
June 20 - King's affair, king's college / Cambridge, 🇬🇧
May 27 - Knockengorroch festival / Carsphairn, 🇬🇧
May 25 - Pelpass festival / Strasbourg, 🇫🇷
May 24 - Belvedere bremgarten / Bern, 🇨🇭
February 10 - Yaam / Berlin, 🇩🇪
February 9 - Bitterzoet / Amsterdam, 🇳🇱
February 8 - Generiq festival / Sochaux, 🇫🇷
February 7 - Ancienne belgique / Brussels, 🇧🇪
February 3 - Celtic connections / Glasgow, 🇬🇧
February 2 - Cobalt studios / Newcastle upon Tyne, 🇬🇧
February 1 - Rich mix / London, 🇬🇧
January 30 - Espace-b / Paris, 🇫🇷2017
November 25 - Visa for music / Rabat, 🇲🇦
September 6 - Bad bonn / Düdingen, 🇨🇭
September 3 - End of the road festival / Salisbury, 🇬🇧
September 2 - End of the road festival / Salisbury, 🇬🇧
September 1 - Shemomedjamo festival / Kent, 🇬🇧
August 31 - Cafe oto / London, 🇬🇧
August 28 - The shakcklewell arms / London, 🇬🇧
August 26 - Journeys festival / Leicester, 🇬🇧
August 25 - Greenbelt festival / Kettering, 🇬🇧
August 12 - Ancient trance festival / Taucha, 🇩🇪
August 11 - Haldern pop festival / Haldern, 🇩🇪

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