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Habibi Funk is digging deep to present the songs of Ibrahim Hesnawi, otherwise known as InchThe Father of Libyan Reggae. Inch Kingston meets Tripoli in this incendiary collection of Arabized roots, dub, dancehall and more. Featured on Habibi Funk's last compilation (HABIBI015) with his track InchTendme,Inch Hesnawi crafts restless funk with evident buttressing from a reggae foundation. Highlighted across the LP is how Hesnawi essentially pioneered such an effortless synthesis between traditional Libyan music and Jamaican reggae stylings, plus the endlessly disparate funk, jazz, and disco accents which firmly situate Hesnawi in a league of his own. LP out everywhere October 6th. Tracklist 1. Never Understand 2. Tendme 3. Only World Ft. Suzan 4. Kesati 5. Tayr Al Salama 6. Al Hob Wal Salam 7. Fouhi Ya Nesma 8. Enti 9. Watany Al Kabir Some years ago, we started a Facebook group named after our tag InchHabibi FunkInch with the idea to create a space where everyone could share music they felt fit under this umbrella, one way or another. One day a Greek member, Thanasis Moutsopoulos, shared a photo of a vinyl record he found at the Monastiraki flea market in Athens, Greece. It was by a Libyan artist named Ibrahim Hesnawi and called InchHesnawi And Peace. Inch At this point we had never heard of the artist and Thanasis was nice enough to record the album for us. We were immediately electrified by what we heard A whole album full of classic reggae with some light touches of funk and disco here and there which Hesnawi had recorded in Italy more than 4 decades prior. We eventually decided we would love to learn more about reggae in Libya, and a mutual friend introduced us to Ahmed Abujazia, who was born and still living in Tripolis; through a shared appreciation of music, he agreed to help us work on the project. We asked around and eventually managed to get Ibrahim Hesnawi's
