André Msane is a highly versatile oud player, equally at ease with modal improvisations ("Taqâsîm"), Lebanese song, Arabic popular music and the hymns of the great Syriac tradition.
Seven highly talented "stunt performers" standing on the balcony of ‘the first floor’ (which is the meaning of the band’s name) and ready to hit the street.
When a group of seven young, talented, and highly inventive musicians get together to rehearse daily for six months on the first floor of a derelict building, the end result is ‘Qarar Izala’, the
