“Smoke” is a song based on the forbidden love stories that were common in Leen’s home country of Syria. It smolders with the subsumed passions that one often had to keep to oneself in observance of the laws of a “traditional” culture and the norms that reinforced those laws in the everyday, outward behaviors of people going about their day. But the drifty guitar melodies and Leen’s tenderly warm vocals and the sheer spaciousness of the song gives the impression of wide open possibilities in one’s imagination and in the spirit of love when people want to make it happen and find the ways to consummate it in spite of arbitrary customs that place barriers between people that never need to be there. It’s the kind of romantic dream pop song that teems with the energy and spirit of its chosen subject. Listen to “Smoke” on Spotify and connect with the Sweden-based artist at the links provided.
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